“You can cover a great deal of country in books.”~Andrew Lang
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.
Just learned about Saturday Reviews. What a great opportunity! Thanks.
Sorry I posted my Eleanor Francis Lattimore link twice! I made a mistake and hit enter instead of backspace. “duh”!
OK, now I see duplicates of others too! I don’t know what happened there! Sorry for messing it up, Sherry! Hope you can delete the extras.
I left 2 links for 2 very different but very good books.
Two graphic novels this week. For those of you who like Sandman and Fables, I think you’ll also enjoy Unwritten, which has 2 collections out. And for those of you who’ve read Craig Thompson’s Blankets, I’d love you to visit and tell me what you thought. I found it much whinier and humorless the second time around, though still moving and beautiful.
I’m a little late posting this, but I love the book I reviewed–claude and camille. I highly recommend it.
Hope it’s okay to post a Saturday Review on a Monday. I just discovered your site via BBAW.
Love the links post. Thanks for doing this!
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