Goodreads is a social cataloging website for book nerds that launched in January 2007. As of July 2012 it had 10 million registered members with 20 million monthly visits. That’s a lot of book recommendations.
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There’s still time to participate in our annual community read project, On the Same Page. This year we’re reading Life of Pi by Yann Martel throughout February and March. It’s a story about stories, and features a young man in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. Participation in any of the discussions earns you an entry in a drawing to win a Kindle Fire or other great prizes.
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Since the creation of the feature film, works of literature have been a popular go-to for movie directors. Why do you think filmmakers have been so drawn to literature for their film ideas? I think it stems back to an earlier time, before movies were created.
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I was recently talking to a group of teenagers and asked them how many of them liked The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Almost everyone raised their hands, but when I asked the same group if they knew what the dystopian genre was, only one knew what I was talking about. I really wasn’t surprised by this. Readers, young and old, have fallen in love with the hit series The Hunger Games, and are looking for more books that fall into this genre. They just don’t know where to look.
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Connecting Points, a book club for readers of inspirational fiction, meets on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 1:00 P.M. at the Northern Resource Center in Belton. At their September meeting above, the members of Connecting Point discussed Faithful by Kim Cash Tate.
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When I joined the Harrisonville Branch Mystery Book Club seven years ago, I looked forward to discussing books with other readers but another benefit has been finding new authors that I enjoy.
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