Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine (Grand Master Editions) - Groups

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Naperville Central 122 books / 76 members / 12 posts Bringing the book back to NCHS

Join this group if you go to Naperville Central, if you teach at Naperville Central, or if you just envy Naperville Central!

AND... I think we can make this the biggest group on Shelfari. 68? Thats nothing!

WE ARE TIED FOR 5th LARGEST GROUP!!!

California State of Mind 22 books / 5 members / 3 posts Often times when American Literature is discussed it begins with the likes of all those funny looking bearded folks from the East Coast. This group is not about that! This group is about discussing California's own born-and-bred (and maybe adopted) authors. There is a rich tradition of literature in the Golden State, so let's start reading it...

Science Fiction 858 books / 3097 members / 1869 posts Sci-fi group for those who grok - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

Recommend some stuff, let people know about new authors, help people find some good books to read.

I want to try to help people (including myself) find some lesser known, obscure, new, or under appreciated authors. I have nothing against Heinlein, Dick, Asimov, Gibson, etc... but let's take Grandmasters and Best-Sellers as a given. You could fill 20 pages full of the big names and that wouldn't point the way to new books. Let's do what SciFi is meant to do and explore some new frontiers... oh man, that makes me sound like I should own a closet full one piece jumpsuits.

Homestarmy Book Club 9 books / 4 members / 3 posts This is a group for members of the Homestarmy social circle to track their book club.

BabeCake Reading 636 books / 166 members / 1112 posts (F.Y.I. Please indicate your age on your profile or in the application when you apply for the Yahoo group.)

This is an adjunct to the Yahoo Babecake general reading group. We're here to discuss any book. All Book-a-holics are welcome. If you are not a member of Babecake on Yahoo, please feel free to apply for membership at

groups.yahoo.com/group/Babecakes

You do not have to be a member on the Babecake Yahoo group to be a member on the Babecake Shelfari group and vice versa. The intention of the Babecake Shelfari group is to allow members more detailed information on books being discussed by Babecake members.

Thanks.

Brilliant Babes (And Dudes) Who Read Selectively 648 books / 168 members / 8120 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

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Fantasy and Sci-fi Fanatics 1092 books / 1271 members / 1366 posts I am personally addicted to fantasy and sci-fi and I created this group for people to discuss Fantasy and Sci-fi books that they have read.

I have found myself, more often than not, searching for a really good fantasy or sci-fi book, but to no avail. Starting a group not only enables me, and you, to find great books, but it also is a great way to discuss likes and dislikes about these books.

Just a warning, I will also put realistic-fiction books on the group shelf if I feel that they are as good as a fantasy or sci-fi book. MEOW!!!!!

***NOTICE***
If you are a member, or just a random person, please put any sci-fi or fantasy book that you *LOVE* on the group shelf, please!

Another thing, plez post discussions or reply to one, i'd love to hear your opinions.

Books that will induce mindf*ck 221 books / 33 members / 18 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.

One to Trees 4 books / 6 members / 0 posts The One to Trees' Real & Ideal Seed-Bank is a seed-project of the NGO One to Trees.

This Seedbank sprouts to be a living library, with three sub-projects:

1. to store the native non-GMO seeds, for small and medium size farmers that wish to implement organic agriculture in their farms;

2. to store the knowledge (ideal seeds) to these very seeders, interested in studying books that are really Union-Seeds and changing their cultivating methods from monoculture to biodiversity;

3. to promote the study of Vedic disciplines in Brazil, so to seed the knowledge of these ancient natural sciences, promoting its union with the modern ecological subjects, like 'Bioarchitecture', 'Etnobotanic', 'Permaculture', etc.

By doing so, One to Trees looks forward the integration of the material plantation (Native Seed-Bank) to the intellectual sowing (Library), without leaving aside the intuitive aspect (Vedic Studies Center).

This Union-sprout, besides financial seeds, needs donors of native seeds, volunteers interested in digitalizing the current 123s' library and researchers of Vedic sciences that develop studies in Brazil.

Visit http://www.onetotrees.org to help watering this seed!

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Dandelion Wine

by Ray Bradbury

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