Friday Reads, My Favorite Hashtag
May 18, 2012 at 6:43 pm (Reviews) (books, Friday Reads, fridayreads, hashtags, Les Miserables, reviews, Twitter)
If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably discovered the wonderful, but sometimes frustrating, world of the hashtag. Hashtags are used to help tweeters search for specific kinds of discussions. For instance, you can search #books and you’ll be hand delivered all the tweets in the universe that have included #books in their tweet (or status update). I find this exceptionally handy when I’m seeking out book recommendations and reviews, when I’m wanting to check out #Events in #Houston and so on and so forth. But my favorite hashtag is #FridayReads.
Friday Reads is wonderful. Every Friday the whole book community across the entire globe (with a twitter account) lets everyone know what they are reading. I love this. I love seeing what everyone is spending their Friday doing, I love checking out how other book-ies like me wind down at the end of a hard week. It encourages me to take a break from the busy-ness of the week and spend a big chunk of time reading, at least on Friday, because that’s the most likely time for people to check in and see what I’m reading too.
This week, like a lot of previous weeks, my Friday Reads is Les Miserables. I’m in the middle of Cosette and loving it. Part of what I love about Cosette is how many literary references I’ve encountered. I’m getting a glimpse into my future Friday Reads. Aeschylus, Virgil, both mentioned and its been years since I read them. I also discovered while doing some reading up on Hugo that he wrote several books I had never heard of. The Terrible Year and The Art of Being a Grandfather both peeked my interest. Hugo was extremely devoted to education, and probably would enjoy the Friday Reads hastag too if he were around to be introduced.
Anakalian Whims 
Nicole said,
May 18, 2012 at 7:42 pm
I LOVE #FridayReads. I picked Into Thin Air out of the depths of my TBR pile BECAUSE of another FridayReads participant.