“When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.” ~Blaise Pascal
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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I thought I’d try this again — if I can keep up with writing reviews! Thanks, as always, for hosting the Saturday Review.
I don’t get to post on your great meme as often as I would like, as I don’t really get that much time for reading and generally don’t get through as many books as other bloggers seem to.
My reviews are therefore a little further apart than most, although I do stop by on a regular basis, to read and comment on what others are writing about.
Thanks again for keeping the Saturday Review going. It’s a great resource for keeping my wishlist so long! 🙂
Good morning, readers! Lots of graphic novels, some really good, others just not. BUT I highly recommend both Flaubert’s Parrot and Gemma Bovery for those of you who read the new translation of Madame Bovary–really interesting interplays and connections, compares and contrasts!
Amazingly (for me!) I haven’t yet read a book in 2011! I’m flashing back today to a 2009 review I wrote about Mary DeMuth’s wonderful “Daisy Chain.” Stop on by!