I didn't see any rules about mentioning other communities and I've recently started one that I think the peopel here would enjoy. It's called booksreadin2007 and we're keeping track of all the books we read this year. It's not a competition or a discussion forum, although people are welcome to ask each other about thier lists. Each person adds one ( Read more... )

"A Child called 'It'" was recommended to me as a book teachers ought to read. It is an account of the abuse of a child written from the child's viewpoint. It is autobiography. It sounde the most unpromising thing to read, something you might read out of duty ( Read more... )

name of book:  Residual Desire

author:  J. Jill Robinson

length or # of pages:  181

quick plot summary:  This is actually a series of twelve short stories.  (Back cover) The thing I particularly like in all of Jill's stories is the voice - it's knowing and witty, and incredibly observant of human nature.  It's full of insightful surprises.

rating:  9 ( Read more... )

name of book:  Sex Wars:  A Novel of the Turbulent Post-Civil War Period

author:  Marge Piercy

length or # of pages:  408

quick plot summary:  (Jacket excerpt)  Post-Civil War New York City was the battleground of the American dream:  an era of vast fortunes and crushing poverty; a time notorious for free love and the emerging rights of women, yet one ( Read more... )

I'm currently reading Jane Eyre and I loooove it so far.
Since this is one of the very first "classic" novels I have ever read, I'm just wondering what everyone here loves, hates, or would recommend? :D

Name of book: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter ( Read more... )

name of book: the plague
author: albert camus
length or # of pages: 287 pages/5 parts.
quick plot summary: (taken from the back) the story takes place in the algerian port of oran, where a ravaging epidemic of bubonic plague - which symbolically suggests other spiritual & political plagues - has thrown the city into a harrowing agony. quarantined ( Read more... )

name of book: Hotel Honolulu ( Read more... )

Name of book: Lud-in-the-Mist

Author: Hope Mirlees

Length or # of pages: 239

Quick plot summary: "Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country of Dorimare ( Read more... )

So far in the Referencebooks Livejournal I've profiled the following reference books:

• Self Taught, Outsider and Folk Art
  
• Medical Sign Language
  
• Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion
  
• Encyclopedia of Caves
  
• The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
  
• Dictionary of Media Literacy
  
• The Cambridge World History of Food
  
• Newsletters In Print, 12th Edition: 2000
  
• Cash for ( Read more... )