i’m still battling this cold, so i’m just playing around. this personalized bookshelf from shelfari is something i found on virtual wordsmith today. i played around and stocked it with a few of my favourite books, trying to choose some that i hadn’t mentioned here much yet.
what a great waste of time!
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1 Alexander M Zoltai // Oct 21, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Totally cool idea!!!
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2 Lifecruiser // Oct 22, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Did you by any chance see my at Shelfari….? *giggles*
Me too discovered this site today, by a friend who had it. I think it’s a very cool idea, even though I think that we’re kind of doing a hidden marketing of Amazon books.
A problem for me is of course that I often read books in Swedish and they’re not listed there.
I’ve just put a couple up there to test it. I doubt that I’ll have the time to do more, but you’ll never know….
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3 sarah luczaj // Oct 23, 2008 at 3:59 am
i love nosing around other people’s bookshelves! isabella- could you tell me what you love about the master and margarita? i’m intrigued by the phenomenon of this book!
4 isabella mori // Oct 23, 2008 at 3:13 pm
hey alex and lifecruiser – neat to see that you had just joined, too! i can see how this can turn into quite the toy!
sarah – i read this book a LONG time ago, when i was 17, and was not very aware of all the different layers of it. kind of had a sense that it was a satire but not the extent that it actually is. i look back at it very fondly as my first conscious encounter with magical realism, which is one of my favourite genres. indeed, science fiction, something else i enjoy reading, could be seen as a form of magical realism, i guess.
have you read it?
5 sarah luczaj // Oct 25, 2008 at 12:25 pm
yes, i read it and had a feeling of being unable to see what the fuss was about! it is a book which is totally revered here in poland amongst people who love literature. just didn’t grab me. although it may have done had i read it younger and not encountered magical realism. i expect way too much from literature now!!
6 isabella mori // Oct 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm
sarah, all this talk about the master and margarita makes me want to go back and read it again, perhaps in english this time (i read it in german). see whether i still like it as much. i’ve also read two other books by bulgakov, “heart of a dog”, and a cabal of hypocrites (about the french playwright moliere and his famous play about a hypochondriac), both of which i enjoyed a lot.
when you say you expect way too much from literature now, do you mean that bulgakov fell short?
7 jael // Oct 27, 2008 at 11:33 am
shelfari – oh 0h! i use bookmooch and bookcrossing for book exchange, mostly bookmooch, especially for its travelling journals
now i need to look at shelfari, too
8 sarah luczaj // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:16 pm
yes, i do mean it fell short. i wonder what more i expect now and i think i have to have really strong emotional engagement these days to get anywhere with a novel…. i am wondering now about reading it again in english, as i read it in polish!
i sympathise with you, lifecruiser, in that these applications don’t include books in other languages. i read a lot in polish and it frustrates me that i can’t share!
9 sarah luczaj // Oct 27, 2008 at 12:17 pm
…which leads me to ask… are you bilingual, isabella?
10 cash advance online // Apr 14, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Very cool idea, I will have to start my book shelf. Thanks for the idea.
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