Here's a great site with links to book reviews, book clubs, and all sorts of information. It's called, appropriately enough, Great Reading Links.
Reading book reviews and discussions can not only help you decide which books you want to spend time reading, it can give you great plot ideas. You take a general plot and run off with it in your own direction, with your own characters and plot twists. The blurbs about books at the booksellers' sites can do the same for you.
Need to confirm some information for your essay or novel? Try Information Please or Wikipedia or The Internet Public Library. It's always a good idea to confirm any information you find with at least one other source. Wikipedia, for example, is full of great information, but since anyone can work on it and add to it, you should confirm anything you find there. The way I look at it is that Wikipedia can give you names, dates, and places to start with, and then you can look those things up elsewhere, too, to make sure you aren't being led astray!
The internet is great for a lot of research, but don't forget that you can go to your local public library and have access to all sorts of information to help you write knowledgeably about any subject. Other sources are interviewing experts, college professors, etc. There are special interest magazines and journals that might help, too.
Research away, and have fun doing it!
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I found the following site and thought this was as good as place as any to post it! By the way, I have enjoyed the links! The site is Alabama's Writer's Forum at http://www.writersforum.org/home.aspx
Enjoy!
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