Can I just tell you how much I love Bookmooch?
by Zia ~ January 4th, 2007. Filed under: Books.Seriously, Bookmooch is, like, the most awesomest thing ever. Really.
I’ve sent out four books, and mooched six. Essentially, it’s a book exchange and it couldn’t be simpler. Find a book you want and mooch it. The moochee mails it to you and gets a point. Then, that person can mooch a book. You get 1/10th of a point for each book you add to your inventory so you can start right away. What a great way to get rid of dead space on your shelves (and boy, I have a lot of it) and replace it with books you actually want.
February 15th, 2007 at 7:00 am
[…] Have I mentioned how much I love bookmooch? Maybe once or twice … Prose, in typical fashion, turns her sharp, skewering eye on college writing programs and the paranoid atmosphere of sexual harassment in the 90s. Swenson, a professor of creative writing at a second-rate New England college, is in a rut. His own writing languishes, while his students are remarkably (to put it charitably) uninspired. When the talent and neediness of one of his students erupts into this stagnation, he is caught up in a heady sense of purpose, love, and obsession. Prose’s greatest achievement, to my mind, is her description of the interior life of Swenson–fabulous–though to some degree I can’t help but think of this novel as an update to Lurie’s somewhat dated War of the Tates. (And can I say that the blurb, which states that “Blue Angel does for creative writing programs what Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle did for the meat-packing industry” is a little over the top?) […]