Saturday Review of Books: February 20, 2010

“Between them they read about three hundred books a year. He read for facts, she for transport. Nothing about them was rich except their days swollen with time.”~The Maytrees by Annie Dillard

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.

1. Page Turner (Whose Body?)
2. Reading to Know (Religion Saves…and 9 other misconceptions)
3. Reading to Know (Big Fish)
4. 5M4B (Frog Scientist)
5. 5M4B (Healing Hearts)
6. 5M4B (Pieces of Someday)
7. 5M4B (Abigail)
8. Reading My Library (Picture books for St. Patty’s Day)
9. Collateral Bloggage (The First Rule)
10. Gladsome Lights (For the Time Being)
11. 5M4B (SeaWorld Library & giveaway)
12. Beth (Beautiful in God’s Eyes)
13. Beth (The Silent Governess)
14. Shredded Cheddar (The BSC #2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls)
15. FleurFisher (Aphrodite’s Workshop for Reluctant Lovers)
16. FleurFisher (The Abbess of Crewe)
17. FleurFisher (Bell Farm)
18. Upsidedown B (Book Thief – Audio)
19. Janet @ Across the Page (A Thousand Splendid Suns)
20. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict(The Yellow House)
21. Upsidedown B (The Madonnas of Leningrad)
22. Jennifer @ Mrs. Q: Book Addict(Last Night in Montreal)
23. Phyllis @ Windy Ridge Books (At a Loss for Words)
24. ChristineMM (The Ten Things All Future Mathematicians and Scientists Must Know)
25. Phyllis @ Windy Ridge Books (A Mind to Murder)
26. Nicolas (Angel After the Fall: First Nifght Vol. 2)
27. Nicolas (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt)
28. Nicolas (Gone)
29. Nicolas (Fables: The Good Prince)
30. Nicolas (Saint John Bosco)
31. WordLily (The Help)
32. DebD (Light From the Christian East)
33. DebD (Little Britches)
34. Shonda (Heartless)
35. Shonda (The Professors’ Wives’ Club)
36. Lazygal (Kyle’s Island)
37. Lazygal (The Prophecy)
38. Lazygal (The Girl with Glass Feet)
39. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Cecily G. and the Nine Monkeys)
40. K. B. Kubin (Can You Hear It?)
41. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (Cynthia Rylant picture books)
42. Amy @ Hope Is the Word (American Girl books)
43. Julie D. (Paul Among the People)
44. Heather T (Dessert First)
45. Margaret (The Book of Fires)
46. Nicole (Linus’s Blanket) – Almost Home
47. Dana (Confessions of Noa Weber)
48. Dana (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
49. Dana (Nanny Returns)
50. Seize the Book (The Unnamed)
51. Seize the Book (Why We Love the Church)
52. Jennifer, Snapshot (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Series)
53. S. Krishna (All Unquiet Things)
54. S. Krishna (Once in a Lifetime)
55. S. Krishna (Keeping the Feast)
56. S. Krishna (Rich Again)
57. S. Krishna (One Amazing Thing)
58. S. Krishna (A Wife’s Tale)
59. S. Krishna (Secrets of the Tudor Court The Pleasure Palace)
60. blacklin (The Secret Of Lost Things)
61. blacklin (Landon Carter’s Uneasy Kingdom)
62. gautami tripathy (Blood Harvest)
63. gautami tripathy (The Secret Keeper)
64. gautami tripathy (Plain Pursuit)
65. gautami tripathy (The Bafut Beagles))
66. gautami tripathy (Buried Alive)
67. SuziQoregon @ Whimpulsive (The Maze Runner)
68. A Library is a Hospital for the Mind (Lavender and Old Lace)
69. Jen Robinson’s Book Page (Nurture Shock)
70. Homespun Light (Pollyanna)
71. Homespun Light (The Boy who Harnessed the Wind)
72. Books in the City (Eternal on the Water)
73. Diary of an Eccentric (Mr. Darcy’s Great Escape)
74. Miss Elisabeth (Crowned)
75. Girl Detective (Everything Ravaged Everything Burned)
76. Girl Detective (Lowboy)
77. Girl Detective (Logicomix)
78. Mindy Withrow (Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance)
79. Books in the City (Notes from a Small Island)
80. Laughing Lioness (The Power of 1/2)
81. melydia (High Fidelity)
82. melydia (The Amber Spyglass)
83. melydia (Malice)

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4 thoughts on “Saturday Review of Books: February 20, 2010

  1. I just found your site, and though I’m a bit late this week, I look forward to being a regular on your Saturday Review!

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