Here are social networking sites for book lovers, allowing you to create a virtual bookshelf and share recommendations with fellow bibliophiles.

LibraryThing

Goodreads

Shelfari

Here are some great online resources for getting children interested in poetry.

Poetry4Kids

Giggle Poetry

Favorite Poem Project

Scholastic Poetry

Mark Twain, lauded by many as America's greatest humorist, has a strong online presence nearly a century after his death.

Following the Equator

Mark Twain's Mississippi

The Mark Twain Project

Twain Quotes

Michael Crichton, best-selling author of Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and many other science-themed novels, died unexpectedly on Tuesday. Some valedictions from around the Web.

Wired

Reader's Digest

EW PopWatch

Slate

Acclaimed mystery novelist Tony Hillerman passed away on Sunday. Here are some online remembrances.

Jacket Copy

Prairie Sun Rising

Native Intelligence

Art and Literature

Here are some wonderful blogs about getting kids interested in literature.

The Well-Read Child

ShelfTalker

Scrub-a-Dub Tub

Kid Lit Kit

Classical languages are alive and well... in the blogosphere.

Rogue Classicism

Thoughts on Antiquity

A Don's Life

LatinLanguage.us