Saturday Review of Books: November 1, 2008

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“You tell me your favorite novelists and I’ll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.”
~Stephen Vizinczey

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books, the 2008 Election 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. Semicolon (Violet Raines Almost Got Struck By Lightning)
2. Semicolon (The Calder Game)
3. Semicolon (The Boy Who Dared)
4. Laura (The Uncommon Reader)
5. Semicolon (Thank You, Lucky Stars)
6. Laura (Garden Spells)
7. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Devotions for Sacred Parenting)
8. Word Lily (Mariette in Ecstacy)
9. Word Lily (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
10. Word Lily (Blind Dates Can Be Murder)
11. Word Lily (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)
12. SuziQoregon (Out of the Deep I Cry)
13. SuziQoregon (Miss Julia Strikes Back)
14. SuziQoregon (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox)
15. Maw Books (The Witch of Blackbird Pond)
16. Maw Books (Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
17. Maw Books (The Witches)
18. Maw Books (There\’s No Such Thing as Ghosts)
19. Carrie, RtK (The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment)
20. Carrie, RtK (R.C. Sproul for children)
21. 5M4B (Letters for Lizzie)
22. Michael Lundin (Jennifer Government)
23. 5M4B (Girls \’n Grace)
24. 5M4B (Home Another Way)
25. 5M4B (Good Fortune)
26. 5M4B (Get Positively Beautiful)
27. 5M4B (How Would Jesus Vote)
28. 5M4B (Books for Boys)
29. Benjie (Planting Churches in the Real World)
30. Maw Books (The Halloween Tree)
31. Maw Books (As If Being 12 3/4 Isn\’t Bad Enough, My Mother is Running for Preside
32. Maw Books (The Last Beach Bungalow)
33. Maw Books (A Thousand Never Evers)
34. Maw Books (T4)
35. Maw Books (Living Dead Girl)
36. pussreboots (Mouse\’s Halloween)
37. pussreboots (Past Perfect Present Tense)
38. pussreboots (Sheep on a Ship)
39. pussreboots (A Jolly Good Fellow)
40. pussreboots (City Colors)
41. Sandy (A Year Without \’Made in China\’)
42. Jocelyn (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
43. Hope (Mrs. \’Arris Goes to Paris)
44. Literarily (Guernica)
45. Literarily (Erotomania)
46. Literarily (The Postman\’s Round)
47. Lynne (The Traitor\’s Wife)
48. Lynne (The Remains of the Day)		 49. Lynne (Where Are You Now?)
50. Joy (Down River)
51. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (If I Had a Million Onions)
52. Jama (There\’s a Wolf at the door)
53. gautami tripathy (The Kings of Innocence)
54. Beth F (Genghis: Lords of the Bow)
55. gautami tripathy (Persepolis)
56. gautami tripathy (Booth\’s Sister)
57. Ms Alex (Jamie Oliver\’s Ministry Of Food)
58. Teresa (Go Tell It on the Mountain)
59. Shonda (The Dead Place)
60. Sarah M., LH (Queen Victoria)
61. Sarah M., LH (Her Royal Spyness)
62. BermudaOnion (The Gate House)
63. Stephanie(Something Wicked This Way Comes)
64. Stephanie(Touch the Dark)
65. melydia (Lady Audley\’s Secret)
66. Amy(Scratch Beginnings)
67. Deliciously Clean Reads (The Mysterious Benedict Society #2)
68. S. Krishna (Knitting Under the Influence)
69. S. Krishna (The Forbidden Daughter)
70. S. Krishna (The Reluctant Widow)
71. S. Krishna (Wife in the North)
72. 3M (The Graveyard Book)
73. S. Krishna (Your Roots Are Showing)
74. S. Krishna (Scot on the Rocks)
75. S. Krishna (The Opposite of Love)
76. Mrs. Happy Housewife (James Herriot)
77. Prairie Progressive (The Mental Floss History of the World)
78. At Home With Books (Dating da Vinci)
79. At Home With Books (Queen Vernitas Visitors)
80. At Home With Books (The Gate House)
81. Becky Manga Shakespeare Macbeth)
82. At Home With Books (Life After Genuis)
83. Becky (Jerk, California)
84. A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore… (The Victoria Vanishes)
85. A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore… (Nine Coaches Waiting)
86. Becky (Enter Three Witches)
87. Becky (Ender\’s Game)
88. Becky (Ender in Exile)
89. Becky (Bible Illuminated: Book: New Testament)
90. Becky (Would You)
91. Becky (Something Wicked)
92. Becky (Macbeth)
93. Becky (There\’s No Such Thing As Ghosts)
94. Becky (Harry the Dirty Dog)
95. Becky (Josh\’s Halloween Pumpkin)
96. Becky (Trick or Treat on Monster Street)		 97. violet (Wind River)
98. Book Chatter (Creepers)
99. Book Chatter (Infidel)
100. Serena (Life After Genius)
101. Serena (Lydia Bennet\’s Story)
102. The Book Lady\’s Blog (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
103. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Queen of Babble)
104. The Book Lady\’s Blog (I See You Everywhere)
105. Noel (Something Wicked)
106. Noel (The Brothers Karamazov)
107. Framed (The Tenderness of Wolves)
108. Framed (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
109. Framed (The Borrowers)
110. Framed (The Woods)
111. Sara R. (Programmed by God?)
112. SmallWorld Reads (Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist\’s Wife)
113. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Life After Genius)
114. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
115. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Fiendish Deeds: The Joy Of Spooking Book On
116. 3M (Goldengrove)
117. Petunia (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell)
118. Girl Detective (Twelfth NIght)
119. Jen Robinson (Wake and Fade)
120. Age 30 … A Lifetime of Books (The Glass Castle)
121. Kate (A Highlander Never Surrenders)
122. ChristineMM (The Official Parent’s Sourcebook on Dysgraphia)
123. ChristineMM (Bible Illuminated The Book New Testament)
124. Wendi (Engaging Father Christmas)
125. Marg (The Time of Singing)
126. she reads and reads (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
127. Fate (Zorgamazoo)
128. Wendi (Finding Father Christmas)
129. Dawn (Revolutionary Road)
130. Dawn (The Tutu Ballet)
131. Page Turner (Revolution in World Missions)
132. Rachel (A Bell for Adano)
133. Amber (Sarah\’s Key)
134. Amber (Any Given Doomsday)
135. Josette (I, Coriander)
136. Books & Other Thoughts (The Naming)
137. Books & Other Thoughts (M is for Magic)
138. Books & Other Thoughts (How to Ditch Your Fairy)
139. Miss Erin (Flipped)
140. Diary of an Eccentric (Jesus Take the Wheel)
141. Diary of an Eccentric (Life After Genius)
142. Diary of an Eccentric (The Islands of Divine Music)
143. a lovely shore breze (A Thousand Veils)
144. Z-Kids (The Dog who Belonged to No One)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: November 1, 2008”

  1. Hmmm. Interesting quote and interesting idea. I’m sure anyone who sees that I like books by Thomas Sowell or Russell Kirk could easily figure out how I would vote, just as I could tell how one who loved It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton would vote.

    This year I’ve steered clear of overtly political books, but I’ve been very interested in books on economics.

  2. Ah but novels. Could you tell how I’m going to vote by knowing that my favorite novels are Les Miserables and The Lord of the Rings?

  3. Thanks again for putting this together. My review is for Jennifer Government. An interesting read considering what it might tell you about my voting habits.

    Thanks,
    Michael

  4. I’d say someone enjoying Hugo and Tolkien would tend to vote, and would probably vote for conservative candidates. Some one liking Gore Vidal perhaps would be more liberal.

    So do Anthony Trollope and Miss Read indicate anything to you?

  6. My only book review this week is Twelfth Night, but I have several posts on Austen, including a comparison to Mamma Mia!, Austen on little boys, a comparison of Persuasion and Twelfth Night on love, and an article decrying the tendency to apply Austen to all of life’s problems, like the US economy and the election.

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