“Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.” ~Madeleine L’Engle
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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Good to back. To reading and posting my reviews.
I think I have just written the lamest and most understated post ever. It was a lazy effort, but I LOVED Gilead.
Happy Holidays, Sherry, and thank you for all the work you do to make Semicolon so awesome, including hosting Saturday Review of Books every week!
So glad to be able to come back once in a while with a book!
Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas!
Not sure if there will be a Saturday review of books next week so I will say ‘Merry Christmas’ now 🙂
I loved re-reading Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon–it’s even more impressive now that I know what happened.