FOUR!

I don't know if the golf reference came through in that title or not. Anyway....

I love Goodreads! It is a fantastic thing. I have often described it to others as Facebook with books. And I feel like that really is the best way to describe it.

Right off the bat, I've got some of these objectives finished. Since I've been a Goodreads member for a while, I alreayd have some bookshelves. Okay, I've only made one shelf of my own, the rest were already present thanks to the site. The one shelve I have made is a listing of the books I have on my kindle. Though it isn't that up to date. I should fix that...later. I have a post to get through!

That is one of the great advantages of Goodreads. Thanks to a (relatively) recent update to my kindle, Goodreads already know what books I've bought from Amazon.com on my kindle. Or, at least, it should. I think it still does....

I've already made friends on Goodreads with a number of colleagues, including some of those who are doing this training with me right now! How handy. Now to make some recommendations....

Recommendation 1
"Okay Kristy. I am actually surprised you haven't read this. Though it is possible you've read it and just haven't added it. In any case, I think you would LOVE this book. It is very much in your taste given that I know you love Star Trek. Well guess what. This book is based on Star Trek. That's right! We've got the (almost) Enterprise. We've got the (almost) Capt. Kirk. But best of all: We've got the red-shirts. That's right, the expendable characters are actually the main characters of this story. And in this story, they're using the future knowledge to figure out why so many of them keep dying. It is pretty well paced and, if you take my advice, give the audiobook a try. Wil Wheaton reads it adding even more irony to the story."

Recommendation 2
Doug! A book! For you! I don't know how much of Kim Stanley Robinson you've read, but he is a fantastic sci-fi writer. He wrote a really great trilogy years back about the colonization and eventual terraforming of Mars. This book is a fun alternate history book involving the plague. A series of smaller stores discuss what would have happened if the Black Death had killed off 90% of Europe's population instead of the 30% it actually did. An interesting thought, no? It is set in the same places we know and love, but radically changed. There is no Baltimore or New York. Instead, the Chinese eventually colonized North America and had interactions with Native Americans. Wars were different. Countries are different. Art and music are different. I highly recommend this book!

Ah, Goodreads. They have great reviews too!