“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.”~Rufus Choate
If you’re not familiar with and linking to and perusing the Saturday Review of Books here at Semicolon, you’re missing out. Here’s how it usually works. Find a review on your blog posted sometime during the previous week of a book you were 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.
Then on Saturday, you post a link here at Semicolon in Mr. Linky 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.
After linking to your own reviews, you can spend as long as you want reading the reviews of other bloggers for the week and adding to your wishlist of books to read. That’s how my own TBR list has become completely unmanageable and the reason I can’t join any reading challenges. I have my own personal challenge that never ends.
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Thanks for the Saturday Review. I’ll publicize now via Twitter and my blog.
Good morning readers! I had a great time re-reading Ender’s Game, especially now as a parent of boys.
LOVE your new blog header! Very cool. Also, I advertised your Sat review on my new twitter account. 🙂 — @libraryhospital
+JMJ+
Hi again, Sherry! =)
I hope I’m not bending the rules too much with a review that is a little over a week old. I stuck to blogging about movies, TV and my job this week, and had to bring in something from last week.
I finished two great books this week: The Flame Trees of Thika about a young girl’s childhood in Kenya and Safe Passage a book I’m gaga over about two sisters who loved opera and helped people emigrate from Nazi Germany.
Thanks for hosting Saturday Review Sherry. It’s a good thing.