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Saturday Review of Books: December 16, 2006

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. —Joseph Addison

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Carrie (The Thief Lord/Funke facts)
2. Bookfest (The Family Nobody Wanted)
3. Jane-Much Ado (The Secret History)
4. Monica (Love in the Driest Season and two holiday titles)
5. Janie (The Pact)
6. SFP (Santa Cows)
7. violet (The Call)
8. Jennifer, Snapshot (the Greatest Generation)
9. MFS (The Chosen)
10. Watoosa (Christmas reading)
11. Denny (A Redbird Christmas)
12. Queen of Carrots (The Physics of Superheroes)
13. Cam (Christmas in Harmony)
14. Gail (Corbenic)
15. Carrie K. (A Circle of Quiet)
16. Cathy (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever)
17. MotherReader (Give A Book)
18. Isabella (The Art of Murder)
19. JustOneMoreBook (Nutcracker Noel)
20. Semicolon (Weedflower and Blue)
21. ChristineMM (4 Children\’s Picture books about Christmas)
22. Carl V. (Casino Royale)

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Saturday Review of Books: December 9, 2006

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. –Rev. Sydney Smith, 1771-1845

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Carrie K. (The Train-of-Thought Writing Method)
2. Carrie (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde)
3. Monica (three books this week)
4. Mindy (Five Women of the English Reformation)
5. MFS (Long Day\’s Journey into Night)
6. Doppelganger (Best Word Book Ever)
7. John Fox (Wendell Berry)
8. Jane – Much Ado (Small changes for a better life
9. Cathy (Lives of Extraordinary Women
10. JustOneMoreBook (The Grandmother Doll)
11. Jennifer, Snapshot (the Known World)
12. Nancy Ruth (The Story Book of Houses)
13. Patrick Kurp (Loving)
14. Semicolon (Yellow Star)
15. Krakovianka (House of Exile)
16. Emily (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing)
17. Danielle (Lieutenant Hornblower)
18. Dorothy (The Places in Between)
19. Matt Jones (Peace Like a River)
20. Sage (The Deer on a Bicycle)
21. Aunt Judie (The Thrill of the Chaste)

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Saturday Review of Books: December 2, 2006

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Carrie (Peter Pan)
2. Jane (Found)
3. Krakovianka (Sanditon)
4. Laurie (Ambassador to the Penguins)
5. Laura (Decider)
6. Staci (The Thirteenth Tale, The Shop on Blossom Street
7. MFS (On the nightstand)
8. MotherReader (Not a Box)
9. violet (The Brethren)
10. Monica (non-fiction for Christian women)
11. Brown Bear (Rules and Julia\’s Kitchen)
12. Cathy (Books my family\’s reading)
13. Miss Erin (The Looking Glass Wars)
14. Imani (Elementals: Stories of Fire & Ice)
15. Sage (Freedom at Midnight)
16. Denise (The Glass Books of the Dreameaters)
17. Girl Detective (AlphaOops! and Chowder)
18. Snapshot (Magic School Bus & Science Fair Expedition)
19. Sarah (The Harp Lesson)
20. RM1(SS) (ret) (The Sky People
21. booklogged (The Baron in the Trees)
22. Camille (Twenty-on Elephants)
23. Isabella (The End)
24. Just One More Book! Podcast (I Want A Dog)
25. Just One More Book!! Podcast (The Red Wolf)
26. beckyb (When Crickets Cry)
27. Snow (Rurouni Kinshin)
28. Kara (Clementine)
29. Kristina (No Plot? No Problem!)
30. Michele (Into the Woods)
31. Jules (This Is All: The Pillow Books of Cordelia Kenn)
32. ChristineMM (How To Make A Journal Of Your Life)

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Saturday Review of Books: November 25, 2006

I’m sorry I’m late this morning. We’ve been celebrating in our own way here —staying up late, reading, forgetting regular schedules.

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Laura (Under Orders)
2. Laura (Down the Common)
3. Nevada (various books)
4. Janie (Watch for the Light)
5. Cathy (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell)
6. Miss Erin (Gossamer)
7. Carrie (Landon Snow and the Auctor\’s Riddle)
8. Jane (Simple Hospitality)
9. MotherReader (Charlie and Lola)
10. MFS (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead)
11. Jennifer, Snapshot (I\’m Still Scared)
12. Jen Robinson (Sold)
13. Carrie K. (The Thirteenth Tale)
14. Semicolon (the curious incident of the dog in the night-time)
15. Kevin (From the Dust Returned)
16. TadMack (Loving Will Shakespeare)
17. Anne (The Hare and the Tortoise)
18. Camille (Santa Knows)
19. Kimbofo (Christine Falls)
20. booklogged (Birds of a Feather)
21. Butterflyschoolmom

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Saturday Review of Books: November 11, 2006

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Miss Erin (Gideon the Cutpurse)
2. Jane (The Moronic Inferno)
3. MFS (The Art of Seeing Sideways)
4. Denise (Lesbian Images)
5. Jennifer, Snapshot (Isaac Newton)
6. Laura (Lake Martin)
7. MotherReader (Rickshaw Girl)
8. Janie (Strength Training Anatomy
9. Kathryn (The Path Between the Seas)
10. Carrie K. (Looking for God in Harry Potter)
11. Will Duquette (Duty and Desire)
12. Zia (The Whole World Over)
13. Amira (The Age of Homespun)
14. Patti (Mornings on Horseback)
15. JenClair (Tender at the Bone)
16. booklogged (The Book Thief)
17. Fred Sanders (Creed without Chaos)
18. Cassie (I Capture the Castle)
19. Sherid (The Thirteenth Tale)
20. Semicolon (Possession: A Romance)
21. Cathy (The Reformation)
22. Carol (THe Greatest English Classic)
23. Framed (The History of Love)
24. JustOneMoreBook (And To Think That We Thought That We\’d Never Be Friends)
25. SFP (The Street of Crocodiles)
26. Just One More Book! Podcast (I Want A Dog)

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Saturday Review of Books: November 4, 2006

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Jane (Let’s Study Philippians)
2. violet (I SPAT)
3. Janie (Peril and Peace)
4. Jennifer, Snapshot (Arms of Deliverance)
5. Mindy (Little Star of Bella Lua)
6. Carrie K. (Before I Wake)
7. Susan (Indiana)
8. Dani (Eat Pray Love)
9. Miss Erin (Sense and Sensibility)
10. Sookie (The Constant Princess)
11. Franki Sibberson (Boy Writers)
12. Denise (Maps for Lost Lovers)
13. Shauna (Straight Up)
14. Poiema (Jayber Crow)
15. Carrie (Freddy Goes to Florida)
16. Laura (Basket Moon)
17. JustOneMoreBook (What We Remember)
18. Isabella (The Slaves of Solitude)
19. Will Duquette (Shadow of the Hegemon)
20. Staci (Whimsical Christian, Teacher Man, The Blue Shoe)
21. susan (Inconceivable)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 28, 2006

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. —Holbrook Jackson

Those of us in the U.S. who switch from Daylight Saving Time back to Standard TIme have an extra hour tonight for reading. Post your suggestions and reviews. Then, visit everyone else’s.

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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. Sherry (When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro)
2. Jennifer, Snapshot (Whole Truth Eating Guide)
3. Steven (The Road)
4. Laurie (The Complete Stories by Dorothy Sayers and The Trilogy by Calvin Miller)
5. MFS (On the nightstand)
6. Carrie
7. violet (Redeemed)
8. Denise (Crocodile Soup)
9. Cindy (America Alone by Mark Steyn)
10. Kathryn (You Know Me Al)
11. Diana (Peter Carey\’s My Life as a Fake)
12. Cathy (Peter Pan)
13. Carrie (Spindle\’s End)
14. Parableman (Thinking About God)
15. Will Duquette (Thursday Next)
16. Happy Housewife (The Woman in White)
17. Jen Robinson (Gilda Joyce)
18. Laura (Thirteen Moons)
19. Gail (I, Freddy)
20. Patti (Teacher in America)
21. MotherReader (If Not For The Cat)
22. Mira (Every Mother Is A Daughter)
23. JustOneMoreBook (Ben\’s Trumpet)

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Related links:

Mark Steyn Online, where you can get a copy of his book, America Alone and link to a two part interview he did with Michelle Malkin.

Guardian article on Kazo Ishiguro’s life and novels.

More reviews of The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

Saturday Review of Books: October 21, 2006

“The covers of this book are too far apart.” –Ambrose Bierce

Autumn readers and reviewers, welcome. 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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking. Visit Semicolon’s Amazon Store for more great book recommendations.

1. MFS (The Intellectual Devotional)
2. Susan (Harriet Hume)
3. boliyou (What Jesus Meant)
4. Denise (The Birth House)
5. Will Duquette (Ender\’s Shadow)
6. Brenda N (Inklings/Expectations)
7. Carrie (The Rescuers)
8. Miss Erin (The End)
9. Carrie K. (Straight Up)
10. Jen Robinson (Holbrook)
11. Carol (Imitation of Christ)
12. At A Hen\’s Pace (Sigrid Undset\’s Gunnar\’s Daughter)
13. Jennifer (Dreaming in Cuban)
14. Cathy (The Giver and others)
15. Patti (The Disadvantages of Being Educated
16. Isabella (The Dodecahedron)
17. Jennifer, Snapshot (Wishing on Dandelions)
18. MotherReader (Crossing the Wire)
19. Cindy Swanson
20. Chalkboard (Cross X)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 14, 2006

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. 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.

Now post a link here 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking.

1. Jennifer, Snapshot (Eliz I, Royal Diaries)
2. Dawn (Fletcher and the Falling Leaves)
3. Cindy (Poetic Knowledge)
4. MFS (Waiting for Godot (and more))
5. MotherReader (The End)
6. Janie (Teacher Man)
7. Dianne (Cure for the Common Life)
8. hrh (Facing East: A Pilgrim\’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy”
9. hrh (Stranded: an Ivy Malone Mystery)
10. Jen Robinson (Penny From Heaven)
11. Carrie (Future Men)
12. Jane – Much Ado (Radical Gratitude)
13. boliyou (A Virtuous Woman)
14. Isabella (Light)
15. A Year of Reading (The End)
16. Catez (Apocalypses)
17. Lara, Backyard Adventures (The Covenant)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 7, 2006

Here’s how it works, friends, Romans, and countrymen. 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.

Now post a link here 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. Please add only one book review per customer per week. (However, if your children, friends, or other family members have their own blogs and have written on a book, they are welcome to add their own link.) 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.

Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking.

1. Sherry (The Secret River)
2. Krakovianka (Noisy Nora)
3. Dawn (Poppy)
4. John Baker (Four Fathers)
5. Jennifer, Snapshot (The Birth Order Book)
6. MFS (Invisible Writer)
7. Brenda N (Atlas Shrugged)
8. Cindy (Hamish Macbeth)
9. Carrie (The Things They Carried)
10. Matt Bell (Voodoo Heart)
11. Cathy (The art of looking sideways)
12. Kathryn (Norman Thelwell books)
13. Miss Erin (Penny from Heaven)
14. Carrie (The Blue Castle)
15. Kelly (The 39 Apartments of Ludwig van Beethoven)
16. Jen Robinson (The Thief)
17. Jane – Much Ado (True Believer)
18. Debra (WIldings)
19. Ariel (Devices and Desires)
20. Bookstore Girl (Secret of the Rose)
21. Carl V. (Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman)
22. Mira (1000 White Women)
23. Diana (Anita Brookner\’s Look at Me and the concept of what makes a grownup)

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