Saturday Review of Books: August 15, 2009

“At this day, as much company as I have kept, and as much as I love it, I love reading better..”~Alexander Pope

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. Semicolon (Hitchhiking Vietnam)
2. Semicolon (When Broken Glass Floats)
3. Semicolon (Your Jesus Is Too Safe)
4. Semicolon (Three Men in a Boat)
5. Homespun Light (When We Were Saints)
6. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Miss Rumphius)
7. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (My Side of the Mountain)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (picture books for Read Aloud Thursday)
9. Reading to Know (Broken-Down House)
10. Reading to Know (Gyo Fujikawa books)
11. 5M4B (While I’m Falling)
12. 5M4B (The Secrets of Happy Families)
13. teachergirl (Twisted)
14. 5M4B (Otter & Owl)
15. 5M4B (The Betrayal)
16. 5M4B (Misplacing God)
17. 5M4B (Writing Places)
18. teachergirl (The Wish)
19. gautami tripathy (Tommy Gun Tango)
20. gautami tripathy (Kill For Me)
21. Framed (Framed)
22. gautami tripathy (Prince Rupert’s Teardrops)
23. Framed (A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison)
24. Framed (Wedding Ring)
25. Framed (By the Shores of Silver Lake)
26. SuziQoregon (Lost City)
27. SuziQoregon (The Selected Works of T.S Spivet)
28. SuziQoregon (To Darkness and to Death)
29. Beth (The Sweetgum Ladies Knit for Love)
30. e-Mom (Marriage: The First Five Years)
31. e-Mom (God Speaks Your Love Language by G. Chapman)
32. Terrence Jagger (Lanterns on their Horns)
33. Seth H. (Anguished English)
34. Seth H. (Fight Club)
35. The Old Coot (Newbery Medal books)
36. Page Turner (Have His Carcass)
37. Petunia (The Two Princesses of Bamarre)
38. Petunia (Book: the Sequel)
39. Petunia (The Embers)
40. Petunia (Tethered)
41. gautami tripathy (Best Intentions)
42. Carol (Book That Changed My Life)
43. Pussreboots (I Feel Skitty)
44. Pussreboots (The Cat Barked?)
45. Pussreboots (Yoko Writes Her Name)
46. Pussreboots (Harriet’s Recital)
47. Pussreboots (Yellow-Lighted Bookshop)
48. FleurFisher (Jane’s Fame)
49. FleurFisher (Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights)
50. FleurFisher (The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy)
51. Lazygal (Goldstrike)
52. Lazygal (Latter-Day Cipher)
53. Lazygal (The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind)
54. Hope (Northanger Abbey)
55. Hope (Patient, Heal Thyself)
56. Jolanthe {Free Yourself to Love}
57. Margaret (The Ingenious Edgar Jones)
58. Shonda (Best Friends Forever)
59. Jennifer, Snapshot (My Life in France)
60. melydia (Sideshow)
61. melydia (Twilight)
62. melydia (Hotel World)
63. melydia (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories)
64. Joy (Hattie Big Sky)
65. S. Mehrens, A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Heavens to Betsy)
66. S. Mehrens, A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (John Adams – DVD)
67. Elizabeth (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
68. Elizabeth (The Hope of Refuge)
69. Elizabeth (Gentle Infidel and Queen’s Cross)
70. Nicola (Rapacia)
71. Nicola (March of the Wooden Soldiers)
72. Nicola (The Dragon’s Pearl)
73. Nicola (Riding Freedom)
74. Nicola (Free Agent)
75. Savvy Verse & Wit (Call Me Ted)
76. Savvy Verse & Wit (Dirty Water: A Red Sox Mystery)
77. Savvy Verse & Wit (Visions of America)
78. Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand)
79. S. Krishna (Small Favor)
80. S. Krishna (The Sinful Life of Lucy Burns)
81. S. Krishna (Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club)
82. S. Krishna (Easy on the Eyes)
83. S. Krishna (Brisingr)
84. S. Krishna (Silent in the Sanctuary)
85. S. Krishna (Stupid and Contagious)
86. Civil Thoughts
87. Civil Thoughts (Quiverfull)
88. Diary of an Eccentric (Hugh & Bess)
89. Diary of an Eccentric (Ines of My Soul)
90. Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Darcy, Vampyre)
91. Amber (The Book of Unholy Mischief)
92. Nymeth (The History of Love)
93. Ti (Book Chatter) Fear The Worst
94. Nymeth (Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd)
95. Ti (Book Chatter) Bridge of Sighs
96. Nymeth (Trese: Unreported Murders)
97. Nymeth (Iran Awakening)
98. Word Lily (The Spellman Files)
99. Memory (Jane Boleyn)
100. Memory (The Secret History)
101. Memory (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay)
102. My Two Blessings (The Rapture)
103. My Two Blessings (Year of Living Bibilically)
104. My Two Blessings (Blood Dreams)
105. My Two Blessings (Boneman’s Daughter)
106. Kipi (Nelson’s Illustrated Guide to Religion)
107. Kipi (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
108. Kipi (The Book of William)
109. Girl Detective (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen v2)
110. Fate (Boys That Bite)
111. One for the Money
112. Austenland
113. Haunting Beauty
114. Deanna (Vampire Academy Series)
115. Jen @ Happy Little Homemaker (June Bug)
116. Swapna (Paradise House)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: August 15, 2009

  1. I don’t see myself finishing anything next week. I should stop starting new books until I finish another…but it’s not my fault five library holds came through this week. It’s not like I can just let four perfectly good books just *sit there*…

  2. My offering this week is a book about books. Books that shaped author’s work. I was especially interested in two of my favorite writers: David McCullough and Katherine Paterson. And now – oh joy! – I have more books to read!

  3. ooops…forgot to put my name in front of the book title for Austenland, Haunting Beauty and One for the Money.
    Sorry.

  4. If you liked “Three Men In a Boat” , try “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, by Connie Willis.

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