John Dollar
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Enjoy reading en releasing the book again!
I hope it's something you like, and I hope you let me know it's safe in your hands by writing a short journal entry, before you release it again in the wild.
If you like the idea of bookcrossing, go have a look at www.bookcrossing.com and subscribe (for free and fast)! If you do, would you please fill in my name (Emmeken) as referring member so I can see you became a registered member? Thanks!
Enjoy reading en releasing the book again!
Journal Entry 2 by Emmeken at Lux OBCZ bookshelf/boekenplank in Nijmegen, Gelderland Netherlands on Friday, July 25, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (7/25/2008 UTC) at Lux OBCZ bookshelf/boekenplank in Nijmegen, Gelderland Netherlands
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
On the bookshelf.
On the bookshelf.
Picked this up today from OBCZ Lux to add to the ForeignExchange BCZ boxes. Having read the back cover, I'm considering reading it myself first. I'm attracted by the fact it's set in Burma in 1918, and the Listener review makes it sound as if it shouldn't be missed:
'Utterly compelling... Robinson Crusoe is rewritten by way of Conrad and Lord of the Flies, Lévi-Strauss and Freud, but with female leading roles and an inversion of all that's sacred that lends a touch of Lautréamont. The result is a vision of hell that's rare in modern fiction.'
'Utterly compelling... Robinson Crusoe is rewritten by way of Conrad and Lord of the Flies, Lévi-Strauss and Freud, but with female leading roles and an inversion of all that's sacred that lends a touch of Lautréamont. The result is a vision of hell that's rare in modern fiction.'
This book is very reminiscent of 'Lord of the Flies', but the story was even more horrible, and the main characters are girls rather than boys. Although the beginning is set in Rangoon in 1918, the main action occurs on a low atol island in the Anderman sea, which I remember being one of the places which was severely affected during the Boxing Day tsunami a couple of years ago. I wasn't entirely sure what happened to everybody in this book, and I think some of the story involved 'magic realism', so this is hardly surprising. I would have preferred it to have become clear at the end precisely what happened, and to have had everthing rounded off properly. As it remained so unclear, rather than because I found the story horrific, I have only given the book four stars.
This is a good review I found on LibraryThing by bfrank: http://www.librarything.com/work/70371
This is a good review I found on LibraryThing by bfrank: http://www.librarything.com/work/70371
Journal Entry 5 by bookguide at OBCZ Bosch in Arnhem, Gelderland Netherlands on Thursday, February 10, 2011
Released 13 yrs ago (2/10/2011 UTC) at OBCZ Bosch in Arnhem, Gelderland Netherlands
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
This book has been released as part of the following BookCrossing challenges:
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before June 2010. My reading goal is 75 books.
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2011. My goal is 25,000.
- The Ultimate Challenge - read and release books, with extra points for a monthly theme
- Reduce Mount TBR (To Be Read) - read and release books on the TBR list since before June 2010. My reading goal is 75 books.
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2011. My goal is 25,000.
Op de plank bij Bosch
