Saturday Review of Books: January 16, 2010

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark”~Victor Hugo in Les Miserables

If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you were 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.

Then on Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky 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.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

1. SuziQoregon (Faces of the Gone)
2. SuziQoregon (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Light Princess)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (picture books about snow)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Big Snow)
6. Bonnie (Uncle Silas)
7. Page Turner (Cranford)
8. Page Turner (A Girl Named Zippy)
9. Hope (If You Can Talk, You Can Write)
10. Laura (Gandhi and Churchill)
11. Reading to Know (Nancy Drew 1930 vs. 1959)
12. Reading to Know (Top 10 Reason I Love Anne of Green Gables)
13. 5M4B (Small Wars)
14. 5M4B (Bending Towards the Sun)
15. 5M4B (Claim to Fame)
16. 5M4B (The Water Giver)
17. 5M4B (Gospel Powered Parenting)
18. 5M4B (The Swan Thieves)
19. 5M4B (The Clue of the Broken Locket)
20. Beth (Chronicles of Avonlea)
21. Beth (The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte)
22. Gladsome Lights (The Architecture of Happiness)
23. teachergirl (Howl’s Moving Castle)
24. Anne (In the Beginning Was the Word)
25. Framed (Atonement)
26. Framed (Cage of Stars)
27. Framed (Lock and Key)
28. Framed (The Thief Lord)
29. Pussreboots (Constellation Chronicles)
30. Pussreboots (The Sunless Countries)
31. Pussreboots (Vacation Under the Volcano)
32. Pussreboots (Jin Jin the Dragon)
33. Pussreboots (Opera Cat)
34. Collateral Bloggage (Ginger Pye)
35. Sandra, Fresh Ink Books (Mrs. Dalloway)
36. Sandra, Fresh Ink Books (Moby Dick)
37. FleurFisher (Sanctuary)
38. FleurFisher (The Coroner)
39. FleurFisher (Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks)
40. Across the Page (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
41. Upsidedown B (Pillars of the Earth & sequel – Audio)
42. Windy Ridge Books (The Children of Men)
43. Nicola (Fables: Sons of Empire)
44. Nicola (Dr. Horrible comic)
45. Nicola (Innocent War)
46. Nicola (The Diary of Sophia Macnab)
47. Lazygal (The Eternal Kiss)
48. Lazygal (So Much For That)
49. Lazygal (Little Brother)
50. Lazygal (Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes)
51. Lazygal (The Time Pirate)
52. Lazygal (The Ladder of Years)
53. Lazygal (The March)
54. Lazygal (Liar)
55. melydia (CauseWired)
56. Lazygal (Enthusiasm)
57. melydia (The Taking)
58. SmallWorld Reads (Last Night at Twisted River–Irving)
59. Dana (My Life in France)
60. gautami tripathy (Six Seconds)
61. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Good To A Fault)
62. At A Hen’s Pace (Freddy & Fredericka)
63. Kristen (A Flaw in the Blood)
64. Books in the City (The Colour of Love)
65. Swapna (Going Home)
66. Swapna (The Swan Thieves)
67. Swapna (The Palace of Strange Girls)
68. Swapna (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt)
69. Swapna (Alice I Have Been)
70. Swapna (In the Shadow of Gotham)
71. Swapna (Memories of the Future, Vol 1)
72. Books in the City (Bitter is the New Black)
73. Dana (Rebecca)
74. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Journey to Bethlehem)
75. Girl Detective (Food Matters)
76. Girl Detective (Adventure of Meno: Big Fun! & Wet Friend!)
77. Girl Detective (Monkey with a Tool Belt)
78. Marci’s Book Blog (My Life In France)
79. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (The LAcuna by Barbara Kingsolver)
80. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan)
81. MissAttitude (Good Enough)
82. MissAttitude (Flight to Freedom)
83. Petunia (Girl, Interrupted)
84. Amanda (THe Confederate General Rides North)
85. Amy Steele (Mennonite in a Little Black Dress)
86. Rose City Reader (Massacred for Gold)
87. Sparkette (Her Fearful Symmetry)
88. Christa (31 Hours)
89. Jentastic (Land of Green Plums)
90. Melissa (The Double Bind)
91. Dana Huff (The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte)
92. Nise (The Winter Rose)
93. mel u (The Enchantress of Florence)
94. Alice (The Vacation)
95. Jen Robinson’s Book Page (They Never Came Back)
96. guiltlessreading: The Graveyard Book
97. Maggi (The Unfinished Angel)
98. Benjie (Dinner with a Perfect Stranger)
99. Jew Wishes ( The Iron Tracks)
100. Lightheaded (Ghostwalk)
101. Lightheaded (The Secret History)
102. Lightheaded (It’s Superman!)
103. A Measure of Mercy (violet)
104. Diary of an Eccentric (Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters)
105. Diary of an Eccentric (Shanghai Girls)

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