Saturday Review of Books: January 23, 2010

“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”~Virginia Woolf

Note (Saturday at noon): The linky got messed up and disappeared, so if you posted your links before noon today, I’ve lost them. Please repost. I’m sorry.

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. Wayside Wanderer (The Glass Castle)
2. Amber Stults (A Warrior’s Duty)
3. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict
4. Hope (Peter Pan)
5. Laura (Island of the World)
6. Sarah N. (Leviathan)
7. SmallWorld Reads (The Buffalo Soldier)
8. Marci’s Book Blog (NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
9. Framed (Floating in My Mother’s Palm
10. Marci’s Book Blog (Sacred Hearts)
11. Newbery Quest (Dicey’s Song)
12. Collateral Bloggage (The Lost Symbol)
13. Margaret (How to Ditch Your Fairy)
14. Collateral Bloggage (The Creed)
15. Ganeida (Antonia Forest)
16. Bookie Woogie (The Phantom Tollbooth)
17. MamaBloo (5 Memoirs)
18. Jen Robinson’s Book Page (The Comet’s Curse)
19. Fate (Reasons)
20. Fate (I Kill Giants)
21. Anastasia (The Wright 3)
22. violet (The White Horse King)
23. Dana (Dear John)
24. Dana (Firmin)
25. Dana (Her Fearful Symmetry)
26. Jennifer (Black Dogs)
27. Robin (Dune)
28. The Mapmaker’s Opera (krin – Enough to Read)
29. Phyllis (Maigret at the Crossroads)
30. Phyllis (Thimble Summer)
31. Contagious
32. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (When Everything Changed)
33. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (One Hundred Shades of White by Preethi Nair)
34. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (Raven Black by Ann Cleeves)
35. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis)
36. Kerry (A Wrinkle in Time)
37. Kelly (Outwitting Writer’s Block)
38. Beth (In Between: A Katie Parker Production Act 1)
39. Beth (5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter)
40. Beth (Further Chronicles of Avonlea)
41. Reading to Know (Thicker Than Blood)
42. Reading to Know (Read for the Heart)
43. Reading to Know (David- Great Lives Series)
44. 5M4B (Making a Family Home)
45. 5M4B (Motion of the Ocean)
46. 5M4B (The Silent Governess)
47. 5M4B (Going Rogue)
48. 5M4B (The Blue Umbrella)
49. Katie (Black Death: AIDS in Africa)
50. WordLily (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
51. WordLily (Shanghai Girls)
52. gautami tripathy (The name of the Rose)
53. gautami tripathy (Tintin & the secret of the Unicorn)
54. gautami tripathy (after innocence
55. gautami tripathy ( Tintin and the Shooting Star)
56. gautami tripathy ( Tintin & the Crab with the Golden Claws)
57. gautami tripathy (For the Love of St. Nick)
58. gautami tripathy (Creole Angel)
59. Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: The Last Man in the World)
60. Diary of an Eccentric (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
61. Ruth (When You Reach Me)
62. Colleen (The Cure)
63. Colleen (Live for Your Listening Pleasure)
64. Colleen (Spoiled:Stories)
65. Colleen (Twenties Girl)
66. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Q Is for Duck; A Fly Went By)
67. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Bertie’s War)
68. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (lots of juvenile audiobooks)
69. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mistress Pat)
70. Judy@Seize the Book (Have a Little Faith)
71. Matthew Lee Anderson (Neither Beast Nor God)
72. Robin (Wolves)
73. Reading Countess (Thirteen Reasons Why)
74. Fegan (Waiting for the Owl’s Call)
75. Larry (THe Count of Monte Cristo)
76. Granny Sue (La’s Orchestra Saves the World)
77. Jolanthe {Watch Over Me}
78. Judy@Seize the Book (Burn)

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: January 23, 2010

  1. Thank you again for hosting this. One of my favorite Saturday morning activities is to be able to sit down and pop around to various reviews.

    It hurts at the same time. My list is too long. But I enjoy it and that’s what counts, right?

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