Wow — you guys are awesome! Many of you have either emailed me or left a comment to let me know about book reviews you’ve done so far for your Spring Reading Thing books. Everyone who has done at least one review is eligible to win one of the two books I’ll be giving away as part of this “review challenge.” Those books are So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson and How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen.
I’ll be doing the first giveaway (So Many Books, So Little Time) on May 4th and everyone who has sent me a link to one of their reviews up to that point will be eligible to win. The second book will be given away at the end of the spring reading challenge.
If you sent me a link to a review and I missed it in the list below, please feel free to put it in the comment section so people can visit it.
And please continue to send me reviews as you do them. I hope to post them every couple weeks.
I also want to thank Debi from Caught Between Worlds who put together the little “Who’s In” scrollbox over in my sidebar that lists all the Spring Reading Thing participants. Thanks, Debi!
Now, without further ado, here are the reviews I’ve been sent. Enjoy!
Alice Teh reviews Before You Leap, 101 Ways to Find God’s Purpose for Your Life, Charlotte’s Web, and The Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude.
Becky shares her Spring Reading Thing progress report (with tons of reviews) HERE.
Beth at Life with Two Little Vikings reviews Bringing Up Boys and When You Rise Up.
Caribousmom reviews Travels with Charley in Search of America and The Year of Pleasures.
Debi gives us a glance at some of her March reads.
Deena reviews The Widows’ Club, Me, Myself & Bob, Sticks & Stones, Head Game, Dragonwell Dead, Fire Dancer, Sins of the Fathers, and The Art of Standing Still.
Devildogwife reviews Easter Chimes and Jess (American Girl).
Liz at Smithical reviews The Thirteenth Tale.
Ellen reviews Clouds of Witness
Jennifer at Memoirs of a Homeschooler reviews three books (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Rapture of Caanan, and Marley & Me) HERE.
Jennifer at Snapshot reviews My Heart’s in the Lowlands.
Halfmoon Girl reviews The Hiding Place.
Comfy Denim reviews When Your Child is 6 to 12.
Lauren S. reviews The Secret Life of Becky Miller and The Innocent Man.
Bessers reviews A Table in the Presence.
Tracy reviews Nineteen Minutes and My Sister’s Keeper.
Deborah reviews Miss Invisible.
Missyjoon reviews Blue Shoes & Happiness and The Blind Assassin.
Raidergirl3 reviews The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Reef, and The Big Sleep.
Heidi reviews Knitting Lessons.
Karen shares her thoughts about the first six books she read for the Spring Reading Thing HERE.
Jenny reviews The Cement Garden and Fast Food Nation and will continue to update that post with the other reviews she does this spring.
Krin reviews The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, Sleep Toward Heaven, Jackdaws and The Visitor.
Kristin reviews The Book of Lights and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Leslie reviews Summer of Light and Thorn in My Heart.
Literalicious reviews The Birth House.
Michelle at Plainssong reviews Almost French.
De’Etta reviews Age of Opportunity, Midwives, The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Down, and Nursery Crimes. And her son has reviewed The King of the Reid.
Robin reviews White Chocolate Moments.
Boltbabe reviews An Elegant Spirit, The Story of My Life, The Riddle of Amish Culture, and Angels & Demons.
Trina reviews The All New Square Foot Gardening.
Valerie reviews Thundering Sneakers.
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Maybe I should let you know about mine.
I have a post that gives mini reviews of what I’ve been reading for the last couple of weeks here. http://markcarstairs.blogspot.com/2007/04/spring-reading-challenge-update.html
In that blog post there are links to fuller reviews of all the books at Epinions.com where I regularly review books.
Hi Katrina,
I forgot to let you know about the review post I have up. It is at http://laundryandlullabies.blogspot.com/2007/04/spring-reading-thing-update.html
There are a few mini reviews there as well as one longer review.
Here are two that I have read:
1. Shakespeare’s Kings by John Julius Norwich
2. The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Here’s a few more from my list:
Teacher Man by Frank McCourt
Night by Elie Wiesel
Rome 2006 by Rick Steves
I had another one on “Gone” by Jonathan Kellerman.
http://twolittlevikings.blogspot.com/2007/04/srt-book-3-gone.html
I’ve put two reviews up:
Showdown by Ted Dekker and
Hitched by Carol Higgins Clark
both can be found here:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/takingthechallenge/Spring%2BReading%2BThing%2BReviews/
I just finished another book and you can go here for the BRIEF review
http://musicbyleslie.blogspot.com/2007/04/bad-ground-rocks-pun-intended.html
I just posted one of my reviews today – you can find it here http://thewrittenword.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/the-year-of-magical-thinking/
Stephanie
http://www.thewrittenword.wordpress.com
Wasn’t sure where to post them as i did them (other than on my blog)
I am posting my Review on my main blog – with a “Read” comment on my Reading Challenge blog and the suggestion to go to main blog for the review.
Anyhow – I have finished my first one:
http://sally906.blogspot.com/2007/04/if-ever-i-return-by-sharyn-mccrumb.html
This is great, Katrina. What a nice easy way to find all these reviews.
The thought of all the links in this post makes my head spin. Good job!
Well, that didn’t come out right. LOL
The thought of ENTERING all the links in this post, you know, putting them in here, makes me dizzy.
I’m not sure that came out right either, but you know what I mean. I’m lucky if I can enter three links correctly. Sigh.
I have reviewed Key Lime Pie and Anne of Green Gables see it on my blog.
http://lories-stitch-in-time.blogspot.com/
I’ve got two of my reviews up also:
Coral Moon by Brandilyn Collins and Hawk of May by Gillian Bradshaw.
Rebecca LuElla Miller
Katrinia, sorry I did not get my reviews to you in time. My dog…never mind. They are here and here.
I am looking foward to checking out everyone’s reveiws!
http://www.laurelwreathsreflections.com/2007/04/same-kind-of-different-as-me-by-ron.html
Here is one of my book reviews:
http://blessedassurances.blogspot.com/2007/04/spring-into-summer-update.html
Have a great day!
I review one of my books here:
http://inthepages.blogspot.com/2007/04/cracker.html
Thanks for doing this, Katrina. This has been an awesome, mammoth effort on your part. I salute you!
Cheers, Alice
Oh my! I can’t believe you did all that for us! You are tooooo sweet! It must have taken all day. And now I’ll be spending all day reading reviews and adding to that “someday” list.
Here’s my first review. (Executive Orders).
Thought I’d pop back and let you know that Annie has several of her reviews up here.
She also made some additions to her reading list. Anyway, she’s only 10, but she writes much better reviews than I do.
Wow, that’s a heap o’ links – kudos to you for posting them all!
I have book reviews listed at
riezzeebooks.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Cyndee
My first review for the challenge is here.
Just finished THE LAST EMPRESS. Here is the link for my review:
http://lifebycandlelight.blogspot.com/2007/04/last-empress-by-anchee-min.html
Wow, thanks for all the links!! I thought I had seen something about sending you links to reviews, but then forgot about it.
I reviewed Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Forever by Karen Kingsbury here and Finding Your Path: Your Path to a Job here.
Wow, some really great reading here. I think this challenge may have a rebound effect on the size of my TBR pile. But I can’t complain. I just popped over here to let you know I just posted a review of THE PRINCESS BRIDE. You commented on it in my riginal Spring Reading Thing Post, and I thought you might want to check it out. If you get a chance, that is. From the looks of it, you’re pretty swamped!
Here’s the link:
http://taunalen.blogspot.com/2007/04/daisy-fayes-miracle-man-is-no-miracle.html
I love this – I can just click and read a review. I picked up MY Sisters Keeper in the airport, and am looking forward to reading it this summer. No reviews from me, but I am just about done with one of the three on my list. xoxo
I’ve started a reading challenge of my own. Check it out here
Ignore the last comment, I’m putting off the challenge for personal reasons.
How do you link a post? Well, my discussion of a BIGGER LIFE by Annette Smith is on 4/18/07 at Booksplurge.blogspot.com. Thanks.
Hi Cee Cee – don’t worry about the link. I’ll include it in my next list, you’re fine!
I forgot all about leaving you a comment once I review things. I have a review up for one book so far, it can be found here:
http://lifewithrae2.blogspot.com/2007/03/white-hot-review-more.html
I’ll have another one up very soon!
Thanks for all the links, Katrina. Maybe I’ll get around to writing some reviews soon. I’m headed over to Faithlifts to read your note from today.
Hi Katrina!
Hope you’re having an awesome day!
I did my first review a little while ago and am leaving you the link for it…it was great!!
http://enjoytheride4.blogspot.com/2007/03/book-review.html
Thanks!
I finally have an update on my Spring Reading!
http://airmiles.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/spring-reading-update/
I reviewed When Joy Came to Stay by Karen Kingsbury. Here’s the address:
http://escapadesunlimited.blogspot.com/2007/03/my-first-book-review.html
See you there!
Hi Katrina! I have been forgetting to post links to my reviews. I have read and reviewed 3 of my 5 books. You can find a link here
Sorry I forgot too! Here’s my first book: Lolita
http://chris-book-a-rama.blogspot.com/2007/04/vladimir-nabokovs-lolita-review.html
I just posted a review on “Finding Your Path” Here’s the link http://www.woodward-family.com/karenwoodward/2007/04/finding-your-path-book-review.html
i’ve posted brief reviews of four of the books on my SRT list:
The Double Bind
A Farewell to Arms
The Fifth Vial
Before You Leap: A Frog’s-Eye View of Life’s Greatest Lessons
these are all posted on my book blog, although i originally signed up for the SRT on my regular blog. i will post more reviews as i work my way through my list.
thanks for facilitating this great fun, katrina!
I did a very brief update on 3 that I read for the challenge. Wow, lots to look through here!
http://www.hambones.org/blogs/gail/?p=389
I have a reviewed Crime and Clutter by Cyndy Salzmann today at Book Splurge. I wish I knew how to link the review.
I finished all of my chosen books. The reviews are all posted:
SONS: http://lynneslittlecorner.blogspot.com/2007/04/sons.html
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA:
http://lynneslittlecorner.blogspot.com/2007/04/phantom-of-opera.html
The series by Katherine Valentine:
http://lynneslittlecorner.blogspot.com/2007/03/katherine-valentine-series.html
Technically, the last 3 books of the series were for your challenge.