Just wanted to make a short mention of some recent CCLaP news that made me happy...

Like many of this site's readers, I too belong to a series of social networks online devoted to book lovers -- Shelfari, LibraryThing and Goodreads in my case, although I have to admit that lately I find myself returning to Goodreads in particular more and more, in that it seems to finally be edging out the other two in terms in number of members and activity level of those members. In fact, this is one of the benefits I receive by reprinting CCLaP's reviews at these sites; in return for the lost direct visits to the CCLaP website itself, I gain a much larger and chattier community of literature fans, leading ironically to my reviews getting a profoundly larger amount of comments at Goodreads than here at the CCLaP site itself.

Anyway, one of the other things that people can do at Goodreads is vote for reviews they particularly like; and although I've been appearing off and on for awhile now in the top 50 list each week of most "favorited" reviewers there, this week CCLaP finally broke the top 10 at Goodreads for the first time. And this just happens to be the same week that Goodreads had its one millionth user signup, so needless to say that I'm very happy to be voted in the top 10 of all reviewers within such a large database of total members. I'm grateful to all my friends over at Goodreads and other services for the votes, discussions and always interesting comments regarding CCLaP's reviews; and of course I always encourage you to bring the discussions over here to CCLaP's commenting system if you want. Intelligent comments are always welcome here, as long as they follow CCLaP's simple ethical guidelines, listed in the comment box of each entry.