I occasionally find websites I really like, only to forget that they exist and therefore never get anything out of the site.
I’m hoping this is not the case for Goodreads. I’ve already found one book that I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO READ AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE and I’m hoping it’ll be a reasonable resource for other decent books, since I’m a little tired of the glurge I usually pick up. Of course, I usually grab dimestore novels at Safeway or Shoppers Drug Mart, so the selection tends to be mystery glurge, crime glurge, chick lit glurge, or trashy romance glurge. Ugh.
I particularly like the “lists”… some of them look like a great place to find book referrals, like the “Best for Book Clubs” list, or the Best Books Ever list, or the Zombies! list. Who doesn’t love a good zombie book?
I’m also vaguely interested in cataloging the books I’ve read recently. I started with the books sitting on my desk at work (I have limited book storage at home, so if I finish at book at work, it lives here… so there’s a rather decent little library starting up), as well as everything by the a few authors I read excessively.
That got me 130 books… and it’s not even a fraction of my book collection. And it’s NOT ENOUGH.
Anyway, it’s also a social site, so if you think this looks good and you’d like to join… add me as a friend and refer some books to me. I’m always in need of more books.
Edit: Typical. I just added the book I’m currently reading, read one of the reviews, which starts: “If you’re archanaphobic, this isn’t the book for you.” Given that each chapter (I’m only on chapter 3 or so) starts off with an encyclopedia-like description of some fascinating and terrifying spider behaviour, I’m not overly surprised, but fuck me sideways. Why am I reading this? Damn my inability to put down books…
“don’t let’s go to the dogs” is indeed pretty good, but only if like stories about profoundly depressing, squalid, people.
Well, I tend to, so … :)
Mostly, I just have a hard on for books about Zimbabwe. “Mukiwa” & “When a Crocodile Eats the Sun” were also profoundly depressing and totally worth reading.