For this week’s Saturday Review, I’ve decided to just leave this linky from last week so that those of you who haven’t yet linked to your end of the year/beginning of the year book lists can do so. Feel free to leave book review links, too, and enjoy seeing what everybody else is reading and enjoying.
“I read because one life isn’t enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody;
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings but for new beginnings; I’m just beginning myself, and I wouldn’t mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don’t, and young though they are, they’re beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library, and it’s time for me to start packing;
I read because one of these days I’m going to get out of this town, and I’m going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready.” ~Richard Peck
SATURDAY December 27th, is the annual special edition of the Saturday Review of Books especially for book lists. You can link to a list of your favorite books read in 2014, a list of all the books you read in 2014, a list of the books you plan to read in 2015, or any other end of the year or beginning of the year list of books. Whatever your list, it’s time for book lists. (Links to regular reviews are also welcome, and you can certainly link to more than one review or more than one list.)
Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Then on Friday night/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.
This week only if you link to your book list and if you leave a comment asking for book recommendations for 2015, I’ll try to suggest some books that you might enjoy for future reading adventures.
I posted separate lists for my Top 10 fiction and nonfiction books of 2014. 2014 was a good reading year for me in regards to finding some memorable books that I will remember for a long time.
Thanks for hosting the lists. I’m looking forward to seeing what else is posted.
Yippee! My favorite post of the year!
I LOVE Richard Peck! â¤ï¸
I read all of your recommendations for me from last year and LOVED them. I’d love for you to recommend something this year, too.
Amy, I’m going to suggest Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and The Orphan and the Mouse by Martha Freeman, the latter of which was one of my favorites from my Cybils reading. I’m glad you enjoyed some of the books I recommended, and I really appreciate all your comments here through out the year. You encourage me.
This is one of my favorite posts of the year, too. I’d love to hear your recommendations. One of them from last year was one of my top ten this year!
Barbara, did you ever read A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins? You might also enjoy a Christian fiction book I read earlier this year, The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin.
I have one list one poetry and related books, and one for fiction and non-fiction. Thanks for hosting this, Sherry! And a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I love these lists! I would appreciate some recommendations, Sherry. Thanks so much!
Thanks for this post. I look forward to it every year. I would also like your recs for my reading pleasure!
Beckie, since you liked Bad Ground by Dale Cramer so much, you might like my favorite Levi’s Will by the same author. Another author I thin you would like is Jamie Langston Turner; try A Garden to Keep or Winter Birds.
Sheila, have you read The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King? It’s a mystery in which Sherlock Holmes acquires a female assistant. Also, I really liked Miss Buncle’s Book by DE Stevenson and The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge.
Thank you for adding my book list!
Thanks Sherry. I have Levi’s Will in my TBR pile. I will have to move it closer to the top. 😉 Also thanks for the rec of Jamie Langston Turner. I think I have some Kindle titles by her.
I’d love a book recommendation!
Wow, Becky, that’s hard. You’ve read . . . everything. Have you ever read Elisabeth Elliot’s novel, No Graven Image? How about Stephen Lawhead’s Byzantium? Those are a couple of my favorites that I didn’t find reviewed at either of your blogs.
Thanks for the recommendations! They both look interesting.
I’ve just started posting my year-end lists. Today I began with The Best Debut Fiction of 2014. http://hungryforgoodbooks.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-best-debut-fiction-of-2014.html
Fiction, Nonfiction, Mysteries and Thrillers, and Young Adult are still to come.
Sherry,
Thanks so much for the recommendations! All of your recommendations from last year were big hits, so I’m looking forward to reading these new ones!
Thanks so much for including me … I’m usually way behind on linkys because I blog so infrequently! I’m going to enjoy coming back for book ideas!
Thanks for listing me! It seems blogging (and making it to other blogs!) have been pushed off my calendar a lot this year! I’m looking forward to checking out all the lists as I start my goal books for 2015!
Ah, Sherry, I would love to get a recommendation from you. I’m so thankful for City of Tranquil Light and Miss Buncle’s Book.
Thanks for hosting. It’s my first time although I read your Saturday link up every week.
Carol, perhaps My Enemy’s Cradle by Sara Young (WWII fiction) and Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone.
Thanks for linking. I enjoyed reading your list.
Thanks, Sherry. I will read them!
I posted a link to a podcast I hosted discussing A Christmas Carol (the novella) along with a number of major adaptations of it.
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