Saturday Review of Books: May 8, 2010

“All good books have one thing in common. They are truer than if they had really happened.”~Ernest Hemingway

If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you were reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky to the specific post where you’ve written your book review. Don’t link to your main blog page because this kind of link makes it hard to find the book review, especially when people drop in later after you’ve added new content to your blog. In parentheses after your name, add the title of the book you’re reviewing. This addition will help people to find the reviews they’re most interested in reading.

After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

1. Semicolon (Vittoria Cottage)
2. Page Turner/Heather (Stepping Heavenward)
3. Hope (The Woman in White)
4. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Love in a Time of Homeschooling)
5. MFS @ Mental multivitamin (Reading life review)
6. ibeeeg @ Polishing Mud Balls (A Clash of Kings)
7. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Beaded Hope and At Home in Mitford)
8. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mouse and Mole; Corgiville Fair)
9. Wayside Wanderer (Never Before in History)
10. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Radical)
11. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Pearl of China)
12. 5M4B (Candy Faeries)
13. 5M4B (So Much for That)
14. 5M4B (Book by Book, creating Mom Daughter Bookclubs)
15. 5M4B (Leaders Who Last)
16. 5M4B (Finally by Wendy Mass, giveaway)
17. 5 Min for Mom (The Threadbare Heart)
18. Violet @promptings (She Walks In Beauty)
19. Copperswife (This Momentary Marriage)
20. SuziQoregon (Lake of Sorrows)
21. SuzyQoregon (All Together Dead)
22. Beth (Setting the Stage for Your Child’s Faith)
23. Beth (A Lady Like Sarah)
24. Book grrl (Drink the Tea)
25. JHS (Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go)
26. Collateral Bloggage (The Black Cauldron)
27. FleurFisher (The Wilding)
28. FleurFisher (Tea with Mr Rochester)
29. FleurFisher (One Thousand and One Ghosts)
30. FleurFisher (Marjory Fleming)
31. FleurFisher (To Bed With Grand Music)
32. Across the Page (Hearing God)
33. Belinda (Till We Have Faces)
34. Belinda (The Condition)
35. Belinda (The Great Gatsby)
36. melydia (The Swan Thieves)
37. melydia (Death Comes as Epiphany)
38. melydia (The Fire Within)
39. melydia (BookCrossing Through Middle-Earth)
40. gautami tripathy (In the Wake Of The Boatman)
41. gautami tripathy (My Name Is Red)
42. Lynne (THE LAST SURGEON)
43. Lynne (THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU)
44. Lynne (THE KITCHEN HOUSE)
45. Lynne (WHISTLIN’ DIXIE IN A NOR’EASTER)
46. Word Lily (The Queen of Palmyra)
47. Framed (Sourcery)
48. jama’s alphabet soup (the hive detectives)
49. Megan (Dreamland)
50. Nicola (The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley)
51. Nicola (Your \Very Own Robot Goes Cuckoo-Bananas)
52. Nicola (Henrietta’s War: News form the Home From 1939-1942)
53. Nicola (Lamb Bright Saviors by Robert Vivian)
54. Nicola (The Snowman by Jo Nesbo)
55. SmallWorld Reads (Season for Second Chances)
56. S. Krishna (Under the Tuscan Sun)
57. S. Krishna (The Hand That First Held Mine)
58. S. Krishna (The Map of True Places)
59. S. Krishna (This Is Not The Story You Think It Is)
60. S. Krishna (Let the Great World Spin)
61. S. Krishna (The Season of Second Chances
62. S. Krishna (Possession)
63. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (The Life O’Reilly Review and Giveaway)
64. bekahcubed (Lost in Rooville)
65. bekahcubed (Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow)
66. Janet (American Wife)
67. Carol in Oregon (Morning Tide)
68. Jolanthe {Hunter’s Moon}
69. BookSnob (House-Bound)
70. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict (Beguiled)
71. Jennifer (My best frenemy)
72. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Far From the Madding Crowd)
73. Books and Other Thoughts (Silver Borne)
74. Books and Other Thoughts (Alison Dare)
75. Books & Other Thoughts (Pyramids)
76. Books and Other Thoughts (The Books of Magic)
77. Books & Other Thoughts (Cast in Shadow)
78. Ruth (five latest books)
79. Dawn (The Singer’s Gun)
80. LL (No Impact Man)
81. Discerning Reader (The Church of Facebook)
82. soultravelers3 (Every Day in Tuscany by Mayes)
83. Homespun Light (Palace Beautiful)
84. Camille (Stoneheart)
85. Bookends (Revolver)
86. Girl Detective (Cutting for Stone)
87. Josette (The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson)
88. Word Lily (The Threadbare Heart)
89. SavvyVerse&Wit (Bite Me: A Love Story)
90. SavvyVerse&Wit (Let the Great World Spin)
91. SavvyVerse&Wit (Letter to My Daughter)
92. Carina (Persepolis)
93. Carina (Black Water Rising)
94. Carina (Watchmen)
95. Between the Stacks (Cool Beans)
96. Between the Stacks (Passion and Purity)

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2 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: May 8, 2010

  1. Crazy day, couldn’t write my review and get here till the end of it, but now get to look leisurely through everyone else’s books !

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