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My bookshelf & wishlist were last updated on: May 29th, 2012
You can find me on RABCK.com, because I love to be surprised!




Hello there! Welcome to my bookshelf!
Nice to meet you here. I'll tell you in short something about myself and about the things that are important to me.
I like to tell others what I think of a book I read, but in real life there's too little time to start (going to) a reading club. The reasons for that are, apart from a full time job in the archives department of a regional health care organisation, a busy family life and many house hold chores.
I'm very happy with online forums like these. They make it possible to 'meet' other people and discuss books, get ideas etc. What I like the most is that they never close. I can go here whenever I have time and spend all day if I want to, without anyone looking at me with strange eyes 'she's still here'... Aside from BookCrossing I am also on Goodreads.com with the same nick. When you are also a member there, feel free to send a friends request. Just don't forget to mention you're a fellow BC'er :-)
I am a very curious person. I'm interested in a lot of things: languages and how they work, history, contemporary politics. I love to cook, write and receive long chatty letters, take long hikes (in the mountains preferably), to swim. I solve cross word puzzles, put together jig saw (when there's time!) and cross stitch too from time to time.
I collect fridge magnets, book marks, and so it seems, books ;-). I also collect postcards (no add cards, though).
I love coffee: just plain black without anny additions like mocca or syrups. When tea is concerned, I like rooibos (original), green tea with lemon flavor, plain English black tea ( no Earl Grey though) and black tea with mango or forest fruit flavor. I love chocolate, milk, white or butterscotch with or without nuts but NO raisins. I love liquorice (drop) and very sour candy too.

I have started to make a list (not (yet) to be published) of those BookCrossers with whom I have bad experiences. It doesn't mean that they are bad people ( I only know a few BC'ers in person), just that they do not live up to the commitments they made. Stalling RINGs or RAYs, not sending when taking part in sweepstakes etc. etc. You know what I'm talking about.
If I publish a RING or RAY, I will check out members who want to take part. The objective is to share a book, with more than one person. If I wanted to sendit out as a gift to one person, it wouldn't be called ring or ray now, would it?
Luckily the biggest part of people I've delt with here are GREAT people. Very sorry that a few are able to spoil the fun from time to time.

My collection:
I collect "Het Achterhuis" by Anne Frank in different languages. The unabriged edition, that is. I have an old book that nearly lost its letters form the many times I read it over the years. My edition was printed before the last pages were found, so it is not complete. I want to read the 'new' pages too. Since I love this book so much and know it was printed in many languages, I have started a collection.
So far I have:
Italian, thanks to italianeowyn and lizzyblack
English, thanks to yorkshire-lass, Marilina85, lilacwhisper and chucklesthescot
Spanish, thanks to Marilina85
Portugese, thanks to Nakipa
German, thanks to schwester
Dutch, my own doing :-)
Here's a link to GoodReads where the list of copies that are in my possession now: NOT getting this to work, will try again soon.

Requests
When you find a book on my TBR- or AVL-shelves that you are interested in, please PM me. Maybe we could trade. The TBR's I might want to keep in my PC, but that's something you'll only learn by asking :-)

1001-library
As a member of the 1001-library I have several books that belong to that library. When I registered these books myself, I put *1001-book* behind the title. When you are a member and are interested in one of the library books on my shelf, please PM me and I'll send it out to you.
There are also books on my shelf that are on the 1001-list, but not (yet) donated to the library. Books, registered by me, get *1001-listed* behind the title. You don't have to be a library member to request one of these.

Want to read all the 1001-books you have to read before you die? They are put in a list / spreadsheet by Arukiyomi, which makes it easy to track your reading progress.
Curious? Go and find out!


Languages I know, languages to learn and books to do that:
Following my general interest in languages, I have learnt a few along the way. So, I read books in Dutch ;-), English, German and Russian. I like to figure out how a language works, regularities, irregularities, where the differences are with my own, or just the opposite: if they are very similar. Call me crazy, but can't help it: that's an interest of mine.
If you happen to find a good "teach-yourself..." or grammar book (Dutch, German or English based) for Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Finnish, Georgian or any of the Baltic languages... please remember me!

These are the countries that my books have traveled to:


create your own visited country map

My birthday buddies are:
April 21st, moeshell from Richardson, Texas, USA
July 22nd, wibba from Foxton,Cambridgeshire, UK
September 14th, chamonix44 from Almelo, The Netherlands

Rings I'm hosting:
Ring "Foreign Correspondence" by Geraldine Brooks; this one is with Cherokee2000
Ring "Kleine landjes" by Jelle Brandt Corstius; this one is with violoncellix
Ring "Het zijn net mensen" by Joris Luyendijk; this one is with creativechaos
These books are home safe again:
Ring "Dode brieven" by Sean McGrady.
Ring "Kluis 21" by Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström.
Ring "Tijd om te sterven" by Leena Lehtolainen.

My general challenge for 2012: read 22,000 pages.
With this ticker I keep track of the amount of pages read:



My 1st reading challenge for 2012: read 100 books
Books I've read in 2012:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1145443-boekentrol?format=html&shelf=2012

my 2012 shelf:


My 2nd reading challenge for 2012: read as many books from MTBR as I can (and send them on)
Books I've read that were on MTBR before January 1st, 2012:
my off_mtbr_2012 shelf: