goodreads

So, there is a pretty cool site called goodreads.com (I'm pretty sure about the .com part.) I haven't actually used it yet, but some of you have...you have friends, like on friendster or flickr or netflix, and you can rate books etc...

Bel Canto

One of the loveliest books I've read in a while. It's about a hostage situation in an unspecified country (but it's pretty obviously Colombia). I put off reading it for a long time because I thought it would be ugly or harsh or hard to read. Surprisingly, it's uplifting, even funny at times. Amazing.