Saturday Review of Books: July 4, 2009

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn’t believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn’t believe that it was free.”
~Kirk Douglas

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 (The Lathe of Heaven)
2. SuziQoregon (Fever 1793)
3. SuziQoregon (Rebecca)
4. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Girl Meets God by Lauren Winner)
5. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Read Aloud Thursday picture books)
6. Beth (Cheaper by the Dozen)
7. Carrie K. (Life of Pi)
8. Carrie K. (The Actor and the Housewife)
9. Laura (Because the Time Is Near)
10. Bonnie (An Incomplete Education)
11. Tom Goodman (Hood)
12. Sandra (Ben, In the World by Doris Lessing)
13. Sandra (Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani)
14. Terri B. (Wife of the Gods)
15. Terri B. (Tales of Beedle the Bard)
16. Hope (Losing Control and Liking It: Setting Your Teen Free
17. Reading to Know (Narnia books for kids)
18. Reading to Know (The C.S. Lewis Chronicles)
19. Reading to Know (A Circle of Quiet)
20. Reading to Know (Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival)
21. 5M4B (Finding an Unseen God)
22. 5M4B (Healing Waters)
23. 5M4B (Free-Range Kids)
24. 5M4B (Isle of Swords)
25. 5M4B (Eat My Globe)
26. 5M4B (Jillian Dare)
27. teachergirl (the dead & the gone)
28. teachergirl (Enthusiasm)
29. teachergirl (The Declaration)
30. Seth H. (Relentless – Dean Koontz)
31. Petunia (Serpent in the Garden of Dreams)
32. FleurFisher (Little Dorrit)
33. FleurFisher (Miss Cayley’s Adventures)
34. FleurFisher (Molly Fox’s Diary)
35. Nymeth (The Ask and the Answer)
36. Nymeth (Ella Enchanted)
37. Nymeth (Don’t Call Me a Crook!)
38. Janet (The Children of Hurin)
39. Belinda (The Piano Teacher – Audio)
40. Belinda (The Hunger Games)
41. VioletCrush (And then everything Unraveled)
42. VioletCrush (Vamped)
43. Jolanthe {Sometimes a Light Surprises.}
44. Nicola (Oracles of Delphi Keep)
45. Nicola (The Jumping-Off Place)
46. Nicola (The Beacon)
47. Nicola (Sea Monsters & Other Delicacies)
48. Dismantled
49. Nicola (Dismantled)
50. Lynne (SHANGHAI GIRLS)
51. Lynne (FINGER LICKIN’ FIFTEEN)
52. Lynne (THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS)
53. Lynne (THE BRASS VERDICT)
54. Joy (The Actor and the Housewife)
55. Deanna (Nightwalker)
56. Deanna (Dayhunter)
57. Deanna (Kingdom of Shadows)
58. gautami tripathy
59. gautami tripathy (Bel Canto)
60. gautami tripathy (Tender Graces)
61. Megan (Lake News)
62. Mindy Withrow (Kristin Lavransdatter)
63. Mindy Withrow (PD James’ advice to reviewers)
64. Word Lily (Light from Heaven)
65. jama’s alphabet soup (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon)
66. Shonda (Being Nikki)
67. Shonda (Ambition)
68. CoversGirl (The Water’s Lovely)
69. CoversGirl (Jane Eyre)
70. Elizabeth (Sunnyside Blues)
71. Elizabeth (Crossed Wires)
72. Elizabeth (Wings)
73. Raima (Fingerprints of God)
74. Framed (The Lost German Slave Girl)
75. Framed (Indigo Dying)
76. Framed (Spanish Dagger)
77. S. Mehrens, Library Is A Hospital for the Mind (A Bear Called Paddington)
78. S. Mehrens, Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Practically Perfect)
79. Jen Robinson (Shiver)
80. Fate (Dracula’s Brood)
81. Kevin S (My Relationship With Books)
82. Homespun Light (Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices)
83. Inquirer (Real Education)
84. Memory (The Illyrian Adventure)
85. Memory (Persuasion)
86. Lazygal (Midnight Fugue)
87. Lazygal (Oh, Say Did You Know?)
88. Lazygal (Under the Covers and Between the Sheets)
89. Lazygal (The Unusual Mind of Vincent Shadow)
90. Becky (Greetings From the 50 States)
91. Becky (Go Go America)
92. Becky (African Acrostics)
93. Becky (To Be Slave)
94. Becky (Wicked Lovely)
95. Becky (Love’s Pursuit)
96. Becky (Barchester Towers)
97. Becky (Cashay)
98. Becky (You’re A Grand Old Flag)
99. Becky (How To Make A Cherry Pie and See the U.S.A.))
100. Becky (God Found Us You)
101. Becky (Zoo I Drew)
102. Mrs. H. (Alligator Bayou)
103. Mrs. H. (The Love Comes Softly Series)
104. Mrs. H. (In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms)
105. That’s 2 For The Book (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
106. Teddy (The Painter from Shanghai)
107. Deb (Family Meals)
108. Diary of an Eccentric (Frindle)
109. Diary of an Eccentric (T4)
110. The Queen’s Man
111. No One You Know (S. Krishna)
112. Modern Spice (S. Krishna)
113. Ten Things I Hate About Me (S. Krishna)
114. The Blue Notebook (S. Krishna)
115. East of the Sun (S. Krishna)
116. Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single (S. Krishna)
117. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (A Mother’s Heart by Jean Fleming)
118. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (River Rising by Athol Dickson)

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5 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: July 4, 2009

  1. This is the first book I read in some time that I didn’t really like…I don’t like writing a review for a book when I don’t like it. 🙂

    Jolanthe

  2. I’m a day late, but it has been so long since I contributed I did it anyway. Hope you had a happy Fourth

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