Goodreads.com - a great place for discovering books

Posted on | June 22, 2008 |

I think the folks at my local library are on to me. The King County Library offers a wonderful service - I can log on to their site, search the entire catalog, and have any book/cd/audiobook/dvd/etc that one of the libraries has delivered to my local library in Bellevue.

Lately I’ve been adding folks to my Goodreads friends list. Think of Goodreads as FriendFeed for Amazon - I can read reviews and ratings from just the folks I choose. This morning’s find was a book I read a long time ago, and I need to read again - Garry Wills’ “Lincoln at Gettysburg” - a wonderful analysis of the speech that always reminds me how wonderful the gift of powerful oratory skills can be to a person.

Do yourself a favor - set up an account on Goodreads. I’m “shawnmor” on Goodreads if you’d like to add me as a friend.