Saturday Review of Books: February 7, 2009

Feb7

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.”
~Abraham Lincoln

Mail0002Welcome to this week’s Saturday Review of Books.

Here’s how it usually 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.

Thanks to everyone for participating.

1. SuziQoregon (47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers)
2. cari & holly bookscoops (Nightjohn)
3. caribookscoops (From Slave Ship to Freedom Road)
4. hollybookscoops (The Snowy Day)
5. Carrie, RtK (Patrick McManus)
6. Carrie, RtK (Passionate Housewives Desperate for God)
7. 5M4B (Building Her House0
8. 5m4b (The Opposite of Love)
9. 5M4B (Death Mountain)
10. 5M4B (Eats, Shoots & Leaves)
11. 5M4B (Angels in the ER)
12. 5M4B (Aurora: An American Experience in Quilt, Community and Craft)
13. 5M4B (Love and Other Natural Disasters)
14. e-Mom @ Chrysalis (Radical Womanhood)
15. Carol (Gathering Storm)
16. Bonnie (Understanding Lord of the Rings — Essays)
17. Bonnie (Doctor Zhivago)
18. MsBookish (Skeleton Creek)
19. b o o k i e w o o g i e (Monsterlicious)
20. Beth (Emily Climbs)
21. Beth (The Apothecary\’s Daughter)
22. Book Psmith (Anne of Green Gables)
23. tanabata (Miss Smilla\’s Feeling for Snow)
24. Margot (Montana Creeds-Logan)
25. Margot (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings)
26. pussreboots (Fright Night Flight)
27. pussreboots (Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars)
28. pussreboots (Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?)
29. pussreboots (Birdsongs)
30. pussreboots (Abramo\’s Gift)
31. Maw Books (Plain Truth)
32. Maw Books (Nightjohn)
33. Maw Books (Through My Eyes)
34. Maw Books (Ruby Among Us)
35. Maw Books (Show Way)
36. Terri B. (The Gargoyle)
37. Fate (A Passion for Books)
38. Krakovianka (Beloved)
39. gautami tripathy (frantic)
40. gautami tripathy (Long After Midnight)
41. gautami tripathy (Fire at Midnight)
42. gautami tripathy (Missing Statue)
43. Belinda (The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted)
44. Hope (Count of Monte Cristo)
45. Much Ado-Jane (The Excellent Wife)
46. Much Ado-Jane (There is no me without you)
47. Much Ado-Jane (My Sister\’s Keeper)
48. Presenting Lenore (The Customer is Always Wrong)
49. Presenting Lenore (Models Don\’t Eat Chocolate Cookies)
50. Presenting Lenore (Tell Me Who)
51. Farm Lane Books (When will there be good news?)
52. Farm Lane Books (The Brutal Art)
53. Janet (Citizenship Papers)
54. Janet (The Man Who was Thursday)
55. Farm Lane Books (The Bride from Odessa)
56. Janet (The Giver)
57. Janet (The Story Behind Modern Books)
58. Farm Lane Books (The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher)
59. Farm Lane Books (The 19th Wife)
60. Sandra(The Book Thief)
61. Josette (The Tale of Despereaux)
62. Deanna (The Hero and the Crown)		 63. Deanna (The Blue Sword)
64. Margaret
65. SmallWorld Reads (Children\’s books about slavery)
66. CoversGirl (To Shield the Queen)
67. Lazygal (Fragile Eternity)
68. Lazygal (Bone by Bone)
69. PisecoMom (The Moon Shines Down)
70. PisecoMom (Gauntlet)
71. melydia (The Secret Life of Bees)
72. melydia (Banana Rose)
73. melydia (The Jane Austen Book Club)
74. jama\’s alphabet soup (the story of hula)
75. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (Ella\’s Big Chance:Jazz Cinderella)
76. Just One More Book! Children\’s Book Podcast (Mummy Never Told Me)
77. blacklin (Dissolution)
78. Chris@bookarama (1984)
79. Chris@bookarama (The Age of Innocence)
80. Lynne (A Mercy)
81. Lynne (The Red Scarf)
82. Amy@The Sleepy Reader(The Apothecary\’s Daughter)
83. Beth F (Inkdeath)
84. Beth F (Eyes of the Storm)
85. Joy (A Rule Against Murder)
86. Sarah M., LH (The Big Over Easy)
87. Books & Other Thoughts (Tales of Beedle the Bard)
88. Sarah M., LH (The Penderwicks on Gardam Street)
89. Books & Other Thoughts (Once Bitten, Twice Shy)
90. Sarah M., LH (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
91. Books & Other Thoughts (Waiter Rant)
92. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
93. Florinda – The 3 R\’s (Change of Heart)
94. bekahcubed (A Single Thread)
95. bekahcubed (Filthy Rich)
96. bekahcubed (Fleeced)
97. bekahcubed (Sons of Encouragement)
98. bekahcubed (A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity)
99. Serena (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Two Shall Become One)
100. Serena (City Above the Sea)
101. Serena (A Foreign Affair)
102. Jew Wishes (The Illumination)
103. Word Lily (Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans)
104. Biblauragraphy (Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris)
105. Girl Detective (Story of Edgar Sawtelle)
106. Girl Detective (One Boy)
107. Girl Detective (Farfallina and Marcel)
108. Girl Detective (Perfectly Martha)
109. At A Hen\’s Pace (The Voice New Testament)
110. Laura (Oswald Chambers bio)
111. S. Krishna (In Other Rooms, Other Wonders)
112. S. Krishna (3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows)
113. S. Krishna (The Mighty Queens of Freeville)
114. S. Krishna (Frenemies)
115. S. Krishna (Mistress Shakespeare)
116. S. Krishna (I See You Everywhere)
117. Alessandra (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)
118. gautami tripathy (Letters Between Us)
119. Everead (The Graveyard Book)
120. Books on the Brain (Now You See Him)
121. Heather J. (Age 30 … A Lifetime of Books)
122. Heather J. (Island)
123. Heather J. (Interpreter of Maladies)
124. Lorna (The Scarlet Pimpernel)		 125. Heather J. (Starfinder)
126. Lorna (The Heart of Darkness)
127. Lorna (David Copperfield)
128. Deliciously Clean Reads (Uprising)
129. Deliciously Clean Reads (Winter Wheat)
130. 5M4B (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
131. 5M4B (Heart in Right Place memoir)
132. FleurFisher (The Red House Mystery)
133. FleurFisher (Memiors of a Novelist)
134. My Two Blessings (The Wild Sight)
135. My Two Blessings (The Bone Garden)
136. She is Too Fond of Books (People of the Book)
137. Kristi (It\’s All About Us)
138. Kristi (The Valentine Edition)
139. She is Too Fond of Books (Testimony)
140. Kristi (Scrapping Plans)
141. The Book Lady\’s Blog (The Mighty Queens of Freeville)
142. The Book Lady\’s Blog (Cutting for Stone)
143. Queen Shenaynay (Seeking the Face of God)
144. Kristen (Fingersmith)
145. Kristen (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
146. Kristen (Cloud Atlas)
147. John Mutford (The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1)
148. John Mutford (I thought elvis was italian)
149. Tasses (Pinocchio)
150. Tasses (Little Skink\’s Tail)
151. Tasses (Skeleton Creek)
152. Ruth (The Boxcar Children: The Lighthouse Mystery)
153. Amy @ My Friend Amy (Trail of Crumbs)
154. Petunia (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet)
155. Framed(The Lesser Blessed)
156. Nymeth (The Time Machine)
157. Nymeth (Paper Towns by John Green)
158. Nymeth (What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew)
159. Memory (Skybreaker)
160. Memory (Starclimber)
161. Memory (Eon: Dragoneye Reborn)
162. Memory (I Was A Teenage Fairy)
163. Memory (Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town)
164. krin (Gravity Wells)
165. SFP (A Life\’s Morning)
166. Wendi\’s Book Corner (When God & Grief Meet)
167. Wendi\’s Book Corner (The Rose Conspiracy)
168. Wendi\’s Book Corner (Cole Family Christmas)
169. Wendi\’s Book Corner (The Heretic\’s Daughter)
170. Wendi\’s Book Corner (The Valentine Edition)
171. JW (The Illumination)
172. Afterthoughts (Ella Minnow Pea)
173. Write For A Reader (The Moose with Loose Poops)
174. Benjie (The Suburban Dragon)
175. Benjie (Too Tall Alice)
176. Alyce (Delicate Edible Birds)
177. Alyce (Bat 6)
178. Alyce (Nothing Right)
179. Teddy (A Long Stone\’s Throw
180. Carey @ The Tome Traveller\’s Weblog (Virginia\’s War: Tierra TX 1944)
181. Diary of an Eccentric (The Holocaust: The Nazis Seize Power, 1933-1941)
182. Diary of an Eccentric (Cooperative Village)
183. 3m (Life As We Knew It)
184. 3m (Kitchen)
185. 3m (The Reader)

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12 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 7, 2009”

  3. I actually remembered to comment this week! Thanks as always for hosting the book review, Sherry. (For some reason, my links are leaving smilies behind — but that might just be Firefox, to which I’m new. Apologies if I did something wrong.)

  6. I enjoy the book review. Some great titles are gleaned from here. Thanks.

    I like the quote – so true.

  7. Eek, I missed my book title! It is “The Willoughbys” If you can remove my link (#64), I will redo it. Thanks for hosting this!

  8. I linked–thanks for hosting! By the way, thanks for commenting and linking your interviews on my Hattie Big Sky post. I’ve re-read your first interview (with the mayor’s wife) and I’m going to go back and read the other. Thanks!

  10. Happy Saturday, everyone! I’m working my way through Edgar Sawtelle, so I had an excerpt posted this week. So far, so good, but I’m only a little more than a third of the way through. I wanted to share some of my family’s favorite picture books this week, too, so I included a few of those. Happy reading!

  11. Thanks for hosting!!

    I shared the Saturday Review of Books with my post for Tuesday Thingers this week! Hopefully a few new people will come your way.

    🙂 Wendi

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