The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust them; it was not IN them, it only came THROUGH them, and what came through them was longing. These things-the beauty, the memory of our own past- are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols, breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune which we have not heard, news from a country we have not visited.”
C.S. Lewis
Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books. Here’s how it works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime this week of a book you’re reading or a book you’ve read. The review doesn’t have to be a formal sort of thing. You can just write your thoughts on a particular book, a few ideas inspired by reading the book, your evaluation, quotations, whatever.
Now post a link here 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.
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Much better than last week’s dismal effort! 😉
Thanks!
Only one book review this week due to computer problems. I’ve got four books waiting to be written up. I guess next week I’ll have a bunch!
Love today’s quote. Is that from ‘Surprised by Joy’?
Happy Easter.
What reader has never felt the urge to share a good book? Thank you for giving us a place to let others know how we feel about what we are reading.
Happy weekend everyone!
Two more Newbery winners this week – I liked both, although Karen Cushman’s Middle Ages (in “The Midwife’s Apprentice”) were much darker than Sid Fleischman’s fairy tale-like setting in “The Whipping Boy”.
It’s been awhile since I posted on here. Too many lazy Saturdays and I forget about it until Sunday. 🙂 Perfect You is a great YA book by Elizabeth Scott. Her first novel Bloom is also wonderful.
Another good book from last year because of the Morning News Tournament of Books, Arsonist’s Guide is clever and literary. Next week, I hope: Then We Came to the End.
Sherry, You asked if there is a poem for every day of the year. Yes, that is how it is set up. The Easter themed poems begin on March 16 and end on April 28 so I just put a bookmark there and begin reading them at the beginning of Lent. The book is not updated yearly. Some of the poems are difficult to understand but there are explanatory notes on the opposite page of each poem. In my humble opinion it’s for high schoolers and up. I have yet to find another book of poetry with such a high standard of quality for almost every poem. This book is a well-kept secret that serious poetry lovers ought to know about. No fluffy, sing-song-y stuff here. It’s interesting that the first time through it I understood and liked about 1/3 of it. The second time through about half and this time through I’m enjoying EVERY poem. This book has stretched me spiritually and mentally.