“Books, nowadays, are printed by people who do not understand them, sold by people who do not understand them, read and reviewed by people who do not understand them, and even written by people who do not understand them.†~~G. C. Lichtenberg
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 a list of my current reads, which includes (among other things) Knowing God, Amusing Ourselves to Death, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
I finished three this week! Thanks for the linking spot, Sherry!
Linked to my review of “Unplanned.” Thank you for offering the linkup.
I love looking at what people are listing here — to see what I have and haven’t read. And I hadn’t read “East of Eden” or any Steinbeck in long time. think I just got imspired.
Cant say enough about much fun I’ve had reprinting this family storybook!
What Glynn said. ^
I find I go first to reviews of books I *have* read, curious how my perceptions of the book agree or differ with the reviewer’s.
I remember reading East of Eden, a book my neighbor pressed into my hand and insisted I needed to read. I remember waiting a day to read the last chapter. I knew how the biblical account of Cain and Abel ended and I didn’t want to read the same ending in this story.
Thank you, Sherry, for hosting a special place.
Thanks so much for the link-up!
Thanks for hosting 🙂
First time participant. Linking to my last published review.
Great book suggestions! Thanks everyone. I’m looking for middle grade novel reviews… though I read a smattering of everything.