For this entire year, your sad paper book logs (assuming you still have it) have been hidden away in your CA notebooks, archiving your efforts in the dark, freightening depths of your lockers.
This is a sad thing: while you do have a record of all the novels you've taken on this year, I have done you a great disservice. With the majority of you having finished between twenty and forty novels this school year--not to mention those couple of lunatics who have reached triple digits--we've missed a crucial piece to what many adult readers do: get social with our reading.
Sure, we've spent a few minutes booktalking most Fridays, with usually the same folks sharing their latest finds or updating us on books they're still plowing through. But we could do so much more. What if I finish Mockingjay on Monday during 11th period, the last in the Hunger Games series, and I simply have no idea where to go after an experience like that? Wouldn't it be great if I could just grab a netbook, go online, and see what Sara's reading? Or what Zach just finished the other day? Or everything that Maria has read and given a ten this year?
Solution: Goodreads. I can set up a group for all of us, so we can extend our discussions online--or simply snoop in on what your classmates are reading and steal their ideas. It's okay. It's what we do as adults.
Check out my bookshelf at the right, head to Goodreads, and get started on your shelf. Your book logs deserve it.
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