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TheBookMaven

  • DC, Wa, Metro DC
  • member since Thursday, July 26 2007

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  • Meghan G

    meghan g says

    Hello! I noticed that you are a Shelfari member who lives in the DC area. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, a lot of the groups for DC residents don't appear to be very active, which is a shame because I'd like very much to connect with other DC-area book lovers.

    What I'd like to do is start a new DC group on Shelfari. It doesn't have to be a traditional "book group" where we choose a book and then read it. I'd like it to be more like a bulletin board that focuses on the rich DC book culture, where we can post upcoming events or talk about a book that's making waves around town or recommend different DC bookstores.

    However, before I start such a group, I'm trying to make sure that there is enough interest, and the group doesn't become just another inactive group on the pile. So I'm contacting members of these other groups and anyone who mentions that they live in the DC area to see if they'd be interested in taking part. You don't have to promise that you'll post every day; but I would ask that if you know something going on that others in the group would like to know about, you mention it in the group.

    Please contact me by Wednesday either way--if you are interested or not interested. If I get enough people who mention that they are interested, I will contact you about the group starting up so that you can join it.

    Thanks so much! Hope to hear from you soon!

    Meghan

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Amanda

    amanda says

    Hi Bethanee. Just wanted to let you know that I could the widget on your blog just fine. We had a temporary issue that's been fixed, so you might have seen an error message a couple days ago. Let me know if you have any questions. Best, Amanda

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Gilded Pen

    the gilded pen says

    Now is your chance to help decide which two titles will be picked as The Gilded Pen Book Club's reads for July and win a copy of either DUCHESS BY NIGHT by Eloisa James or AFTER THE KISS by Suzanne Enoch!

    Just check out the post on our club page to enter!
    (http://www.shelfari.com/groups/11253/about)

    Happy reading,
    Amber
    thegildedpen.com

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • The Image Architect

    the image architect says

    Have you read Dave Lakhani’s book “Persuasion, the art of getting what you want?” You might want to add it to your list.

    Sandy

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • skrishna

    skrishna says

    Hi! I just started reading your blog, but I already love it! Thanks for entertaining me during my tedious workday!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • willintheworld

    willintheworld says

    I'm so glad I found your Author Author blog. I felt bad when you left AOL. Happy reading and writing!

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Rajesh Patil

    rajesh patil says

    Hi
    May i have a place in your friends list.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • barbaravey

    barbaravey says

    We finally connected. Yea!!

    Just started this, but it's nice and easy to use. My kind of place.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • biltud

    biltud says

    Heya, Bethanne --
    I LOVE that you've got Confederacy of Dunces on the list.

    Had this on my shelf for ages and ages and lugged it along with me on vacation last year - I sat under an umbrella roaring with laughter and reading passages to my husband. Ignatius J. Reilly is pathological. Diabolical. Selfish, egotistical, repulsive, maddening, maybe even psychotic -- yet hilarious, laugh-out-loud funny and his flaws are in all of us.

    Bravo!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Susan E

    susan e says

    Hi Bethanne:
    You have one of my all-time favorite books on your shelf: The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I don't often read books twice, let alone three or more times. Too many books, too little time. But I confess I sometimes go back and read my favorite passages from this book just to remember how much meaning and beautiful a talented writer can pack into one sentence. His writing in this book is intoxicating. I also loved Middlemarch and Confederacy of Dunces but haven't read most of the rest on your shelf. I'm not sure how to be a part of picking your next book, but I do wonder if you've read and written about either of the Khaled Hosseini books, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Spendid Suns. I loved them both, though I don't know if I'm up for the ordeal of reading another by him. Maybe by the time he gets another out, I'll be over the tragedies of the first two.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Dan K

    dan k says

    Hi,
    Thanks for the invite! Somehow I signed up but did not end up in your group. I have a short shelf right now but will keep adding.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Nelle R

    nelle r says

    Hi BookMaven, Hope I'm smart enough to fill out all the blanks correctly. After spending years researching WWI, I am again starting to read a few novels. Michner has written a number of "thin" books that I love, Caravan is one, which takes place in Afganstan. Written in 1970s. Amazing what he described. Nelle

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • cammysmom

    cammysmom says

    hope you are well. I am out of Starbucks - more time for reading and on to the next job. What are you up to? Best, Heather

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • skolkin

    skolkin says

    Hi there, I just got your note. Thanks for thinking of me! I would love to be your "Friend" on shelfari.

    All best,

    Leora

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • strikemama

    strikemama says

    DDAAAHHHLINGGG!!!
    c'est moi! ist mich! soy mia!
    i guess it's time to put away the "how to make you nasty little beast behave" and "how to deal with a child who is smarter than you are" and start enjoying reading again!!

    zup? we are all well, but the weather stinks so we are going to hawaii. maybe i'll come home maybe i won't! robby is in the talented and gifted program at a new school and totally grooving on it. i am jobless but will starting tutoring homeless kids in reading and GED prep sometime next week.
    many kisses!!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Clea_Simon

    clea_simon says

    Ah! Hello Bethanne! Well, I accepted your invite not knowing it was you because I liked your list of books - so maybe that's even better. Anyway, hello, you!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Clea_Simon

    clea_simon says

    I also loved "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan." Was very disappointed in the followup ("Peony in Love"). Actually got to write about it for the Boston Phoenix, but in brief, I felt her character wasn't real. I think See was trying very hard to use the voice of that era, but the conventions (being a ghost - and also being pro-footbinding) just sunk it for me. Ah well. She was trying something new, so power to her.

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Clea_Simon

    clea_simon says

    Hi BookMaven! Please to meet you -I'll check out your shelf. - Clea

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )


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