Journal Entry 1 by bcukuncon on Saturday, June 23, 2007

To be placed in someone's goody bag at the Unconvention. 

Journal Entry 2 by bcukuncon at on Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (6/30/2007 UTC) at

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Being released at the Unconvention. 

Journal Entry 3 by TheGreenMan from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, July 07, 2007

Caught in my goody-bag at the UnConvention!

Objectively, this looks good - and certainly several people have recommended this writer to me. It is normally just the sort of thing that would interest me very much!

Subjectively, I have slightly mixed feelings - in that I have recently parted ways with a Turkish partner and reading this right now is likely to be too much of a painful personal reminder! However, when I am feeling less sad, I hope to be able to tackle this with an open mind & detached frame of reference... 

Journal Entry 4 by TheGreenMan from York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, September 22, 2008

I'm afraid that - since I appear to be getting no closer to reading it, I need the space on my shelves... and I feel a little uncomfortable about the subject matter (for reasons alluded to previously) - I'm going to return 'Istanbul: Memories Of A City' to the wonderful world of bookcrossing, in the hope that there will be others keener than I to read it... 

Journal Entry 5 by TheGreenMan at Monthly Bookcrossing Meetup at The Golden Lion in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, September 22, 2008

Released 3 yrs ago (9/23/2008 UTC) at Monthly Bookcrossing Meetup at The Golden Lion in York, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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releasing at the York BC Meetup, in the hope that it will find it's first reader there! 

Journal Entry 6 by Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Recently I've been increasing the number of non-fiction books I read, aiming to improve (?) my ratio of true life to novels, so I was very pleased to find 2 biographies/memoirs at the York Meet Up last night.
 

Journal Entry 7 by Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, September 04, 2009

With my apologies for ignoring it for almost a year, I've finally got round to reading what I'm beginning to think of as a hymn of praise to the city of Istanbul. I'm writing this interim journal entry because I want to quote a rather striking sentence from page 103:

"Caught as the city is between traditional culture and Western culture, inhabited as it is by an ultra-rich minority and an impoverished majority, overrun as it is by wave after wave of immigrants, divided as it has always been along the lines of its many ethnic groups, Istanbul is a place where, for the past hundred and fifty years, no one has been able to feel completely at home."
 

Journal Entry 8 by Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 09, 2009

I wasn't sure what to expect of a book of memories, especially memories of a place rather than a person. Did he mean memoirs? Was it some sort of autobiography? As I read, I started to jot down the ideas and concepts that seemed to me to be included within his memories. It turned into a rather long list which I reproduce here without further comment:
History, culture, poetry, autobiography, Westernisation, travelogue, memoirs, art, religion, literature, photography, civilisation, the meeting of East and West, morality, politics, disasters, tradition....

I have a relative with Turkish relatives so I thinking of giving her this the next time we meet - or maybe not!
 

Journal Entry 9 by Nu-Knees at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, January 15, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (1/15/2010 UTC) at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom

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Given to friends who'd never heard of BookCrossing as an introduction to the idea and the website, with an encouragement to wild release it somewhere