Task 11 -- Book Reporter -- CHECK!

For a moment there, I had fallen off the Webolution bandwagon--I'm back on it now though. Wahoo. Okay, so Book Reporter. These were what I put in my notes--yes, I take notes for these webolution tasks. I wrote "Cluttered/messy/disorganized/unhelpful/commercial." I believe that sums it up mostly for me. Reading Group Guides I was familiar with and find them phenomenally helpful. I access them frequently and they help with Kiva and I like them. Those portions of their efforts I appreciate. Everything else could never have hit the world wide web and I would be the happier for it. Authors on the web was for authors, not about them, and it was confusing in it's service/purpose. Then I went to the "Author Yellowpages" and looked for Richard Russo--it very unimpressively linked to the Publisher which unimpressively linked to "Page not found." Why do I have the feeling Google would suffice better in each of these instances. Book reporter I found messy and awful, and also provided no information on Richard Russo. The Biographical Resource Center was much better. Unfortunately he doesn't seem to be a very quirky guy, so no really fun inside info...but he has a Ph. D., which I didn't know, and lives in Maine. His novels are really cool small town life stuggle scences, but comic and captivating and insightful. Empire Falls won a Pulitzer, and was made a movie? or HBO series or both. Anyway. Check him out if you haven't already, definitely worth it. Book Reporter though, definitely NOT worth anything. Yuck. I suppose the creators of the task had better luck and thus sent us on this venture.