My List is Your List: Goodreads
In the 100 years that separated Lily Bart and Carrie Bradshaw, the price of shoes changed more than the unforgiving New York social scene. In Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Lily Bart was a miserable money manager who used her beauty as seemingly inexhaustible tender. A century later, in Candace Bushnell’s Sex in the City, Carrie Bradshaw used her apparently limitless credit cards for everything from shoes to tomatoes. They both gave us vicarious pleasure as they navigated the treacherous world of money, power, glamour, and all the right parties.
Now you can get re-acquainted with Lily Bart and Carrie Bradshaw, or any number of literary heroes and hussies, and the readers who love them. Goodreads.com is a network for readers started by two software engineers and a librarian with a taste for literature and a talent for technology. GoodReads allows you to preview books, purchase eBooks, and prices your selections with every major online bookseller within seconds.
On Goodreads.com you can build and organize virtual bookshelves into lists of your past, present, and future reads. It’s a virtual book club in which you can participate any way that works for you . Reading lists are posted on the network and are available for other members to select from. There are also discussion forums for posting and exchanging comments. As noted poet and essayist, Joseph Brodsky put it “There are worse crimes than burning books; one is not reading them”.
