Saturday Review of Books: February 13, 2010

“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”~Rufus Choate

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 (East of Eden)
2. Page Turner (A Girl of the Limberlost)
3. Reading to Know (Anne of Windy Poplars)
4. Reading to Know (A New American Tea Party)
5. 5M4B (Though Waters Roar)
6. 5M4B (Ransome’s Honor)
7. 5M4B (Cake Wrecks)
8. 5M4B (Double Trouble)
9. 5M4B (After Ever After)
10. Reading to Know (5-Minute Devotionals for Children)
11. Reading My Library (America the Beautiful)
12. teachergirl (Forest Born)
13. Laura (Spider Sparrow)
14. Laura (The Byzantines)
15. K. B. Kubin (Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet)
16. Carol in Oregon(Flame Trees of Thika)
17. Jennifer (Benny and Penny in Toy Breaker)
18. Bonnie (Essays on Literature)
19. Barbara H. (Words Unspoken)
20. Barbara H. (Mrs. Dunwoody’s Excellent Instructions for Homekeeping)
21. Framed (1776)
22. Framed (Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
23. Framed (And Then There Were None)
24. Framed (The Ruge Merchant)
25. Collateral Bloggage (The 10 Big Lies About America)
26. DHM (Why We Don’t Read Mandie books)
27. Hope (Beowulf on the Beach)
28. FleurFisher (Martha in Paris)
29. FleurFisher (The Peachgrowers’ Almanac)
30. FleurFisher(Snapped in Cornwall)
31. FleurFisher (Demobbed)
32. Carol in Oregon(Safe Passage)
33. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict ( Push)
34. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Keeping the Feast)
35. ibeeeg (Crossing the Bridge)
36. Judy @ Seize the Book (Bo,s Cafe)
37. Judy @ Seize the Book (Beautiful Things Happen When a Woman Trusts God))
38. gautami tripathy (Try Darkness)
39. gautami tripathy (Ariel)
40. gautami tripathy (Saving Rachel)
41. Lazygal (Watchlist)
42. Lazygal (Anxious Hearts)
43. Lazygal (Smudge’s Mark)
44. Lazygal (The Wide-Awake Princess)
45. Lazygal (Eleventh Grade Burns)
46. Lazygal (Queen of Palmyra)
47. Phyllis (A Thread of Grace)
48. ChristineMM @ The Thinking Mother (The Lightning Thief)
49. ChristineMM @ The Thinking Mother (This Book is Overdue)
50. Amber Stults (The Concubine’s Daughter)
51. Diary of an Eccentric (The Plight of the Darcy Brothers)
52. Diary of an Eccentric (The Darcys & the Bingleys)
53. Nicola (Defenders of the Scroll)
54. Nicola (Miss Hargreaves)
55. Nicola (The Dragon Book)
56. Nicola (Angel, After the Fall, Vol. 1)
57. WordLily (Double Eagle)
58. Heather J (Ace of Cake)
59. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Akimbo and the Elephants by Alexander McCall Smith)
60. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Valentine’s Day read-alouds)
61. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Trixie Belden)
62. Girl Detective (Ender’s Game)
63. Dana (Fingersmith)
64. Dana (Being Written)
65. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (A Spinner in the Sun)
66. Homespun Light (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
67. Lars (The Scarecrow)
68. Shredded Cheddar (The Baby-Sitters Club #1: Kristy’s Great Idea)
69. Reader’s Carousel (Boys Without Names)
70. Reader’s Carousel (Brownie and Pearl Step Out)
71. Damned Conjuror (The Kindly Ones)
72. melydia (Dreaming Again)
73. melydia (Heresy)
74. Violet (The Blue Umbrella)
75. Judy@Seize the Book Blog (The Man Who Loved Books Too Much)
76. Laughing Lioness (Jack’s Life)
77. Debbie Rodgers @ Exurbanis (The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets)
78. Books in the City (The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble)
79. Leah@ Good Reads (A Flickering Light)
80. Miss. Elisabeth (The Body Project)
81. LL (The Post American World)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 13, 2010

  1. LOVE your new blog header! Very cool. Also, I advertised your Sat review on my new twitter account. 🙂 — @libraryhospital

  2. +JMJ+

    Hi again, Sherry! =)

    I hope I’m not bending the rules too much with a review that is a little over a week old. I stuck to blogging about movies, TV and my job this week, and had to bring in something from last week.

  3. I finished two great books this week: The Flame Trees of Thika about a young girl’s childhood in Kenya and Safe Passage a book I’m gaga over about two sisters who loved opera and helped people emigrate from Nazi Germany.

    Thanks for hosting Saturday Review Sherry. It’s a good thing.

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