“When people ask me, ‘Do you collect books?’ I always say, ‘No, books collect me.’”~Nicholas Barker, in At Home with Books by Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, and Christopher Simon Sykes (1995)
If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you were 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.
Then on 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.
Thank you so much for hosting this! I so enjoy reading the reviews.
Thank you for organizing this! I’ve linked two of my reviews – I just couldn’t choose between great Tanzanian lit or a man-eating tiger. I hope that’s OK 🙂
Thank you for hosting this. It’s a great idea.
Always enjoy coming here on Saturdays. I’ve submitted my own review this time too.
I’ve given up on challenges…my TBR pile runneth over too.
Thanks for this! I can’t wait to read some reviews I might have missed this week!
This is great…thanks! And thank you for stopping by my blog yesterday to invite me to participate!
Thanks for the invitation to come over! This is a fun Saturday thing to do!!! Thanks for hosting it!
Great idea, thank you for organizing it!
good afternoon, readers! My book this week, This is Where I Leave You, isnt’ for everyone–it’s got lots of profanity and sexuality. But it is hilarious if you have the stomach for a dark comedy.
I’m off to check out others’ sites!
Thanks for adding the invite to post here on my blog yesterday. I added the two reviews I posted this week, Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters by Natalie Standiford and Plain Kate by Erin Bow. Hope you get the chance to check them out.
By the way, Erin Bow is answering any questions that you post to my interview with her today or tomorrow.
Sorry to link twice. This is my first time and I forgot to put the book title in the first time. Thanks!
This is the first time I’m hooking up to do this so I hope I can remember to do it each week. I didn’t get many reviews done, with BBAW, but next week should be better! Thanks for the invite.
Thanks so much for the invite. I’ve never seen this site before. Now I will probably spend the next few hours exploring your site1