Thing #11 Library Thing

My Library Thing

This link is the permanent link to my Libray Thing site where I cataloged 16 books (mostly Jan Karon's Mitford series because I could look them up easily without getting out of my chair). I checked out two other users who had some of these books in their list. This is an interesting concept that I had seen before but had not taken the time to examine closely. I'm thinking of several uses for it right now--our ladies' Bible study group, our small church library, my sister-in-law's extensive collection, etc.

I did add a feed to a YA group (although I didn't actually join the group) and I discovered that you can spend hours just looking through comments and clicking on the topic and reading the whole thread. And then you see a book that sounds good and you click on its cover and off you go to another page. That's my problem--one thing leads to another and I forget what I was doing originally. But I still learned something on my journey. I had not heard of a series that boys will like called Cherub--doesn't really sound like a boy "thing" does it. Then there was a neat idea mentioned by someone in a middle school where they asked the boys to check out girl-type books (like Twilight) and girls to check out boy-type books (like sports or adventure) and then have some class discussions. That sounded kind of fun (although sexist I guess). In fact, there were lots of boys that were interested in the Twilight books in my library.