Recent Book Activity

As with everybody else on this site, books and reading are a great love of mine. A day without reading, even if only for a few minutes, feels somehow incomplete. I like contemporary fiction, but am also willing to take on anything else that looks interesting. The best kind of novel is the one which I am thinking about for days, even months, afterwards. I'm always looking for books like this, and just sometimes, I find them.

It's still my aim to read as much and as widely as possible, tackle Mt TBR and generally slim down my book collection! Releasing them, particularly to other bookcrossers who want to read them would be the best outcome, and I'll be happy to send them on their way as either trades or RABCKs if you ask nicely, so please feel free to ask.

Here's what I'm reading this year -



BOOKS READ IN 2008

JANUARY
1) On Beauty - Zadie Smith
2) Uphill All The Way - Sue Moorcroft (Bookring)
3) Affinity - Sarah Waters
4) The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson

FEBRUARY
5) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
6) Rape, A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates (Bookring)
7) The Apple - Michel Faber (Bookring)
8) Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (Bookring)

MARCH 08
9) No Logo - Naomi Klein
10) Our Betty - Liz Smith
11) Such A Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
12) The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan

APRIL 08
13) The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
14) A Month Of Sundays - John Updike (Bookring)
15) Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
16) The Fatal Englishman - Sebastian Faulks (Bookring)
17) African Diary - Bill Bryson (Bookring)

MAY 08
18) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
19) The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
20) The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
21) Is There Anything You Want - Margaret Forster

JUNE 08
22) The Last Station - Jay Parini (Bookring)

My Wish List




STATS - 68 true wild releases, of which, 14 have been caught and journalled