Saturday Review of Books: January 24, 2009

“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
~Jim BIshop

IMG_4755Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books.

Here’s how it usually 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.

Thanks to everyone for participating.

1. Semicolon (Ten Cents a Dance)
2. Semicolon (Schuyler\’s Monster)
3. Carrie, RtK (Wonderlust)
4. Carrie, RtK (The Bobbsey Twins)
5. Carrie, RtK (Family Shoes)
6. Semicolon (The Disreputable History of Frankie-Landau Banks)
7. 5M4B (A Mercy)
8. 5M4B (The Strictest School in the World series)
9. 5M4B (The Little Giant of Aberdeen County)
10. 5M4B (The Apothecary\’s Daughter)
11. 5M4B (Freedom Walkers)
12. Carrie K. (Wuthering Heights)
13. Sam Sattler
14. Barbara H. (Falling For You Again)
15. pussreboots (Jimmy Buffett)
16. Sam Sattler (Harbor)
17. pussreboots (For the Love of St Nick)
18. pussreboots (The Scarlet Letter)
19. pussreboots (Diary of a Dead Man)
20. pussreboots (The Tall Stones)
21. pussreboots (Emily Waits for Her Family)
22. SuziQoregon (Aunt Dimity Digs In)
23. Memory (Foundation)
24. Memory (The Good Prince)
25. Memory (Nebula Awards Showcase 2003)
26. Memory (Titus Groan)
27. Laura (Fidelity)
28. Book Psmith (Mrs. \’Arris Goes to…series)
29. Laura (Nathan Coulter)
30. Laura (What\’s So Great about Christianity?)
31. Laura (A Cure for Dreams)
32. PisecoMom (Beedle the Bard)
33. Shauna (Invention of Hugo Cabret)
34. Laura (The Knife of Never Letting Go)
35. Captive Thoughts (Rebecca – du Maurier)
36. Framed (The Little White Horse)
37. Framed (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
38. Framed (Stargirl)
39. MB (Alphabet Juice)
40. Anna (Down to a Sunless Sea)
41. Anna (Frantic)
42. Anna (To My Senses)
43. Bonnie (Essays to Charles Williams)
44. Bonnie (A Doll\’s House)
45. Krakovianka (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox)
46. Natasha @ Maw Books (Shooting the Moon)
47. Natasha @ Maw Books (Savvy)
48. Natasha @ Maw Books (Skeleton Creek)
49. Margot (The Railway Children)
50. Natasha @ Maw Books (Alvin Ho)
51. Margot (Up Close and Dangerous)
52. gautami tripathy (Dante\’s Inferno)
53. gautami tripathy (Twins)
54. gautami tripathy (Losing Kei)
55. jama\’s alphabet soup (fables beneath the rainbow)
56. jama\’s alphabet soup (a fishy alphabet in hawaii)
57. Farm Lane Books (The Gargoyle)
58. Farm Lane Books (December)
59. gautami tripathy (The Cellist of Sarajevo)
60. melydia (Give Me a Break)
61. melydia (Time and Again)
62. Janet (Washington: The Indispensable Man)
63. Belinda (Flatland)
64. Lazygal (Darling Jim)
65. Lazygal (The Taqwacores)
66. Lazygal (The Cloister Walk)
67. Joy (Roseflower Creek)
68. Sherrie(The Lovely Bones)
69. Deanna (George Washington)
70. Deanna (Sunshine)
71. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Charlotte\’s Web Audiobook)
72. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Elmer and the Dragon)
73. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Heaven: Your Real Home by Joni Eareckson Tada)
74. Belinda (Cry, The Beloved Country – Audio)
75. Stephanie(Who By Fire)
76. Sage (Writing About Your Life)
77. SmallWorld Reads (The Other Side of the Bridge)
78. SmallWorld Reads (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
79. krin (The King\’s Buccaneer)
80. krin (Lucky Man)
81. Heather J. (Being Written)
82. Bermudaonion (American Savior
83. Sarah M., LH (Don\’t Make Me Count To Three!)
84. Sarah M., LH (The Murder at the Vicarage)
85. Jasmine (A Pale View of Hills)
86. Presenting Lenore (My Fair Godmother)
87. Presenting Lenore (Princess of the Midnight Ball)
88. Presenting Lenore (I, Lorelei)
89. Mytwoblessings (Black Sands)
90. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Corner Shop)
91. Beth F (Bone #1)
92. Beth F (Rebel)
93. Books & Other Thoughts (Graceling)
94. Books & Other Thoughts (The Long-Lost Map)
95. Books & Other Thoughts (Dairy Queen)
96. Books & Other Thoughts (Undead and Unreturnable)
97. Books & Other Thoughts (Wolfsbane and Mistletoe)
98. Just One More Book! KidLit Podcast (Cookies: Bite sized Life Lessons)
99. Just One More Book! KidLit Podcast (The Way Back Home)
100. Tasses (Solder\’s Heart)
101. Tasses (Bone by Bone)
102. Tasses (I, Lorelei)
103. Tasses (Miles From Nowhere)
104. Books & Other Thoughts (D.A. by Connie Willis)
105. Girl Detective (Louise, the Adventures of a Chicken)
106. Because I Am Furniture
107. Becky (The King\’s Rose)
108. Becky (Emma)
109. Becky (The Courtship of the Vicar\’s Daugher)
110. Becky (My First Garden)
111. Becky (Heretic Queen)
112. Becky (Thank You God)
113. Becky (The ABC\’s of Kissing Boys)
114. Becky (Free To Be You and Me)
115. Becky (Far From You)
116. Becky (Starry Rift)
117. Becky (Clementine\’s Letter)
118. Becky (Mortal Engines)
119. Becky (Predator\’s Gold)
120. Kittling: Books (Disco for the Departed)
121. Girl Detective (King Richard II)
122. caribookscoops (Sisters of the Sword)
123. hollybookscoops (Toughest Cowboy or how the West was Won)
124. Fate (The Monsters of Morley Manor)
125. Kristi (Scream for Me)
126. Kristi (Grace for the Afflicted)
127. Kristi (Black Water)
128. Petunia (Delicate Edible Birds)
129. Bookie Woogie (INKHEART)
130. Shonda (Perfect)
131. Shonda (Unbelievable)
132. Queen Shenaynay (Seeking the Face of God)
133. ChristineMM (The Element)
134. ChristineMM (Gothic Lolita a Mystical Thriller)
135. FleurFisher (Behind a Mask)
136. FleurFisher (Marraine)
137. FleurFisher (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
138. FleurFisher (Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs)
139. Jennifer (The Dive from Clausen\’s Pier)
140. John Mutford (Through The Looking Glass)
141. John Mutford (The Clockmaker)
142. She is Too Fond of Books (The Memorist)
143. John Mutford (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
144. She is Too Fond of Books (Family Planning)
145. John Mutford (Classic Poetry)
146. Jen Robinson (Beneath the Mask)
147. Lynne (Time and Chance)
148. Lynne (A Marriage Made in Heaven)
149. Alyce (Invention of Hugo Cabret)
150. Alyce (Random Acts of Heroic Love)
151. Alyce (Blonde Roots)
152. Alyce (Life of Pi)
153. Raima (Reinventing the Sacred)
154. Sonderella (Midnight\’s Children)
155. Terri B. (Pride & Prescience)
156. Carol\’s Notebook (Running Hot)
157. Carol\’s Notebook (The Old Man and the Sea)

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6 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: January 24, 2009

  1. Pingback: Saturday Review of Books: January 24, 2009 | Hot Reviewz

  2. I’m linking to my review of Flexner’s bio of Washington. Thanks again for the idea of reading some presidential biographies!

    Everyone’s recommending McCullough’s biographies, so I’ll probably sample one of his books next.

  3. Glad to see the links are working this week! Saturday greetings, all, and I look forward to checking out your reviews. I’ve got Kate DiCamillo’s new picture book; I loved the art by Harry Bliss, and Shakespeare’s King Richard II. Good stuff.

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