Saturday Review of Books: December 27, 2008

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“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
~Logan Pearsall Smith

“Read in order to Live.”
~Gustave Flaubert

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
~Robert Louis Stevenson

I thought dueling quotations might be a nice change. With which do you concur?

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.

1. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Good and Angry by Turansky and Miller)
2. gautami tripathy (The Witch\’s Trinity)
3. BOOKIE WOOGIE (Through the Animals\’ Eyes: A Story of the First Christmas)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Cry, the Beloved Country)
5. Robin of My Two Blessings (Open Season)
6. Robin of My Two Blessings (You Can\’t Hide)
7. Carrie, RtK (Montgomery)
8. 5M4B (Click & Clack: Answers from Car Talk)
9. 5M4B (Quaker Summer)
10. 5M4B (Finding/Engaging Father Christmas)
11. 5M4B (Father Time)
12. 5M4B (Chester & Chester\’s Back)
13. Carrie, RtK (A Tale of Two Sons)
14. SuziQoregon (Payment in Blood)
15. Fate (Bucky Katt\’s Big Book of Fun)
16. Hope (Favorites of 2008)
17. Farm Lane Books (The Reluctant Fundamentalist)
18. Farm Lane Books (Darkmans)
19. Farm Lane Books (The Rebel Angels)
20. Lazygal (Bliss)
21. Lazygal (The Willoughbys)
22. Lazygal (Outside Beauty)
23. Lazygal (When Nietzsche Wept)
24. Lazygal (Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose [8])
25. Lynne (Going to Bend)
26. Lynne (Almost Like Being in Love)
27. Lynne (Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine)
28. Lynne (The Sound of Us)
29. Mo (Stillwatch)
30. Krakovianka (The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole)		 31. Shonda (Snipped in the Bud)
32. jama\’s alphabet soup (Christmas Farm)
33. jama\’s alphabet soup (Need)
34. Shonda (Dearly Depotted)
35. Marg (The Uncommon Reader)
36. DebD (The Shack)
37. Amber (Sweetsmoke)
38. Beth F (Out of Deep I Cry)
39. Janet (Amos Fortune: Free Man)
40. Sarah M., LH (The Secret Life of Bees)
41. Page Turner (Impossible)
42. She is Too Fond of Books (It\’s All About Us)
43. She is Too Fond of Books (The Artist Within)
44. Lightheaded (Gertrude and Claudius)
45. Lightheaded (A Gift from Earth)
46. Lightheaded (Zia)
47. Lightheaded (Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall)
48. Lightheaded (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe)
49. Book Chatter (The Rest of Her Life)
50. Book Chatter (The Soloist)
51. Rebecca @ The Book Lady\’s Blog (The Customer is Always Wrong)
52. Rebecca @ The Book Lady\’s Blog (84, Charing Cross Road)
53. Becky (Girl Overboard)
54. Becky (Shift)
55. Becky (The Boy Who Dared)
56. Becky (Ringside, 1925)
57. Becky (Everything You Want)
58. Becky (Perfect Cover)
59. Becky (Come Thou Long Expected Jesus)
60. Becky (I\’ll Be Home For Christmas)		 61. Becky (Hurry, Hurry Have You Heard)
62. Becky (The Golden Dreydl)
63. Becky (Hanukkah)
64. Books & Other Thoughts (Looking for Alaska)
65. Books & Other Thoughts (Watchmen)
66. Carol (WWII Reading Challenge)
67. Memory (Fray)
68. Memory (Wicked)
69. Girl Detective (Christmas Carol & Child\’s Christmas in Wales)
70. Girl Detective (Disquiet)
71. Carrie K. (The Moor)
72. blacklin(The Book Of The Unknown: Tales Of The Thirty-Six)
73. The Thinking Mother (Posy)
74. The Thinking Mother (Fix-It Duck)
75. The Thinking Mother (Freight Train)
76. Shonda (Acts of Violets)
77. Kathleen (The Private Patient)
78. pussreboots (Lorna Doone)
79. pussreboots (Trumpet of the Swan)
80. pussreboots (What Makes a Rainbow)
81. pussreboots (Smash Trash)
82. pussreboots (Uh-oh Calico)
83. pussreboots (If You Give a Cat a Cupcake)
84. Kristine (Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things)
85. Kevin S. (Planet Google)
86. Rachel (Waiting by Ha Jin)
87. Chils(Emma-by Charlotte Bronte )
88. KittyCat (The Tiny Kite of Eddie Wing)
89. Megan

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11 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: December 27, 2008”

  1. Hi Sherry!

    I think Stevenson’s quote is the truest, but I “resemble” the first quote the most (unfortunately perhaps).

    I reviewed a parenting book that I’m linking now; I hope to come back and link a review to Cry, the Beloved Country later.

    Have a great day!

  7. It all depends on what day and mood I am in. I can see myself concurring with each of those quotes at a different point in my life. Truthfully, I love reading and responding with others who have read the book too. Perhaps that is why at Saturday Review, many of my clicks are on books I have already read.

    My link today is not a review but a list of books I plan to read in 2009. It’s all about WWII. I welcome any further suggestions.

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