Saturday Review of Books: October 18, 2008

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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”
~Ezra Pound

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books, the Finally Autumn Has Come to Texas edition.

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. Carol (The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society)
2. Carrie K. (Capote in Kansas)
3. Carrie K. (Mysterious Benedict Society)
4. Lisa the Correspondent (Three Men in a Boat)
5. Carrie, RtK (Bears in My Bed)
6. 5M4B (Much Ado About Anne)
7. 5M4B (1st Place for Health)
8. 5M4B (Alaska Books)
9. 5M4B (Edge of Recall)
10. 5M4B (The One Hundred)
11. 3M (Atmospheric Disturbances)
12. 5M4B (Titanic\’s Last Secrets)
13. 3M (The White Tiger)
14. Maw Books (The 19th Wife)
15. Maw Books (Janeology)
16. gautami tripathy (The Best of Friends)
17. Barbara H. (Home to Hart\’s Crossing by Robin Lee Hatcher)
18. Literary Feline (Belly of the Whale)
19. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (Wide Sargasso Sea)
20. Suzanne :: Adventures in Daily Living :: (Case Histories)
21. Captive Thoughts (La Reine Margot)
22. Page Turner (La Reine Margot)
23. My Friend Amy (A Friend Like Henry)
24. Alessandra (Install)
25. Alessandra (The Brothers Lionheart)
26. Alessandra (Peaches)
27. Alessandra (Real World)
28. Alessandra (Secrets)
29. Alessandra (The Gargoyle)
30. Stephen (The Graveyard Book)
31. Literarily (Falling Under)
32. Literarily (Belly of the Whale)
33. Literarily (Holidays on Ice)
34. Literarily (Cold Rock River)
35. Literarily (The Lost Diary of Don Juan)
36. Literarily (Such a Pretty Girl)
37. Teresa (The Glass of Time)		 38. Amy(The Kommandant\’s Girl)
39. Amy(The Brass Verdict)
40. Jama Rattigan (White House Cookbook)
41. Lynne (The Godfather)
42. Lynne (Made in the U.S.A.)
43. Lynne (Hustle)
44. Lynne (Run)
45. Lynne (Death be Not Proud)
46. Lynne (The Pajama Girls of Lambert Square)
47. Lynne (Losing My Mind)
48. SmallWorld Reads (Tallgrass)
49. SmallWorld Reads (autumn books for children)
50. Joy (Upstate)
51. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (Dear Deer)
52. Sandra (Matrimony)
53. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
54. Word Lily (Boo)
55. Word Lily (The Truest Pleasure)
56. Sandy(The Guernsey Literary…Society
57. DebD (The Sign of the Cross)
58. Ptairie Progressive (Down to a Sunless Sea)
59. Julie D. (My Cousin the Saint)
60. Julie D. (Pope John Paul II, An Intimate Life: The Pope I Knew So Well)
61. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (All Over but the Shoutin\’ by Rick Bragg)
62. Jocelyn (The Summoning)
63. Jocelyn (Graceling)
64. Jocelyn (The Hunger Games)
65. Heidi@MtHope (Deconstructing Penguins)
66. Heidi@MtHope (The No. 1 Ladies\’ Detective Agency)
67. Heidi@MtHope (The Thirteenth Tale)
68. Serena (Kindred Spirits & Giveaway)
69. Serena (Sex at Noon Taxes)
70. Serena (HipHop Speaks to Children)
71. Serena (Black Flies)
72. Becky (Madapple)
73. Becky (Knife of Never Letting Go)
74. Becky (t4)		 75. Becky (Anne of Avonlea)
76. Becky (Anne of The Island)
77. Becky (Anne of Windy Poplars)
78. Becky (Tucker\’s Spooky halloween)
79. Becky (Wanda Gag)
80. Becky (The Composer Is Dead)
81. Becky (Houdini Box)
82. Becky (Lump of Coal)
83. Becky (ABC Dentist)
84. Becky (Me Me ABC)
85. Becky (ABC x 3)
86. Carol (Wendell Berry\’s Remembering)
87. Alyce (Dark Rain)
88. Alyce (Frecklebox Books)
89. Alyce (One Perfect Day)
90. Sarah M., LH (The Wind in the Willows)
91. Sarah M., LH (The Enchanted Castle)
92. Laura (The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing)
93. Ted (Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said)
94. Benjie (Lighter Than Air)
95. Michael Lundin (Atlast Shrugged)
96. Semicolon (Sisters of the Sword)
97. Semicolon (WIndow Boy)
98. Semicolon (Clementine\’s Letter)
99. Becky (Anne\’s House of Dreams)
100. Semicolon (Diamond WIllow)
101. Becky (Darkside)
102. Jennifer, Snapshot (Accomplishment — 2 memoirs)
103. The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (The Tenth Case)
104. Mytwoblessings (Dark Pursuit)
105. Deanna (Little Women)
106. Deanna (The Goose Girl)
107. Deanna (Carry on, Mr. Bowditch)
108. Jen Robinson (Everything You Want)
109. House of Wolves (Robin of mytwoblessings)
110. Trial by Fire (Robin of mytwoblessings)

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10 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 18, 2008”

  1. Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society is a warm, perfect-for-fall, easy read. It was the author’s first novel. Sadly, she died before completion; her niece finished it.

  5. I’ve posted a review, but its part of a post that includes a movie review as well…I hope that’s okay.

    Thanks again for doing this!
    Deb

  7. No completed books for me this week because I’m in the middle of a Chunkster (The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. See you next week 🙂

  9. Thanks for hosting this. My entry this week is Atlas Shrugged (though I got a bit the spelling wrong in my entry. 🙂

    Thanks,
    Michael

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