“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.†~Gustave Flaubert
Welcome to the Saturday Review of Books at Semicolon. 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 link to your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Then on Friday night/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 Barbarossa, an espionage thriller written by ex-CIA officer Charles Faddis.
Love that quote for today.
Linked to my review of What Every Man Wishes His Father Had Told Him by Byron Yawn, a pastor in Nashville, TN.
My posts were remarkably short this week.
Thank you for hosting this again.
I’m linking for the first time. I reviewed Loving the Little Years this week–a book I very much enjoyed. Thanks so much for this source of reviews. Guess I’ll add even MORE books to my “want to read in 2012” list! 🙂
I’ve finished the first book of my 2012 reading list! Also, I liked reading Cindy’s post about writers writing about writing. I may add some of those to my list. Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing looks really interesting to me.
All kinds of books to check out. And a couple of old favorites (Alice and Anna). Thanks for hosting, Sherry.
Not sure how I feel about the quote, since to me entertaining and self instruction, are pretty much 2/3 of life, along with the daily work.
I’m behind on posting, so have several up this week. January is always a rich reading time for me.
So maybe I’m the last person in America to do so, but I finally read The Hunger Games! Here are my thoughts:
Cindy at Notes in the Key of Life
I always enjoy the bookish quotes on the Saturday Review of Books. Thanks!
Thanks for hosting this. I always enjoy looking through the reviews!