Saturday Review of Books: October 4, 2008

“My lifelong love affair with books and reading continues unaffected by automation, computers, and all other forms of the twentieth-century gadgetry.”
~Robert Downs

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books, the Cybils-nominations-are-open edition. Go nominate your favorites now through October 15th.

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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.

1. gautami tripathy (Leaving the Yellow House)
2. Jen Robinson (Piper Reed: The Great Gypsy)
3. gautami tripathy (Eliyahu Ha-Navi)
4. gautami tripathy (Time, Again)
5. gautami tripathy (The Good Person Guide)
6. gautami tripathy (The Outcast)
7. Carrie K. (Fieldwork)
8. SmallWorld Reads (The Great Gilly Hopkins)
9. SmallWorld Reads (Half of a Yellow Sun)
10. Rachel (Cold Tangerines)
11. Laura (Freakonomics)
12. Laura (Silks)
13. Wendy (The View From Castle Rock)
14. Wendy (The Triumph of Deborah)
15. Wendy (Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name)
16. SuziQoregon (Death du Jour)
17. Joanne (The Black Whole)
18. SuziQoregon (The Miracle at Speedy Motors)
19. Alyce (Chasing Diana)
20. Joanne (The Green Beauty Guide)
21. Heather J. (Lady MacBeth [with video])
22. 3m (Goodnight Desdemonda, Good Morning Juliet)
23. 3m (Darkness Visible)
24. 3m (Borden Tragedy)
25. 3m (The Secret Scripture)
26. Carrie, RtK (Frindle)
27. Carrie, RtK (Wives & Daughters)
28. 5M4B (Practical Theology for Women)
29. 5M4B (Rainy Day Games)
30. 5M4B (A is for Atticus)
31. 5M4B (Set-Apart Femininity)
32. 5M4B (Cassandra & Jane)
33. Framed (The Book of Lost Things)
34. Semicolon (The Underneath)
35. Framed (The Castle of Otranto)
36. Semicolon (Cicada Summer)
37. Semicolon (The Youngest Templar)
38. Barbara H. (Peace Child)
39. Maw Books (Julie of the Wolves)
40. Maw Books (The Best Place to Be)
41. Maw Books (Rapunzel\’s Revenge)
42. Maw Books (Bridge to Terebithia)
43. Maw Books (The 13th Reality)
44. Alessandra (Born Confused)
45. Maw Books (Genocide in Darfur)
46. Alessandra (Persepolis)
47. Maw Books (James and the Giant Peach)
48. Alessandra (The Turn of the Screw)
49. Maw Books (How to Eat Fried Worms)
50. Maw Books (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
51. Maw Books (Go Ask Alice)
52. Maw Books (Are You There God? It\’s Me, Margaret)
53. Maw Books (Of Mice and Men)
54. Bonnie (The Call of the Wild)
55. Bonnie (Walden)
56. Alessandra (Stealing Heaven)
57. Sandra
58. Sandra (The Lying Tongue)
59. Hope (Death of a Salesman)
60. Janet (To Be Told)
61. Sara R. (At Home in Mitford)
62. Sara R. (The Family on Beartown Road)
63. Marie DeVries( The Enchanted Castle)
64. Marie DeVries( The Diamond of Darkhold)
65. Joy (The Cruelest Month)
66. Benjie (The Prince\’s Poison Cup
67. Benjie (The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover)
68. Kathy (BermudaOnion)
69. Literarily (The Pools)
70. Literarily (When Will There Be Good News?)
71. Literarily (Immortal)
72. Prairie Progressive (Dumbocracy)
73. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (The Donkey of Gallipoli: A Story of Courage in WWI)
74. JustOneMoreBook! Podcast (Darkness Slipped In)
75. Barbara H. (The Longing by Beverly Lewis)
76. unfinishedperson (The Chocolate War)
77. unfinishedperson (The Giver)
78. unfinishedperson (The Outsiders
79. Slaughterhouse-Five
80. unfinishedperson (Slaughterhouse-Five)
81. The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Dolphins Under My Bed)
82. Presenting Lenore (The Fire)
83. Presenting Lenore (Fabulous Terrible)
84. Kate (The Heretic\’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent)
85. Dar (The Letters)
86. S. Krishna (In the Woods)
87. S. Krishna (Falling Under)
88. S. Krishna (The Professor\’s Wives\’ Club)
89. S. Krishna (An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination)
90. S. Krishna (Schooled)
91. Becky (Impossible)
92. Sarah M., LH (Mrs. \’Arris Goes to Paris)
93. Becky (Diamond of Darkhold)
94. Becky (Pippi Longstocking)
95. Becky (Huckleberry Finn)
96. Becky (When Louis Armstrong Taught Me Scat)
97. Becky (Knuckleheads)
98. Sarah M, LH (The Big Four)
99. Becky (Big Treasury of Little Animals)
100. Becky (Welcome Winter)
101. Becky (Farm Friend)
102. Becky (Fabulous Fishes)
103. Becky (Santa Paws)
104. Mindy Withrow (The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton)
105. Books & Other Thoughts (Yotsuba, Vol. 1)
106. Books & Other Thoughts (Barnaby Grimes: Curse of the Night Wolf)
107. Books & Other Thoughts (Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code)
108. Books & Other Thoughts (Magic\’s Child)
109. Books & Other Thoughts (Horns & Wrinkles)
110. Books & Other Thoughts (The Devil Inside)
111. Books & Other Thoughts (Nick & Norah\’s Infinite Playlist)
112. Books & Other Thoughts (Dingo)
113. Petunia (the Triumph of Deborah)
114. Jew Wishes (After Long Silence)
115. Jew Wishes (My Grandfather\’s Blessings)
116. Word Lily (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)
117. Carol in Oregon (Acedia & Me)
118. Terri B. (A Jolly Good Fellow)
119. Reader\’s Respite (The Queen\’s Secret)
120. Bookish Ruth (Torchwood Official Magazine Yearbook)
121. Bookish Ruth (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
122. Amber (In The Night Kitchen)
123. Fyrefly (Prodigal Summer)
124. Fyrefly (Immortal)
125. Fyrefly (Fables, Vol. 1)
126. Josette (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
127. Diary of an Eccentric (Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir)
128. Book Chatter
129. ChristineMM (Kenny & the Dragon)
130. ChristineMM (Lost and Found)
131. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Too Many Frogs!)
132. Dawn (Sarah\’s Key review & giveaway)
133. Carl V (The Ghost in Love ~Jonathan Carroll)

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13 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: October 4, 2008

  1. I wish I had time to get around to all of these reviews. Please remove my first listing if you can, I forgot to put in my title.

  2. Sherry, do you have a button for the Saturday Review of Books? I did a post linking over here today, and kind of made my own using your blog header. I hope you don’t mind. It’s kind of blurry though. I’d rather use yours if you have one!

    Thanks again for hosting. I love this event!!!

  3. Hi there, I love this Saturday Review of Books! Makes it so much easier to browse through the latest reviews. I hope you keep it up. Thanks!

  4. Sherry – I found out about your site from Shana @ Literarily … very neat idea, to list the new reviews in one spot!

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