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Saturday Review of Books: November 9, 2013

“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity.
It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.” ~Henry Ward Beecher

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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. Thoughts of Joy (The Fifth Witness)
2. Becky (Mandy)
3. Becky (Olive and the Bad Mood)
4. Becky (Becoming Shakespeare)
5. Becky (The Bastard King)
6. Becky (The Lion of Justice)
7. Becky (The Passionate Enemies)
8. Becky (Allegiant)
9. Becky (When Breaks the Dawn)
10. Becky (Spunky’s Diary)
11. Becky (Prodigal Cat)
12. Becky (Almost Heaven)
13. C.S. Lewis and the Glory of God
14. Glynn (As Far As I Know)
15. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (These Happy Golden Years)
16. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive [Fables Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days)]
17. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Still the Best Hope)
18. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
19. Barbara H. (A Severe Mercy)
20. Barbara H. (The Chance by Karen Kingsbury)
21. Helene (A Cast of Stones)
22. Janet (Dr Thorne)
23. jama (Yes! We Are Latinos)
24. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Nobody’s Secret by MacColl)
25. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Counting by 7s)
26. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Doll People)
27. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Thanksgiving book list)
28. Colleen@Books in the City (Rococo by Adriana Trigiani)
29. dawn (Ender’s Game)
30. Brenda (Starbounders by Adam Epstein and Andrew Jacobson)
31. Becky (Fortunately, The Milk)
32. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies (The Tulip Eaters)
33. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Sophia’s War: The End of Innocence)
34. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Queen of Bad Decisions)
35. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Snow on The Tulips)
36. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Sparkle Box)
37. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Strait of Hormuz)
38. Beckie @ ByTheBook (To Know You)
39. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Pathfinder)
40. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Born to Run)

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Saturday Review of Books: November 2, 2013

“A good story should alter you in some way; it should change your thinking, your feeling, your psyche, or the way you look at things. A story is an abstract experience; it’s rather like venturing through a maze. When you come out of it, you should feel slightly changed.” ~Allen Say

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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. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Center of Everything by Linda Urban)
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Almost wordless Cybils picture fiction)
3. Alysa (Hoop Genius)
4. Barbara H. (Thoughts on missionary biographies and a list of favorites)
5. Barbara H. (It Is Not Death to Die: A New Biography of Hudson Taylor)
6. Barbara H. (The Journals of Jim Elliot)
7. Barbara H. (Sometimes I Prefer to Fuss))
8. Becky (Cat in the Window)
9. Becky (Year of Billy Miller)
10. Becky (Handel Who Knew What He Liked)
11. Becky (Antony and Cleopatra)
12. Becky (Outcasts United)
13. Becky (Time Travelers Guide to Elizabethan England)
14. Becky (Through the Looking Glass)
15. Karen Edmisten (Island of the Blue Dolphins)
16. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
17. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Tilted World)
18. Thoughts of Joy (The Silver Star)
19. Thoughts of Joy (Bringing Down the House)
20. Hope (Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Gaskell)
21. Colleen@Books in the City (One Doctor)
22. Carol in Oregon (Comparing Lucy Maud Montgomery, Part 2)
23. Janet (On Stories)
24. No Longer a Slumdog
25. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Linger)
26. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Blue Diablo)
27. Lazygal (Captives)
28. Lazygal (The September Society)
29. Lazygal (The Winter People)
30. Lazygal (Frozen in Time)
31. Lazygal (Under the Wide and Starry Sky)
32. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Importance of Being Emma)
33. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Joanna Trollope’s Sense & Sensibility)
34. Terry Delaney (Christmas Notes)
35. Carol -A Literary Journey
36. Becky (The String Quartet)
37. Glynn (Growth in Leadership)
38. Glynn (Sleeping Keys: Poems)
39. Glynn (Book of Common Prayer)
40. Beth@Weavings (The Scarlet Pimpernel)
41. 3000 degrees
42. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Books by Colleen Coble, Beth Wiseman, and Tricia Goyer))
43. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Torn Blood)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 26, 2013

“Not every book is a Damascus Road experience, but some are. Most books are road experiences of some sort, whether the road is a pleasant country drive or an interstate highway easing the passage from one place in life to the next.” ~Ben House

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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 (Dandelion Cottage)
2. the Ink Slinger (Beowulf: A New Verse Rendering)
3. Becky (Return to Me by Lynn Austin
4. Becky (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
5. Becky (I’m A Frog; Not A Good Idea)
6. Becky (Charlotte and Leopold)
7. Becky (Unknown Ajax)
8. Becky (Prince of Foxes)
9. Becky (Civil Contract)
10. Becky (All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare)
11. Camille (Duke of Midnight)
12. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Oct. Nightstand)
13. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Christmas Cat GIVEAWAY)
14. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Oct. Read Aloud Thursday)
15. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Boxers and Saints)
16. Victory over Fear
17. Beth@Weavings (We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea)
18. Janet (Framley Parsonage)
19. Barbara H. (From Cannibalism to Christianity)
20. Barbara H. (One Candle to Burn)
21. Barbara H. (Two books about J. O. Fraser)
22. Barbara H. (Climbing)
23. Barbara H. (William Carey, Father of Modern Missions))
24. Barbara H. (The Cambridge Seven)
25. Glynn (Weak Devotions)
26. Glynn (Rain: Poems)
27. Glynn (Aimless Love)
28. Becky (Drood)
29. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies (Longbourn)
30. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies (How To Be A Good Wife)
31. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (Where The Wild Things Are)
32. Book Nut (Pi in the Sky)
33. Faith (The Fiddler)
34. Spencer Cummins (Boot Camp)
35. Jessica (Rooted: the Apostles’ Creed)
36. Jessica (Sewing Church Linens)
37. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Journey of Josephine Cain)
38. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Fear No Evil)
39. Beckie @ ByTheBook (I Saul)
40. Beckie @ ByTheBook (For Every Season)
41. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Martyr’s Fire)
42. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Libriomancer)
43. Harvee @ Book Dilettante (Incurable Insanity)
44. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (This Heart of Mine)
45. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Revolution of Every Day)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 19, 2013

“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist” ~Edwin Louis Cole

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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. Reading World (Mortal Arts)
2. Reading World (Nikolai Gogol-The Collected Stories)
3. Guiltless Reading – The Bride Wore Size 12 by Meg Cabot
4. Guiltless Reading – An Incurable Insanity by Simi K. Rao
5. Guiltless Reading – The Round House by Louise Erdrich
6. Guiltless Reading (with Giveaway!) Grounded by Angela Correll
7. Guiltless Reading (with Giveaway!) Marcel Proust in Taos by Jon Foyt
8. Harvee @ Book Dilettante (I Am Venus)
9. Barbara H. (Eric Liddell)
10. Barbara H. (Spirit of the Rainforest)
11. Barbara H. (In the Presence of My Enemies)
12. Barbara H. (To the Golden Shore)
13. Hope (Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë)
14. Lazygal (Pure)
15. Lazygal (Jack Glass)
16. Lazygal (What We Lost in the Dark)
17. Lazygal (Clever Girl)
18. Lazygal (Sweet Thunder)
19. Lazygal (The Impossible Knife of Memory)
20. Becky (A Wreath of Snow)
21. Becky (When Comes The Spring)
22. Becky (Call To Spiritual Formation)
23. Becky (To Live Is Christ To Die Is Gain)
24. Becky (Fantastic Family Whipple)
25. Becky (Noah Barleywater Runs Away)
26. Becky (Venetia by Georgette Heyer)
27. Becky (Insurgent)
28. Becky (Great Tales From English History vol. 3)
29. Becky (Sophies Squash (Cybils NOminee))
30. Becky (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
31. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Conjured)
32. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Infinity)
33. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Fables vol. 6: Homelands)
34. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (‘Salem’s Lot: The Illustrated Edition)
35. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Year of Billy Miiller)
36. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Armchair Cybils)
37. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Navigating Early)
38. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (3 Cybils picture books)
39. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Longitude)
40. the Ink Slinger (Back on Murder)
41. Susanne (The Man Who Quit Money)
42. Janet (Pinocchio)
43. jama (My Milk Toof 2)
44. Glynn (Poems of R.S. Thomas)
45. Glynn (Poems of Devotion)
46. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Glittering Promises)
47. Beckie @ ByTheBook (To Die For)
48. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Stones Cry Out)
49. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Reichenbach Problem)
50. Bluestocking(All Is Fair)
51. Girl Detective (Behind the Beautiful Forevers)
52. Brenda (Hero’s in Training & Wednesdays in the Tower)
53. RAnn (Miracle Road)
54. Becky (Gospel Transformation Bible)
55. Colleen @books in the city(Lucia, L
56. Colleen at Books in the City (the Girl You Left Behind)
57. Col (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
58. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Shadows in a Brilliant Life)
59. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Darcy’s Promise)
60. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe)
61. Annie kate (Reading with Purpose)
62. Annie Kate (Splitting Harriet)
63. Amber Stults (Sunshine)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 12, 2013

“I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.” ~Tahereh Mafi

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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 (Twelfth Night/Shakespeare)
2. Becky (Caroline the Queen/Plaidy)
3. Becky (The Last Dragonslayer)
4. Becky (Divergent)
5. Becky (Great Tales from English History #2)
6. Becky (Five Picture Books)
7. Becky (Mistress Pat)
8. Becky (Faith of My Fathers)
9. Becky (Among the Gods)
10. Becky (Thoughts To Make Your Heart Sing)
11. Becky (Under A Blackberry Moon)
12. Alex in Leeds (Howards End is on the Landing)
13. Harvee @ Book Dilettante (The Case of the Love Commandos)
14. Reading World (Rose Under Fire)
15. Reading World (Marie Curie and Her Daughters)
16. Reading World (Private Life)
17. 5 books on my future reading list
18. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library)
19. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Magic Half)
20. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Armchair Cybils)
21. Barbara H. (Whom God Hath Joined)
22. Barbara H. (Evidence Not Seen)
23. Barbara H. (John Paton)
24. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Mortal Bonds)
25. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Runaways vol. 1: Pride & Joy)
26. Beth@Weavings (Daniel Plainway)
27. Glynn (My Bright Abyss)
28. Glynn (New Light for the Old Dark)
29. Glynn (the Ninety-Third Name for God)
30. the Ink Slinger (Good Omens)
31. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Deadly Choices)
32. Janet (Pagan Christianity)
33. Girl Detective (The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship that Sank Twice)
34. Girl Detective (This Lullabye)
35. Girl Detective (Henry IV part 1)
36. Girl Detective (Henry IV part 2)
37. Girl Detective (Wicked)
38. Becky (Does Prayer Change Things)
39. Sally @ Classic Children’s Books (Corduroy)
40. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Murder by Syllabub)
41. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Return to Me)
42. Brenda (The Ambrose Beacon)
43. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Jenny Pox)
44. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (The Weight of Souls)
45. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The English German Girl)
46. Annie Kate (Mathematics: Is God Silent?)
47. Annie Kate (Bride for Keeps)

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Saturday Review of Books: October 5, 2013

“Read not to contradict and confute nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.” ~Sir Francis Bacon

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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. Carol – Year of the Russian Novel
2. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Cybils post)
3. Carol in Oregon (Reading Lucy Maud Montgomery, Part 2)
4. Becky (When Calls The Heart, Janette Oke)
5. Becky (Amazing Grace)
6. Becky (The Strength of His Hand)
7. Becky (Loving Will Shakespeare)
8. Becky (The Wild Queen)
9. Becky (Sylvester, Georgette Heyer)
10. Becky (North of Nowhere)
11. Becky (Great Tales from English History)
12. Becky (6 2013 Early Readers, 1 Early Chapter Book)
13. Becky (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
14. Guiltless Reading (I Am Venus by Bárbara Mujica)
15. Guiltless Reading (Sticky Icky Booger Bugs by Sherry Frith ( Giveaway!))
16. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Lord of the Silent)
17. Helene (The Practice of the Presence of God)
18. Hope (Island Magic by Elizabeth Goudge)
19. Colleen@Books in the City (Painted Hands)
20. jama (Grandma’s Chocolate)
21. Thoughts of Joy (Stranger in the Room)
22. Thoughts of Joy (How the Light Gets In)
23. SmallWorld Reads (Autobiography of Us)
24. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Ruth: Mother of Kings)
25. Beckie @ ByTheBook (A Christmas Gift for Rose)
26. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Rain Song)
27. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Shine: How to Walk The Talk)
28. Anna (Curse of the Thirteenth Fey, & Neverwhere)
29. Anna (Weighting the Merits of Mainstream Fiction in a Classical Education)
30. Nicole (author interview with Joseph Bruchac)
31. Sophie @ Paper Breathers (Shiver)
32. Harvee@ Book Dilettante (The Shogun’s Daughter)
33. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Happy Birthday, Mr. Darcy)

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Saturday Review of Books: September 28, 2013

“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books—even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.” ~William Ewart Gladstone

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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. Barbara H. (Overcoming Overeating)
2. Barbara H. (Fahrenheit 451)
3. Hope (more on 1984 by Orwell)
4. Guiltless Reading (Aunty Lee’s Delights: A Singaporean Mystery by Ovidia
5. Guiltless Reading (Freud’s Mistress by Karen Mack & Jennifer Kaufman)
6. Thoughts of Joy (Untraceable)
7. Thoughts of Joy (The Other Typist)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor)
9. Becky (Song of Redemption)
10. Becky (Love’s Awakening)
11. Becky (Which Bible Translation Should I Use?)
12. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Sept. Nightstand)
13. Becky (Black Robe Wilkie Collins)
14. Becky (Gold in the Days of Summer)
15. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Sept. Read Aloud Thursday)
16. Becky (9 Lives of Alexander)
17. Becky (Iola Leroy)
18. Becky (Wicked History of the World/Horrible Histories)
19. Becky (3 2013 Picture Books)
20. Becky (Little Maid of Provincetown)
21. Tiffany (Bel Canto)
22. Christina (Shadowlark)
23. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (Inferno)
24. Melissa (When You Were Here)
25. Jenna (The Dream Thieves)
26. Jennifer@Novel Thoughts (Counting by 7s)
27. amshuman (Altered)
28. Carol in Oregon (Reading Lucy Maud Montgomery)
29. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Y: The Last Man Vol 5: Ring of Truth)
30. Carol – The Swiss Family Robinson
31. jama’s alphabet soup (Papa is a Poet)
32. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Two Courier of Caswell Hall)
33. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Waking Hours)
34. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Death of The Couch Potato’s Wife)
35. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Forever Friday)
36. Bluestocking(Any Other Name)
37. Girls in White Dresses (The Night Circus more)
38. Annie Kate (College Admission and Scholarships)
39. Annie Kate (One Thousand Gifts)
40. Colleen@Books in the City (The Partner Track)
41. Liz (Kon-tiki)
42. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Rising Sun, Falling Shadow)
43. Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies (The Girl You Left Behind)
44. Karen Andreola (Lost on a Mountain in Maine)
45. Canada (Camus’ The Stranger)
46. Cheryl (Mennonite Girls Can Cook: Celebrations)
47. Lena Anne (Six Months Later)
48. Anecdotal Evidence (Keep All my Letters)
49. Kara (Christian Guides to the Classics: The Scarlet Letter)
50. Jennifer @5minutes4books (Flora and Ulysses)
51. Tiffany @ Avid Reader (Ender’s Game)

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Saturday Review of Books: September 21, 2013

“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

“[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

“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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