Saturday Review of Books: October 2, 2010

“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.”~Voltaire

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.

1. Barbara H. (Her Daughter’s Dream)
2. Wayside Sacraments (Look Me in the Eye)
3. Semicolon (The Reinvention of Edison Thomas)
4. Semicolon (Blood on the River)
5. Semicolon (June Bug)
6. Semicolon (Veiled Freedom)
7. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (The Things They Carried)
8. Semicolon (Jump)
9. Melissa @ The Betty and Boo Chronicles (After the Workshop)
10. Janet @ Across the Page (Inkheart)
11. Janet @ Across the Page (The Prodigal God)
12. Erin Reads (Speak)
13. Fingers & Prose (Speak)
14. Fingers & Prose (Ginger Pye)
15. Mrs. Q: Book Addict (My Name is Mary Sutter)
16. Mental multivitamin (Banned books)
17. Collateral Bloggage (Sin: A History)
18. Reading to Know (V is for von Trapp)
19. Reading to Know (Paul: A Man of Grace & Grit)
20. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Lucy Unstrung)
21. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Yes You Can!)
22. SmallWorld Reads (Blue Like Jazz)
23. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Wicked Girls)
24. Florinda/The 3 R’s Blog (The Lonely Polygamist)
25. Margaret (Crown and Covenant, Faith and Freedom trilogies)
26. Diary of an Eccentric (Mini Shopaholic)
27. Diary of an Eccentric (Ghost Hunt)
28. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (picture books about elderly people)
29. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mockingjay)
30. Mrs. Miniver (My Devotional Thoughts)
31. Carina @ Reading Through Life (Lost On Planet China)
32. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (The House on Tradd Street)
33. Suzi Qoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives)
34. Violet (Flight to Heaven)
35. Embejo (Of Mice and Men)
36. Alyce (Matched)
37. Alyce (If a Tree Falls)
38. Alyce (The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno)
39. Ruth (Eight Days)
40. Darren @ Bart’s Bookshelf [The Baker Street Phantom]
41. DebD (The Emperor’s Winding Sheet)
42. Nikki (The King’s Christmas List)
43. Nicola (Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel)
44. Nicola (Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel)
45. Nicola (Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo)
46. Nicola (Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco)
47. Nicola (Room by Emma Donoghue)
48. Nicola (Theodore Roosevelt: The Adventurous President)
49. Nicola (Immanuel’s Veins by Ted Dekker)
50. Word Lily (Daisy Chain)
51. melydia (Moominland Midwinter)
52. melydia (Crime and Punishment)
53. melydia (Embroideries)
54. Colleen@Books in the City (Hide!!!)
55. Lazygal (The Business)
56. 5 Minutes for Books (8 Days in Haiti)
57. 5 Minutes for Books (Annexed)
58. 5M4B (What I Thought I Knew)
59. 5M4B (Princess Diaries)
60. 5M4B (Extraordinary – Giveaway)
61. 5M4B (Vanishing and Other Stories)
62. S. Krishna (Every Last One)
63. S. Krishna (Troublemaker, Bk 1)
64. S. Krishna (The Good Daughters)
65. S. Krishna (I’d Know You Anywhere)
66. S. Krishna (The Pleasure Seekers)
67. S. Krishna (Maybe This Time)
68. S. Krishna (Faithful Place)
69. Library Hospital (Second Annual Maud Hart Lovelace Reading Challenge Begins!)
70. Library Hospital (All About Agatha Part II)
71. bekahcubed (Handmade Home)
72. Find Your Next Good Read (The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart)
73. Book Giveaway: Healing with Words – A Writer’s Cancer Journey
74. JHS: Stay
75. JHS: More Than This
76. Book Cocktails (The Katrina Papers)
77. Farrar @ I Capture the Rowhouse (Scumble)
78. Alice@Supratentorial (The Death and Life of the Great American School System)
79. PBurt (Father of the Rain)
80. Marisa Wikramanayake (Sylvie & Bruno by Lewis Carroll)
81. Amber Stults (My Soul to Lose)
82. Amber Stults (Manifest)

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3 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 2, 2010

  1. This is my review of ‘Miss Purdy’s Class’ by Annie Murray. Review posted by Yvonne of fiction-books.biz

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