SHELFARI

If you are an avid reader, passionate about books and you haven't already heard about Shelfari, go and take a look by clicking on the bookcase icon here on the right. You will be able to create  a virtual bookshelf, show reviews you have given to books read yousrself, interact with others and even link your virtual bookshelf to Facebook and also some other applications. Enjoy!

IT'S FACT...

Edgar Allan Poe introduced mystery fiction's first fictional detective, Auguste C. Dupin, in his 1841 story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).

Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published March 20, 1852. It was the first American novel to sell one million copies.

All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were originally acted by men and boys. In England at that time it wasn't proper for females to appear on stage.

"A room without books is like a body without a soul"   

Cicero
Roman author, orator and politician
(106BC-43BC)