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Saturday Review of Books: September 21, 2013

Sep20

“There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.” ~Betty Macdonald

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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. 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. Guiltless Reading (Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon)
2. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Death Trap)
3. Thoughts of Joy (War Brothers)
4. Thoughts of Joy (Dark Places)
5. Anna (The Romantic Exiles: A Nineteenth Century Portrait Gallery)
6. Hope (Adam Bede by George Eliot)
7. Becky (All-of-a-Kind Family)
8. Becky (2 Pop and play Board Books)
9. Becky (Life of Cesare Borgia)
10. Becky (Blood and Beauty: Novel of The Borgias)
11. Becky (Blackmoore (Regency Romance))
12. Becky (Madonna of the Seven Hills, Lucrezia Borgia)
13. Becky (Light on Lucrezia)
14. Becky (Gods and Kings by Lynn Austin)
15. Becky (The Prophet by Frank Peretti)
16. Becky (Invention of Sarah Cummings)
17. Kisses from Katie		 18. Barbara H. (On Distant Shores)
19. Barbara H. (Ella Enchanted)
20. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Killer Ambition)
21. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (George Mueller: The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphans)
22. Sherryl (The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey)
23. Sherryl (The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages)
24. Beth@Weavings (Code Name Verity)
25. Susanne~LivingToTell (The Aviator’s Wife)
26. Janet (Godric by Frederick Buechner)
27. jama (Carnivores by Aaron Reynolds)
28. Colleen@Books in the City (The Husband’s Secret)
29. Girl Detective (We Have Always Lived in the Castle)
30. Girl Detective (Kindred)
31. Girl Detective (Winnie the Pooh audiobook)
32. Girl Detective (Your 7yo: Life in a Minor Key)
33. Girl Detective (Richard II)
34. Reading World (The Anatomist’s Wife)		 35. Anna (Not a Drop to Drink)
36. The Windy Pages (Fangirl)
37. Kate (60 Acres and a Bride)
38. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Fired Up)
39. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Two Destinies)
40. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Thicker Than Blood)
41. Abbi Hart (Whispers from the Shadows)
42. Birdie (By the Light of the Silvery Moon)
43. Hayden (Enchanted)
44. Rissi (Invention of Sarah Cummings)
45. Jessica (Smoke)
46. Kara (Made to Last)
47. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (Mister Pip)
48. Anna (Curtsies and Conspiracies)
49. Chelsey (The Harder the Fall)
50. Tara (Quantum Entanglement)

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Saturday Review of Books: September 14, 2013

Sep13

“[I]n reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.” ~C.S. Lewis

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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. 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. Janet (Soul Survivor by Philip Yancey)
2. Janet (Abel’s Island by William Steig)
3. Guiltless Reading (Very Recent History by Choire Sicha)
4. Guiltless Reading (One Big Beautiful Thing by Marie Flanigan)
5. Guiltless Reading (Hungry by Darlene Barnes)
6. Guiltless Reading (Raising Eyebrows by Dal LaMagna)
7. Guiltless Reading (Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra)
8. Guiltless Reading (Doctor Who: Dark Horizons by Jenny T. Colgan)
9. Becky (The Elite)
10. Becky (Middle Ground)
11. Becky (Every Day After)
12. Becky (Year of the Baby)
13. Becky (Below Stairs)
14. Becky (How To Train a Train)
15. Becky (Pat of Silver Bush)
16. Becky (Surprise for Lily)
17. Becky (Sovereign Grace)		 18. Becky (One With Christ)
19. the Ink Slinger (WOOL)
20. georgianne (Steal Like an Artist)
21. georgianne (The Time Keeper)
22. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Keeping the Castle)
23. Barbara H. (The Fruitful Wife)
24. Barbara H. (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
25. Thoughts of Joy (The Prisoner of Cell 25)
26. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Lost Ones)
27. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Little Town on the Prairie)
28. Melissa@MaidservantsofChrist (Inductive Study Bible)
29. Lazygal (Under A Silent Moon)
30. Lazygal (The Whole Golden World)
31. Lazygal (The Dark Winter)
32. Lazygal (A Beautiful Blue Death)
33. Lazygal (If You Give A Duke A Duchy)
34. Lazygal (The Cartographer of No Man’s Land)		 35. Lazygal (Book of Ages)
36. Lazygal (Death in the Vines)
37. SmallWorld at Home (State of Wonder by Ann Patchett)
38. Swampowl (Small Wonder)
39. Surly Bookseller (The Husband’s Secret)
40. Becky (Fahrenheit 451)
41. True Prayer
42. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Living Room)
43. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Sky Beneath My Feet)
44. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Love Amid The Ashes)
45. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Death on Lindisfarne)
46. Susanne~LivingToTell (Not My Daughter)
47. Gwendolyn Gage (Against the Tide)
48. Reading World (Rules of Civility)
49. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Emma & Elton: Something Truly Horrid)
50. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Ghosts of Rue Dumaine)

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Saturday Review of Books: September 7, 2013

Sep6

“The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.” ~John Steinbeck

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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. 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. Hope (The Western Canon by Harold Bloom)
2. the Ink Slinger (In Defense of Sanity)
3. Guiltless Reading (This is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila)
4. Guiltless Reading (Return to Cardamom by Julie Anne Grasso)
5. Guiltless Reading (The Tragedy of Fidel Castro by Joao Cerqueira)
6. Guiltless Reading (Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano)
7. Guiltless Reading (Last Train to Omaha by Ann Whitely-Gillen)
8. Guiltless Reading (Godiva by Nicole Galland)
9. Guiltless Reading (The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio)
10. Guiltless Reading (A Vision of Angels by Timothy Jay Smith)
11. Guiltless Reading (The Mirrored World by Debra Dean)
12. Barbara H. (Daniel Deronda)
13. Becky (Romance of Grace)
14. Becky (April Lady)
15. Becky (Sprig Muslin)
16. Becky (Bath Tangle)
17. Becky (No Shame, No Fear)
18. Becky (Creative Writing)
19. Becky (Phantom Tollbooth)		 20. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (She Got Up Off the Couch)
21. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Fables Volume 5)
22. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Unremarkable Heart and Other Stories)
23. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Contentment by Swenson)
24. Escape from Camp 14
25. A letter to my childhood self…
26. Ms. Yingling (Zombie Baseball Beatdown)
27. Book Chase (Son of a Gun)
28. Lena Anne (The Infinite Moment of Us)
29. GReads (Wild Cards)
30. Kara (Three Decades of Fertility)
31. Janette Fuller (Custer’s Last Battle)
32. Picky Girl (Winter at Death’s Hotel)
33. Glynn (Forbidden Room)
34. Joseph R. @ Zombie Parents Guide (Lumen Fidei by Pope Francis)
35. Joseph R. @ Zombie Parents Guide (Locke and Key Vol 3)
36. Benjie @ Book ’em Benj-O (Theodore Boone: The Activist)
37. Anna @Don’t Forget the Avocados (Two Juv Fantasies)
38. Brenda (Destiny Rewritten by Kathryn Fitzmaurice)		 39. Beckie@ByTheBook (Red Dawn Rising)
40. Beckie@ByTheBook (Unlimited)
41. Beckie@ByTheBook (Memory’s Door)
42. Beckie@ByTheBook (Off The Record)
43. Beckie@ByTheBook (Presumed Guilty)
44. Becky (Rookwood)
45. Harvee@Book Dilettante
46. Reading World (The Lady and the Poet)
47. Reading World (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
48. Thoughts of Joy (The Tragedy Paper)
49. Thoughts of Joy (E is for Evidence)
50. Girl Detective (I Am Not Sidney Poitier)
51. Girl Detective (The Immortalization Commission)
52. Colleen@Books in the City (A Walk in the Woods)
53. Colleen@Books in the City (In the Land of the Living)
54. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (The Secret Garden)
55. Beth@Weavings (Mollie Peer)
56. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Spies and Prejudice)

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Saturday Review of Books: August 24, 2013

Aug23

“That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed in profit.” ~Amos Bronson Alcott

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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. 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. Semicolon (The Aviator’s Wife)
2. Semicolon (A Wilder Rose)
3. Semicolon (My Cat Copies Me)
4. Cynthia (All Our Pretty Songs)
5. the Ink Slinger (Orthodoxy)
6. Susanne~LivingToTell (Wounds)
7. Thoughts of Joy (Just What Kind of Mother Are You?)
8. Thoughts of Joy (A Conspiracy of Faith)
9. Thoughts of Joy (Back of Beyond)
10. Barbara H. (Gulp!)
11. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mouse with the Question Mark Tail)
12. Lars Walker (Viking Warfare)
13. Hope (Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson)
14. Catherine (On a Beam of Light)
15. Megan at Redeemed Reader (tea picture books)
16. Zoe (Oliver and the Seawigs)
17. Charlotte (The Giver)		 18. Abby the Librarian (Golden Boy)
19. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Long Winter)
20. Carol – False Dawn by Edith Wharton
21. Glynn (Metaphysical Dog: Poems)
22. Glynn (Four Shorts)
23. Lazygal (Foreign Gods, Inc.)
24. Lazygal (The Gallery of Vanishing Husbands)
25. Lazygal (Lost River)
26. Lazygal (The Devil’s Edge)
27. Lazygal (Dead and Buried)
28. Reading World (Mystic River)
29. Reading World (Bitter Greens)
30. GReads (Sugar Daddy)
31. Eustacia Tan (Identity Theft)
32. Dani at A Work in Progress (A Grave Talent)
33. Faith (Photographing the Adirondacks
34. Lesley (Under the Dome)		 35. Joyful Reader (The Black Moth)
36. Becky (Counting by 7s)
37. Becky (Unthinkable)
38. Becky (Helen Lester Picture Books)
39. Becky (Black Dudley Murder)
40. Becky (You Wouldn’t Want To Be Picture Books/Nonfiction)
41. Becky (Now We Are Six)
42. Beckie @ ByTheBook (What The Bayou Saw)
43. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Sleeping in Eden)
44. Beckie @ ByTheBook (This Means Love)
45. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Not This Time)
46. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Unwritten)
47. Brenda (The School for Good and Evil)
48. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (If You Could Be Mine)
49. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Satyr’s Curse)
50. Swampowl (Stranger With My Face)

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Saturday Review of Books: August 17, 2013

Aug16

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It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of others– even my nearest and dearest–- there always comes a moment when I’d rather be reading a book.” ~Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan

Is this reading addiction true of you? I’ll admit it’s closer to the truth about me than I’d like to admit.

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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. 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. Becky (Love Finds a Home)
2. Becky (Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study)
3. Becky (Imperfect Spiral)
4. Becky (Frozen: Heart of Dread)
5. Becky (New Lands)
6. Becky (Secrets at Sea)
7. Becky (The Unruly Queen)
8. Becky (When We Were Very Young)
9. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Spark)
10. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Rose Harbor in Bloom)
11. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Another Man’s Moccasins)
12. The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte
13. Jessica Snell (“Catch a Falling Star”)
14. the Ink Slinger (The Little Black Book of Violence)		 15. Hope (Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry)
16. Glynn (Foundation)
17. Beckie @ ByTheBook (On Distant Shores)
18. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Winter in Full Bloom)
19. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Dead Lawyers Tell No Tales)
20. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Death Be Not Proud)
21. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Captives)
22. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (Return To Oakpine)
23. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe)
24. Yvann @ Reading With Tea (The Paris Architect)
25. Thoughts of Joy (Out of My Mind)
26. Thoughts of Joy (The Girl You Left Behind)
27. Janet (Huckleberry Finn)
28. Susanne~LivingToTell (The Light Between Oceans)		 29. Girl Detective (Matched)
30. Girl Detective (The Giver)
31. JD (The Book of Lost Things)
32. Hope (A Child al Confino – WWII)
33. Reading World (anne of denmark)
34. Reading World (Colony)
35. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Faithful Preaching)
36. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (Back on Murder)
37. Benjie @ Book ‘Em Benj-O (10 Sacred Cows in Christianity that Need to Be Tipped)
38. Brenda (The Hero’s Guide to Saving your Kingdom)
39. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Rutherford Park)
40. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Austenland)

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Saturday Review of Books: August 10, 2013

Aug9

“We are what we love to read, and when we admit to loving a book, we admit that the book represents some aspect of ourselves truly, whether it is that we are suckers for romance or pining for adventure or secretly fascinated by crime. ” ~Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

What do your reading tastes say about who you are?

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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. 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. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Secondhand Spirits)
2. the Ink Slinger (A Princess of Mars)
3. Barbara H. (The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis)
4. Barbara H. (The Wedding Dress)
5. Carol in Oregon (5 Great Endings)
6. Amy @ Hope is the Word (The Fields of Home)
7. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Hell is Real But I Hate to Admit It)
8. Beth@Weavings (Hannah Coulter)
9. Beth@Weavings (Whose Body?)
10. Thoughts of Joy (The Silent Wife)
11. Hope (Books read in July)
12. Hope (Do you Keep a Book Log?)
13. Lazygal (Heartbeat)
14. Lazygal (The Lavender Garden)		 15. Lazygal (My Favorite Mistake)
16. Lazygal (Chocolates for Breakfast)
17. Lazygal (Chimera)
18. Lazygal (A Dual Inheritance)
19. Lazygal (The Whatnot)
20. Lazygal (The White Princess)
21. Glynn Young (Rapture’s Rain)
22. Glynn Young (Olde Mysterium)
23. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (This is Pradise)
24. Becky (Anomaly)
25. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Godiva)
26. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Return to Cardamom)
27. Becky (The Quiet Gentleman)
28. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (Persephone’s Torch)		 29. Becky (The Borgia Bride)
30. Aloi @ Guiltless Reading (The Mirrored World)
31. Becky (The Shade of the Moon)
32. Becky (Wool Omnibus)
33. Becky (The Grand Sophy)
34. Becky (The Magic Pudding)
35. SmallWorld Reads (And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini)
36. Beckie (The White Princess)
37. Chris (Gospel Call and True Conversion)
38. Joseph R. @ Zombie Parents Guide (Eifelheim by Mike Flynn)
39. Girl Detective (World Made by Hand)
40. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Language of the Fan)
41. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Winter in Wartime)
42. Harvee (Tahoe Chase)

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