“A novelist has made a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.”~Bernard de Voto
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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Just linked to my review of J.K. Jerome’s comic classic Three Men In A Boat.
Thanks for hosting this every week!
Eeesh!!! For some reason, the linky thing keeps saying the title of the book I reviewed last week. I’m actually reviewing Lonestar Sanctuary by Colleen Coble. Sherry, if you can delete the erroneous entries, that would be great. Here’s the actual link:
http://cindysbookclub.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-review-of-lonestar-sanctuary-by.html
Thanks much!
Just left links to my reviews of Bill Napier’s Shattered Icon and Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger.
Cindy, I’m glad the link was wrong. You wrote a great review of Home which I appreciated.
I have three books finished, ready to be reviewed, but I didn’t want to slap something together. So I posted on books just received, Fine Art Board Books. What a fun way to introduce kids to some of the masters.
Sherry, I have a question for you. (I’ve *always* wanted to ask!) Where do you get your quotes for your header? Are they all from your reading? Do readers send them to you? I think a collection of them would make a marvelous book on the joys of reading.
Thank you for hosting SRB.
I’ve collected the quotes in a Word document from lots of different sources, and I just choose one each week, according to mood. As I find good one in my reading or on other people’s blogs, I just add them to the document.
They would make a lovely book, maybe the best 100 or so done in calligraphy. Not that I do calligraphy or anything else artsy. I just read.
I forgot to post until just now! Hope I’m not too late! Thanks for your work!
KB