“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Just linked to my review of The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Hi everyone,
My link this week http://www.fiction-books.biz/reviews/my-thoughts-strange-affair-by-peter-robinson/ are my thoughts about ‘Strange Affair’ by Peter Robinson. A British detective series, featuring Inspector Alan Banks
The Reapers Are the Angels … the zombie book that isn’t really about zombies at all. Highly recommended.
I just added The Catcher in the Rye and The Girl Next Door. Good things to say about both!
Hi Sherry! I just re-activated my old book blog, and I’m trying to breathe new life into it. I didn’t review a book this week–just posted some “re-runs”–but I do plan to genuinely take part in the Saturday Review in the future.
By the way, my number 48 entry in the linky list has the wrong link…number 49 is the correct link. I didn’t know how to fix my mistake!
Sherry~ Thanks for the invitation to participate in your Saturday meme. What a great idea! Just hopping by & still checking things out. Thanks for visiting my blog 🙂
Thanks for letting me know. I am too late this week, and will be on vacation, but I will do it when I come back.
Thank you for inviting me to this! I will be adding my links throughout the week! 🙂
Thank you for inviting me! I think this is a great idea for a meme….. as it concentrates on the book reviews themselves.
Thank you for inviting me! What a great idea for book lovers! Now I have a place to find some great reads all in one spot!
Thank you for inviting me. What a wonderful idea. There are so many ways for booklovers to connect.
Oops I forgot to write my title! Anyway it’s at The Blue Bookcase of The Secret Life of Bees. Thanks for the invite! I think this is a great idea!
Thanks for the invite, Sherry! have a great week!
I just left a link to my review of “Always the Baker, Never the Bride”
It’s a Book Thing has linked Rene Burger’s Review of Three Stations by Martin Cruz Smith. http://itsabookthingblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/three-stations-by-martin-cruz-smith.html
Great!
Thanks for inviting me to link! This is a great idea, I hope you get a lot of participants!
Cheers,
Rachel
I am a new follower. Thanks for the invite. I love the Saturday book review and your blog. Loooking forward to future posts.
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