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.
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All best,
Catherine Daly
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