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• Watch Out For Those Nutters

  Posted on Monday April 28th, 2008 at 13:23 in league of people with shit for brains, Opinion, shelfari

  Shelfari.com has a feature that allows members to start discussions about any book listed in the Shelfari system. It is also possible to add replies to posted comments. I've seldom used this feature; ...

• A Spot Of Bother by Mark Haddon

  Posted on Sunday September 9th, 2007 at 11:15 in fiction, reading challenges, recommended, shelfari

  I love books that defy traditional reviews where the reader describes the plot points without giving away spoilers, and then handily sums up with an opinion that may include reader defined stars or th...

• Triangle by Katharine Weber

  Posted on Friday September 7th, 2007 at 11:14 in fiction, reading challenges, recommended, shelfari

  Triangle by Katharine Weber is a historical novel based upon the Triangle Shirt Factory Fire in New York City in the early 1900's. The story Weber tells is the recollections of the last surviving pers...

• Simple Genius by David Baldacci

  Posted on Tuesday September 4th, 2007 at 12:26 in fiction, reading challenges, shelfari

  In my next life I've decided I want to come back as the female part of a crime investigating duo that also features a hunky, sensitive, in-love-with-me-but-doesn't-know-it kinda guy. I want to know wh...

• Pieces Of My Sister's Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

  Posted on Tuesday August 28th, 2007 at 23:11 in book news, fiction, recommended, shelfari

  Elizabeth Joy Arnold is a member of Shelfari.com which is how I came to know about her book and its release date earlier this month. The premise of the book sounded good to me -- identical twin girls ...

• Readers In Thongs

  Posted on Thursday August 16th, 2007 at 14:33 in Potpourri, shelfari

  So, the question is, what do most readers, and I mean the heavy duty kind who think nothing of plowing through 550 pages here and 400 pages there, wear while reading? I know some like the comfort of a...

• I've Been Koontz'd

  Posted on Wednesday July 11th, 2007 at 15:13 in blech, fiction, horror, shelfari

  I joined the Dean Koontz Group at Shelfari. Shortly after that I began reading two Koontz books: Odd Thomas and From The Corner Of His Eye. The group collectively is reading Odd Thomas. Right before t...

• Shelfari Book Bloggers

  Posted on Wednesday May 30th, 2007 at 12:42 in book lists, fyi, recommended, shelfari

  I've just started a new Discussion Group at Shelfari. I've called it Shelfari Book Bloggers, and it's open to any Shelfari member who has a blog and wants to discuss what material they include on the ...