Not that the books themselves are social, though I can think of a few fictional libraries where that might be true, but Revish is yet another social website with a focus on books. In some ways it’s closer to what I’ve been looking for than the other ones I’ve seen http://www.cavort.org/2007/02/21/while-im-thinking-about-books/. In any case, I [...]

Just finished reading Allen Steele’s new novel “Spindrift“. It was really quite a good read but I could not shake the feeling that it was a book that I had read before. There just didn’t seem to be much that was new or challenging in it, which in some ways I suppose can be a [...]

From Terry Pratchett: Let grammar, spelling and punctuation enter your life. Yes, publishers have people who will do this sort of thing—and they are called authors. (I haven’t been able to run down a link to the quote, and I only have it from an AuthorTracker message.) No tag for this post.

Infodoodads pointed me to another social book site that I think might fit my needs a bit better than the other three that I’ve played with so far: goodreads. My profile can be found here and I might play with the widget a bit and see what it looks like. Tags: social

In a company newsletter this morning was a mention of the following book, whose title is causing pain that I must share: Naming Elephants: How to Surface Undiscussables for Greater Organizational Success In theory we have a bunch of copy editors on the payroll somewhere. I would have to guess they were all on vacation [...]

Does anyone have any thoughts about GuruLib, Shelfari, and LibraryThing? So far I think GuruLib has both the best feature (list books borrowed from a library using information pulled directly from the library’s database) and the absolute worst interface. OMG does it suck. Shelfari OTOH has a really beautiful and, more importantly, functional interface but [...]

I’m not going to say much about “A Dirty Job” by Christopher Moore. People who like Christopher Moore will like “A Dirty Job”. People who don’t like Christopher Moore will not. If you don’t know if you like Christopher Moore be warned that Mr Moore takes his whimsy very seriously and as long as you [...]

I finished “Dark Cities Underground” by Lisa Goldstein yesterday, and I’m still having some trouble figuring out exactly what to say about it, but I think I need to say something. To begin with, I really adored the idea behind this book. While it isn’t entirely original, it is a very nice twist on several [...]

Some things should be linked to because they are probably talking about you. Right this moment, that link is to Charles Stross talking about where SF books need to go to regain marketshare. Even if you don’t care about reading SF anymore, there is a central core that is a very interesting analysis of what [...]

From Thinking Too Much and Angry Starfish Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. Don’t you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about [...]