“In a good bookroom, you feel in some way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books —through your skin, without even opening them.”~Mark Twain
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 book review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week. 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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Thanks again for organizing this!
#24 is a bad link. Sorry! (One day I’ll learn how to do this right!)
This week, I finished Radio Shangri-la – What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth by Lisa Napoli. Very enjoyable, insightful.
Thanks for the opportunity to link up here.
Happy Saturday! 🙂
My review is about “Son of Hamas,” the true story of a terrorist whose life was dramatically changed.
One thing that makes me kind of sad about this meme is how few people reciprocate when I comment on their reviews. 🙁 I thought the point of a meme like this was to comment on other people’s blogs and in return, get comments, but it doesn’t seem to always work that way!
Waaa…no review again this week. I *did* do a post about why a particular film adaptation stunk up the place (Percy Jackson), making sure to avoid just saying “they changed things!”