Saturday Review of Books: November 22, 2008

Nov22

“Books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.”
~Amy Lowell

Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books.
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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. Carrie K. (The Grift)
2. Semicolon (From Alice to Zen)l
3. Laura (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
4. Semicolon (London Eye Mystery)
5. Laura (Like Water for Chocolate)
6. Semicolon (Island of Mad Scientists)
7. Laura (Salvation on Sand Mountain)
8. Laura (America\’s British Culture)
9. Framed (Conquering Gotham)
10. Framed (Peace Like a River)
11. Carrie, RtK (The Negotiator)
12. Carrie, RtK (The Bible Illuminated)
13. 5M4B (Road to Nowhere)
14. 5M4B (Keeping Holiday)
15. 5M4B (My Mother\’s Wish)
16. 5M4B (Rachel\’s Secret)
17. 5M4B (Secret Keeper: The Delicate Power of Modesty)
18. 5M4B (Somwhere in Heaven – Reeve lovestory)
19. Sarah LH (The Penderwicks)
20. Sarah LH (Absent in the Spring)
21. Josette (Mo\’ Dirty: Still Stuntin\’)
22. Lisa the Correspondent (Yesterday I Had the Blues)
23. gautami tripathy (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
24. gautami tripathy (Artificial Imagination)
25. Ms. Bookish (The Calder Game)
26. Carol (Much Depends on Dinner)
27. pussreboots (Fatal Vows)
28. pussreboots (Captains Courageous)
29. pussreboots (Animal Attraction)
30. pussreboots (Gentle Giant Octopus)
31. pussreboots (Love and Sand)
32. Hope (The Ghost Map)
33. Bookie Woogie (Little Hoot)
34. Bookie Woogie (Little Pea)
35. Stephen (Just After Sunset)
36. Kylee (The Bell Jar)
37. Jane – Much Ado (Trust)
38. Jane – Much Ado (Nights in Rodanthe)
39. Beth F (Plum Island)
40. Beth F (Club Dead)
41. Teresa (Breakfast at Tiffany\’s)
42. Lenore (Beautiful Americans)
43. Lenore (This Book Isn\’t Fat, It\’s Fabulous)		 44. Lenore (Schooled)
45. Benjie (Sinner)
46. Joy (I Am the Messenger)
47. Coffee Tea Books & Me (The Moon Shines Down)
48. Literarily (Two Brothers)
49. Literarily (Any Bitter Thing)
50. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry)
51. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Clementine by Sara Pennypacker)
52. 3m (Sky Burial)
53. 3m (Downtown Owl)
54. She is Too Fond of Books (The Safety of Secrets)
55. She is Too Fond of Books (The Tenth Case)
56. SmallWorld Reads (This Is the Feast)
57. The Place of H (The Power of a Woman\’s Words)
58. Melissa (Every Soul a Star)
59. blacklin (The Murder Of Tutankhamen)
60. Sandra(A Guide to the Birds of East Africa)
61. Amy(Divine Justice)
62. Word Lily (Where Am I Wearing?)
63. Word Lily (Dark Pursuit)
64. Alessandra (Nick and Norah\’s Infinite Playlist)
65. Alessandra (A Different Way of Being Young)
66. Alessandra (The Complete Maus)
67. Alessandra (The Ashleys)
68. Alessandra (The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things)
69. caribookscoops (Rapunzel\’s Revenge)
70. S. Krishna\’s Books (Whacked)
71. S. Krishna\’s Books (Good to a Fault)
72. S. Krishna\’s Books (The Washingtonienne)
73. S. Krishna\’s Books (The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters)
74. S. Krishna\’s Books (I Know It\’s Over)
75. S. Krishna\’s Books (The Last Queen)
76. S. Krishna\’s Books (The Memorist)
77. Sage (The Same River Twice)
78. Sage (Unconventional Success)
79. Michael (The Diamond Age)
80. John Mutford (Barnacle Love)
81. John Mutford (Hermann Hesse poems)
82. Girl Detective (The Return of the Dancing Master)
83. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (Bird)
84. Mindy Withrow (Away by Amy Bloom)
85. Becky (The Comeback Season
86. Becky (Play Me)		 87. Becky (Secret Story of Sonia Rodriguez)
88. Becky (Cleavage)
89. Becky (Getting the Girl)
90. Becky (The Humming of Numbers)
91. Becky (You Know Where To Find Me)
92. MFS (Shakespeare for all ages and stages)
93. Becky (Debbie Harry Sings In French)
94. Becky (Love & Lies)
95. MFS (Two books for those who like to *read* read)
96. Becky (This is the Feast)
97. Becky (White Christmas Pie)
98. Becky (The Possibilities of Sainthood)
99. MFS (Drawn to drawn (art instruction texts near end of entry))
100. Book Chatter (Misadventures of Oliver Booth)
101. Queen Shenaynay (Seeking The Face Of God)
102. Noel (This is the Feast)
103. Mytwoblessings (Murder of Roger Ackroyd)
104. Lazygal (The Angry Island)
105. Becky (Isabelle\’s Boyfriend)
106. LuAnn (Sunset)
107. melydia (The Myth of You and Me)
108. Becky (I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone)
109. Fate (A History of Reading)
110. Shelly Burns (The Last Black King)
111. Lightheaded (Fables: Homelands)
112. Lightheaded (Living Dead in Dallas)
113. Lightheaded (Fables: Arabian Nights and Days)
114. Lightheaded (Club Dead)
115. Wendi\’s Book Corner (Crafting Jewish)
116. Wendi\’s Book Corner (Pure Gold)
117. Wendi\’s Book Corner (100 Ways to Simplify Your Life)
118. Wendi\’s Book Corner (The Christmas Edition)
119. Wendi\’s Book Corner (Dangerous Heart)
120. Josette (Where Rainbows End)
121. Jennifer (Night)
122. Jennifer (Water for Elephants)
123. Rebecca @ The Book Lady\’s Blog (The Hour I First Believed)
124. The Thinking Mother (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)
125. The Thinking Mother (Johnny Big Ears)
126. The Thinking Mother (Bible Illuminated the book New Testament)
127. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Dead Ringer)
128. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Rogues & Rebels)

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12 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: November 22, 2008”

  1. Thanks for hosting the Saturday Review, Sherry.

    My first link is correct, but I forgot to include the title. If you’d like to delete the untitled link, that’d be great. Sorry about that.

  2. As always, Sherry, thanks for hosting this.

    If anyone has been interested in Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, my book this week, Much Depends on Dinner is a suitable companion book.

  4. Wow, that’s quite a quote!!! Thanks so much for hosting and I LOVE the photo again this week 🙂

  5. I’m back in the saddle again! : ) I devoured Hannah Coulter this week. If you haven’t read it, Sherry, you really should add it to your TBR list. It’s just as good as Jayber Crow!

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