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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: August 24, 2013

“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

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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

“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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Saturday Review of Books: August 3, 2013

“Two questions I can’t really answer about fiction are (1) where it comes from, and (2) why we need it. But that we do create it and also crave it is beyond dispute.” ~Marilynne Robinson

Where it comes from is certainly beyond my ken. Ultimately, the true stories come from God himself, I suppose. But why do you read fiction? Why do you crave stories, if you do? For me, stories clothe and make sense of bare facts. Don’t tell me that five plus four equals nine. Tell me a story about five apples and four oranges, chopped into bite-sized pieces and combined to make a lovely fruit salad. I prefer the story of the salad, even if it doesn’t equate to good arithmetic.

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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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Saturday Review of Books: July 27, 2013

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote and the same reads… There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is there an author, dead or still living, that you perceive to be your “kindred spirit”? I think Madeleine L’Engle and I could have been friends, had we been born closer together in age. I also think I would have enjoyed knowing and conversing with the Bronte sisters, and perhaps Jane Austen. I would at least love to listen to these ladies as they talked with each other.

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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. the Ink Slinger (Irene Iddesleigh)
2. the Ink Slinger (On the Bookshelf XX)
3. Barbara H. (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Hidden Gallery)
4. Annette (Finding God in the Land of Narnia)
5. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Brotherhood Conspiracy)
6. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Blood And Bone)
7. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Trial And Terror)
8. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Prayer Box)
9. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Elisha’s Bones)
10. Darshanna (10 Books for New Kindergarteners)
11. Katie (Just Grace and the Trouble with Cupcakes)
12. Elizabeth Bird @Fuse#8 (The Center of Everything)
13. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (The Diamond Age)
14. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Seasons of a Mother’s Heart)
15. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (July Nightstand)
16. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Teacher’s Funeral quote)
17. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Fields of Home)
18. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (he Fields of Home)
19. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (July Read Aloud Thursday)
20. Thoughts of Joy (Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock)
21. Thoughts of Joy (The Never List)
22. Thoughts of Joy (The Story of Beautiful Girl)
23. Janet (The Eighty Dollar Champion)
24. Lazygal (The Chaos of Stars)
25. Lazygal (Collected Ghost Stories)
26. Lazygal (Rogue)
27. Lazygal (Chickens in the Road)
28. Hope (In Search of Balance – Swenson)
29. Lazygal (The Twins)
30. a barmy bookworm (Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited)
31. Becky (A Promise to Love)
32. Becky (The Measure of Katie Calloway)
33. Becky (The Sunroom)
34. Becky (The Cherry Cola Book Club)
35. Becky (Ladies in Waiting)
36. Becky (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars)
37. Becky (Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library)
38. Becky (12 Board Books)
39. Becky (The White Princess)
40. Becky (The WAter Castle)
41. Becky (Mary Poppins)
42. Reading World (The Art of Fielding)
43. Reading World (Passion)
44. Reading World (The Ides of April)
45. Girl Detective (Dirt Music)
46. Girl Detective (Buddha)
47. Susanne~LivingToTell (Unwritten)
48. Carol in Oregon (Nightstand post)
49. Brenda (Seagulls Don’t Eat Pickles: Fish Finneli)
50. Katy Manck @BooksYALove (A Girl Called Problem)
51. Girl Detective (Siddhartha)
52. Girl Detective (Fairest GN: The Hidden Kingdom)
53. Glynn Young (Shadowlands)
54. Glynn Young (Litany of Secrets)
55. CREATE WITH JOY (The Radical Practice Of Loving Everyone)
56. CREATE WITH JOY (A Big Year For Lily Lapp)
57. CREATE WITH JOY (A List Of Offences)
58. CREATE WITH JOY (The Brotherhood Conspiracy)
59. CREATE WITH JOY (Rosemary Cottage)
60. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Tea With Emma)
61. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (A Pemberley Medley)

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Saturday Review of Books: July 20, 2013

“He won’t read a book that contains love-making or death-beds.’Does anybody marry?’ ‘Does anybody die?’ are his first questions about a book, so naturally his reading is much restricted.” ~Anna Buchan

Are there any subjects that you just won’t read about at all? Any disqualifying question that you ask about a book before you start into it?

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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. Girl Detective (Harriet the Spy)
2. Girl Detective (Around Beauty)
3. Girl Detective (A Matter of Life GN)
4. Girl Detective (Maddaddam)
5. Girl Detective (The Ocean at the End of the Lane)
6. Hope (Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt)
7. Becky (All The Truth That Is In Me)
8. Becky (Death in the Clouds/Christie)
9. Becky (The Frog Who Croaked/Platypus Police Squad)
10. Becky (Second Fiddle)
11. Becky (Four Nonfiction PictureBook Biographies)
12. Becky (Half Magic/Eager)
13. Becky (By Grace Alone)
14. Becky (Cost of Discipleship)
15. Becky (Chosen by God)
16. Becky (A Big Year for Lily)
17. Susanne (Sherlock Holmes & the Needle’s Eye)
18. Beth@Weavings (Cordelia Underwood)
19. Beth@Weavings (Badge of Honor)
20. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Illusion by Frank Perretti)
21. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Hattie Ever After)
22. Carol in Oregon (Lark Rise to Candleford)
23. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Under the Dome)
24. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Hawkeye Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon)
25. Thoughts of Joy (Let’s Take the Long Way Home)
26. Thoughts of Joy (Down to the Wire)
27. Thoughts of Joy (Killer Ambition)
28. Glynn Young (Dragonfyre)
29. Glynn Young (Significant Work)
30. Lazygal (In Falling Snow)
31. Lazygal (If I Ever Get Out of Here)
32. Lazygal (The Quarry)
33. Lazygal (The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic)
34. Reading World (The Golden Dice)
35. Beckie @ ByTheBook (A Big Year for Lily)
36. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Rosemary Cottage)
37. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Pretty Is As Pretty Does)
38. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Fright At The Museum)
39. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Soul’s Gate)
40. Silvia (Remains of the Day)
41. Danzel (Ozma of Oz)
42. Melissa (The Joy of Origami)
43. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Lord of the Flies)
44. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Letters From Skye)

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