“Literature can be the salve for a weary heart. I do not mean directly; I do not think literature is a form of therapy. I mean that books enable students to experience an extraordinary range of emotions in 180 days” ~Nick Ripatrazone
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.
Thanks Sherry. Enjoy the weekend.
Thanks for hosting, Sherry!
Ah, Sherry. At least twice a month I promise myself I’ll write a blog post and participate in SRB. Alas, life beckons, I spend too much time on Facebook, and another opportunity is lost. But I thank you for continuing your work; I enjoy reading through the entries.
Thanks for allowing us to share our thoughts about what we’ve read, Sherry. Ratings for The Inheritance by Michael Phillips were all over the place, but I loved it and wanted to share here. I think it was a little slow moving for a lot of readers, but I find literary writing with character depth highly entertaining. This goes on my favorites list!
Thank you for hosting Sherry, hope you’re having a nice weekend.