Saturday Review of Books: August 9, 2008

“But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!”
~ Eugene Field in Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

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.

1. Semicolon (Jane Eyre))
2. Semicolon (The Queen\’s Man)
3. Semicolon (How Right You Are, Jeeves)
4. Moomin Light (The Host)
5. Marg (Blood and Circuses)
6. Marg (Angelique)
7. Heather (Dracula)
8. Marg (Welcome to Temptation)
9. Marg (Ruddy Gore)
10. Joy (Carved in Bone)
11. Wendy (Rules for Saying Goodbye)
12. Wendy (Crossing the River)
13. gautami tripathy (an interesting meme for all of you!)
14. Carrie K. (Inglorious)
15. Carrie, RtK (Just Jane)
16. Carrie, RtK (Foxe\’s Book of Martyrs)
17. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Happy Baby books)
18. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Living Beauty)
19. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Stone Crossings)
20. 5 Minutes 4 Books (Iron Thunder)
21. SuziQoregon (Into the Wild)
22. SuziQoregon (The Well and the Mine)
23. Word Lily (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
24. Word Lily (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
25. Word Lily (These High, Green Hills)
26. Word Lily (Out to Canaan)
27. Alessandra (The Adoration of Jenna Fox)
28. Alessandra (The Chinese Knot)
29. Alessandra (Memoira of a Teenage Amnesiac)
30. Bonnie (Cordelia Underwood)
31. Bonnie (The Black Tower, P.D. James)
32. The Book Smugglers (Something Wonderful)
33. The Book Smugglers (Before I Wake)
34. The Book Smugglers (The Iron Hunt)
35. The Book Smugglers (Paradise and Thicker than Blood)
36. The Book Smugglers (A Rake\’s Guide to Pleasure)
37. The Book Smugglers (Breaking Dawn)
38. pussreboots (Smoky the Baby Goat)
39. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (library thing)
40. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (gods behaving badly
41. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (The Day We Met You)
42. Girl Detective (Titus Andronicus)
43. Sage (Wild Card Quilt: An Ecology of Home)
44. SmallWorld Reads (Atonement)
45. SmallWorld Reads (On Chesil Beach)
46. SmallWorld Reads (The River King)
47. SmallWorld Reads (The Miracle at Speedy Motors)
48. Ted (The Road Home )
49. Ted (The Anatomy School )
50. Shonda (Life\’s a Beach)
51. Josette (1984)
52. Katrina (the Garbage King)
53. Sarah, LH (Freddy Goes to Florida)
54. Sarah, LH (Random Harvest)
55. Katrina (Apache)
56. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (My Travelin\’ Eye)
57. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (If I Had a Million Onions)
58. janet (Tasha Tudor stories)
59. Tasses (The Dangerous Days of Daniel X)
60. Mindy Withrow (Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett)
61. MFS (On the nightstand)
62. Sassymonkey (President\’s Daughter)
63. Sassymonkey (White House Autumn)
64. Coffee Tea Books & Me (Homemaking & Cooking Books)
65. Becky (The Year We Disappeared)
66. Becky (Lady of Quality)
67. Becky (Daisy Dawson Is On Her Way)
68. Becky (Shooting the Moon)
69. Becky (The Navigator)
70. Becky (The Inferior)
71. Nicola (Queen of the Road)
72. Nicola (Say Goodbye)
73. Becky (The Resistance)
74. Nicola (Abel\’s Island)
75. Becky (On the Farm)
76. Becky (Sweet dreams)
77. Becky (The Story of Growl)
78. Becky (Madam President)
79. Becky (The Pencil)
80. Becky (The Runaway Dinner)
81. Becky (The Light of the World)
82. Deliciously Clean Reads (Three Cups of Tea)
83. Deliciously Clean Reads (Crispin)
84. Shanna (The Front Porch Prophet)
85. Framed (The Valley of Light)
86. Framed (Pontoon)
87. Framed (Johnny and the Dead)
88. Framed (The Changeling)
89. violet (The Tiniest Tiger)
90. violet (The Rabbit and the Snowman)
91. Noel (Twilight Saga)
92. Stephanie(Gone)
93. Carol (A Soldier of the Great War)
94. Becky (Steinbeck\’s Ghost)
95. Carrie K. (Breaking Dawn)
96. Jen Robinson (The Year We Disappeared)
97. Jennifer (The Yada Yada Prayer Group)
98. Jennifer (Homecoming)
99. Jennifer (Stuart Little)
100. unfinishedperson (The Snack Thief)
101. Petunia (Mere Christianity)
102. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Jayber Crow)
103. Deborah (Someday)
104. Piranha (Red Letters)
105. Rachel (New Moon)
106. Christina (Sophie\’s World)
107. Bart (Looking for Alaska)
108. Bethany (Mrs. Lieutenant)
109. Heather (The GIrls)
110. Kristen (Mudbound)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: August 9, 2008

  1. Good morning, everyone! I’m writing from a different time zone than my usual, so a bit earlier. Just one book this week, but a doozy: Shakespeare’s Titus. I was interested to learn that some regard it as a black comedy, rather than the over the top violent piece that most assume it to be.

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