Search User's bookshelf

[Bitsandbytes]

Is there a way to do one of the following?
a) Filter an author search to only books on a particular shelf for a particular user
b) Search one of a user's shelves for a particular author

More specifically, I'm interested in being able to display "You've read N other books by this author!"

Thank you.
It's certainly possible to accomplish this by pulling the whole booklist for the user and counting the books for a certain author, but I'd prefer an api method if possible.

[Michael]

a) no
b) not presently, but we may add that.

[Eric_W]

Forgive me if this question has been answered elsewhere or already discussed. I'd like to be able to pull a list of all my comments made on others' reviews or groups. I was recently trying to track down something I wrote a while back and had a tough time. Could there be a link to all a user's postings from the profile page?

[Michael]

http://www.goodreads.com/comment/list...

I'm not sure if we link that page anywhere....

[Eric_W]

Hey, that's very cool. Just what I needed. Sorry if I overlooked that.

[Michael]

No worries, its very buried.