“Knowing that I loved my books, he furnished me, From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.”~William Shakespeare, The Tempest
April 23 is, of course, the near-birthday of William Shakespeare, that dramatist, poet, actor, and brilliant thinker who gave us Romeo, Juliet, Falstaff, Hamlet, Macbeth, the forest of Arden, Puck, Bottom the weaver, Dogberry, Mustardseed, Moth, Ophelia, Prospero, faint-hearted, cold-blooded, foul play, a sorry sight, in a pickle, in the twinkling of an eye, full circle, night owl, short shrift, star-crossed lovers, a method in my madness, to be or not to be, brave new world, eyeball, skim milk, neither rhyme nor reason, strange bedfellows, one fell swoop, winter of our discontent, and much, much more.
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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My link doesn’t show up. Don’t know what’s the matter.
Just linked to three reviews I wrote last week, all of excellent books!
Just linked two reviews – one memoir, one fiction. Thank you as always for hosting this link-up….. A great place to find new titles!!
Good morning readers! Finally finished Marilynne Robinson’s book of essays Death of Adam–good stuff, but challenging to read and mull over.
Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks is worth a look!