“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they’re bad, they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they’re good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
~Vikram Seth in A Suitable Boy
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books, the Autumn’s for Reading edition.
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.
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Laura
10/24/2008 at 11:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I love it that your quote this week is from A Suitable Boy – I loved that book! I also loved Middlemarch. I think this bodes well for a fantastic line-up of book reviews this week!
DebD
10/25/2008 at 7:09 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I loved the quote and loved Middlemarch. Thanks for hosting again.
Dawn
10/25/2008 at 7:48 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The quote is great! I’ve never read *A Suitable Boy*, but now I’m curious about it.
hopeinbrazil
10/25/2008 at 7:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Your quote made me laugh outloud. I’ve been trying since six a.m. to post and finally succeeded a short time ago. Don’t know if that was glitch on your end or mine. =)
Blessings, Hope
Michael
10/25/2008 at 8:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Great quote. Thanks for hosting this again.
Take care, Michael
Anna
10/25/2008 at 8:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for hosting this! What a great idea!
Amy @ Hope Is the Word
10/25/2008 at 8:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I read My Father’s Dragon aloud to my girls this past week and loved it! I can’t believe I missed it as a child.
Girl Detective
10/25/2008 at 11:25 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Sherry, I used the exact quote in my review of Suitable Boy when I read it last year, which is here:
http://www.girldetective.net/?p=960
Loved Suitable Boy. Highly recommend it. And the quote is all the more hilarious because SB is such an enormous book. I love enormous books. Oh, who am I kidding, I just love books. I’m back with a graphic novel and an Austen. Both were good antidotes to Crime and Punishment, my last-read book. Also at my blog, for those who feel like poking about: similarities between C & P and Hamlet, whether Raskolnikov might have been bipolar, and a few delicious quotes from Persuasion in addition to the review of the book and 1995 film.
Wendi B.
10/26/2008 at 9:35 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Thanks for hosting this! I know I’m adding it late, but I wanted to join in!
Wendi
http://wendisbookcorner.blogspot.com
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