I have had quite a play with LibraryThing and can see that you could spend a great deal of time on this site. I just decided to add the names of books that have either been my favourites over the years or that I have read in bookclub over the past 8 years. I didn't bother with the tagging - I found that to be really time consuming. I also signed up to the Early Reviewer page but will probably never get any books sent to me as there are also 1000s of people who have the same idea. I put a feed to librarything on my blog and it will be interesting to see what others say in the Early Reviewers about books soon to be published. I've put in a link to mylibrary catalogue on the right as well.
Will I use this site often? Probably not. I subscribe to a "Good Reading" magazine every month and I am even way behind on reading these so can't see that outside of this pilot I would devote the time to this site. As much as I love the magazines I find I only get to catch up on all my back issues in the holidays. Usually if I see something I like I keep a record so perhaps I will transfer that list of "books to be read" over to LibraryThing and store them there. I can see how addictive this could become.
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Oh I love Margaret Atwood - "The Handmaiden's Tale" is so creepy!!
Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors - if you haven't read 'Alias Grace' I can recommend it as a great psychological study - I've read it twice and I'm still not convinced either way about "whodunnit".
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