Sadie Stein, at Jezebel, drew our attention to a new bibliophile-based dating site called Alikewise.com: “A cross between Goodreads and Match.com, it allows you to meet people based on literary taste. You had us at ‘Call me Ishmael’…maybe.“

Naturally, we were curious about the literary singles reading Melville House books …

JoelleVanDybe flirted with Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates: “Reading this now. No one does ennui like Lin. Also, what a great cover!”

RocketCityAjax was smitten with Jean-Christophe Valtat‘s Aurorarama: “Currently reading, currently loving. Steampunkish book about a city built in Antarctica complete with sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, and a pretty interesting plot line to boot.”

Bibliovore was in the afterglow of B.R. Myers The Cleanest Race: “I’d been meaning to read this for months, but I didn’t get around to it until mid-September. It was every bit as good as I expected it to be. Myers challenged literally all my preconceptions about North Korea.”

It may not be The London Review of Books personal ads yet, but when people discuss North Korean politics as a potential pick-up line, well, that’s the kind of thing that turns us on.