“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”~Stephane Mallarme
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.
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Just linked to my review of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The White Company, a historical epic about the Hundred Years’ War.
Thank you for having this. I’m so glad to have a review this week. I am not well enough to post regularly and I’ve really missed doing this.
I forgot to put it on my link, but his week I’m reviewing Her Fearful Symmetry, by Audrey Niffenegger.
I highly recommend the Flavia de Luce series. These are good, clean mysteries told from the quirky perspective of an 11 year chemistry-loving Bristish girl.
The Houston area blog brunch is today, I see in your sidebar — hope it’s a great time! The book I reviewed today is about how many people come to prefer online “relationship” to the real thing. It’s great to see an example of the opposite happening at your meet-up — real people, real books, real meal.
Have a great weekend!
Thank you for hosting the Sat linkup. I’m so sorry I’ll miss the brunch today. I’ve been looking forward to it all month, but with a house full of recovering sick people and too much scheduled for the weekend, something’s gotta give. And of course it’s mommy’s fun time that gets tossed. You guys have fun!
Good morning, readers! I re-read Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold, the husband of Alice Sebold who wrote The Lovely Bones. Carter is a great, fun read.
Only got one review up this week! Thanks for hosting. 🙂
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Have a great brunch, Sherry! My husband is figuring out that Saturday mornings are, shall we say, *down* times while I type out a review and read all the others.
“I don’t remember Saturday being a writing day,” he wonders. “I thought it was a chore day!”
I think I need to go now…
This is my first time to link, and I made two mistakes. I accidentally posted my review on last week’s and this week’s, and I forgot to say this week that I reviewed _Journey Cake_ by Isabel McLennan McKeekin. Maybe next week I’ll get it right!
Thank you for hosting this! It looks great!