Such a sad weekend, and I’m very late with the Saturday Review link-up. Still, I would like to enjoy your book review links, if you would be so kind as to share them. My prayers are with the people of Paris and Syria and Iraq and all the other places in this sad world where darkness attempts to put out the Light.

Au commencement était la Parole, et la Parole était avec Dieu; et cette parole était Dieu: Elle était au commencement avec Dieu. Toutes choses ont été faites par elle, et sans elle rien de ce qui a été fait, n’a été fait. En elle était la vie, et la vie était la Lumière des hommes. Et la Lumière luit dans les ténèbres, mais les ténèbres ne l’ont point reçue.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcomea it.

Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. Here’s how it usually works. Find a book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.

Then on Friday night/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.

You can go to this post for over 100 links to book lists for the end of 2014/beginning of 2015. Feel free to add a link to your own list.

If you enjoy the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon, please invite your friends to stop by and check out the review links here each Saturday.