Saturday Review of Books: September 26, 2009

“The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called ‘the permanent things’–the norms of human action.”~Russell Kirk

Today, FYI, is Mr. Eliot’s birthday, b.1888.

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. Seth H. (The Boys’ Book of Survival)
2. Seth H. (Colossus)
3. SuziQoregon (The Hunger Games – audio)
4. SuziQoregon (Catching Fire)
5. SuziQoregon (The Dead of Night)
6. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (A Pair of Red Clogs)
7. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Rapunzel, etc.)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Grace Based Parenting)
9. Beth (The Tale of Hawthorn House)
10. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Cloud Book)
11. Florinda/The 3 R’s (Shelf Discovery)
12. Page Turner (My Name is Asher Lev)
13. Framed (The House at Riverton)
14. Page Turner (Charlotte’s Web)
15. Reading to Know (Lois Lenski)
16. Reading to Know (Quiverfull)
17. 5M4B (Civil War Stories)
18. 5M4B (13 is the new 18)
19. 5M4B (Captain Nobody)
20. 5M4B (The White Queen)
21. 5M4B (Pirate Hunter)
22. 5M4B (Boy-sterous Living)
23. Framed (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles)
24. Barbara H (Things Left Unspoken)
25. Carrie K. (The Promised World)
26. Carrie K. (The Purloined Boy)
27. Carrie K. (The Age of Innocence)
28. gautami tripathy (Tintin in America)
29. gautami tripathy (A Note Fron An Old Acquaintance)
30. gautami tripathy (Tintin & Cigars of the Pharoah)
31. gautami tripathy (Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed)
32. gautami tripathy (Someone Else’s Daughter)
33. Homespun Light (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle)
34. pussreboots (Wet Cats)
35. pussreboots (A Handful of Dust)
36. pussreboots (Coraline)
37. pussreboots (The Lighthouse the Cat and the Sea)
38. pussreboots (The Case of the Climbing Cat)
39. Janet @ Across the Page (Rabbit Hill)
40. Zee @ Notes from the North (The Giver)
41. Samantha (The Cross-Country Quilters)
42. DebD (Kristen Lavransdatter 1)
43. Hope(The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
44. Dana(Eliot Intros Leisure)
45. Lazygal (Elf Realm: The High Road)
46. VioletCrush (After You by Julie Buxbaum)
47. melydia (Shadow of the Hegemon)
48. Nicola (The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed)
49. Nicola (The Drunken Forest)
50. Nicola (The Kid Who Saved Superman)
51. Nicola (The Rapture)
52. Bookeywookey (The Fall of Berlin)
53. Bookeywookey (A Gate at the Stairs)
54. Word Lily (Detectives Don’t Wear Seat Belts)
55. Word Lily (Murder on the Rocks)
56. Kristen (The House of Fortune Street)
57. Kristen (The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte)
58. Kristen (Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures)
59. Kristen (The Scenic Route)
60. S. Mehrens (Library Hospital)
61. S. Mehrens (Library Hospital)
62. MFS at Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand, at a glance edition)
63. MFS at Mental multivitamin (On the nightstand, prairie primer edition)
64. Elizabeth (Humpty Dumpty was Pushed)
65. Elizabeth (Stalin’s Children)
66. Ti(Book Chatter)
67. Ti@Book Chatter (Betsy-Tacy)
68. Memory (Jane Eyre)
69. Jew Wishes (To Heal a Fractured World)
70. Memory (Across the Nightingale Floor)
71. Memory (The Dust of 100 Dogs)
72. Wendi’s Book Corner (Quilts, BABY!)
73. Wendi’s Book Corner (Vickie Howell’s Pop Goes Crochet)
74. Wendi’s Book Corner (Hip Handbags)
75. Magistramater (A Thread of Grace)
76. Wendi’s Book Corner (Laced With Magic)
77. Melissa Wiley (Betsy & Tacy Go Over the Big Hill)
78. Wendi’s Book Corner (Salty Sweets)
79. Wendi’s Book Corner (A Cousin’s Prayer)
80. Wendi’s Book Corner (The Great Christmas Bowl)
81. Elizabeth (Bird in Hand)
82. Elizabeth (Watchmen)
83. Girl Detective (Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single)
84. Girl Detective (American Widow)
85. Stephanie (The House of the Seven Gables
86. Stephanie (East of the Sun)
87. Nikki (Jonathan Edwards’ biography)
88. Darla D (The Choir Boats)
89. Darla D (Nightlife)
90. Darla D (The Sandman: Dream Country)
91. Darla D (Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones)
92. Darla D (Skeleton Creek: The Ghost in the Machine)
93. Laura (Fishing for Gold)
94. Laura (Ripping Things to Do)
95. Laura (Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer)
96. Benjie (The Turkey’s Treat)
97. Kristen (The Four Corners of the Sky)
98. Laura @ I’m Booking It (Second Honeymoon)
99. Laura @ I’m Booking It (A Note From An Old Acquaintance)
100. Brenda Loves Books (What Difference Do It Make)
101. Josette (Lovers and Strangers Revisited)
102. Diary of an Eccentric (The Apple)
103. Diary of an Eccentric (Night of Flames)
104. Diary of an Eccentric (Testimony)
105. Lizzy Siddal (The Glass Room)
106. Lizzy Siddal (The Chronicles of Clovis)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: September 26, 2009

  1. Good morning, all! I finished a book that I thought was chick lit, that ultimately wasn’t, and a graphic novel that really moved me.

    Also, I did another post on Andromeda Klein, Frank Portman’s newest that I linked to last week, about the role of the occult in the book and why I think those concerned about that might want to give it a chance anyway:

    http://www.girldetective.net/?p=2621

    Cheers and a happy day.

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