A few weeks back I took the opportunity to create a book group on Goodreads. I personally started using goodreads because I had kept many lists of books that I wanted to read that I kept losing. Then I saw my friends using this site and I got ideas about books that I might want to read! Having used the site for a while now, I can say that in addition to being able to show which books I've read (and how I liked them), I can get reviews from other people about books that I am thinking about reading - should I bother or not?
Goodreads also allows for groups, so communities that share the same interests can have shared book shelves, read the same book at the same time and discuss the book (like in-person book groups), and organize discussions around certain topics. Sure, we could do this here as well, but we would be lacking the easy access to the shared bookshelf, and we couldn't reach out to other applied linguists interested in the same subject - thus was born our Goodreads group!
We look forward to seeing you there: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/72904-umass-linguistics
AK
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