When I started the Book Review Blog Carnival I didn't expect that it would become such a vibrant part of the blogging, and the book reviewing community or last so long. This 80th edition contains 35 book reviews, ranging from illustrated children's books to the latest cutting edge conspiracy theory.
If you review books on your blog you can participate by submitting a link to one of your reviews through our submission form at blogcarnival.com, here. You can even host an edition of the carnival at your won blog. contact me at cbjorke(at)gmail.com if you would like to host.
Here is our carnival, stop by some of our participating blogs, leave a comment and enjoy!
Children's Books
Read Aloud Dad likes Classic Children's Fairy Tales - Best Illustrated Edition.
Amy Broadmoore reviews 10 Children?s Books About Fall at Delightful Children's Books.
Young Adult Fiction
Trudy Zufelt previews Spartacus and the Circus of Shadows the debut novel of Molly E. Johnson, posted at Boys and Literacy.
Shayna, at A Pop of Colour, says that The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell is a prequil to Sex and the City, written for 10 to 20 year olds.(presumably girls) That seems like a pretty broad age range to me.
Laura Robinson, of Tattooed Books: A YA book reviewing, librarian-in-training, rather liked The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger.
Katie Sorene , of Tripbase, suggests 8 Books to Teach Your Kids About the World.
According to Surabhi at Womanatics, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has the power to change your life. Reminds me of my friend Norman, who changed his life on a weekly basis.
Jim Murdoch of The Truth About Lies was only dimly aware of Norse mythology through Marvel comic books until he read Ragnarok: the End of the Gods, by AS Byatt.
Crime Fiction
KerrieS is reading more Swedish crime novels, including THE HYPNOTIST, by Lars Kepler. Read her review at MYSTERIES in PARADISE
KerrieS says that before you read THE END OF THE WASP SEASON, by Denise Mina, you should first read the first book in the series, STILL MIDNIGHT.
KerrieS calls VIOLENT EXPOSURE by Katherine Howell. "world class."
Gothic Romance Mysteries
No, The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson isn't a crime novel. It's a gothic romance mystery, posted at Colloquium.
JHS, at Colloquium gives the carnival a whole new category with Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Stranger Than Fiction
Mark A. Vance is the author of an ebook Flight of the Forgotten - The Forbidden Fruit of US Government Censorship which appears to be the story of a WWII air crew murdered by the CIA as told to the author by the dead.
Novels
Rachel, at Books In The Sun just loved Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Not another talking animal book! Yes it is a talking bonobo in Primacy by J.E. Fishman, reviewed by Zohar, Man of la Book.
Bombay Duck Is A Fish says Kalyan at Heaven's Garden. It's also a book, I think.
Charlotte Vale points out that Heahcliff is not Sir. Larry in her re-review of Wuthering Heights posted at Estella's book smarts- Book Blog. What do I know, I thought Heathcliff was a cat.
Not one to shy away from classic literature, Charlotte Vale presents her theory that Marcel Proust, through the use of run on sentences, obscure punctuation and proto-stream of consciousness narrative technique, is capable of sending the readier back into a past episode of Star Trek - the one where Spok wears a watch cap to cover his ears and builds a radio with bear skins and stone knives: ah, but Captain Kirk's love interest of the week must die so that the United States will enter World War Two or we all will grow up in a Philip K. Dick novel: a well developed theme to be found at Estella's book smarts - Audiobook Blog.
Jim Murdoch at The Truth About Lies says that The Break by Pietro Grossi is a novel about billiards, paving stones and the inevitability of change.
Louise Marsh from The Reading Experiment reviews the Pulitzer Prize winning A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Zohar, Man of la Book is glad that he finally read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
JHS, at Colloquium, reviews The Grief of Others. "The Grief of Others is an exquisitely written fictional account of one family in which each member is struggling with his/her own grief and isolation following a tragedy."
Memoir
Melanie Grant reviews I Am Hutterite by -Ann Kirkby, at Mel's Mouthful on Mothering.
Alex Washoe, of Books and Beasts reviews two dog memoirs, Luis Carlos Montalvan's Until Tuessday and Martin Kihn's Bad Dog (A love story), in A Brace of Dog Memoirs.
Non Fiction
Mainstream Mom briefly frightened me with the news that there are only 100 Days to Christmas, until I learned that it is the title of an e-book by Jennifer Tankersley.
Persha, at Dumped Days is relieved to have finally discovered the e-book Men Made Easy. "Understanding men has been a life long struggle for me. Most men say one thing mean another and do something entirely different." Persha must know a lot of lawyers.
Mainstream Mom reviews Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim . I couldn't tell if this is a book based on a blog or just a blog imitating a book, but I'm all for escaping from the cube farm.
Pop Tart, of Inherited Values gives us American Pickers Guide to Picking by Libty Callaway, Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and Daniele Colby. Like Pawn Stars, American Pickers is an edgy cable TV version of Antiques Roadshow. Now you can learn how to buy and sell antiques for fun and profit.
Marianne Mathiasen doesn't often buy art books like Animals Real ad Imagined by Terryl Whitlatch, but she bought this one. Read about it at Marianne's Journal of Fantasy Art.
Jenn Palmer writes a dear John letter to Leo Tolstoy in Literary Break-up posted at A Love Affair with Words. I think she was talking about War and Peace.
Health, Fitness and Self Improvement
Danette Schott taught me a new word with his review of Beating Dyspraxia with a Hop, Skip and a Jump posted at Help! S-O-S for Parents.
Jonathan, of at World of Diets says You Are Your Own Gym in his review of Mark Lauren's Bodyweight Exercise Bible.
It sounds like an oxymoron, or maybe it's just that I haven't finished my first cup of coffee this morning. Outlive Your Life by Max Lucado is reviewed by Jon Milligan at Simple Life Habits.
Audiobooks
OK, so it's memoir that came out in print first, but Peter at Audio Book Downloads thinks the audio version ofBossypants, by Tina Fey is way better than the print version.
If you review books on your blog you can participate by submitting a link to one of your reviews through our submission form at blogcarnival.com, here. You can even host an edition of the carnival at your won blog. contact me at cbjorke(at)gmail.com if you would like to host.
Here is our carnival, stop by some of our participating blogs, leave a comment and enjoy!
Children's Books
Read Aloud Dad likes Classic Children's Fairy Tales - Best Illustrated Edition.
Amy Broadmoore reviews 10 Children?s Books About Fall at Delightful Children's Books.
Young Adult Fiction
Trudy Zufelt previews Spartacus and the Circus of Shadows the debut novel of Molly E. Johnson, posted at Boys and Literacy.
Shayna, at A Pop of Colour, says that The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell is a prequil to Sex and the City, written for 10 to 20 year olds.(presumably girls) That seems like a pretty broad age range to me.
Laura Robinson, of Tattooed Books: A YA book reviewing, librarian-in-training, rather liked The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger.
Katie Sorene , of Tripbase, suggests 8 Books to Teach Your Kids About the World.
According to Surabhi at Womanatics, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari has the power to change your life. Reminds me of my friend Norman, who changed his life on a weekly basis.
Jim Murdoch of The Truth About Lies was only dimly aware of Norse mythology through Marvel comic books until he read Ragnarok: the End of the Gods, by AS Byatt.
Crime Fiction
KerrieS is reading more Swedish crime novels, including THE HYPNOTIST, by Lars Kepler. Read her review at MYSTERIES in PARADISE
KerrieS says that before you read THE END OF THE WASP SEASON, by Denise Mina, you should first read the first book in the series, STILL MIDNIGHT.
KerrieS calls VIOLENT EXPOSURE by Katherine Howell. "world class."
Gothic Romance Mysteries
No, The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson isn't a crime novel. It's a gothic romance mystery, posted at Colloquium.
JHS, at Colloquium gives the carnival a whole new category with Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Stranger Than Fiction
Mark A. Vance is the author of an ebook Flight of the Forgotten - The Forbidden Fruit of US Government Censorship which appears to be the story of a WWII air crew murdered by the CIA as told to the author by the dead.
Novels
Rachel, at Books In The Sun just loved Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Not another talking animal book! Yes it is a talking bonobo in Primacy by J.E. Fishman, reviewed by Zohar, Man of la Book.
Bombay Duck Is A Fish says Kalyan at Heaven's Garden. It's also a book, I think.
Charlotte Vale points out that Heahcliff is not Sir. Larry in her re-review of Wuthering Heights posted at Estella's book smarts- Book Blog. What do I know, I thought Heathcliff was a cat.
Not one to shy away from classic literature, Charlotte Vale presents her theory that Marcel Proust, through the use of run on sentences, obscure punctuation and proto-stream of consciousness narrative technique, is capable of sending the readier back into a past episode of Star Trek - the one where Spok wears a watch cap to cover his ears and builds a radio with bear skins and stone knives: ah, but Captain Kirk's love interest of the week must die so that the United States will enter World War Two or we all will grow up in a Philip K. Dick novel: a well developed theme to be found at Estella's book smarts - Audiobook Blog.
Jim Murdoch at The Truth About Lies says that The Break by Pietro Grossi is a novel about billiards, paving stones and the inevitability of change.
Louise Marsh from The Reading Experiment reviews the Pulitzer Prize winning A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
Zohar, Man of la Book is glad that he finally read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
JHS, at Colloquium, reviews The Grief of Others. "The Grief of Others is an exquisitely written fictional account of one family in which each member is struggling with his/her own grief and isolation following a tragedy."
Memoir
Melanie Grant reviews I Am Hutterite by -Ann Kirkby, at Mel's Mouthful on Mothering.
Alex Washoe, of Books and Beasts reviews two dog memoirs, Luis Carlos Montalvan's Until Tuessday and Martin Kihn's Bad Dog (A love story), in A Brace of Dog Memoirs.
Non Fiction
Mainstream Mom briefly frightened me with the news that there are only 100 Days to Christmas, until I learned that it is the title of an e-book by Jennifer Tankersley.
Persha, at Dumped Days is relieved to have finally discovered the e-book Men Made Easy. "Understanding men has been a life long struggle for me. Most men say one thing mean another and do something entirely different." Persha must know a lot of lawyers.
Mainstream Mom reviews Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim . I couldn't tell if this is a book based on a blog or just a blog imitating a book, but I'm all for escaping from the cube farm.
Pop Tart, of Inherited Values gives us American Pickers Guide to Picking by Libty Callaway, Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and Daniele Colby. Like Pawn Stars, American Pickers is an edgy cable TV version of Antiques Roadshow. Now you can learn how to buy and sell antiques for fun and profit.
Marianne Mathiasen doesn't often buy art books like Animals Real ad Imagined by Terryl Whitlatch, but she bought this one. Read about it at Marianne's Journal of Fantasy Art.
Jenn Palmer writes a dear John letter to Leo Tolstoy in Literary Break-up posted at A Love Affair with Words. I think she was talking about War and Peace.
Health, Fitness and Self Improvement
Danette Schott taught me a new word with his review of Beating Dyspraxia with a Hop, Skip and a Jump posted at Help! S-O-S for Parents.
Jonathan, of at World of Diets says You Are Your Own Gym in his review of Mark Lauren's Bodyweight Exercise Bible.
It sounds like an oxymoron, or maybe it's just that I haven't finished my first cup of coffee this morning. Outlive Your Life by Max Lucado is reviewed by Jon Milligan at Simple Life Habits.
Audiobooks
OK, so it's memoir that came out in print first, but Peter at Audio Book Downloads thinks the audio version ofBossypants, by Tina Fey is way better than the print version.
This concludes our 80th Book Review Blog Carnival. Watch this blog for an announcement of the time and location of the next carnival. Did you subscribe in a reader or become a follower? Do it now, NOW!
