Things 7-10: Bibliocommons

NB23 Week 3
I have been making use of my Bibliocommons account for a couple of years now, but I have not really engaged in the "social" aspects much. I find the "my shelves" feature to be very useful in tracking my reading. I  especially appreciate having a place to keep the ever-expanding list of books I would like to read. In addition to my shelves of personal reading, I started a list of books that I have read with my son at bedtime, but I have yet to make a list that I thought would be of use or interest to others. When faced with the challenge of making a list for 23 things, it did not take long for me to settle on a topic. One factor that never fails to bump a title to the top of my reading priorities is an impending theatrical release. I am sure that I am not alone in that, so why not a list of "based-on-the-book" movies coming out in 2014?! I did not get far in my list-making process before I found that Moncton Public Library beat me to the punch with this list of 30 titles! Well, since that work is done for me, maybe I can go and get reading.....but first, I will probably check my twitter feed.
I realized that I am engaged in social reading in other ways. Looking at my twitter feed, I would say over half of it is book-related. I follow accounts that promote books and reading, such as @49thshelf and @cbcbooks. I also follow authors that I enjoy, and I have been participating in a twitter book club! Part of the wonder of twitter is supposed to be that I could have conversations, based on common interests, with people from all around the world; people who I may never have otherwise met. In reality, however, I most of my twitter interactions involve people I know in person, in the local area. We have a twitter book club, most of the members of which work in the same building! We all read the same book and tweet our comments to each other. Traditionally such a group would need to be organized enough to finish reading a book by a specific date and all get together at a time and place....I know that that would probably never happen with us, even though we work in the same building, so it is great that we can get together on twitter!