“Before going to bed read something exquisite and worth remembering, of which you will be thinking when overcome by sleep, and for which you will ask yourself again when you wake.”~Erasmus
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 hosting this. I think this is my first comment here, though I’ve been reading for awhile. Since it’s my first, please let me say: thank you. I love reading the bits of poetry and prose you post, and getting more ideas for my (also never-ending) reading list.
Good morning. I read two books for the Morning News Tournament of Books
http://themorningnews.org/tob/
Let the Great World Spin won last year’s National Book award for Fiction; I thought it was great.
But I had some trouble with The Help, which a lot of people love. Mine is an ambivalent review, so those who don’t want to hear things said against it should probably skip.
First time here. Thanks for hosting this. Lots of great reads! I’ve linked to my review/thoughts about The Voyage of the Armada: The Spanish Story by David Howarth. Highly recommended!
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Thanks for hosting. I find so many great ideas here!
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