Do they have "A Room of One's Own"?

Are you on shelfari or librarything? Because you can import stuff into Goodreads.

Nope. How are they different?

I'm not expecting to ever get that done, P-C. I doubt anyone is, except members who sign up at thirteen.

I guess I could at the very least put what's on my bookshelf and add books I know I've read when I remember them. Of course, my ratings would be really wonky, like some of my old Netflix ratings.

Nope. How are they different?

Well, I was originally on Shelfari, but found Goodreads UI and other features to be way more useful for me.

I liked LibraryThing, but (I believe) they limit the number of books on free accounts.

I absolutely love Goodreads (and as some people know, it's the first place I applied when I was job hunting. It's still my dream job, but they employ like 20 people total). I use it for tracking my reading but I also use the listopia lists a lot when making book salon lists.

You can get an idea how it looks and works on my page: [link]

I loved LibraryThing, but I didn't want a paid account, either. And I think you could only catalog 200 books for free.

I haven't explored Goodreads enough (and I do avoid some of it, because apparently some author/reviewer nastiness has been going on, and I hate anything like that), but I'm also interested to see what Bookish will be like.

'These Last Two Are Gonna Be Real Turds,' George R.R. Martin Assures Fans.

Amazon just recommended Midnight in Austenland to me.

Over on LibraryThing there's a group for Geeks who love Classics (or something), and Trollope was mentioned. I hopped over to Gutenberg, and yes, lots of Trollope, so I can dump oodles onto my Nook and catch up with a recommended author. But where do I start?

IE, What Trollopes do the Buffistas recommend? (I love saying his name, and I wonder if it's coincidence that loose women are also referred to as trollops.)

But where do I start?

JZ's a big fan and has read most of them. (There's a lot.) I'm sure she'd have some advice on the matter.

She loves how he writes women characters.

I started one of the famous ones a few years ago, and I got bored with the very typical English noblefolk. I keep expecting the women to get more assertive than they would in a book of that era, and I forget to change my behavior expectations for the characters. Possibly not a good idea to go straight from a fantasy with a kickass female warrior character to a book where the most aggressive a woman is likely to get is to argue about the man she's expected to marry. A lady in the Pump Room at Bath is not likely to pull a dagger out of her bodice and stab her rival--at least not in Trollope's novels. I'm sure there are some books where she would.

I love Framley Parsonage; in the midst of her pain and longing and confusion, the heroine is such a deliciously snarky little wiseass (Trollope consciously modeled her after As You Like It's Rosalind).

The Eustace Diamonds is lively and fast-moving and has an enjoyably loathesome yet pitiable anti-heroine.

And He Knew He Was Right is harrowing and loaded with assumptions about the till-death-do-you-partness of marriage, but a great, great read about a weak, pasty young Othello who has a really pretty fantastic life and methodically destroys it, and his own sanity, essentially acting as his own Iago. Not by any means a fun read, but very gripping, and for anyone who's been caught in that ugly spiral of self-hate and paranoia egging each other on it's uncomfortably dead-on.