I recently discovered Librarything through facebook and was quite excited by it. I failed to read the small print however (a common problem for me online) and did not realise that unless you paid for the site the maximum number of books you could post was 200 ( Read more... )

The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez January
Why We Suck by Dr. Denis Leary February
His Father's Son by Bentley Little March
Pretty Dead by Francesca Lia Block March
Loser's Live Longer by Russell Atwood March *
Serious as Dog Dirt by Bam Margera March
Frost Bite: A Werewolf Tale by David Wellington March
Driving Lessons by Ed McBain April
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Here are most of the books I read in December. My thoughts on them are at bookfrogMonster Zoo, Doug TenNapel ( Read more... )

These are the books I read in November, my thoughts on them can be found here: bookfrogValentine Princess, Meg Cabot ( Read more... )

The wound of the 'sexually-transmitted city'

In a recent blog entry Catherynne M. Valente offered a sardonic reply to reviewers who have used phrases like "not for everyone" and "dense" to describe her work.

"'Not for everyone' is certainly one--dude, no book is for everyone, why does this need to be said, even the most popular books have entire ( Read more... )

These are the books I read in October. My thoughts on them can be found at bookfrogGet Well Soon, Julie Halpern ( Read more... )

Hello there, this is my first post in booktards and I come with an idea in progress. I personally like books and enjoy having discussions about them. To be honest, many of my friends don't like to read (unless they have to, which they do grudgingly)and I'm currently looking for local book clubs. But I figured it would be great if there was an online book ( Read more... )

1 - Thomas Pynchon
2 - George Barr McCutcheon
3 - Terry Pratchett
4 - Tom Holt
5 - David Nobbs
6 - Tom Sharpe
7 - Irving S Cobb
8 - Gerald Weinberg
9 - William Shakespeare
10 - Edith Wharton
11 - James Fenimore Cooper
12 - P.G. Wodehouse
13 - E.F. Benson
14 - E.W. Hornung
15 - Lawrence Block

I am looking for a book for my 13 year old nephew. He likes Harry Potter and I would like to give him something on the same reading level ( Read more... )

I just finished reading Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim, the actress who played Nellie on Little House on the Prairie. Has anyone else read it? I loved it, and highly recommend it.