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Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom

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Tuesday, January 28, 2003

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Recent Book Activity

Statistics

4 wksall time
books registered:0817
released in the wild:41,569
controlled releases:1164
releases caught:2616
controlled releases caught:1144
books found:3793
tell-a-friend referrals:088
new member referrals:019
forum posts:0822

Stats are updated every few minutes.


Extended Profile

Last time I updated this, I was reading:
Resistance - Anita Shreve

Next up:
Nineteen Minutes - Jodie Picoult



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.

BookCrossing UK Unconvention 2009 Edinburgh- I was there, but the image has vanished!

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.

Bookcrossing Anniversary Convention London 2008 - I'm going, are you?

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 (slaps own wrist)!

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. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
2. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
3. An Obedient Father - Akhil Sharma
4. Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
5. Fludd - Hilary Mantel
6. Close Relations - Deborah Moggach
7. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
8. Slaughterhouse V - Kurt Vonnegut
9. The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M Cain
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
11. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
12. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
13. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
14. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
15. Schooling - Heather McGowan
16. F in Exams - Richard Benson
17. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
18. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years - Sue Townsend
19. The Terracotta Dog - Andrea Camilleri
20. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday
21. Stone's Fall - Iain Pears
22. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
23. Gallery Girl - Wendy Holden
24. Whisky Galore - Compton McKenzie
25. Snoop - Sam Gosling
26. One of our Thursdays is Missing - Jasper Fforde
27. Being Emily - Anne Donovan
28. Metamorphoses - Franz Kafka
29. Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg
30. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai (R)
31. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston
32. Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man - Claire Tomalin
33. Quirkology - Richard Wiseman
34. The Camel Bookmobile - Masha Hamilton
35. They F*** You Up - Oliver James
36. He's Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo
37. The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte
38. The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
39. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
40. How I Paid for College - Mark Acito
41. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
42. Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
43. The Outcast - Sadie Jones
44. Fatherland - Robert Harris
45. The Flood - David Maine
46. Zoology - Ben Dolnick
47. I'll Take You There - Joyce Carol Oates
48. Twitchiker - Paul Smith
49. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
50. The Optimist - Lawrence Shorter
51. The Sea House - Esther Freud
52. The Crimson Rooms - Katharine McMahon
53. The Merrybegot - Julie Hearn
54. The Final Solution - Michael Chabon
55. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami
56. The Life and Times of Michael K - JM Coetzee
57. Love All - Elizabeth Jane Howard
58. The Queen's Sorrow - Suzannah Dunn
59. The Madonna of the Seven Hills - Jean Plaidy
60. The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
61. The Red Queen - Philippa Gregory
62. Masai Dreaming - Justin Cartwright
63. Agent Zig-zag - Ben Cartwright
64. Alexandria - Lindsey Davies
65. If he Lived - Jon Stephen Fink
66. Heligoland - Shena Mackay
67. Rest Upon the Wind - Gill Twissel
68. The Cuckoo's Parting Cry - Anthea Halliwell
69. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
70. It's Called a Break-up 'cos it's Broken - Greg Behrendt
71. A Greek God at the Ladies' Club - Jenna McKnight
72. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graeme
73. Counselling for Toads - Robert de Board
74. Echo Park - Michael Connolly
75. Q's Legacy - Helene Hanff
76. The History Boys - Alan Bennett
77. Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
78. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
79. An Equal Music - Vikram Seth (R)
80. The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gattis
81. The House on the Strand - Daphne du Maurier
82. You Must be Sisters - Deborah Moggach
83. Primo Time - Anthony Sher
84. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
85. Twilight - Stephanie Myers
86. New Moon - Stephanie Myers
87. Eclipse - Stephanie Myers
88. Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Myers
89. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
90. Howard's End is on the Landing - Susan Hill
91. The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
92. So You Think You're Human - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
93. Christian Martyrs for a Muslim People - Martin McGee
94. Leaving the World - Douglas Kennedy
95. Jihad vs McWorld - Benjamin R Barber
96. Almost Heaven - Julia Quinn
97. Want to Know a Secret? - Sue Moorcroft
98. Love and Freedom - Sue Moorcroft
99. Getting Away With It - Julie Cohen
100. The Secret Diary of Miss Miranda Cheever - Julia Quinn
101. How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
102. Beauty - Robin McKinley
103. Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man - Claudia Carrol
104. If This is Heaven, I Want My Money Back - Claudia Carrol
105. The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
106. The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
107. Sovereign - CJ Samson
108. The Man Who Disappeared - Claire Morral
109. The Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger
110. Stig of the Dump - Clive King (R)
111. Crawling at night - Nani Power
112. Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy (R)
113. House of Silence - Linda Gillard
114. Swimmer - Bill Broady
115. Fredrica - Georgette Heyer
116. Revelation - CJ Samson
117. Running a Writers' Circle - Simon Whaley
118. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
119. La Mechanique du Diable - Philip Pullman
120. The Confessions of Katherine Howard - Susanna Dunn
121. At Home - Bill Bryson
122. Mini Shopaholic - Sophie Kinsella
123. The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimer
124. Equations of Life - Simon Mordon
125. Friday's Child - Georgette Heyer
126. A Civil Contract - Georgette Heyer
127. Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne
128. Heartstone - CJ Samson
129. The Angel in the House - Kate O'Riordan
130. In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
131. Summer - Edith Wharton
132. The Defrosting of Charlotte Small - Anabelle Giles
133. Half Magic - Edward Eager (R)
134. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater - Thomas de Quincey
135. Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy (R)
136. Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard
137. How to Survive in a Science Fiction Universe - Charles Yu
138. The Skeleton in the Closet - MC Beaton
139. Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
140. A Round-Heeled Woman - Jane Juska
141. The Ambitious Stepmother - Fidelis Morgan
142. The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
143. Burglar on the Prowl - Lawrence Block
144. One Last Breath - Stephen Booth
145. The Dead Place - Stephen Booth
146. There Goes the Bride - MC Beaton
147. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
148. The Murder Room - PD James
149. To the Moon and back = Jill Mansell
150. I Heart Hollywood - Lindsey Kelk
151. Is Heathcliff a Murderer? - John Sutherland
152. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
153. The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
154. The Best British Mysteries 2005 - Maxim Jakubowski (ed)
155. Agnes Grey - Charlotte Bronte
156. Cotillon - Georgette Heyer
157. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
158. Marrying Up - Wendy Holden
159. A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy (R)
160. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk-Kidd
161. The Truth About Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
162. Through the Language Glass - Guy Deutscher
163. In the Midst of Death - Lawrence Block
164. Newton and the Counterfeiter - Thomas Levenson
165. On the Cutting Edge - Lawrence Block
166. One Day - David Nicholls
167. The Whisperer - Donato Carrisi
168. Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
169. Wish You Were Here - Nigel Webb
170. Jane Austen: The World of her Novels - Deirdre Le Faye
171. Juliet Naked - Nick Hornby
172. Willing Slaves - Madeline Bunting
173. The Strange Cae of Origami Yoda - Tom Angleberger
174. The Song of the Quarkbeast - Jasper Fforde
175. The Trick is to Keep Breathing - Janice Galloway (R)
176. Meet Molly - Valerie Tripp
177. Happy Birthday Addy - Corrine Porter
178. Felicity Learns a Lesson - Valerie Tripp
179. Meet Samantha - Susan S Adler
180. Hasty Death - MC Beaton
181. The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens
182. The Hare With Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal
183. The Secret Shppers' Revenge - kate Harrison
184. A Desirable Residence - Madeline Wickham
185. Comfort and Joy - India Knight
186. The Selfish Capitalist - Oliver James
187. Supersense - Bruce Hood
188. The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
189. Crossing the Paradise Line - Annabelle Giles
190. Grace Williams Says it Loud - Emma Henderson
191. The Memory of Love - Aminatta Forna
192. Christmas Cookie Murder - Leslie Meier

AudioBooks
None (yet) this year.

BookCrossing UK Unconvention '07 Brighton 29 June-1 July - I was there, but the image has vanished!

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

Bookcrossing UK Unconvention, Birmingham, 30 June to 2 July 2006 - I was there, but the image has vanished!

Then, apart from books there's:

New Scientist, Granta, BBC Music, the papers at the weekend, magazines from the organisations I subscribe to & lots of bumf the DfES finds it necessary to send to schools.

My Wish List 2: Books I would like for my PC
Hiding at the bottom here, because it is the selfish bit.
I've included it to help my siblings, who never know what book to get me for my birthday or Christmas ...



... or any other book on wish list 1, or any book I've read that rates 9 or 10 but is not with me any more, or see Amazon

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
cliff1976 for hosting Wish List 1 for so long
gothmarcus, Vroomfondel, ApolloniaX & Phoenix-Flightfor the (Un)Convention logos
samulli for the code for Wish List 2





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