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Recent Book Activity

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Last time I updated this, I was reading:
Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

Next up:
The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

How I got here

I have bulging shelves of books. Some are old friends that I return to time & time again. Others I picked up at stations in my commuting days, when I didn't feel like tackling the work in my bag, but had nothing to read on the train (my diary is NOT sensational!). Most of this latter category are candy floss - fun at the time, but a bit sickly, and when looked at more closely there's not much there. I know that sounds a bit snobby - but many of the books I come back to don't count as great literature either - just look at this year's list! I kept meaning to give them to Oxfam, but somehow giving such a worthy cause books about people up to all sorts of unworthy things seemed a bit ... distasteful. I thought that if I started this lark, people could pick them up, or leave them for someone else, but someone out there is bound to like them - after all, I doubt I possess the only copy of any of them!

A word of warning about 'my' availables ...

Chances are that if these were registered by katisha50, then they are with her rather than me - a slight flaw in the registering party plan!

... and an explanation of my weird stats

Just in case you are wondering how I have managed to catch and release many more books than I have registered.
I'm far too lazy to register much of my PC and too much of a magpie to release it, so most of 'my' books have been supplied by Molyneux who gets more than she can possibly dispose of herself.

My Wish List

My bookshelf wish list is wish list 1: books I would like to read, or re-read, one day. However it is far from exhaustive! I'm always willing to give anything else that my reading list suggests, or anything from the 1001 list, a go. I also have several, more categorised, lists on Amazon.

Books read so far this year

(R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read
These books are linked to their JEs.
These books are from the library or were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are on Kindle (yes, I gave in at last).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering and are still in my possession at the time of posting.

I am, of course, willing to at least lend them, or indeed anything from my bookshelf that is marked PC or TBR, to other bookcrossers if asked very nicely ;o)

1. Nudge - Richard H Thaler
2. Stop in the Name of Pants - Louise Rennison
3. Voodoo River - Robert Crais
4. Girls of Riyadh - Raaja Alsanea
5. Very Bad Poetry - Kathryn & Ross Petras (ed)
6. Nineteen Minutes - Jodie Picoult
7. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy (R)
8. Mapping the Edge - Sarah Dunant
9. To the Devil - a Diva - Paul Magrs
10. After the Quake - Haruki Murakami
11. Father Brown - GK Chesterton
12. Debs at War - Ann de Courcey
13. Flying Dutch - Tom Holt
14. A Classical Education - Caroline Taggart
15. Faust Among Equals - Tom Holt
16. A History of Writing - Steven Roger Fischer
17. The Unknown Ajax - Georgette Heyer
18. Before I Go to Sleep - SJ Watson
19. The Perils of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chobsky
20. The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth
21. The Conquest - Elizabeth Chadwick
22. The Becoming Jane Eyre - Sheila Kohler
23. Emergence - John H Holland
24. The Quiet Gentleman - Georgette Heyer
25. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (R)
26. Granta 118: Exit Strategies - Various
27. The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer
28. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
29. A weekend with Mr Darcy - Victoria Connelly
30. The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
31. A Five Year Sentence - Bernice Rubens

AudioBooks
None (yet) this year.

Books Read in 2011
Books Read in 2010
Books Read in 2009
Books Read in 2008
Books Read in 2007
Books Read in 2006

Thanks to:
Eleanor A (not a bookcrosser, as far as I know, but I'm working on it) for the picture
LightSmoker (ditto)for the html book that helped me brighten this up
gothmarcus, Vroomfondel, ApolloniaX & Phoenix-Flightfor the (Un)Convention logos.