The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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.
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Again, two very different but very good books.
I posted a review of Eudora Welty’s ‘One Writer’s Beginnings,’ an autobiography I thoroughly enjoyed. Have a great weekend.
What happened to Mr. Linky? It was here earlier…
BTW, thanks so much for hosting this every week!
OK, you must’ve added your note while I was commenting. 🙂
My review is an on old book titled The Mother at Home by John S. C. Abbott.
http://barbarah.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/the-mother-at-home/
I finally read A River Runs through It and was glad I’d saved it AND that I’d finally read it. Thanks for running this review fair every week!
Argh, Shari, can you remove the first entry? I hit enter before I put in the right link.
Cat’s Eye by Atwood. Scary, and really good.
“Jacob Have I Loved” won the Newbery in 1981 – the year I graduated from high school. I guess I was just a little too old for it; at any rate I never even heard about it until I started reading Newbery winners. It is classic for a good reason, though it’s not an ‘easy’ read, and definitely it’s more of a teen book than a pre-teen one.