“How necessary, then, to learn to read the revelatory texts of scripture, sunsets, heartbreaks, aesthetic works, benedictions and catastrophe, prose and prophecy, and all the other miraculous and perplexing ‘words of God’ endlessly being storied forth for our deep reading. They all invite our skillful practice of the Christian art lectio divina, one of the primary modalities of Christian transformation that brings us, in both our waking and our dreaming, to the wellsprings of contemplation, the ground of the life of praise.” ~Kathleen Deignan
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.
I see that Barbara read “The Wizard of Oz” – I haven’t read that in ages. Think I’ll go look for it. Sherry – thank you!
I don’t write as many reviews as I used to, or even read as many reviews, but every time I manage to write one *and* get it on here within a week, I am blessed that you are still here hosting this fun get-together. Thank you!!
This is my first time to join your Saturday Review. I have long been an avid reader, but I am just now entering the world of reviews. I found several of the reviews helpful and I have so far added 1 book to my every growing list. I’ll be visiting again later as more people post. Thanks so much for hosting!! Blessings –
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Linked our latest book/film adaptation podcast. We read “A Boy and His Dog” and watched the movie so you don’t have to!