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Shelfari Discussion 377 books / 1743 members / 5184 posts This group is about everything Shelfari. Let's talk about site improvements, issues encountered, and the next great feature we should build. If you have questions about how to use Shelfari, check out the Shelfari Questions group: http://www.shelfari.com/groups/15217/about NOTE: Please don't post topics not related to Shelfari features and requests in this group . They will be deleted.

Crossgenre 93 books / 31 members / 53 posts I read alot of literature that cross boundaries. Is it horror or science fiction. True "literature" or genre. I want to create a list of books that are hard to define but good nonetheless. Also graphic novels are welcomed.

Brilliant Babes (And Dudes) Who Read Selectively 641 books / 166 members / 7797 posts So, what makes you a selective reader? If you like Dan Brown, Danielle Steele, Nicholas Sparks, or similar works, you MAY not be into this club. We are a group of intelligent persons who love both thought-provoking literature and quality brain candy. Actually, I mainly started it for myself and my friends, but anybody can apply if you think you're down with the Brilliant Babes--just send someone a note explaining why YOU think you are a brilliant babe (or dude) who reads selectively. This is a super-casual group. Anybody can suggest a book to read, anybody can add books to the reading list. We welcome any and all intelligent book discussion (not to mention whining about books we hated or gushing about books we loved). And don't worry if you have a really embarrassing book on your shelves...we all have skeletons in the closet. To ask for an invite please DO NOT use the admin message box, leave a note on the profile pages of either rob or Suze...we will get back to you as soon as we can...thanks for your patience...and if you insist on asking for an invite via the group admin message box you will be ignored...so don't. Also, please remember that, although we TRY to get to everyone's requests in a timely manner, we do have other responsibilities that sometimes delay us from looking at your shelves. Your patience will be rewarded A note about being snobs: As hard as it is to believe, with all of the nice people here on Shelfari, we get an e-mail once every week or two saying that we are snobs. That really just depends on your definition of a snob. Yes, this is a private group. Yes, we jokingly call ourselves brilliant. Yes, we have rather defined reading tastes that cut out a lot of mass-market fiction. Does that truly make us snobs? We hand-picked many members of our initial group around what we like to read or think we'd like to read. I don't think this makes us so much snobs as "people who want to discuss the kind of stuff that they like to read and don't care to discuss stuff that they don't like to read." (shrugs) We're pretty accepting. So, before sending us mean e-mails, see above for the joining process. And just remember: If you don't make it in, you probably haven't read the same books that we've all read and we'd have nothing to talk about! A special note from the admin: We want everyone to have a great time here. All we expect is that everyone plays nice! Good-humored sarcasm is in; putting down or harassing our members is not, and we won't hesitate to remove a repeat offender from the group. Note on the threads: please feel free to go back and resurrect any of the earlier threads that you find interesting... Our One and Only Love List... Love in the Time of Cholera...Gabriel Garcia Marquez (J.M.) Pride and Prejudice...Jane Austen (littlemom) Jane Eyre...Charlotte Bronte (AthenasDaughter) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...Betty Smith (Dana) A Room With a View...E.M. Forster (Kiki) To Kill a Mockingbird...Harper Lee (unfinished woman) The Virgin Suicides,,,Jeffrey Eugenides (ballroom pink) Dragonfly in Amber...Diana Gabaldon (Aimeesue) Watership Down...Richard Adams (rob) Persuasion...Jane Austen (AvidReader) The Once and Future King...T.H.White (Alicia) The Sound and the Fury...William Faulkner (katie) Gone with the Wind...Margaret Mitchell (dickensfan) The Forsythe Saga...John Galsworthy (cubachick) Catcher in the Rye...J.D. Salinger (gbett) Fall On Your Knees...Ann Marie MacDonald (HemingwayHeroine) Return of the Native...Thomas Hardy (Aaro) Fight Club...Chuck Palahniuk (Tania B.) The Great Indian Novel...Shashi Tharoor (ophelia) Reading The Three Musketeers: The Serial Schedule Part/Chapters/Start Date/Discussion Date one/author's preface, 1, 2, 3, 4/17th May/25th two/5, 6, 7, 8/26th/1st June three/9, 10, 11, 12/2nd/8th four/13, 14, 15, 16/9th/15th five/17, 18, 19, 20/16th/22nd six/21, 22, 23, 24/23rd/29th seven/25, 26, 27, 28/30th/6th July eight/29, 30, 31, 32/7th/13th nine/33, 34, 35, 36/14th/20th ten/37, 38, 39, 40/21st/27th eleven/41, 42, 42, 44/28th/3rd August twelve/45, 46, 47, 48/4th/10th thirteen/49, 50, 51, 52, 53/11th/17th fourteen/54, 55, 56, 57, 58/18th/24th fifteen/59, 60, 61, 62, 63/25th/31st sixteen/64, 65, 66, 67, epilogue/1st September/7th http://www.strandbooks.com/ http://www.daedalusbooks.com/ http://www.hippocrenebooks.com/ http://loyolaclassics.loyolapress.com/

All Things Milton 1 books / 10 members / 4 posts This group is for those of you who are interested in reading and discussing the poetry and prose of John Milton. Why not throw in some 17th century poetry as well, for good measure? Let's move past that tired, strict old school master Milton and start looking at Milton as the radical, revolutionary thinker that he was.

Summer Break Book Club 1 books / 1 members / 0 posts Book club for Summer 2007 (woo!).

Sisterhood Book Club 30 books / 32 members / 25 posts Reading is very important and it's very cool to read. lol. Here you can read and discuss different books. Also I will be having some of the authors on my blog talk radio show. Where you can talk to them live or just listen in. So get the reading and tune in at www.blogtalkradio.com/bigtimepublishing

BBW Celebrities 12 books / 98 members / 23 posts Do you have a favorite celebrity who is a BBW--a big beautiful woman? Roseann, Camryn Mannheim, etc. Let us talk about celebrities, whether actresses, writers, directors, producers, professionals, that are bbws or Full-Figured Celebrities here.

Sahaja Yoga Meditation 53 books / 62 members / 26 posts Sahaja Yoga means spontaneous or born within and Yoga if you don’t know, means Union. So through an awakening of an energy that is born within us we are connected to our true selves, or to the reflection of God within, which is prophesied in all the true scriptures. The result of this actualization which cannot be thought or intellectualized about is a sense of peace, balance and a way to evolve, to ascend spiritually. The books on this shelf will help bring you to the threshold of this experience and once experienced give you a deeper insight into their true meaning. To find out more please visit our web site at www.sahajayoga.ca/

The Black White Gallery 81 books / 3 members / 0 posts

Team Renaissance! 11 books / 1 members / 9 posts English Renaissance Texts

Anglophiles Anonymous 569 books / 76 members / 7491 posts Please note: This is a private group, mainly to keep out lurkers and tittlebats. If you’d like to join, please do not email the group administrator. Instead, do leave your card with Mrs. Danvers, along with a note on her page, explaining why you’d like to gambol amongst us and what you’d bring to the conversation in terms of your obsession with all literary things Angl-ish. Much Prized: The ability to write a coherent sentence, an appetite for stimulating intercourse and a deep and abiding love of British literature. The possession of a ridiculous British alias is much admired. Much Frowned Upon: Lurking. Dear Besotted Reader of British Literature, Allow me to introduce you to our little circle, an oasis for those of you out there who suspect you’ve been born in the wrong country. You pale, lost souls who wish you could pepper your prose with spellings like “civilised” and “sense of humour” without eliciting raised eyebrows. You who stare at the clock wistfully at 3 pm and bemoan the fact that no steaming pot of tea and scrummy comestibles are nigh. You know who you are. You find yourself spending inordinate amounts of time reading Brontë, Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Woolf, Waugh, Mitford, Wodehouse and basically any other writer with a British accent. You curse fate because you weren’t a member of the Bloomsbury group. To your chagrin, you’ve never found a body in your library. You long to find others of your ilk, soul-mates with whom you can prattle on about British literature, poetry, cinema and telly without receiving blank stares in return. My dears, you are not alone. Step into the drawing room and tell us all about it. Would you like one lump, or two? Cordially yours, Terence ("Tinky") Egbert Ethelred Edward George Kitty Carlisle 1st Marquess of Manleigh, KQHB Manleigh Hall, Studleigh-Under-Dureth, Sussex Current Group Read: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Our Group Reads (To Date) The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey Scoop by Evelyn Waugh A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark Atonement by Ian McEwan On Beauty by Zadie Smith The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Books that will induce mindf*ck 198 books / 29 members / 13 posts Group for discussion about books that will induce mindf*ck (see http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1016184). Feel free to propose in discussions any other book to include it in the list.