Books, Books Everywhere... and Not a Thing to Read

I found this great new book website called Good Reads

It's like a less social, social networking site. You can make lists of the books you read, are reading, or want to read, search and save your favorite quotes, review books, search book lists, discuss books with other members, and add friends to your little reading circles. Like anything else that you can customize, I'm obsessed.

While on this kick of book researching, I managed to come across this blog written by this girl, Angie, who's reading a book a day for a year and blogging about it. Pretty interesting way to spend a year. Kinda reminds me of that guy a couple years back who got his family to go 'dark' for a year to lessen their carbon footprint.  Diana Sawyer interviewed him.  It'd be great if Angie could use the site to inspire good. Like having people donate to their libraries or literacy programs? In any case here's the site: A Book A Day. 

Speaking of literacy and book programs, you should definitely check out 826 Valencia. It's a program created by Dave Eggers to help kids improve their writing skills and help teachers get their students excited about the literary arts. The site is definitely worth a glance and it's mission is definitely worthy of support. I highly recommend you check out Dave Eggers on Ted.com. Eggers is a pretty great writer as well and his quarterly McSweeney's is worth a look too.

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