“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn’t get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it. When it came to letters and literature, Madeleine championed a virtue that had fallen out of esteem: namely, clarity.” ~The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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Just a couple of days until pitchers and catchers report, therefore I have reviewed a baseball book! Also, it’s from Dirk Hayhurst who is awesome.
Mix one part Cinderella, one part Downton Abbey, and one part dysfunctional pre-WW One upper-upper-class British family for this first book in the At Somerton young adult series, Cinders & Sapphires by Leila Rasheed!
Thank you for hosting this linkup; I look forward to it every week.
I hadn’t read “Clouds of Witnesses” in years (noted above). Thanks for hostirng, Sherry.