Saturday Review of Books: February 27, 2010

“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated.”~C.S. Lewis

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. Homespun Light (Four Picture Books)
2. Homespun Light (My Fair Godmother)
3. Page Turner (The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie)
4. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress)
5. Barbara H. (Interwoven)
6. SmallWorld Reads (Bridge of Sighs)
7. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (Sarah’s Key)
8. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (Voyageurs)
9. Laura (A Country Parson)
10. Laura (We the Living)
11. Laura (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)
12. Laura (Cheerful Weather for the Wedding)
13. Beth (The Sheriff’s Surrender)
14. Beth (No Less Than Victory)
15. Collateral Bloggage (The Lightning Thief)
16. gautami tripathy (Sworn by Silence by Linda Castillo)
17. gautami tripathy (Leaving Yesterday)
18. FleurFisher (Talking About Detective Fiction)
19. FleurFisher (The Missing)
20. Lazygal (Eye of the Red Tsar)
21. Lazygal (Faithful)
22. Lazygal (The Carbon Diaries 2017)
23. Lazygal (The Long Way Home)
24. Lazygal (The Prince of Mist)
25. Lazygal (Still Missing)
26. Lazygal (31 Bond Street)
27. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Of All The Stupid Things)
28. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Mistress of Nothing)
29. Across the Page (The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia)
30. ChristineMM (The Dyslexia Checklist)
31. ChristineMM (Footnotes in Gaza)
32. WordLily (Almost Home)
33. WordLily (I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason)
34. Nicola (A Kid for Two Farthings by Wolf Mankowitz)
35. Nicola (Marcelo in the Real World)
36. Nicola (Big Max by Kin Platt)
37. Nicola (An Irish Country Girl)
38. Nicola (My Brother Charlie)
39. Nicola (Rome Sweet Home by Scott Hahn)
40. Phyllis @ Windy Ridge Books (Never Ceese)
41. Phyllis @ Windy Ridge Books (At a Loss for Words)
42. K. B. Kubin (A River of Words)
43. Marg (The Night They Stormed Eureka)
44. Cindy @ Ordo Amoris (The Sound and the Fury)
45. Megan (A Painter’s Life)
46. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Bad News for Outlaws)
47. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Easy Work! and Harold’s ABC)
48. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Happiness Project)
49. DebD (Elmer and the Dragon series)
50. Hope (Crazy Love by Francis Chan)
51. melydia (Hollywood Moon)
52. melydia (Messenger)
53. Laughing Lioness (Catching Fire, etc
54. 5M4B (A Wish After Midnight)
55. 5M4B (Hunter’s Moon)
56. 5M4B (Louise Erdrich Shadow Tag)
57. 5M4B (The Postmistress)
58. 5M4B (S is for Shamrock & Giveaway)
59. 5M4B (Shangai Girls)
60. 5Min for Mom (I Am Nujood Age 10 Divorced)
61. 5M4B (Winter Garden)
62. 5M4B (Cybils Pictures books reviewed)
63. blacklin (Soulless)
64. blacklin (Neverwhere)
65. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Chapbook entry)
66. Bonnie (The Dream of Scipio)
67. Between the Stacks (The Thief)
68. Wendy (When We Were Orphans)
69. Dana (The Night Counter)
70. Dana (Going After Cacciato)
71. Dana (So Easy)
72. Staci at Civil Thoughts (Everything Matters!)
73. Wayside Wanderer (The Forgotten Garden)
74. Jennifer (Extraordinary Ernie)
75. Polly (Little Pink House)
76. Polly (The Food of a Younger Land)
77. Nicole – Linus’s Blanket (Stories by Zora Neale Hurston)
78. Nicole – Linus’s Blanket (Keeping The Feast)
79. Girl Detective (Fables v. 13)
80. Girl Detective (City of Thieves)
81. Swapna (The Cougar Club)
82. Swapna (The Thistle and the Rose)
83. Swapna (Brava Valentine)
84. Swapna (Marriage and Other Acts of Charity)
85. Swapna (Kitchen Chinese)
86. Swapna (Last Man on the Moon)
87. Swapna (Atlas of Unknowns)
88. Seize The Book (By Grace Alone)
89. Seize The Book (Though Waters Roar))
90. Benjie (Raising Peanuts in a Gold Field)
91. Robin (the Mists of Avalon)
92. Robin (Keeping the Feast)
93. Books in the City (The Inheritance of Loss)
94. Books in the City (Undress Me In The Temple of Heaven)
95. AmylovesBud (Free Range Kids, Three Cups of Tea)
96. Shredded Cheddar (On the Top 5 “Remarkable Women” in Literature)
97. Diary of an Eccentric (The Handmaid’s Tale)
98. David Chernoff Manual For Living
99. Jew Wishes (The 23rd Psalm-Holocaust Memoir)
100. Girl Detective (Big Machine)
101. Shredded Cheddar (Three Books I’ve Read with My Students)

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7 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 27, 2010

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  4. +JMJ+

    I almost forgot about the link up yesterday, which is why I plopped in at #101. =P

    Thanks again for hosting this each week, Sherry! =) I hope your Lent has been reflective and fruitful so far.

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