I was missing my old bookstore, but then I found Goodreads

When I was in college, a classmate introduced me to Johanna Lindsey. One Mallory novel and I was hooked. Waldenbooks sat in the center of the mall. The employees knew my name within a month. Before long they were calling me to tell me a new Lindsey was out or handing me other authors to try. Because of Waldenbooks I fell in love with Julie Garwood. And it spiraled from there. I spent half my paycheck at the store, and back then, I was a broke college student. I was reading 25 books a semester for school and 50 a semester for fun. I LOVED Waldenbooks. When the store closed, I was devastated. A few years ago BAM moved into a huge space in the mall, and for a while, it looked like they were about that kind of bookstore service, but after a year they fired their expert sources. Once again I was thrown into the mass of books with no idea where to turn. I got lucky and stumbled onto Karen Marie Moning because of a friend, Karen Templeton because of eHarlequin and tons of other of great books and authors because of Desert Isle Keepers or other review sites, but I missed so many awesome stories. Enter Goodreads. I've known about Goodreads for a couple years, but yesterday I started looking around it more. Holy Cow! I'm in love. The lists are amazing. I've got so many 2013 books on my want-to-read shelf now, I'm probably set. I've joined three groups. I'd like to join more, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll never get work done. :) From a reader standpoint Goodreads is invaluable. From the writer's standpoint, I imagine it's going to be important to keep my reader self and writer self separate. The most annoying thing on twitter is all the spam from people peddling their books. Goodreads seems to be spam free. If you don't have a Goodreads account, go get one now. If you do, make sure to friend me. :)