Saturday Review of Books: July 12, 2008

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of the viol or lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Now post a link here to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

I’m on retreat this weekend, and I’ll look at all the wonderful words of your book reviews when I get back on Sunday. In the meantime, play nice and enjoy.

1. SuziQoregon (Peter and the Shadow Thieves)
2. SuziQoregon (Addiction)
3. Nithin (The Manuscript)
4. Carrie K. (The White Mary)
5. Carrie K. (The Woman Who Can\’t Forget)
6. Carrie K. (Booked to Die)
7. Carrie, RtK (Walking from East to West)
8. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Fatal Deduction)
9. 5 Minutes 4 Books (From a Distance)
10. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Home to Holly Springs)
11. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Seer of Shadows)
12. Bookfest (Cordelia Underwood)
13. 5 Minutes 4 Books (The Mommy Diaries)
14. Bonnie (Sleepy Hollow/Rip Van Winkle)
15. Bonnie (London: The Biography)
16. pussreboots (All-of-a-Kind Family)
17. pussreboots (A Grief Observed)
18. pussreboots (LoveHampton)
19. pussreboots (King Solomon\’s Mines)
20. pussreboots (Everybody Needs a Rock)
21. The Book Smugglers (Tigerheart)
22. The Book Smugglers (The Hiketeia)
23. The Book Smugglers (A Curse Dark as Gold)
24. The Book Smugglers (Undead and Unpopular)
25. The Book Smugglers (Lord Sin)
26. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (For a Child: great poems old and new)
27. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (The Jane Austin Book Club)
28. Alessandra (The Pickup)
29. Alessandra (Thriteen Reasons Why)
30. gautami tripathy (ADMIT ONE)
31. writer2b (When We Were Orphans)
32. writer2b (The Passionate Eye)
33. Katrina (Stardust – Gaiman)
34. Lynne (Roots)
35. Lynne (The Hidden Staircase)
36. Lynne (I Shouldn\’t Even be Doing This!)
37. Krakovianka (Jayber Crow)
38. Ted (White Noise )
39. Mo (Midnight)
40. Piseco (Owls in the Family)
41. Ted (The Darling )
42. Nicola (Losing It by Valerie Bertinelli)
43. Nicola (The Plauge of Doves)
44. Nicola (Dolphin Freedom)
45. Nicola (Jack the Ripper)
46. Nicola (Trials of Death)
47. DebD (The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tusnami)
48. Benjie (Broken Angel)
49. Framed (Deja Dead)
50. Joy (The Remains of the Day)
51. Girl Detective (Beginner\’s Greek)
52. MFS (Books to inspire teachers and parent-teachers)
53. Mindy Withrow (Ingrid Hill\’s Ursula, Under)
54. Mindy Withrow (Gary Schmidt\’s The Wednesday Wars)
55. Mindy Withrow (The Rule of St. Benedict)
56. Madwoman in the Attic
57. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (Lily and the Paper Man)
58. Samantha (The Shop on Blossom Street)
59. Samantha (The Beekeeper\’s Apprentice)
60. Samantha (Rueful Death)
61. Word Lily (Boston Jane)
62. Word Lily (At Home in Mitford)
63. Word Lily (A Light in the Window)
64. Word Lily (Blink of an Eye)
65. Chronicles of Narnia (Becky)
66. Becky (Cool Zone with the Pain and the Great One)
67. Becky (A Girl A Boy And Three Robbers)
68. Becky (Mommy\’s Little Star)
69. Becky (Guess How Much I Love You)
70. Kerry (The Omnivore\’s Dilemma)
71. Becky (Tap Dancing on the Roof)
72. Becky (Splat the CAt)
73. Becky (Say Hello)
74. Becky (You Can Be My Friend)
75. Becky (A La Carte)
76. Becky (No Cream Puffs)
77. Becky (Planet Pregnancy)
78. Becky (Hanging Woods)
79. Becky (Geek Magnet)
80. Heidi @ Mt Hope (William Steig books)
81. Becky (the dead and the gone)
82. Heidi @ Mt Hope (The Willoughbys)
83. Wendy (People of the Book)
84. Deliciously Clean Reads (One Voice, Please)
85. Deliciously Clean Reads (Calico Canyon)
86. Staci at Writing and Living (Wide Awake)
87. Stephanie(Garden Spells)
88. Sue (Twilight)
89. Kevin S (The Mantra of Jabez)
90. Marcia (Plane Insanity)
91. Marcia (Scene of the Grime)
92. Marcia (Before I Wake)
93. Marcia (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
94. Marcia (The Aviary Gate)
95. Chicken Spaghetti (The Brook Book–sci. & nature)
96. Afterthoughts (Poetic Knowledge)
97. Blue Archipelago (ProBlogger)
98. Blue Archipelago (Dear John))
99. Blue Archipelago (The Tiniest Tiger)
100. Blue Archipelago (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox)
101. Kathryn (Death of an Ambassador)
102. Kathryn (Do Hard Things)
103. Terri B. (Sky Burial)
104. Natalie (Bad Times, Big Crimes)
105. Natalie (En Garde)
106. Shonda (Twilight)
107. Darla D (Angel of Darkness)
108. Darla D (The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls)
109. Heather (Live Your Road Trip Dream)
110. Jennifer (Lolita)
111. Jennifer (I Feel Bad About My Neck)
112. Jennifer (Vanishing Acts)
113. Jennifer (Burning Bright)
114. Kate (The Shadow of the Wind)
115. Kate (Agnes and the Hitman)
116. Kate (Silent in the Grave)
117. Robert M. Lindsey
118. Robert M. Lindsey (Rip It Up and Start Again & Our Band Could Be Your Life)

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10 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 12, 2008

  1. I reviewed 2 books this week, an Ishiguro novel and a collection of songwriter Suzanne Vega’s writings. Thanks for hosting the review.

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  3. Thank you for hosting. This is my first time here. What a wonderful collection of books to look through and find something to add to the ever growing wishlist.

  4. I had an interesting experience this week with a book and music CD combo. I found the book Sky Burial and the music CD “Sister Drum” by Dadawa to be great companions.

  5. Hello! I am doing a giveaway via my site for the book Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourn’s first novel and first in a series of Victorian mysteries featuring the Lady Julia Grey and Nicholas Brisbane. The novel came to me the same way, and I thought it was appropriate to pass it on. Please feel free to pop over and read the review, and if you’re interested just leave a comment before midnight Thursday to be entered in the drawing. (Hint: chances are good! I only have about seven entrants 🙂

    Thanks, as always, for hosting the roundup!

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