You can't be the only one, Patrick, or Dan Brown wouldn't be so rich.
Though I confess I'm one of those who just couldn't read it.
xA
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Patrick McManus
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> I see it says 97,000,000 million recommended books!!!!
> Patrick
> Ps for a very low brow like me I enjoyed all the categories Dan Brown
> features well -I am the only person who enjoyed the Da VinciCode!!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Alison Croggon
> Sent: 03 June 2010 04:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: That Croggon Woman and Goodreads
>
> How fascinating! I never found the fan page, but a quick search
> revealed that several of my poetry books are indeed there, if mostly
> on the to-be-read shelf, and even my first novel, Navigatio (which is
> only half a fantasy, and has been read by an elite bunch). And there's
> even a quotes page. Thanks for the pointer!
>
> I haven't dipped into (and doubt I will) the Jane
> Austen-current-hip-monster mashups. I did however just finish the
> first draft of a - sort of - rewrite of Wuthering Heights, gnashing my
> teeth because I thought of it long before Twilight started dominating
> teen dreams. I thoroughly enjoyed it for around three quarters of the
> book, and then found it horribly traumatic. Henceforth I have sworn to
> obey my mother's wistful injunction, and only write _nice_ books.
>
> xA
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Catherine Daly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Goodreads offers a social networking thing for authors and for readers.
>> What's cool is that you can list as an author / reader (although -- I
>> signed on too early to be an official author???): anyway you see what
>> people are reading, and you see what people are writing, and you can
>> compare, and one does happen to gather reviews and fans..
>>
>> http://www.goodreads.com/
>>
>> <http://www.goodreads.com/>Of course, on the most recent "best books ever"
>> survey, Twilight series won, and most people asking me to be their friends
>> have more friends than books (my standard for disqual), but this is better
>> than the bookshelf, videoshelf and musicshelf in facebook. The amazing
> amy!
>> king does run a poetry group that votes and comments on poems each
> month...
>> I could go on. I put Mom's book club on, and Mom dutifully added all
> their
>> scheduled books, and I said, What about my books? What about the books
> you
>> actually love? And after her d'oh moment... she got it.
>>
>> I had a brilliant student who also mixed medieval and renaissance, but she
>> also incorporated werewolves proper, and I wonder how she fares post Jane
>> Eyre and Zombies, which weighs very heavily here in my neighborhood, where
>> they had the tech party in a then-abandoned house.
>>
>> --
>> All best,
>> Catherine Daly
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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