Saturday Review of Books: December 8, 2007

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
Joseph Brodsky

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.

Now post a link here 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.

1. Carrie K. (The Cure)
2. Carrie, Reading to Know (The Golden Compass)
3. Carrie, Reading to Know (Little Women)
4. Jen Robinson (Blackbringer)
5. Bookfest (God\’s Smuggler)
6. sweetpotat\’s Newbery blog (Amos Fortune, Free Man)
7. sweetpotato\’s Newbery blog (A Wrinkle in Time)
8. sweetpotato (The Mysterious Benedict Society)
9. Literary Feline (Cattery Row)
10. Literary Feline (The Somnambulist)
11. Literary Feline (Pursuit)
12. Laura (Frost in May)
13. Lynne (The Great Santa Search)
14. Lynne (Christmas Jars)
15. Lynne (Where Angels Go)
16. Lynne (Jewish Culture & Customs)
17. Joy (The Last Noel)
18. SFP (The Stylist)
19. writer2b (The Yellow Wallpaper)
20. Sage (Sick Puppy)
21. ChristineMM (The Fattening of America)
22. ChristineMM (Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame)
23. ChristineMM (manga: Dr. Slump vol. 1)
24. 3M (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
25. gautami tripathy (Perfect Match by Picoult)
26. Just One More Book! Podcast (The Rich Man and the Parrot)
27. MFS (The Twilight of American Culture)
28. Laura (Hard Fighting Soldier
29. Laura (Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage)
30. Laura (Baggy Pants and Other Stories)
31. SmallWorld (Veil of Roses)
32. Clean Reads (Song of the Sparrow)
33. Clean Reads (Inkheart)
34. Clean Reads (Keys to the Kingdom)
35. Wendy (Fatal Voyage)
36. Wendy (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon)
37. Mrs. H. (Leaving Church)
38. Framed (The Cat Who Dropped a Bomb)
39. Framed ( Latitude of Melt)
40. Framed (A Wind in the Door)
41. violet (A Proper Pursuit)
42. Girl Detective (Invisible Man by Ellison)
43. Dana(SecondChanceChristmas)
44. Breeni Books (The Splendor of Antiquity)
45. Breeni Books (How Big Is Your God?)
46. Breeni Books (Parts)
47. Breeni Books (The House on East 88th Street)
48. Jane-Much Ado (The Christmas Train)
49. Nicola (Gallows View)
50. Nicola (Fire and Ice)
51. Nicola (The Bluest Eye)
52. Nicola (Silverwing)
53. Nicola (Dust)
54. Nicola (Poppy and Rye)
55. Kevin S. (21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership)
56. Wendy (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
57. Shelf Elf (Letters from Rapunzel)
58. Suzanne (Our Culture, What\’s Left of It . . .)
59. Sandy D. (Unstrange Minds)
60. Sam Houston (Maggie Again)
61. Sam Houston (What\’s So Great About America)
62. Krakovianka (The Christmas Mystery)
63. Darla D (Singing Shijimi Clams)
64. Darla D (Fruits Basket, Vol. 1)
65. Darla D (Magyk – Septimus Heap)
66. Darla D (Moon Called)
67. Amy (A Light in Zion)
68. Moomin Light (Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton)
69. Marina (The Christmas Letters)
70. Marina (Moll Flanders)
71. Marina (Painted Truth)
72. Marina (What the Dead Know)
73. Carl V. (The Toff and the Deep Blue Sea)
74. pussreboots
75. pussreboots (Pippi Longstocking)
76. pussreboots (Island of the Blue Dolphins)
77. pussreboots (Jingo)
78. Stephanie(Choosing Sophie)
79. Stephanie(The Book of Lost Things)
80. Melanie (At the Mountains of Madness)
81. Margaret (Surveillance)
82. Cornflower (Pontoon)
83. Myrthe (In Search of Adam)
84. Andi (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
85. Jess (We Need To Talk About Kevin)
86. Smithereens (DIgging to America)

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Thanks to everyone for reviewing, blogging, and linking.

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7 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: December 8, 2007

  1. I reviewed “The Yellow Wallpaper” this week–a 19th-century short story well worth reading! Thanks for the opportunity to share it.

  2. I blogged this week three things I’m reading.

    The Fattening of America is an economists analyst of why Americans are getting fatter and how we should handle our own bodies for the best health. This is a pre-publication ARC (pub date Jan 2008).

    Anthony…is a self-published book of a 12 year old boy who can go back in time and talk to and witness important events in history. My boys 7 and 10 really enjoy this. It looks like a coffee table book.

    Dr. Slump is manga which my children wanted to read so I let them. After they started asking questions which made me realize perhaps this really was for teens, so I read it. Yowza. I regret letting them read this.

  3. “Unstrange Minds” was enlightening – recommended if you’re at all interested in autism and its prevalence today.

  4. I managed to get four reviews posted this week… am trying harder to both keep up with current reads and catch up on long-overdue reviews.

    I’m hoping to have A Tuscan Childhood, Miracle and Other Christmas Stories, and perhaps Cry of the Kalahari finished off next week.

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