Saturday Review of Books: July 10, 2010

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”~Christopher Morley

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. Embejo (Cry The Beloved Country)
2. SmallWorld Reads (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
3. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Catching Fire)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Peter Pan)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (44 Scotland Street)
6. Reading to Know (Master Your Metabolism cookbook)
7. Reading to Know (Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
8. 5M4B (The Sky is Everywhere)
9. 5M4B (Devoted)
10. 5M4B (Free to a Good Home)
11. 5M4B (The One That I Want)
12. Wayside Sacraments (Outlander)
13. Kevin Stilley (Have You Read All These Books?)
14. Barbara H. (God Wears His Own Watch)
15. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (Sorrow’s Anthem)
16. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (Whiter than Snow)
17. Lily @ Never Fading Wood (Olive Kitteridge)
18. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Tyranny)
19. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner)
20. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Wars)
21. Staci @ Writing and Living (The Help)
22. Staci @ Writing and Living (Crossing To Safety)
23. Collateral Bloggage (The High King)
24. Beth (Nowhere, Carolina)
25. Beth (A Tailor-Made Bride)
26. Beth (Bringing Up Girls)
27. Carol in Oregon (Home Below Hells Canyon)
28. Lazygal (Infinite Days)
29. Lazygal (Kill the Dead)
30. Lazygal (Up from the Blue)
31. Lazygal (Lake Overturn)
32. Lazygal (Mr. Toppit)
33. Lazygal (I am J)
34. Lazygal (You Killed Wesley Payne)
35. Lazygal (Stiltsville)
36. Lazygal (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead)
37. Across the Page (Country of the Pointed Firs)
38. Across the Page (Catching Fire)
39. Word Lily (A Painter’s Life)
40. Word Lily (31 Bond Street)
41. Word Lily (The Fiddler’s Gun)
42. Nicola (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
43. Nicola (Immigrant Kids by Russel Freedman)
44. Nicola (Never Let You Go by Erin Healy)
45. Nicola (Toy Story GN: The Return of Buzz Lightyear)
46. Nicola (Street Child by Berlie Doherty)
47. Nicola (Library Wars, Vol. 1)
48. Girl Detective (The Imperfectionists)
49. S. Krishna (Rampant)
50. S. Krishna (Seven Year Switch)
51. S. Krishna (The Space Between Us)
52. S. Krishna (Sea Escape)
53. S. Krishna (A Hidden Affair)
54. S. Krishna (1st to Die)
55. S. Krishna (And Only To Deceive)
56. Amber Stults (When Will There Be Good News?)
57. Lightheaded (Stiff by Mary Roach)
58. Amber Stults (Raw Redemption)
59. Library Hospital (Spoken From the Heart: Laura Bush Memoir)
60. Library Hospital (Maud Hart Lovelace Reading Challenge Notice)
61. Jennifer (Smells like dog)
62. JHS (Seven Year Switch)
63. Colleen @Books in the City (This Is Where I Leave You
64. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Beachcombers)
65. Josette (The Awakening/The Vampire Diaries, #1)
66. Josette (The Devil Wears Prada)
67. Marg – Emma Vol 4
68. Marg – City of God
69. Marg – Twilight: The Graphic Novel
70. Melissa @ The Betty & Boo Chronicles (Made for Goodness)
71. DebD (The Scent of Water)
72. Diary of an Eccentric (Watermark)
73. Diary of an Eccentric (Hitler’s Canary)
74. Diary of an Eccentric (Still Missing)
75. Diary of an Eccentric (Miracle in Sumatra)
76. Summer

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 10, 2010

  1. Good morning readers! I’m steadily making my way through Neal Stephenson’s The Confusion, but stopped between volumes of the Baroque Cycle to read Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists, which was short and bittersweet, with many O. Henry-esque knife twists.

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