Recent Book Activity

Friends Update: effective May 16, 2005, my friends list is made up of people I have met in real life (IRL). I thought that might be fun to track!

I don't trade; please don't ask. I prefer not to be sent journal-type bookrings for which I did not sign up.

I never kept track of what or how many books I had read until I joined BookCrossing. Now I think it's fascinating to track them. Click the year to see the books I read or attempted to read in:
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004

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My Travel Plan for Books, because I travel a lot :)

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Bookrings I am hosting:
Fumblerules (aka the Grammar Dork BookRing)
this ring is closed
This ring revived by the generous Blue! Click here for the new book
Members:
12. mlbish -- Illinois/US
13. newk -- Australia
14. FriarTuck -- England/UK the new book is visiting the Friar
15. Metropolitan -- Brazil
16. Joanthro -- Colorado/US
17. Antof9 -- Colorado/US
18. jessibud -- Ontario/Canada
19. Antof9 -- Colorado/US

400th Book Registered Celebratory Ring
still taking members (think I could actually hit 400?
Members:
15. luvmeowers - California US the book is catching some sun in Cali!
16. me-sarah - Idaho US
17. Casperette Minnesota US
18. adah-price - Missouri US
19. ILuvToRead2 - Illinois US
20. ReadrMar - Colorado or Nebraska
21. Eucalia California US
22. tnkbl - California US
23. Fizzfred - California US
24. Nik-The-Stik - Ontario Canada
25. symphonicca - New Brunswick Canada
26. loribee Birmingham UK
27. Kernow8 England UK
28. sweetpeeps Lancashire UK
29. MyopicMeringue England UK
30. Toadee West Yorkshire UK
31. rarsberry New Zealand
32. succulent - Australia
33. newk - Australia
34. Readinator - Australia
35. puppymummy - Australia
36. Hengameh - Iran
37. Kislany - Cyprus EU
38. quimbi - Germany EU
39. nobodysperfect France EU
40. quizgirl England UK
41. cartref Derbyshire UK
42. billhookbabe - Derbyshire UK
43. platypussj -- Colchester UK
44. chivers - Brazil
45. PaigeTurner124 - Texas US
46. writergrl - New Mexico US
47. Dancing-dog - Tennessee US
48. raralovestoread - Florida US
49. Karaokewife - Connecticut US
50. Kitten22 - Connecticut US
51. Rivet - Pennsylvania US
52. CdnBlueRose - Colorado US
53. Antof9

Mansfield Park BookRing, co-hosting duties shared with tutmarie, whose ray stalled.
Members:
9. Sossap -- Portugal
10. Xanocas -- Portugal
11. letra -- Portugal
12. oceanss -- Iran
13. Caracas -- Germany
14. MaiSpritt -- Denmark
15. Clawdia -- Spain
16. arugh48187 -- Minnesota
17. bookaddict22 -- Missouri
18. Ilios -- Florida
19. vicki9170 -- Florida
20. spaceystacey -- New Jersey and back to me!

Somebodies and Nobodies
BookRay Members:
3. Jonkheer -- The Netherlands currently visiting
4. nympha -- Portugal
5. Lakuska -- Portugal
6. Winty -- Portugal
7. Marejadilla -- Spain
8. Busibody -- UK
9. villrot - Norway PM me to join!

Lolita/Reading Lolita in Tehran
BookRing Members:
JamsODonnellToo/Germany
bluecat07/Germany
Fifna/the Netherlands
brunton11/Salford (UK)
HINERANGI/South Australia
cat207/NSW Australia
LadyKnightNiko/Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
UnwrittenLibra/Baltimore, MD
nerdybookgirl/Knoxville, TN, USA It's here!

BookCrossing Journals I have an entry in:
Restaurants to Check Out -- Journal Bookring
BookCrossing Journal #4 (started by reverends)
Überraschungs-Surprise-Bookring-Diary-Journal-Büchlein-Notebook-Thingy
Roses Journal (started by portias)
I'm so Happy it's Happy Hour -- Special BookCrossing Journal Bookring
SpedBug's RAoK Journal
Sunneschiis Meet-Up Buch
KC's worldwide book journal, book 19
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Fun Forum Threads (or: Why I Participate in the BookCrossing Forums): (in no particular order)
1. They help me decide if I want to read a book (click here for info on The Horse Whisperer)
2. Site Watch can encourage you if you think your book will never be caught (click here for a story about 2 years and 5 months in between release and catch)
3. People in different-from-your language forums are friendly and helpful too. Click here for a thread that warmed my heart and made me tear up. You'll even hear a Dutch BookCrosser singing!
4. If you ever wondered what to call the significant others in another BXer's life, click here.
5. Not a forum conversation, per se, but my article on why BookCrossing should win a Webby (they did!).
6. Things I learned from BookCrossing

Visit the CurvyZoneOBCZ! This is the Official BookCrossing Zone I maintain :)

Special thanks to yvi-1, TexasWren and BrynnSC for all the HTML help they have given me and other bookcrossers. These three links are all I've ever used to do anything beyond plain old black and white on my profile. You can do it too!

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Thank you for visiting my bookshelf! I reset my counter on January 11, 2005, so that only unique "hits" count, meaning you and this many people (below) thought I was crazy enough to check out since then :)
Free Hit Counter
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