Comments on: on books

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 02:30:24 +0000

I am becoming much more of a reader in my later 20s than ever before. Now only if my bookshelves looked so inspiring!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:01:38 +0000

A month late to this party, but I started using Goodreads a year ago and love it. Similar to Librarything with the important exception of it's where two separate groups of my friends are. It's been fun to see how long it takes me to read different books, how I rank books, and which books my friends comment on. Also, more fun to see what my friends are reading than I had expected.

By: MLISunderstanding

MLISunderstanding — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:57:28 +0000

I’m using LibraryThing to keep track of my 100-book challenge this year. The system makes recommendations based on what you’ve already selected, like Amazon, and other LT users can recommend, too. Plus I hit up my friends for ideas (and I find that we often have VERY different tastes, even if we have other things in common).

http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

By: Jane

Jane — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:48:55 +0000

My mother-in-law talked me into signing up on goodreads.com — I’m liking that besides keeping my lists (though I totally do the amazon list for easy checking, too) I get updates from my friends about books they’ve read and reviews, and updates from some of my favorite authors

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:53:38 +0000

Yes to keeping a list of books on Amazon, I usually end up ordering from there now as I don’t have a bookstore close, but I love going into a good bookstore and browsing for new titles. My latest book I read which i LOVED was The Leftovers by Tom Perotta, a good story and also an interesting thought exercise.

Sources for books for me include Vanity Fair magazine when I read it, they have a page at the front with quickie reviews, books I hear discussed in NPR interviews which sound interesting and also looking at other people’s bookshelves.

Also – a huge yes to hard backs, there is something so nice about sitting down to read one…