'Tis is a sequel to Angela's Ashes, and this copy was screaming to travel in the shelves of my favorite charity store in Cork. I read Angela's Ashes last year and liked it a lot, so bought this one for bookcrossing purposes - hopefully it will meet many many readers on its way around the world. :)

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Given to Delfinnetti & friends :) hopefully this book will meet many appreciating readers on its journeys.

I got this book along with a couple of other books at the Tribal in Cork City at a small but very nice Meetup with aetm and LadySuse. It was nice meeting you, aetm! Greetings from Germany! I´ll pass the book along to other bookcrossers, after I have read it.

In preparation for the big convention in Amsteram I went through my Mount TBR (stored in 4 cupboards I have to admit, and by now numering more than 400 unread books). I picked "Angela´s Ashes" and this one up with a bad concience - it has been here for SO long unread. So I started to read "Angelas Ashes". I didn´t get very far, I have to admit... Just not my kind of book, though I propably should read it to learn more about history (and that part of history I know nothing about!). Well, I just can´t make myself...
Sorry for keeping the book for so long, I´ll take it to Amsterdam along with "Angelas Ashes".

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I will be taking this book to the big annual bookcrossing convention - it is held im Amsterdam this year. I´m not really sure where this book will end up, I´ll add specifics later on, if I can keep track of all the books I´m taking...

I don't think I spoke to Delfinnetti at the convention, but I'm glad I picked up this book from the table. I read 'Angela's Ashes' a couple of years ago and I found it profoundly shocking to think that people were living in such abject poverty in Ireland at the time my own parents were growing up. I shall be very interested to read what happened to Frank McCourt later in his life.

I much preferred 'Angela's Ashes'. This whole book seems to be rather self-centred. Entertaining, but not memorable enough, although the tales of classroom teaching are well worth it. I'm sure that Frank McCourt would have made a great bar-room raconteur, but I'm not sure I would have liked him.

My full review is on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/868826444

Taken to the biggest Dutch BookCrossing meeting of the year.


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 the end of 2013. My reading goal is 36 books.
- Pages Read Challenge - read a self-set target number of pages in 2013. My goal is 15,000.

I've taken this book with me for a bookbox for Camperfan at the end of the meeting in Castricum. Happy reading!

From the stock of dutch-flybabe with thanks.
This book has been on the shelf to lang I am releasing it as part of the following challenges:
365/365 2015 van Aaltsje
One Word Release Challenge August 2015 by booklady331
A - Z books challenge by zbird

At the 1e farm, corner of Barchemseweg, on a stack of pallets.