Happy Valentines Day -- Romance Resources on BookGuide

 

Happy Valentines Day 2023!

Check out all of the booklists on the Lincoln City Libraries' BookGuide readers advisory pages in the Romance category, to find some romantic reads! You can also see our Romance resource page, listing links to numerous romance fiction websites found on the internet.

Romance Booklists on BookGuide

Romance Fiction Resources Page on BookGuide

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Lee and Lyn - Wilde Twins web site

Lee and Lyn - Wilde Twins

"Lee and Lyn Who?", will be the response of most. Lee and Lyn Wilde are twins who appeared in a few movies in the 1940s. They were singers and spent most of their careers traveling with big band orchestras. The website has a number of photographs from their performing days and photos of them as babies. It also features stills and images from some publicity about the girls. The biography portion is espcially good; Lee provided some of the information herself. Anyone who is interested in the 1940s might enjoy this piece of nostalgia. But the biggest reason for calling this site to our patron's attention is to point out once again the power of the web. That two somewhat obscure performers has such a nice site devoted to them rates an 'A' on any scale. [If you enjoy this, you may also like: http://www.penelope.demon.co.uk/deanna/ (The Deanna Durbin page)] -- recommended by Rianne S. - Bennett Martin Public Library

Have you visited this one? What did you think? Did you find this review helpful?

New reviews appear every month on the Staff Recommendations page of the BookGuide web site. You can visit that page to see them all, or watch them appear here in the BookGuide blog individually over the course of the entire month.

Do You NaNoWriMo?

It's still early in November, and that clickety sound you're hearing in the background is the thousands of aspiring writers and wordsmiths around the world who are actively participating in the annual event known as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short).

It's not too late for you to take part! Participants can go to the NaNoWriMo website, sign up for a free account, and then begin writing their own version of the Great American Novel. Everyone who takes part is encouraged to shoot for the ultimate goal -- start with 0 words when you register, and finish with a complete 50,000-word novel (or longer!) by the stroke of midnight at the end of November 30th.

Looking for some moral support as you keyboard your way to literary greatness? You can hang out with the 400+ other Nebraskans who are registered participants -- bemoan your progress in the discussion forums -- identify your friends as Writing Buddies and track their daily word count -- get together at regularly scheduled NaNoWriMo gatherings in Lincoln -- and look forward to the big celebration party for local writers after the November 30th deadline has passed! You can keep your writing completely private or open it up to everyone else to read and critique.

Although a complete 50,000-word novel in a month may prove to be too much for you, the creative and supportive environment of NaNoWriMo is sure to get your literary juices flowing, no matter whether you're writing a political thriller or paranormal romance!

So...check out NaNoWriMo.org, get started writing, and drop us a note in the comments here to let us know what your "handle" is on the NaNoWriMo site...we'll keep an eye on your progress!

Check Out LibraryThing!

For the amateur librarians among us, we encourage you all to take a look at the LibraryThing website, where participants can create and customize an online "catalog" of the books they own and/or have read. Readers wishing to sign up for a free account can then add up to 200 books (or lots more for a relatively small fee), including information about authors, titles and ISBNs. So far, it sounds like just a simple list, right?

The best part of LibraryThing is that your annotated catalog can then be shared with other LibraryThing users, via keyword and other types of searching. Add subject "tags" to your books and reviews, that will help you and other users track information about the books you've cataloged. Want to rate or review the items on your virtual "bookshelf"? Go for it! Then go read other users's reviews or comments. Join in shared book communities and swap literary stories with other LibraryThing afficionados. A quarter of a million users have joined up already, with over 17+ million books "cataloged". Go find out which books have shown up in the largest number of users' collections. See which books have had the most reviews submitted, both positive and negative. Swap reading suggestions with other voracious readers -- we entered "Centennial" by James Michener, and received back several dozen recommendations of similar titles, both from the LibraryThing database, but also from Amazon.

Visit the Zeitgeist page, and see what the most popular authors in LibraryThing are, and also what authors themselves have joined LibraryThing! LibraryThing is one of the premier examples of the cross-over between libraries, book-lovers and online social networking. So...check it out!

And if you sign up to participate, drop us a note here to let us know who you are and point us toward your bookshelf!