Saturday Review of Books: March 26, 2011

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”~Eleanor Roosevelt

SatReviewbuttonIf 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. Barbara H. (Just Between You and Me)
2. Reading to Know (Bound by Guilt)
3. Reading to Know (The Rewards of Simplicity)
4. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Lucifer’s Tears)
5. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Hippopotamus Pool)
6. Semicolon (Bitter Melon)
7. Collateral Bloggage (Love Wins)
8. Beth@Weavings (Howards End Is on the Landing)
9. Anne (Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God)r)
10. Charlie @ The Worm Hole (Beside The Sea)
11. Across the Page (The Heart of the Family)
12. Across the Page (Linnets and Valerians)
13. Alice@Supratentorial(The Checklist Manifesto)
14. SFP (Faulkner’s Spotted Horses)
15. SmallWorld Reads (Mennonite in a Little Black Dress)
16. SmallWorld Reads (Born Under a Lucky Moon)
17. Beckie@ByTheBook (The MS Project)
18. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Miracle of Mercy Land)
19. Beckie@ByTheBook (The Resurrection)
20. Beckie@ByTheBook (Debra White Smith’s Austen novels)
21. Janie (Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague)
22. Out At Night by Susan Arnout Smith
23. Lazygal (The Time-Travelling Fashionista)
24. Lazygal (Sweetly)
25. Lazygal (The Tiger’s Wife)
26. Lazygal (Beauty Queens)
27. Lazygal (The Midnight Palace)
28. Graham
29. Lazygal (Belladonna)
30. Lazygal (Demonglass)
31. Graham (The Immigrant by Manju Kapur)
32. Lazygal (Ruby Red)
33. Swapna (Wither)
34. Swapna (The Cypress House)
35. Swapna (The Chicago Way & The Fifth Floor)
36. Swapna (The Four Ms. Bradwells)
37. Swapna (Dreaming in English)
38. Swapna (Katherine the Queen)
39. Sheri @ Life on the Farm (Under the Tuscan Sun)
40. Library Hospital (At the Sign of the Jack O’Lantern)
41. Library Hospital (A Tale of Two Cities)
42. Samantha @ Bookworms and Tea Lovers (A Dilly of a Death)
43. Samantha @ Bookworms and Tea Lovers (Silky Sand)
44. Samantha @ Bookworms and Tea Lovers (All Roads To Rome)
45. Marie (Frindle)
46. Marie (Passoin and Purity)
47. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (award winning picture books)
48. Donovan @ Where Peen Meets Paper (Cradle to Cradle)
49. Carol in Oregon (The Sword of Imaginations)
50. Debbie Rodgers – Exurbanis.com (Building the Pauson House)
51. Marisa Wikramanayake (Jacket & Spine)
52. JHS (Stilettos and Scoundrels GIVEAWAY)
53. JHS (One Bird’s Choice GIVEAWAY)
54. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Bathsheba)
55. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Love Amid the Ashes)
56. Judy @ Seize the Book Blog (Bound By Guilt)
57. Ellen (Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes)
58. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Beauty of Humanity Movement)
59. Carina @ Reading Through Life (What I Talk About When I Talk About Running)
60. Carina @ Reading Through Life (The Invisible Line)
61. Nicola (Journey to America by Sonia Levitin)
62. Nicola (Dork Diaries: Tales From a Not So Fabulous Life)
63. Nicola (Slog’s Dad by David Almond)
64. Nicola (Wither by Lauren DeStefano)
65. Stephen King’s The Stand Graphic Novel, Vol. 1
66. Nicola (A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley)
67. Nicola (MAOH, Juvenile Remix, Vol. 4)
68. Nicola (Chester by Syd Hoff)
69. Nicola (There’s a Wolf at the Door by Zoe B. Alley )
70. A Foodie Bibliophile in Wanderlust (The Hidden Gallery)
71. Woman of the House (Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life)
72. Diary of an Eccentric (The Return of the Soldier)
73. Diary of an Eccentric (The Postmistress)
74. Diary of an Eccentric (Only Mr. Darcy Will Do)
75. Gina @ Bookscount (Then Sings My Soul)
76. Gina @ Bookscount (The Gift)
77. Gina @ Bookscount (Conquer the Memories)
78. Kara @ Home With Purpose (The Girl in the Gatehouse)
79. Woman of the House (Notes from the Tilt-A-Whirl by N.D. Wilson)

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7 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: March 26, 2011

  1. I’m so sorry it shows up that way for you. I can see the entire name and title of each entry in my browser, and I don’t know how to fix this problem except to complain to the Mr. Linky folks.

  2. I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but Mr. Linky’s formatting for the review links is wonky in Firefox (the third column is clipped).

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