“The primary duty of literature is to tell us the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed.” ~Stephen King
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.
Linked to my review of Stephen Ambrose’s Band of Brothers. Awesome book.
Sherry, my link to “a few children’s audiobooks” is accidental. It’s currently showing at #8, and you can delete it if you want. ‘Praying for Strangers’ is my review for this week — a book I learned about when you posted on it awhile back!
I’m not sure how I got all that reading done – posted three this week. Thanks for hosting this, Sherry.
Be sure to click #32. (The Chair) I’m really impressed with this author; this is his third title, and I’ve read all three of them; I’m not normally a fiction reader.
At the moment—and I believe it will be true December 31st—Unbroken is the best book I’ve read this year.
Thank you, Sherry, for hosting SRB.
I hope I’ve done this correctly. I think the idea behind this post is brilliant and am delighted to join.
Okay, I figured it out. I’m sorry I made a mess of your post. No. 42 and 43 could be deleted at they wont work.
Been a while since I posted here. I’ve just reviewed a few books from my childhood. Was fun to reminisce about those books that were the seeds of my early imagination. Love the power of books…don’t forget to read with your children!