Saturday Review of Books: January 31, 2009

“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.”
~Hazel Rochman

Mail0001Welcome 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 (Have You Found Her)
2. Semicolon (The Hunger Games)
3. Betsy-Bee (The Wright 3)
4. Biblauragraphy (The Possibilities of Sainthood)
5. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
6. PisecoMom (Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature)
7. PisecoMom (Chez Moi)
8. Tasses (Real Life & Liars)
9. Tasses (Something Like Beautiful)
10. blacklin (Coraline)
11. Fate (The Plain Janes)
12. Queen Shenaynay (Seeking the Face of God)
13. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery)
14. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton)
15. Benjie (Adam)
16. SmallWorld Reads (Sarah\’s Key)
17. SmallWorld Reads (A Short Guide to a Happy Life)
18. SmallWorld Reads (All Good Gifts)
19. Margaret (Luncheon of the Boating Party)
20. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(The Moonstone)
21. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(Scrapping Plans)
22. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(Mermaids in the Basement)
23. Page Turner (The Blue Castle)
24. Captive Thoughts (One Thousand White Women)
25. Captive Thoughts (Yiddish Policeman\’s Union)
26. Carrie K. (Outlander)
27. Natasha @ Maw Books (Mermaids in the Basement)
28. Natasha @ Maw Books (The Lightning Thief)
29. Natasha @ Maw Books (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
30. Natasha @ Maw Books (The Whipping Boy)
31. Bookie Woogie (KNUCKLEHEADS)
32. Natasha @ Maw Books (Lily\’s Crossing)
33. Laura (The Castle in the Attic)
34. Natasha @ Maw Books (On My Honor)
35. Laura (Andy Catlett: Early Travels)
36. Laura (Death by Cashmere)
37. Natasha @ Maw Books (Sarah Plain and Tall)
38. Janet (The Last Days)
39. Carol (The 2nd WW in Color)
40. Natasha @ Maw Books (The Courage of Sarah Noble)
41. Natasha @ Maw Books (Alvin Ho)
42. SuziQoregon (The Bookman\’s Wake)
43. SuziQoregon (Peter and the Secret of Rundoon)
44. Book Psmith (Little Women)
45. Bonnie (Alfred the Great)
46. Bonnie (Literary Essays)
47. Framed (Dragonflies and Dinosaurs)
48. Framed (Speaker for the Dead)
49. Robin of Mytwoblessings (Kiss)
50. Robin of My Two Blessings (Spider\’s Web)
51. Beth (The Blue Castle)
52. Beth (Emily of New Moon)
53. pussreboots (Shadow on the Stones)
54. pussreboots (eNursery Rhymes)
55. pussreboots (Signatures of Grace)
56. pussreboots (Temple of the Sun)
57. pussreboots (Cat Who Went Up the Creek)
58. pussreboots (The Exchange)
59. pussreboots (Mojo Hand)
60. Krakovianka (Maus)
61. gautami tripathy (Aurelia)
62. gautami tripathy (Tunnels and Walls)
63. gautami tripathy (Blood Harvest)
64. gautami tripathy (Dragon\’s Keep)
65. gautami tripathy (The Suicide Collectors)
66. gautami tripathy (Fiction by Ara 13)
67. Lazygal (Strange Angels)
68. Lazygal (Peace, Love and Baby Ducks)
69. Lazygal (Wintergirls)
70. Lazygal (If I Stay)
71. gautami tripathy (The Pilot\’s Wife)
72. Carrie RtK (LM Montgomery)
73. Carrie RtK (Faerie Queen Bk 2)
74. Carrie RtK (Journals, LMM)
75. 5M4B (The Stubborn Twig)
76. Hope (Aesop\’s Fables -Not Just for Kids!)
77. Belinda (Mere Christianity)
78. jama\’s alphabet soup (silent music)
79. jama\’s alphabet soup (night of the howling dogs)
80. Deanna (Beauty: A Retelling of the story of Beauty & The Beast)
81. Deanna (Flipped)
82. Deanna (The Queen\’s Fool)
83. Sherrie(The Body in The Library)
84. Joy (Jar City)
85. Shonda (Shopaholic & Baby)
86. Shonda (Wicked)
87. Beth F (Great Cow Race)
88. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (Falling For Rapunzel)
89. Sarah M., Library Hospital (Anne of the Island)
90. Sarah M., Library Hospital (Behind A Mask)
91. Word Lily (A Common Life)
92. Word Lily (Tears of the Giraffe)
93. Word Lily (The Sunday Philosophy Club)
94. Word Lily (All-of-a-Kind Family)
95. CoversGirl (The League of Frightened Men)
96. CoversGirl (Stone Cold)
97. LuAnn (Kiss)
98. S. Krishna (Death by Black Hole)
99. S. Krishna (Gilding Lily)
100. S. Krishna (Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name)
101. S. Krishna (Super in the City)
102. S. Krishna (Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi)
103. S. Krishna (The Tsarina\’s Daughter)
104. Margot (Comfort Me With Apples)
105. Margot (Homer Price)
106. hollybookscoops (Wemberly Worried)
107. Sonderella (Cry, The Beloved Country)
108. hollybookscoops (Beverly Cleary A Girl from Yamhill)
109. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
110. caribookscoops (honeybees)
111. jodi (amish grace)
112. caribookscoops (skunks)
113. caribookscoops (Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope)
114. bekahcubed (Animal Farm)
115. caribookscoops (Guts: the True Story Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books)
116. Literarily (The Little Giant of Aberdeen County)
117. Literarily (Time of My Life)
118. Literarily (The Weight of a Mustard Seed)
119. Literarily (Darkfever)
120. Memory (Steampunk)
121. Memory (The Unicorn)
122. Memory (The Alienist)
123. Girl Detective (Two Gentlemen of Verona
124. Hope (Frankenstein)
125. Lynne (Lumby\’s Bounty)
126. Lynne (HeartSick)
127. Girl Detective (The Golem)
128. Anne of Green Gables (1st time)
129. Anne of Green Gables (my 10 year old)
130. 5M4B (Until We Reach Home)
131. 5M4B (Doppelganger Chronicles)
132. 5M4B (Parting the Waters)
133. At Home With Books (The Domino Men)
134. 5M4B (Where the Heart Leads)
135. At Home With Books (Duchess of Bloomsbury Street)
136. At Home With Books (I, Lorelei)
137. 5M4M (The Only True Genius in the Family)
138. Suzanne (A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine)
139. Afterthoughts (All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes)
140. Janie (Racing Odysseus)
141. Everead (Paper Towns)
142. Memory (Airborn)
143. Terri B. (Kafka on the Shore)
144. Terri B. (Asleep)
145. Benjie (Baron Thinks Dogs Are People Too!)
146. Sage (Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear)
147. FleurFisher (The Owl Service)
148. FleurFisher (Baby Love)
149. FleurFisher (Great Granny Webster)
150. Becky (Gingham Mountain)
151. Becky (Infernal Devices)
152. Becky (Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One Before)
153. Becky (The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street)
154. Becky (The Odyssey of Flight 33)
155. Becky (The Red Letters)
156. Kristi (For the Love of Pete)
157. Kristi (Lost in Las Vegas)
158. Kristi (Holes)
159. Presenting Lenore (Eclipse by RNP)
160. Presenting Lenore (Triple Shot Bettys in Love)
161. Presenting Lenore (The Rule of Won)
162. Noel (The Story Girl)
163. krin (Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life)
164. krin (The Amulet of Samarkand)
165. Serena (The Memorist)
166. She is Too Fond of Books (The Vigorous Mind)
167. MB (The Power and the Glory)
168. Josette (The Sweet Far Thing)
169. Deliciously Clean Reads (Princess of the Midnight Ball)
170. Deliciously Clean Reads (Sisters, Ink)
171. Jennifer (Three Cups of Tea)
172. Jennifer (The Host)
173. Jennifer (Homeland and Other Stories)
174. Jennifer (Undead and Unwed)
175. Sandra(My Father’s Paradise)
176. Diary of an Eccentric (The Sinner\’s Guide to Confession)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: January 31, 2009

  1. I reviewed one of Joel Rosenberg’s political thrillers — not a genre I read very often, but a nice change of pace.

    What a sweet picture. Is the book upside down? My girls used to do that too.

  2. Hi!
    I have Agatha Christie posted! The Body in The Library! Have a great day!!

    Sherrie

  3. have loved your site for a long time, glad to finally be a participator (now that i’ve made my blog public rather than just for family)

    happy weekend-
    jodi

  4. Pingback: Sunday Salon: Gleaned from the Saturday Review at Semicolon

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