Autumn readers and reviewers, welcome. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re 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.
Now post a link here 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.
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Oh, Sherry! It happened again. Ergh. Will you delete the “extra”? Enjoy a wonderful weekend.
Oh, my book is one I stumbled on last Sunday. It’s a wonderful everyday book — not unlike A Book of Days for the Literary Year. Perfect for the nightstand; the reader-thinker-autodidact learns something new daily.
Best regards.
Melissa
I loved these two books. They made me want to live in the book and take part in their lives. They take place in 1960s Oxford, just after C.S. Lewis has passed away. The main characters were his students.
I have a few other book ramblings in the beginning of the post, the review of these two books is in the final couple paragraphs so I could devote more time to them.
This week I got back into some “children’s stories” and reviewed The Rescuers by Margery Sharp.
I linked to my review of Lisa Samson’s Straight Up.
Hi Sherry,
Not much time for reviewing this week, what with the Cybils and all. But I did post a review of Holbrook: A Lizard’s Tale, and upcoming middle grade novel by Bonny Becker.
There are some fabulous quotes in William Griffin’s contemporary version of The Imitation of Christ. I added several to my review.
Sherry, you inspired me, with your review of Kristin Lavransdatter, to pull out–and almost reread!–Gunnar’s Daughter, by the same author. Both my husband and I had loved it, after KL. It’s quite a book.
My want-to-read list is getting longer and longer, thanks to the Saturday Review! Thanks for doing this.
The blog entry I’ve linked is the third I’ve posted today from the book “The Disadvantages of Being Educated.” Unfortunately I can’t say things nearly as well as Nock to feel I can do his thoughts justice to “review” them. So my blog entries contain mostly quotes.
This is just a little bit about a wonderful book recently nominated for the Governot General’s Award (Canada). I still hope to write a fuller review, but this is a nice little taste, I think.
I’m cheating this week and linking on Sunday, because I didn’t get to it yesterday.
I’m adding the link on Sunday too. I was making a little movie yesterday.
Not really reviews in the strictest sense of the word, but I reported on my interviews with Liz Curtis Higgs and Lisa Samson about “Embrace Grace” and “Straight Up.”