Saturday Review of Books: April 24, 2010

“Knowing that I loved my books, he furnished me,
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom.
~William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (picture books about quilts and quilting)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (poetry picture books)
3. Reading to Know (Be Still, My Soul)
4. 5M4B (The Clouds Roll Away)
5. 5M4B (Questions Adoptees are Asking)
6. 5M4B (A Distint Melody)
7. 5M4B (Same Kind of Different As Me)
8. 5 Minutes for Books (I Love God’s Green Earth)
9. 5 Minutes for Books (The Last Survivors)
10. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Beautiful People)
11. Wayside Wanderer (Some Wildflower in My Heart)
12. Janet @ Across the Page (The Dragon of Og)
13. Margaret (The Red Scarf)
14. Page Turner (The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag)
15. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (In the Land of Believers)
16. Hope (The Wednesday Wars)
17. Laura (The Help)
18. Laura (Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand)
19. SuziQoregon (Anastasia’s Secret)
20. SuziQoregon (Splintered Bones)
21. ibeeeg (A Game of Thrones)
22. Beth (The Strictest School in the World)
23. Beth (David: A Man of Passion and Destiny)
24. Beth (Leaving Carolina)
25. Beth (Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life)
26. Beth (Don’t Make Me Count to Three)
27. Collateral Bloggage (Gregor the Overlander)
28. Amy (In the Land of Believers)
29. FleurFisher (Cold Earth)
30. FleurFisher (Savage lLnds)
31. FleurFisher (This Is How)
32. Upsidedown B (Spilt Milk)
33. SFP (Wigs on the Green)
34. SFP (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
35. SFP (The British Museum is Falling Down)
36. Megan (The Hand That First Held Mine)
37. SmallWorld Reads (The Saffron Kitchen)
38. Lazygal (Nightlight)
39. Lazygal (The Way of the Sword)
40. Lazygal (Blood Feud)
41. Lazygal (This Book is Overdue)
42. gautami tripathy (Pieces of Sky)
43. gautami tripathy (Kafka On the Shore)
44. gautami tripathy (Taste of Cherry: Poetry)
45. Janet @ Across the Page (L’Engle’s ‘The Love Letters’)
46. Upsidedown B (Strength in What Remains)
47. Nicole – Linus’s Blanket (An Old-Fashioned Girl)
48. Nicole – Linus’s Blanket (Claude & Camille))
49. Sherrie(The Clouds Roll Away)
50. Inquirer (8 books)
51. S. Krishna (Living Dead Girl)
52. S. Krishna (Hush)
53. S. Krishna (Stitches)
54. S. Krishna (False Mermaid)
55. S. Krishna (Watermark)
56. Girl Detective (8 different books)
57. S. Krishna (Language of Sand)
58. S. Krishna (Cutting for Stone)
59. S. Krishna (Confections of a Closet Master Baker)
60. Diary of an Eccentric (Your Ten Favorite Words)
61. Diary of an Eccentric (Song of Napalm)
62. Diary of an Eccentric (Dien Cai Dau)
63. Charlie (The Book Thief)
64. JHS (The Memory Keeper’s Daughter)
65. Janet (brief comments on a bunch o’ recent reads)
66. Library Hospital (Hercule Poirot’s Christmas)
67. Library Hospital (The Spinster Book)
68. Homespun Light (Recovering Charles)
69. Lanier (The Dean’s Watch)
70. Leah@ Good Reads (Laddie)
71. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (In Harm’s Way)
72. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Guest House)
73. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (The Bride Collector)
74. Fate (Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent)
75. ChristineMM (My Nepenthe)
76. ChristineMM (What’s Your Story?)
77. ChristineMM (The Raw Milk Revolution)
78. ChristineMM (Sweater Quest)
79. Lisa (The Tipping Point, Blink)
80. Darla D (The Doppel Ganger Chronicles: The First Escapet)
81. Darla D (Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark)
82. Darla D (Carmilla)
83. Darla D (xxxHOLIC, Vol. 7)
84. Darla D Kitty Raises Hell)
85. Darla D (Avalon High)
86. Josette (Read, Remember, Recommend)
87. SavvyVerse&Wit (I, Alex Cross)
88. SavvyVerse&Wit (SOS! The Six O’Clock Scramble to the Rescue)
89. SavvyVerse&Wit (Shutter Island)
90. SavvyVerse&Wit (Chow Hounds)
91. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Emma)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: April 24, 2010

  1. As a few of you know, I’m hosting a 15 books in 15 days project, so I read 8 this past week, some graphic novels and some short ones from my TPR shelves. It’s harder than I thought it would be.

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