I’m late. I’m late. For a very important date. No time to say hello/goodbye, I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” The White Rabbit ala Disney
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The only way to do all the things you’d like to do is to read.” Tom Clancy
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.” Michael Dirda
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
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The Witness Tree–Howley and Loftus. Recommended by Melanie at The indextrious Reader. A fictionalized biography/family saga of the Dulles family. I know next to nothing about about John Foster Dulles or his family; he’s vaguely associated in my mind with diplomacy and the State Department. The book sounds fascinating.
Kensuke’s Kingdom–Morpurgo. Recommended by Nicola at Back to Books. A boy is stranded on a Pacific island with a Japanese soldier who was shipwrecked on the same island during WW II.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett. This one just sounds like fun. Short, sweet, and off-beat —and about the joys of reading. I’m hooked. Recommended by Sam Houston at Book Chase.
I could have “gleaned” a few more, but I’m trying to cut down. Not that I’m trying to cut down on my reading, just trying to cut down the length of my LIST.
All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.” Thomas Carlyle
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
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If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the Empire were laid at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all.” Francoise Fenelon
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Reluctant Fundamentalist–Hamid. Recommended by Laura. Laura says this book is both suspenseful and thought-provoking as a nervous American interviews a Pakistani man in a cafe. The two discuss Muslim perceptions of Amerians and American life.
This dystopian novel by Gemma Malley reminds me of Children of Men by P.D. James or the Hidden series by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Thanks, Becky, for the review.
What Would Barbra Do?: How Musicals Changed My Life by Emma Broches. Recommended at Moomin Light. Sounds delightful. I love movie musicals. I left a comment at Moomin Light about my favorite musicals. What are yours?
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose is also nonfiction, but rather more on the serious side. I think I would be as inspired by this story of resistance to the Nazi regime as was Krista at Musings of a Lady.
What did you find in the Saturday Review that piqued your interest?
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes – with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that awaits him.” Mrs. Gaskell
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.” Charles Lamb
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
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The Making of a Chef–Ruhlman Recommended by Laura of Lines in Pleasant Places. I’ve never wanted to be a chef; I don’t even like to cook that much. Everything you worked so hard to do disappears so quickly. Nevertheless, this book sounds fascinating. What would it be like to attend The Culinary Institute of America?
The Case Against Adolescence–Epstein Recommended by MatthewLee Anderson at Mere-O. Actually, I found this one in last Saturday’s Review. I am already attuned to what I think is the thesis of this book: that American adolescence is both artificial and prolonged. I must read it and see if my preconceptions are confirmed or challenged.
