Saturday Review of Books: March 21, 2009

“‘The art of reading is to skip judiciously.”
~Alexander Hamilton

Welcome 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. Carrie K. (In the Woods)
2. Carrie, RtK (A Patriot\’s History of the United States)
3. Carrie, RtK (Is Christianity Good for the World?)
4. 5M4B (The Returning)
5. Book Psmith (I Am the Messenger)
6. 5M4B (Alfred and Emily)
7. 5M4B (According to Their Deeds)
8. 5M4B (5 Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter)
9. Book Psmith (The Mysterious Affair at Styles)
10. 5M4B (The Hunger Games)
11. Anne (Christianity and Liberalism)
12. Margot (Home Another Way)
13. Biblauragraphy (Wake and Fade)
14. Maw Books (Longhorns and Outlaws)
15. Maw Books (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw)
16. Maw Books (Something, Maybe)
17. Maw Books (The 13th Reality, The Hunt for Dark Infinity)
18. Bonnie (To Kill a Mockingbird)
19. Carol (All But My Life)
20. pussreboots (Purplicious)
21. pussreboots (How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?)
22. pussreboots (Duck on a Bike)
23. pussreboots (Keeping Hannah Waiting)
24. pussreboots (Survivor)
25. Fate (Need)
26. gautami tripathy (When We Meet Again)
27. gautami tripathy (The Murder Stone)
28. gautami tripathy (Dream Country)
29. gautami tripathy (Love With a Stranger)
30. Lazygal (The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had)
31. Lazygal (Twenty Boy Summer)
32. Lazygal (Deep in the Heart of High School)
33. Lazygal (Punkzilla)
34. Lazygal (The Bellini Madonna)
35. Lazygal (Love or Something Like It)
36. Lazygal (The Girls)
37. Lazygal (A Different Life)
38. Lazygal (A Taste for Red)
39. FleurFisher (The London Scene)
40. FleurFisher (Lady Into Fox)
41. caite(Cutting for Stone)
42. SuziQoregon (Little Bee)
43. Farm Lane Books (A Month in the Country)
44. Farm Lane Books (Foundation)
45. Farrm Lane Books (The Seance)
46. Farm Lane Books (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)
47. Nymeth (Little Brother by Cory Doctorow)
48. Nymeth (Sweethearts by Sara Zarr)
49. Nymeth (Tom\’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce)
50. Nymeth (The Grey King by Susan Cooper)
51. Hope (Gilead)
52. Lynne (THE SECOND OPINION)
53. Lynne (WHILE MY SISTER SLEEPS)
54. Lynne (AS SURE AS THE DAWN)
55. Lynne (SEINLANGUAGE)
56. Belinda (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
57. Mo (Surrendering to Yourself)
58. Sebastian (The Bronze Christ)
59. Heather T (Lawn Boy)
60. Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
61. Mental multivitamin (St. Patrick)
62. Mental multivitamin (Poetry)
63. LuAnn (The Great Eight)
64. Inquirer (The School of Essential Ingredients)
65. Mindy Withrow (Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life)
66. Sherrie(Airborn)
67. Joy (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter & Sweet)
68. Books and Other Thoughts (Knucklehead)
69. Books and Other Thoughts (Zorgamazoo)
70. Books and Other Thoughts (Yokaiden, Vol. 1)
71. Word Lily (American Rust)
72. Word Lily (A Quiet Flame)
73. Books and Other Thoughts (Bone Crossed)
74. Books and Other Thoughts (Miki Falls: Spring)
75. Books and Other Thoughts (Visions in Death)
76. Books and Other Thoughts (The Big Joke Game)
77. Bookeywookey (Japan Through the Looking Glass)
78. Bookeywookey (Anansi Boys)
79. Bookeywookey (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
80. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Her Last Death)
81. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Captain Freedom & Giveaway)
82. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Safer)
83. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (Michael Rosen\’s Sad Book)
84. Presenting Lenore (The Elite and In too Deep)
85. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (The Lime Green Secret)
86. Presenting Lenore (If I Stay)
87. Presenting Lenore (First Daughter)
88. CoversGirl (Lord John and the Hand of Devils)
89. Benjie (The Associate)
90. Framed (Animal Dreams)
91. Framed (Summer of My German Soldier)
92. melydia (The City of Falling Angels)
93. S. Krishna (Pictures at an Exhibition)
94. S. Krishna (Land of Marvels)
95. S. Krishna (It Will Come To Me)
96. S. Krishna (Looking for Class)
97. S. Krishna (The Reader)
98. S. Krishna (Disquiet)
99. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(Daemon
100. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(Wake)
101. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(Inkheart)
102. Eyes Like Stars (Becky)
103. Chosen ONe (Becky)
104. My summer on earth (Becky)
105. Michal (Becky)
106. How I Live Now (Becky)
107. The Man in the High Castle (Becky)
108. Graceling (Becky)
109. Trucktown Series (Ladybug)
110. No Kisses Please (Becky)
111. Scaredy Squirrel at Night (Becky)
112. Chicken Soup (Becky)
113. Girl Detective (Home)
114. Girl Detective (A Mercy)
115. Melissa Wiley (Rules by Cynthia Lord)
116. At Home With Books (The Only True Genius in the Family)
117. At Home With Books (Galway Bay)
118. At Home With Books (The Rose of Sebastopol)
119. Hermie\’s Mom (The Eyre Affair)
120. Book Chatter (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw)
121. Jen Robinson (The Pigman)
122. Robin of My Two Blessings (Sag Harbor)
123. Robin of My Two Blessings (Fireproof)
124. Robin of My Two Blessings (Hadassah)
125. She is Too Fond of Books (Things I Want My Daughters to Know)
126. Homespun Light (Mrs. McGinty\’s Dead)
127. Homespun Light (Withering Heights)
128. Serena (Galway Bay & Giveaway)
129. Serena (Plum Spooky & Giveaway)
130. Diary of an Eccentric
131. Memory (The Good Thief)
132. Memory (The Murder on the Links)
133. Memory (The Gargoyle)
134. 3M (The Willoughbys)
135. 3M (Dear Mr. Henshaw)
136. 3M (A Single Shard)
137. 3M (Kira-Kira)
138. Kaila (The Mummy or Ramses the Damned)
139. krin (The Gift of Stones)
140. Kathryn (New Deal or Raw Deal?)
141. Teddy (Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly)
142. Kristi – books and needlepoint (Scream)
143. Kristi – books and needlepoint(Katt\’s in the Cradle)
144. Kristi -Books and Needlepoint ( Diamonds in the Shadow)
145. Kristi – books and needlepoint(Marked by Passion)
146. Mixed Media (Song of Saigon)
147. Colleen (The Hummingbird\’s Daughter)
148. Lazygal (North of Beautiful)

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: March 21, 2009

  1. Just a few books, but from heavy hitters Marilynne Robinson and Toni Morrison. I didn’t like them as well as previous works by those authors.

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