Book Sites

Places to go for ideas of what to read:



Book Spot - lots of links and suggestions: http://www.bookspot.com/

BookZen - a blog with a lot of blog-links and stuff: http://bookzen.blogspot.com/

Complete Review, "A selectively comprehensive, objectively opinionated survey of books old and new, trying to meet all your book review, preview, and information needs" http://www.complete-review.com/main/main.html

A charming blog called "Light Reading": http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com/

Literature.org: "Read, Learn, Think" http://www.literature.org/

Outside of a Dog: "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx. http://www.outsideofadog.com/

Raintaxi Review of Books - I've found interesting reads on this site: http://www.raintaxi.com/

Salon.com's book section is always interesting: http://www.salon.com/books/index.html

Book Burb - a collection of reading blogs, you could even add yours too. http://www.mopie.com/bookburb.html

Litblog co-op: a blog of blogs...http://lbc.typepad.com/

The Millions (a blog about books): http://www.realisticrecords.net/themillions/



Finally, a couple of places to buy books:

Alibris - Books, Movies, Music: http://www.alibris.com/

Add-All Used and Out of Print Book Search: http://used.addall.com/

50-Book Challenge Groups

The idea is, you read 50 books in a year and post them on the internet in a blog or your website. People have been doing this for a couple of years now, and there are some big, active groups involved.

"Fifty Book Challenge" community on GreatestJournal. More than 200 members!
http://www.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=50bookchallenge

"Live Journal's" 50-book challenge group: 1677 members!
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=50bookchallenge

A cool site of forums about everything has a 50-book challenge forum: http://mooncafe.suddenlaunch2.com/index.cgi?board=reads&action=display&num=1104807146

I have been keeping track of the books I read for ages and ages - and it's interesting to see that lots of other people do too.

I don't know if I want to challenge myself to read 50 books. I might read "easy" books just to make the numbers!

I will try to blog the books I read in here and we can see what my reading rate is.

My little luvs

Here are some pictures of my fur-babies...warning, high cuteness quotient!

Ginger: a Cocker-Poo, 5 years old, female, about 28 pounds. Loves walks, tug-of-war, kissing hello.


Johnnie: a Seal-Point, 2 years old, male, medium-sized. Loves birdwatching, toys, hiding under the covers.

Pix by my Daughter, Valerie.

What will it be?

Some of my favorite things...
Books - that I've read or I want to read.
Art - of a cool nature found on the web.
Science - interesting stuff happening.
Interesting Websites I find.
Jewelry or Crafts - that are artistic and different.

Maybe other stuff - if it's not too far off topic.

A Picture I tweaked with PaintShop: