“Good books are to the mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than life.†~Horace Mann
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 Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot.
I had so much fun reading and discussing Frankenstein with my teens, I just had to share. I love it when they notice things I completely missed!
Many SRB readers urged me to read To Say Nothing of the Dog, when I registered my approval of Three Men in a Boat. I finally got around to reading it and loved it.
Does anyone else have a backlog of books to review? It’s more work to write a review than it is to pick up another book to read! Yikes!
Re backlog of books to review – ABSOLUTELY. It’s mildly depressing.
Thanks Sherry! Have a wonderful weekend.
Good morning, readers! Good to “see” you again. Carol in Oregon, it’s a nice problem to have, isn’t it–too many books to read, too many things to write about. I had the same problem this week, and did a list instead: http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4353
Over the years, I’ve realized that I want my reviews to be snapshots to tell people whether they want to read the book or not, not deep-analyses. Those happen in the comments.
That said, my review of the 2011 comic collection took a long time.
Thanks, as always, Sherry!
This week I reviewed Work Matters by Tom Nelson. Pastor Nelson does a great job of helping working men and women understand how their Christian faith should impact their Monday-Friday work week.
I am “not blogging” for Lent, so I have a huge number of books that will be begging for reviews as soon as Easter is past.