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Saturday Review of Books: December 1, 2012

“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books — they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.” ~Esther Meynell

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

1. Carol in Oregon (November Reads)
2. Hope (Books read in November)
3. Lazygal (Standing in Another Man’s Grave)
4. Lazygal (Inside Scientology)
5. Lazygal (The Pause Principle)
6. Lazygal (When Organizing Isn’t Enough)
7. Lazygal (Steampunk Poe)
8. Lazygal (Being Dead)
9. Lazygal (The Ghost Writer)
10. Mental multivitamin (Reading life review)
11. Reading World (Illuminations. A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen)
12. Ink Slinger
13. Janet (unChristian)
14. Teachergirl (Fellowship of the Ring)
15. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (It Starts With Food)
16. Thoughts of Joy (The Night Season)
17. Thoughts of Joy (Every Day)
18. Linda @ Soli Deo Gloria (Advent: Preparing Our Hearts)
19. Nova @ My Seryniti (The Hobbit)
20. Becky (The Purpose of Man)
21. Becky (2 Short Story Collections, Christmas)
22. Becky (Everyday)
23. Becky (Legend of the Wandering King)
24. Becky (Catching Fire and Mockingjay)
25. Barbara H. (Thriving at College: Make Great Friends, Keep Your Faith, and…)
26. Alice@Supratentorial(November Reading)
27. Alice@Supratentorial(Advent Reading)
28. Alice@Supratentorial(The Receptionist)
29. Glynn (Christmas at Eagle Pond)
30. Glynn (I Told My Soul to Sing)
31. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Unspoken)
32. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout)
33. Beckie @ ByTheBook (The Breath of Dawn)
34. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Every Perfect Gift)
35. Beckie @ ByTheBook (Resurrect)
36. Beth@Weavings (Money in the Bank)
37. Beth@Weavings (Lassie Come-Home)
38. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (November Nightstand)
39. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Christmas-themed chapter books)
40. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (St. Nicholas Day books)
41. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Little White Horse)
42. Shonya @ Learning How Much I Don’t Know (Jewel of Persia)
43. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (A Walk in the Park)
44. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (King Solomon’s Ring)
45. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (The Lost Art of Mixing)

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Saturday Review of Books: November 24, 2012

“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” ~Maya Angelou

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

1. the Ink Slinger (Starship Troopers)
2. the Ink Slinger (I Am the Messenger)
3. Thoughts of Joy (The Girl Who Disappeared Twice)
4. Becky (Christmas Roses)
5. Janet (A Year of Biblical Womanhood)
6. Becky (Practical Religion)
7. Becky (Almost Home)
8. Becky (Second Life of Abigail Walker)
9. Becky (City)
10. Becky (Lions of Little Rock)
11. Becky (Kingmaker’s Daughter)
12. Becky (Chicken Problem, Other Side of Town, 3 more)
13. Fay @ BlogABookEtc
14. Reading to Know (The Shepherd Leader)
15. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Electric Ben)
16. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (One and Only Ivan)
17. Barbara H. (C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy)
18. Glynn (Child Made of Sand)
19. Glynn (The Heart Aroused)
20. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (The Traveling Restaurant)
21. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (Graceful)
22. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (The Lamb)
23. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (A Gospel Primer)
24. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (What Your Husband Isn’t Telling You)
25. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (Quest for Celestia)
26. Marijo @ The Giggling Gull (Escape From Camp 14)
27. Seth@Collateral Bloggage (On the Beach)
28. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Grasping at Eternity)
29. JoAnne @ The Fairytale Nerd (Mystic City by Theo Lawrence)
30. Colleen @Books in the City (Little Bee)
31. Lucybird’s Book Blog (The Thief)
32. Lucybird’s Book Blog (Hurry home Spider)
33. Beckie @ ByTheBook (D.R.T: Dead Right There)
34. Beckie @ ByTheBook (A Thousand Sleepless Nights)
35. Lazygal (The Impossible Dead)
36. Lazygal (This I Believe)
37. Lazygal (Being Henry David)
38. Nicola (Blue Bay Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner)
39. Nicola (The Strand Magazine June-Sept 2012)
40. Nicola (Short Story: “Surviving the Peace” by Margaret Ellingson)
41. Nicola (Batula by Steven T. Seagle)
42. Nicola (Short Story: “a wedding has been arranged… by Eleanor Harvey)
43. Nicola (Becoming Holmes by Shane Peacock)
44. Nicola (Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis)
45. Nicola (Upside Down: A Vampire Tale by Jess Smart Smiley)
46. Nicola (Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Stories by Steve Niles)
47. Nicola (Christened with Crosses by Eduard Kochergin)
48. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (Aunt Dimity Detective)
49. Becky (10 Christmas Picture Books, 2012)
50. Girl Detective (36 Arguments for the Existence of God)
51. Girl Detective (August Moon GN)
52. Girl Detective (The Silver Linings Playbook)
53. Vicki (Camp by Elaine Wolf)
54. Susan @ Reading World (Open Wound. The Tragic Obsession of Dr. William Beaumont)
55. Susan @ Reading World (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde)
56. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (Yellow Star)
57. Anna @ Diary of an Eccentric (My Berlin Kitchen)
58. Nova @ My Seryniti (The Blood Debt)

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Saturday Review of Books: November 17, 2012

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality — the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.” ~Arthur Christopher Benson

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: November 10, 2012

“All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.” ~Richard De Bury, in Philobiblion

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: November 3, 2012

“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.” ~C.S. Lewis

Sorry to be so late this week. I spent Friday evening and today all day at a high school debate tournament. It was an illuminating experience, but it made me late in posting the Saturday Review for the first time in over two years. I hope you’ll all enjoy this late edition of the Saturday Review of Books.

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: October 27, 2012

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.” ~Thomas Carlyle

Still true in the 21st century.

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: October 20, 2012

“When you choose to read instead of clean the kitchen you are refusing to accept that your worth as a person is measured by the visible results that you produce in the world.” ~Susan Wise Bauer

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: October 13, 2012

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” ~Henry David Thoreau

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: October 6, 2012

“A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it.” ~Samuel Johnson

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.

Saturday Review of Books: September 29, 2012

“I love [fiction], strangely enough, for how true it is. If it can tell me something I maybe suspected, but never framed quite that way, or never before had sock me so divinely in the solar plexus, that was a story worth the read. ” ~Barbara Kingsolver

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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. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.