“After the work is read, attention must be given. This is the time for serious reflection that goes beyond the act of good reading to the broader acts of good living.†~~James W. Sire
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.
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Linked to my review of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down – one of the best war book I’ve ever had the privilege of reading.
My mother introduced me to your blog today and suggested I link to my book review. Love your site.
I started reading Thomas Hardy’s poetry, and that led me to a romance novel he wrote in 1873. “Return of the Native” it’s not. Thanks for hosting, Sherry.
Have a great weekend Sherry.
I read 11 books in January, but I am still wading through my first in February, Moby Dick. Wish me well.
A couple good graphic novels and an excellent novel. Good reading this week. Glynn, I really enjoyed Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd, and Patricia, was the pun intended on “wading” through Moby Dick? Happy reading, friends.
I linked today to five picture books I read in January with my grandson. Thanks for providing this page!
Although my TBR list is growing faster than I would like it too, it’s been fun to discover new blogs and books! Thanks for the link up.
Girl Detective…wading, haha! That one swam past me.
I finished five books this week (the first five of 2012) but it will take more time than I have this morning to write thoughtful reviews of them. So I wrote a blog post on the reading life instead.
I linked to my review of Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson.