Saturday Review of Books: May 9, 2009

“At home her passion for reading became a joke: she always had a book in front of her whether she was knitting or feeding the children.”
~—Andrew Lycett’s Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes, writing of Doyle’s mother Mary.

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. (The Hunger Games)
2. Carrie K. (Specials)
3. Carrie, RtK (Family Guide to the Bible)
4. Carrie, RtK (Heaven Misplaced)
5. 5M4B (The Power of a Woman’s Words)
6. 5M4B (Shadows of Lancaster County)
7. 5M4B (Dough: A Memoir)
8. 5M4B (Allie Fortune Mysteries)
9. 5M4B (Sea Changes)
10. 5M4B (No Teachers Left Behind)
11. SuziQoregon (The Various Haunts of Men)
12. gautami tripathy (Random Acts of Heroic Love)
13. gautami tripathy (Let Him Dangle)
14. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Wanigan by Gloria Whelan)
15. gautami tripathy (Going to see the Elephant)
16. gautami tripathy (The Horseman’s Grave)
17. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (lots of read alouds)
18. gautami tripathy (Breathing Out the Ghost)
19. gautami tripathy (The Noticer)
20. Puss Reboots (The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint)
21. Puss Reboots (Harold’s Fairy Tale)
22. Puss Reboots (The Elephants of Style)
23. Puss Reboots (Look at Me)
24. Framed (The Night Journal)
25. Framed (The Color of Magic)
26. Framed (The Bone Garden)
27. blacklin (Marvel 1602)
28. Shonda (Life Without Summer)
29. Shonda (Private)
30. Shonda (Invitation Only)
31. Maw Books (Desert Flower)
32. Maw Books (Chicken Butt!)
33. Maw Books (Down to a Sunless Sea)
34. FleurFisher (Unseen)
35. FleurFisher (Pigeon Pie)
36. Margot (The Chameleon Conspiracy)
37. Margot (Jantsen’s Gift)
38. Farm Lane Books (The Little Stranger)
39. Farm Lane Books (Midnight’s Children)
40. Farm Lane Books (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Audio)
41. Lazygal (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle)
42. Lazygal (Chains)
43. Laura (The Mighty Queens of Freeville)
44. Laura (Infidel)
45. VioletCrush (Falling in Love by Pauline Trent)
46. VioletCrush (Vigilante Witch Hunter)
47. Deanna (The Sight)
48. Deanna (Dead and Gone)
49. Deanna (A Great and Terrible Beauty)
50. Benjie (The Sneakiest Pirates & The Heroes of Googley Woogley)
51. Benjie (The Black Moon)
52. Inquirer (The Last Olympian)
53. Inquirer (My Lobotomy)
54. Janet (War and Peace)
55. Janet (The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age)
56. Jolanthe (The Mentoring Mom)
57. Joy (The Weight of Heaven)
58. Mo (Deep Storm)
59. Nymeth (The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson)
60. Nymeth (Blueberry Girl and The Dangerous Alphabet)
61. Nymeth (Flora Segunda)
62. Nymeth (Ethel and Ernest)
63. SmallWorld (Epileptic)
64. SmallWorld (Persepolis 2)
65. Florinda – The 3 R’s (Bad Mother)
66. Word Lily (Enduring Justice)
67. Florinda – The 3 R’s (Mojo Mom)
68. Word Lily (Scoop)
69. Molly (The Giver)
70. Sam Sattler (Passing Strange)
71. Sam Sattler (Sworn to Silence)
72. Book Chatter (Ti)
73. Book Chatter (Half of a Yellow Sun)
74. Belinda (A Whole New Life)
75. Bonnie (Ender’s Game)
76. Belinda (Poisonwood Bible)
77. Girl Detective (Shadow of the Wind)
78. Girl Detective (Bean Thirteen)
79. Girl Detective (Spoon)
80. S. Krishna (Revenge of the Spellmans)
81. S. Krishna (Mistress of the Sun)
82. S. Krishna (Just Between Us)
83. S. Krishna (The Little Stranger)
84. S. Krishna (Best Intentions)
85. S. Krishna (Hand of Isis)
86. S. Krishna (A Little Bit Wicked)
87. Gavin(The Forever War)
88. Shonda (Untouchable)
89. Homespun Light by Emily (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane)
90. Megan (Picking Cotton)
91. Brandy Afterthoughts (Geography of Nowhere)
92. Jen Robinson (Dreamdark: Silksinger)
93. Diary of an Eccentric (The Wonder Singer)
94. Diary of an Eccentric (A Lucky Child)
95. Diary of an Eccentric (The 8th Confession)
96. Diary of an Eccentric (Ivy & Bean Break the Fossil Record)
97. Becky (A Passion Denied)
98. Becky (Fixing Abraham)
99. Becky (To Catch a Mermaid)
100. Becky (Sugar Would Not Eat It)
101. Becky (Grizzly Dad)
102. Becky (Ten Days and Nine Nights)
103. Becky (Yes Day)
104. Becky (Where’s Tumpty)
105. Becky (Pretty Pru)
106. Becky (Happy Hector)
107. Becky (Hello Tilly)
108. Becky (Forest Born)
109. Becky (The Last Olympian)
110. Becky (The Birth of A Warrior)
111. Becky (The Opposite of Music)
112. Becky (Thirsty)
113. Book & Other Thoughts (City of Glass)
114. Books & Other Thoughts (Coyote Blue)
115. Books & Other Thoughts (Lady Knight)
116. Books & Other Thoughts (Moving Day)
117. krin (Acorna: The Unicorn Girl)
118. Tea (Darcy And Anne)
119. Sarah M. Library Hospital (The Methods of Lady Walderhurst)
120. Sarah M. Library Hospital (Remember Me?)
121. teachergirl (Hero & the Crown
122. Memory (Looking For Alaska)
123. Memory (Tattoo Heaven)
124. Memory (Changeling)
125. Memory (Witch Child)
126. Memory (A Room of One’s Own)
127. Memory (Born to Exile)
128. Books & Other Thoughts (Whales on Stilts!)
129. My Friend Amy (According to Their Deeds)
130. Glocal Books (Women’s Literary Firsts)
131. Indextrious Reader (Swiss Sonata)
132. Indextrious Reader (The Book of Chameleons)
133. Elizabeth (Somebody Else’s Daughter)
134. Elizabeth (Fault Line)
135. Elizabeth (Incantation)
136. Fate (Dramacon)
137. melydia (Centauri Dawn)
138. Teddy (The Help)
139. Serena (Last Prince of the Mexican Empire)
140. Serena (The Last Queen)

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 9, 2009

  1. Happy Saturday. Thanks for hosting this. I double posted by accident. #72 was a boo boo. My apologies 🙂

  2. Good morning, all. I think I have my reading mojo back; I was able to finish Shadow of the Wind this week, plus reviewed two kids books that my family really enjoyed. Happy reading!

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