Goodreads, I’m in love.  I discovered this fabulous book website yesterday via Twitter, and spend about SIX HOURS there.  (Yes honey, that was why I was still awake last night!)  I am not the type of person who spends six hours on a website, EVER, even my own blog.  I love how you can look up any old book and it is there, saying hello, as in Hello Lover!  I love being able to rate a book and add it to your Read Bookshelf.  I went nuts and so far have added over 400 books that I’ve read.  I can’t wait until I start writing my book reviews.  I’ve got my laptop downstairs and I’m reading to start looking on my own book shelves, book by book, to be able to keep adding more.   Because I’m that obsessed with it!  As in having the time of my life with it.  Go ahead and watch the video, because I know most of you want yo.  Because the way I felt dancing at my junior and senior proms to this song is the pretty close to the feelings I have for www.goodreads.com.

I’m not able to sit and think of twenty five books that I’ve read and recommend them to a you, so coming up with a list of over 400 books may sound impossible to you, but it was not.  Goodreads has all sorts of ways to browse books, and it was actually simple to find all of these old books.  I found out one of my favorite authors, Pat Conroy, is finally coming out with a new book soon, and without visiting this website I’m sure I would have never know it.  I haven’t been in Borders for about four weeks now and it is killing me.  I’m not really able to go out and browse and buy books anymore since I’m recovering from surgery AND I’m getting laid off in the fall, so my To Read bookshelf on Goodreads has over 40 books on it.  Perhaps these books will find their way to me eventually, or I’ll get lucky and find a job in the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country.  We will see.  I’m just happy to have a place where I can finally keep track of what I want to read and what I’ve already read.   

I know many of you readers love books, so please check out my profile, join yourself, and then follow me there.  It’s like a social networking site as well.  But you don’t have to utilize that function if you don’t want to.  I often forget to blog about books here, so this is a great way to find out what I’m reading and what I could recommend to you or vise versa.  They have the coolest widgets that can be displayed on most websites, except of course here on WordPress, king of anti-JavaScript.  Even still, they have a small widget available for WordPress, which you can see in my NEED ME 24/7 area to the right, where you can click to see what I’m currently reading.  As for Non-WordPress bloggers and Myspace and Facebook people, I’m totally jealous. 

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