Here is a link to my Goodreads page - I update it pretty often with what I'm reading. I think that I like the idea of Goodreads much better than the experience. Maybe it is because I don't have the fanciest computer or a faster-than-light internet connection, but I find Goodreads to be a slow-loading, clunky experience. I like rating books and organizing books I've read into categories, I just wish the site would stop crashing!
Listopia is one of those internet rabbit holes that sucks you in and in and in, and then you look at the clock and realize you've spent an hour looking at such gems as "Bad Boy Bikers, Rockers or Tattoo Artists." I did find it amusing that at one point, the Listopia page showed Stephanie Meyer's Twilight in two lists at once: Best Books of All Time, and Worst Books of All Time. Can't win them all, Twilight.
Explore was interesting - I even found a few new books that I want to read in their many lists, and I loved that they tailor the top results based on your personal bookshelves - but I don't think I'll be headed back soon. It just takes too long to load a full page.
For a recommendation, I used the "compare books" function with some of my new Be More Bookish Goodreads friends. Seeing that both Amber R. and I gave five stars to Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion, I recommended Breathers: a zombie's lament by S. G. Browne to her. Like Marion's novel, it gives an insider's perspective on the zombie condition, and while can be at times both gruesome and moving, it does also have an unconventional love story and is strongly character-driven. The tone is more darkly humorous than Warm Bodies, but both books have central characters who end up challenging the status quo. Both fall into the growing "Rom-zom-com" genre and are fairly smooth-flowing reads.
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