“He won’t read a book that contains love-making or death-beds.’Does anybody marry?’ ‘Does anybody die?’ are his first questions about a book, so naturally his reading is much restricted.” ~Anna Buchan
Are there any subjects that you just won’t read about at all? Any disqualifying question that you ask about a book before you start into it?
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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Hello readers! It’s been a few weeks. Glad to be back, and thanks, Sherry for hosting. I’ll be back to see what everyone else has been reading, now that I’ve caught up on my reviews.
Whee! Like Girl Detective, I’m glad to be back! I moved my blog to alivingpencil.com. My tagline is “solid joys, deep sorrows and aggressive hope”. I am hoping to blog a backlog of good books I’ve read in the last six months.
Thanks, Sherry. You do a great service to bibliophiles.
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Are there any subjects I just won’t read at all? There are some subjects I’m not particularly interested in but not to the point of refusing to read about them. I generally don’t like self-help books. On the fiction side, the only genres I invariably avoid are non-Christian romance and westerns (I don’t think “Lonesome Dove” was really a Western).
By the way, my wife and I watched every season of “Lark Rise to Candleford” (noted above) on Netflix – wonderful series.
Thanks for hosting, Sherry.
The answer to your questions.
Subjects I don’t read about? Christian fiction, (though that is a genre), westerns, and I don’t read erotica or racy books. As a teen I read my share of sci-fi, Asimov, for example, but now I am not much drawn to that genre either.