Saturday Review of Books: June 13, 2009

“Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.”
~AR Orage

Welcome 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. Semicolon (WIfe of the Gods)
2. Semicolon (North of Beautiful)
3. Page Turner (Girl Meets God)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Mr. Popper’s Penguins)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (In Search of Mockingbird)
6. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (The Chosen by Chaim Potok)
7. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday)
8. Moomin Light (Neverwhere)
9. SuziQregon (Miss Julia Paints the Town)
10. SuziQoregon (Haunted Ground)
11. SuziQoregon (Reunion in Death)
12. BOOKIE WOOGIE (Scribble)
13. gautami tripathy (Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales)
14. gautami tripathy (Guest post Eleanor Bluestein)
15. Amy Letinsky (Loving Frank)
16. Amy Letinsky (Sisterchicks in Wooden Shoes)
17. gautami tripathy (In The Shadow Of The Glacier)
18. gautami tripathy (Curse of the Pogo Stick)
19. gautami tripathy (Interview with Eleanor Bluestein)
20. Reading to Know (Adopted for Life)
21. Reading to Know (101 Dalmations)
22. 5M4B (Outcasts United)
23. 5M4B (Living with Eeyore)
24. 5M4B (Stealing Home)
25. 5M4B (What if Your Prince Falls Off His Horse?)
26. 5M4B (Little Girls in Matching Dresses)
27. 5M4B (Scatter Joy)
28. 5M4B (Simply C.S. Lewis)
29. Fate (Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things)
30. gautami tripathy (The Merry Misogynist)
31. Terri B. (The Road from La Cueva)
32. Terri B. (Gil’s All Fright Diner)
33. At Home With Books (The Bad Beginning)
34. At Home With Books (The Secret)
35. At Home With Books (Speak)
36. Beth (The Book Thief)
37. pussreboots (South Sea Idyls)
38. pussreboots (A World I Never Made)
39. pussreboots (The Three Incestuous Sisters)
40. pussreboots (Heroes of Googley Woogley)
41. Homespun Light (Dearly Depotted)
42. FleurFisher (A Very Persistent Illusion)
43. FleurFisher (The Weather at Tregulla)
44. FleurFisher (Chez Moi)
45. Lazygal (Duchess of Death)
46. Lazygal (Horrid Henry)
47. Lazygal (Hold On to Your Dreams)
48. Lazygal (The Kill Call)
49. Lazygal (I Used to Know That)
50. Lazygal (The New Totally Awesome Money Book for Kids)
51. Lazygal (Exposure)
52. Lazygal (Milk)
53. Lazygal (Metamorposis: Junior Year)
54. Lazygal (The Candle Man)
55. Lazygal (Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have)
56. Lazygal (Murder at Midnight)
57. Lazygal (Back Home)
58. Lazygal (Tombstone Tea)
59. Janet (The Man Who Listens to Horses)
60. Janet (A Circle of Quiet)
61. Belinda (Christ, My Companion)
62. Lynne (THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN)
63. Lynne (WORLD WITHOUT END)
64. Deanna (Scarlet)
65. Hope (The Virginian by Owen Wister)
66. Shonda (Hollywood Car Wash)
67. Shonda (This Is What I Want to Tell You)
68. Shonda (Best Intentions)
69. Nymeth (Reasonable Creatures)
70. Nymeth (Seimming in the Monsoon Sea)
71. Nicola (The House of Power)
72. Nymeth (Girlfriend in a Coma)
73. Nicola (Anything But Typical)
74. Nicola (Don’t Call Me a Crook)
75. Nicola (Rivers of Fire)
76. Nicola (Zamora’s Ultimate Challenge)
77. Nymeth (The 13 Clocks)
78. SmallWorld Reads (Dear Abraham Lincoln: Letters from a Slave Girl)
79. S. (The Penny Whistle)
80. S. Mehrens, Library Hospital (Smoky)
81. S. Mehrens, Library Hospital (A House to Let)
82. S. Mehrens, Library Hospital (The Shack)
83. ChristineMM (Healing and Preventing Autism)
84. ChristineMM (Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder?”
85. ChristineMM (Word of Promise Next Generation New Testament dramatized)
86. ChristineMM (Healthy Heart Kit)
87. ChristineMM (An Undivided Life)
88. Phyllis (Dakota: A Spiritual Geography)
89. Word Lily (Night)
90. Mindy Withrow (Something Rising Light and Swift)
91. Word Lily (The Wish Maker)
92. Florinda – The 3 R’s (The Laws of Harmony)
93. Bonnie (Toujours Provence)
94. Book Chatter (Foreign Tongue)
95. Book Chatter (Sunnyside Blues)
96. melydia (Ender’s Game)
97. melydia (Speaker for the Dead)
98. Janie (Real Education)
99. Amber (The Way Home)
100. Amber (Secrets to Happiness)
101. Girl Detective (Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay)
102. Girl Detective (The Escapists)
103. Jen Robinson (Mare’s War)
104. Heather J (Wuthering Heights)
105. Heather J.(The Secret Keeper)
106. Memory (The Invisible Ring)
107. Memory (Dreams Made Flesh)
108. Lady Schrapnell
109. Lady Schrapnell (Twice a Prince)
110. Lady Schrapnell (Silver Phoenix)
111. Lady Schrapnell (Betwixt)
112. Lady Schrapnell (Fat Kid Rules the World)
113. Becky (Along for the Ride)
114. Becky (Body of Christopher Creed)
115. Becky (When the Whistle Blows)
116. Becky (Emily’s Quest)
117. Becky (Painter from Shangai)
118. Becky (Emily Climbs)
119. Becky (The Summoning)
120. Becky (The Dunderheads)
121. Becky (When Papa Comes Home Tonight)
122. Becky (My Dad and Me)
123. Becky (When I Grow Up)
124. Becky (Tonka Phonics Reading Program)
125. Sharon Hrycewicz (Evolution of Calpurnia Tate)
126. Sharon Hrycewicz (Beef Princess…)
127. Jessica @ Mountains of Books (The Land of Nod)
128. Jessica @ Mountains of Books (A Sister’s Test)
129. Phyllis (Hide My Eyes)
130. Jessica @ Mountains of Books (A Sister’s Hope)
131. Dana (The Help)
132. Sandra (Fresh Ink Books)
133. Gavin (Annals of the Western Shore)
134. Gavin (Slow Storm)
135. Teddy (The Brightest Moon of the Century)
136. Teddy (Mud Puddle)
137. Serena (Secrets to Happiness)
138. Serena (The Secret Keeper)
139. Diary of an Eccentric (The Hunger Games)

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8 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: June 13, 2009

  1. I’ve read a few good books this week, but Neverwhere is the only one I’ve had a chance to mention on my blog.

    Thank you!
    Laura

  2. Sherry, you can delete link 59 — that was the book I reviewed last week, and for some reason when I typed in the info for this week it didn’t “take” the first time. Mr Linky spit last week’s review up there.

    I reviewed books by Madeleine L’Engle and Monty Roberts this week.

  3. Hi Sherry, I’m finally back for a few weeks to do what I so enjoy! Thanks for providing Saturday Review!

    I reviewed (#100!) Real Education (Murray), a must-read (imo) for any serious educator.

    I also ordered your Picture Book Pre-School for our Kindergarten teacher. I told her all about it and she is looking forward to using it this next school year. There’s nothing like those good old picture books!

    I’ve also put up a Summer Reading Challenge at Seasonal Soundings again (first one in two years!), so whoever is inclined, please join!

  4. Mr. Linky still seems a bit twitchy, but I think I got my links right this week to Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which I loved, and a graphic novel inspired by it called The Escapists.

  5. Trying to keep up the momentum generated by the 48 Hour Reading Challenge – it’ll never last, but it’s a goal! Messed up the first link by not putting the book in – sorry!

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