“I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket. I believe in reading books because others dislike them or find them dangerous. I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind.”~Rick Moody
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.
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You are all invited back to Semicolon daily from Monday November 29, 2010 through January 6, 2011, where I’ll be celebrating the 38 Days of Christmas. (I can have as many as I want, can’t I?) I’ll be posting a new literary quotation celebration each day with links to a poem, a birthday, a song, and a book (list or review) every day, too. I hope you’ll enjoy my Christmas gift to you.
Looking forward to the 38 Days of Christmas. Thanks in advance!
Good afternoon, readers! I recently read Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, and my review includes similarities I found to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, so all you who’ve read any of those might find interesting stuff about the Hardy book.