I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my parents for imparting the insatiable desire to read. While such a prospect certainly provides opportunities to explore the world and better oneself, it also encourages obsessively compulsive book buying habits. Nevertheless, this is one insane habit I gladly support, encourage, and refuse to give...more »

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my parents for imparting the insatiable desire to read. While such a prospect certainly provides opportunities to explore the world and better oneself, it also encourages obsessively compulsive book buying habits. Nevertheless, this is one insane habit I gladly support, encourage, and refuse to give up. ; )* [sneaking out to a bookstore]

The founders of Shelfari are friends of mine and I quickly fell in love with the idea. It's been exciting to have been a part of Shelfari when it was just us alpha testers in the summer of '06 and now to watch as it grows daily. In the end of December (2007) I became the Community Manager at Shelfari. I enjoy spending my days interacting with the community, blogging, responding to your feedback (yes, I'm "that" Amanda) and of course, reading.

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“Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institutions-such call I good books.” –Henry David Thoreau

"For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men." -John Milton « less