Recent Book Activity

I'm semi-retired from BookCrossing. I'm not registering any new books, but I will still make release notes if I release any that are already registered.

These are my true wild release stats:
128 wild releases
8 catches in the wild
I'm not sure why the BookCrossing count is one less than that.
9 books were sent to other Book Crossers.

I'm currently reading/hearing:
"Hawaii" by James Michener
"Cry the Beloved Country" by Alan Paton
"So Much For That" by Lionel Shriver (library audio book)
"Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll" by Nick Tosches (library book)

Top Five TBR
1) "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
2) "Wild Animus" by Richard Shapero
3) "The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain
4) "Underworld" by Don DeLillo
5) "Prayers For Rain" by Dennis LeHane

TBH (To Be Heard - Audio Books)
"Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad (library audio book)

Books read or heard in 2012:
26. "The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow (library audio book)
25. "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
24. "King Lear" by William Shakespear (library audio book)
23. "Mostly Harmless" by Douglas Adams (library audio book)
22. "Stormy Weather" by Carl Hiaasen
21. "Dogfight: A Love Story" by Matt Burgess (library audio book)
20. "Storm Warning (39 clues Book 9)" by Linda Sue Park
19. "Forlorn River" by Zane Grey (library audio book)
18. "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu" by Laurence Bergreen (library audio book)
17. "The Hamlet" by William Faulkner *
16. "Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray
15. "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" by Bill Bryson (library audio book)
14. "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (library audio book)
13. "The Dogs of War" by Frederick Forsyth (library audio book)
12. "Andrew Carnegie" by David Nasaw (library audio book)
11. "This Fish Is Loaded! the Book of Surreal and Bizarre Humour" edited by Richard Glyn Jones *
10. "Johannes Cabal the Detective" by "Jonathan L. Howard" (library audio book)
9. "Weir of Hermiston" by Robert Louis Stevenson (library book)
8. "The Black Ice (Harry Bosch book 2)" by Michael Connelly (library audio book)
7. "Bite Me" by Christopher Moore (library book)
6. "The Emperor's Code (39 Clues, Book 8)" by Gordon Korman(library audio book)
5. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien *
4. "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin (library audio book)
3. "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson (library book)
2. "Citizen Soldiers" by Stephen E. Ambrose *
1. "Mother Night" by Kurt Vonnegut *

* Started in 2011


States where I have released books in the wild:
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Kansas
Minnesota
Missouri
Nevada
Oklahoma
Wisconsin

Have also mailed books to Bookcrossers in:
Arizona
California
New Jersey
New York
Virginia

Japan
The Netherlands

"Took me four years to read the Bible.
I reckon I understand a great deal of it.
Wasn't what I expected in some places."
- Karl Childers (Sling Blade)

I did it. I read the Bible in four years, beginning in 2006 and finishing by the end of 2009.