Recent Book Activity

CURRENTLY READING: ??

Rings or Rays that are HERE:
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Trading: I am a very willing trader. Anything in my available section is up for trade, as well as my TBR books, to a certain extent at least. Just ask, and I'll see if I can't put them on the fast track to be read and then traded.

I am sitting here in my new dorm room at Hamline University, looking at my lovely view of a roof, considering what to say about myself. I am just starting my second year here, hoping to major in English and religion. Reasons for these majors (people always want to know it seems): English- I want to be a librarian, or perhaps a publishing editor, and English just seems logical, and I've never really wanted to study anything else! Religion- I know nothing, and this state of unknowing is the bane of my existance. People ask me what practical application I'm going to use this major for, but must I have one? I just want to learn for myself. I've had that kind of attitude my entire life. I just want to KNOW. I'll never be an electrician, but I want to understand how the wiring in my house works, and I bombard my dad with questions until he explains it to me. This is why I read, this is why I'm at school. I love to read. I love to learn.

I'll read just about anything, but I'm particularly devoted to my dear Harry Potter. And of course there is Jane Austen, and the randomness that is Jonathon Safran Foer, and the hilarity of Janet Evanovich, and the magical brilliance of Isabel Allende, and let's not forget Louise Erdrich. And oh! If you have not read a book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, drop everything and find one. She's amazing. And I must pay tribute to what may be my all-time favorite book- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I am Francie. Seriously. Well, as much as a small-town Minnesotan girl can be like a girl from Brooklyn. So, if we want to accurately characterize me, I would be a mix between Francie and Fern from Charlotte's Web. I had a pet pig once. Honestly. Her name was Piglet (after Winnie the Pooh of course). Best pet I ever had. 'Till my dad sold her that is. See the resemblance yet?

Just in case you're curious, my screen name is pronounced, to the best of my knowledge, as "chair-sk." Czersk is a little town in Poland that I visited when I stayed with my good friend and fellow bookcrosser Zarylia a few years back. I loved it, and it was the first thing that popped into my head when I was trying to think of a good screen name that no one else would have.

It's odd, but the more books I send away, whether it's in the form of rings, trades, or wild releases, the more books I seem to accumulate. I don't know how that works, but I have more books now that I'm a part of Bookcrossing than I've ever had before. I think because I'm buying for two- for myself, and for Bookcrossing. Go figure.


international BOOKRINGS I've started:
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy (lost in the mail?)

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Isobel Egan

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