Recent Book Activity

Hi

I've always loved books and reading - there's nothing quite like a bookshop, whether on the high street or on line - and nothing more dangerous in many ways :)
I saw a feature on a tv programme about bookcrossing and it rang a vague bell and I decided to check out the site. Wow! - it's a really great idea for book lovers. I love the idea of sending out books I've finished with into the wild and waiting (this is the hard part) to see where they end up. Also the chance to exchange books wth other members is a fantastic way to catch up with things I've always wanted to read and discover new authors. I own alot of books, and sometimes swap them with friends and family, and am frequently to be found scanning the shelves of charity shops, and libaries, and buying online must have been invented for people like me!!

Since joing bookcrossing I have had books given to me by all sorts of people who want to clear some space on their shelves, or have acquired bags of unregistered books from other bookcrossing members - therefore many of the books on my bookcrossing bookshelf do not reflect my own tates.





I love reading south Indian literature, some small town America novels and also British contempory fiction.

My favourite books of all time:

Great Expectations -Charles Dickens
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Raj Quartet -Paul Scott
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
A Study in Scarlet - Aurthur Conan Doyle
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Well Beloved - Thomas Hardy
The Secret History Donna Tartt
White Teeth Zaide Smith
A Fine Balance -Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters -Rohinton Mistry
A prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
A Passage to India E M Forster
Possession A S Byatt
Fortune's Rocks -Anita Shreve
The kite Runner - Khalid Hosseni
The Glass Palace - Amitav Ghosh
I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
The Blind Assasin - Margaret Atwood
Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam


As well as reading I like music of various kinds of music, I collect Agatha Christie first editions, and bookmarks. I love the theatre when funds allow :( and radio which I couldn't live without.


A CHALLENGE for 2008/2009
From January 2008 I will be reading " A Murdoch a month" along with friends Lyzzybee Scotsbookie and Katisha50. So I need to start collecting some of them, so that all of us don't have to pass on the same copy, but can read that month's Iris Murdoch at the same time. Any help greatly appreciated : )


If you see something on my AVL that you fancy let me know, if funds allow I'll try my best to accomdate you, I love hearing from other bookcrossers and its fun sending books to places I'll like as not never go to myself.

BOOKRINGS/RAYS

A Fine Balance Ray - with fifth reader


The Bone People ray with 10th reader

The Booktown Spiral bk 1 with lastreader bk 2 on way to 11th reader bk 3 with 1st reader

Agatha Christie an English Mystery book ring with 4th reader

Paper Lanterns ray on way to eighth reader

Major Pettigrews Last Stand book ring with third reader

The Railway Detective series NEW Spiral 1st book with seventh reader, 2nd book on way to fifth reader

Sacred Hearts on way to sixth reader

The Help NEW BOOKRAY - with 4th reader

The House of the Mosque

The people of the Book

The White Queen


Bookring participation - as I have lost a large number of bookring books over the last three years I will from now on, only be excepting members with a proven bookcrossing history onto my rings.
Please to try to journal as soon as the book comes, read within 1 month and send to the next bookcrosser on this list. Pm me if any problems.
Please check the journal entry for the book for updated lists.




Books Read in 2006 total = 127
Books read in 2007 total - 140
Books read in 2008 total - 141
Books read in 2009 total - 132
Books read in 2010 total -125
Books read in 2011 total - 129

Books read in 2012

1.The Heretic's Daughter - Kathleen Kent 2. Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy3. The Brontes went to Woolworths - Rachel Ferguson 4. The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton5. The Sittaford Mystery - Agatha Christie 6. Agent Zigzag - Ben Macintyre7. The many conditions of love - Farahad Zama 8. Treasure Hunt - Molly Keane9. Yesterday Morning - Diana Athill 10. The Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim11. The strange fate of Kitty Easton - Elizabeth Speller 12. Tom-All-Alone's - Lynn Shepherd13. Palladian - Elizabeth Taylor 14. The Corner that Held them - Sylvia Townsend Warner 15. Before I go to Sleep - S J Watson16. Counting My Chickens - Deborah Devonshire 17. Miss Buncle married - D E Stevenson18. Debs at War - Anne De Courcy 19. Strong Poison - Dorothy L Sayers20. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill 21. Fenny - Lettice Cooper22. Sovereign - C J Sansom 23. The Heat of the Day - Elizabeth Bowen24. Rosie's War - Rosamond Say 25. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi26. The Hand of Ethelberta - Thomas Hardy 27. A View of the Harbour - Elizabeth Taylor28. Winnie and Gurley - Robert G Hewitt 29. The Snow Child - Ewoyn Ivey30. The Closed door and other stories - Dorothy Whipple 31. A Late Beginner - Priscilla Napier32. Girl Reading - Katie Ward 33. The Grain of Truth - Nina Bawden34. Against Odds - Lawrence L Lynch 35. Starlight - Stella Gibbons36. A Map of Glass - Jane Urquhart 37. Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther - Elizabeth Von Arnim 38. Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton39. Bid me to Live - H D 40. A Wreath of Roses - Elizabeth Taylor41. To War with Whitaker - Countess Ranfurly 42. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith43. The Blush - Elizabeth Taylor 44. Anatomy of a Disappearance - Hisham Matar45. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark 46. Burmese Days - George Orwell47. Landed - Tim Pears 48. Lewis Percy - Anita Brookner49. The return of the native - Thomas Hardy 50. A Game of Hide and Seek -Elizabeth Taylor51. Family Roundabout - Richmal Compton 52. The Bolter - Frances Osborne53. Bring up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel 54. The Case of the Missing Servant - Tarquin Hall 55. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce56. Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald




Books read in 2011

1. The long Song - Andrea Levy 2. Bluestockings - Jane Robinson3. The Message to the Planet - Iris Murdoch 4. The Railway Viaduct - Edward Marston5. Reuben Sachs - Amy Levy 6. Agatha Raisin and the Deadly dance - M C Beaton 7. The White Queen - Philippa Gregory8. Silas Marner - George Eliot 9. People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks10. Antarctica on a plate - Alexa Thomson 11. The Nursing Home Murder - Ngaio Marsh12. The River - Rumer Godden 13. Thomas Hardy - Claire Tomalin14. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 15. The Poisoned Chalice - Bernard Knight16. The Hotel on the Roof of the World - Alec Le Sueur 17. South Riding - Winifred Holtby18. Our Exploits at West Poley - Thomas Hardy 19. Agatha Raisin and the Perfect Paragon - M C Beaton 20. The Camel Bookmobile - Marsha Hamilton21. Where there's Life - Kathleen Dayus 22. After leaving Mr Mackenzie - Jean Rhys23. Room - Emma Donoghue 24. The Remains of Sherlock Holmes - Paul W Nash 25. My Family and other animals - Gerald Durrell26. The Affair of the blood stained egg cosy - James Anderson 27. The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson28. Hide my Eyes - Margary Allingham 29. Climbing the Mango trees - Madhur Jaffrey30. Dissolution - C J Sansom 31. A Five Year sentence - Bernice Rubens32. The Green Knight - Iris Murdoch 33. Black Dog - Stephen Booth34. Another Country - James Baldwin 35 Agatha Raisin, Love lies Liquor - M C Beaton 36 Up and Down Stairs - Jeremy Musson37 A Loyal Character Dancer - Qiu Xialong 38 Trespass - Rose Tremain39 The Winds of Heaven - Monica Dickens 40 Birds, Beasts, and Relatives - Gerald Durrell 41 Beauty - Raphael Selbourne42 Cold in the Earth - Ann Granger 43 Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi44 Life's Little Ironies - Thomas Hardy 45 Zennor in Darkness - Helen Dunmore46 House of Silence - Linda Gillard 47 Jackson's Dilemma - Iris Murdoch48 Miss Mole - E H Young 49 Journal - Helen Berr50 The Old Nurse's Story and other tales - Elizabeth Gaskell 51 Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes52 Still Missing - Beth Gutcheon 53 You've Gone too Far this time, Sir - Danny Bent 54 Truth Dare Kill - Gordon Ferris55 The Girl in the Painted Caravan - Eva Petulengro 56 Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai57 The News Where You Are - Catherine O' Flynn 58 Dancing with the Virgins - Stephen Booth59 The Return of Captain John Emmett - Eliabeth Speller 60 The Vicar's daughter - E H Young61 Ngaio Marsh - Joanne Drayton 62 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farahad Zama 63 A Wreath of Roses - Elizabeth Taylor64 Desperate Remedies - Thomas Hardy 65 We are all made of Glue - Marina Lewyca66 The Saltmarsh Murders - Gladys Mitchell 67 Wait for Me - Deborah Devonshire68 Agatha Raisin and Kissing Christmas Goodbye - M C Beaton 69 The Perks of being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky 70 Anderby Wold - Winifred Holtby71 Heresy - S J Parris 72 Journey to Ithaca - Anita Desai73 A Simple act of Violence - R J Ellory 74 Wigs on the Green - Nancy Mitford75 Started Early, took my dog - Kate Atkinson 76 Last train to Liguria - Christine Dwyer Hickey 77 Howards End is on the Landing - Susan Hill78 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie 79 Dark Fite - C J Sansome80 Mennonite in a little black dress - Rhoda Janzen 81 The Ballad and the Source - Rosamond Lehmann 82 Blood on the Tongue - Stephen Booth83 Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn 84 White Ladies - Francis Brett Young85 The Misses Mallet - E H Young 86 The Game - Laurie R King87 Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome 88 Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy89 Tiger Hills - Sarita Mandanna 90 Mrs Miniver - Jan Struther91 The Sunlight on the garden - Elizabeth Speller 92 Kartography - Kamila Shamsie93 How to be a woman - Caitlin Moran 94 The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow - Mrs Oliphant 95 The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst96 The Awful Secret - Bernard Knight 97 Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch98 Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 99 The Echoing Grove - Rosamond Lehmann100 The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter 101 Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman102 Half Blood Blues - Esi Edugyan 103 Boy: tales of childhood - Roald Dahl104 Eight Cousins - Louisa M Alcott 105 Bring the Monkey - Miles Franklin106 Mandoa Mandoa - Winifred Holtby 107 A Pair of Blue Eyes - Thomas Hardy108 The Storm at the Door - Stefan Merrill Block 109 Frost In May - Antonia White110 Somewhere towards the end - Diana Athill 111 When the Wind Blows - Cyril Hare112 Maps for lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslan 113 Minnie's Room - Mollie Panter Downes114 Agatha Raisin a spoonful of poison - M C Beaton 115 The Secret Life of Bletchley Park - Sinclair McKay 116 O Pioneers - Willa Cather117 All My Days - Kathleen Dayus 118 His Last Bow - Arthur Conan Doyle119 The man who disappeared - Clare Morrall 120 Poor Caroline - Winifred Holtby121 Altered States - Anita Brookner 122 Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman123 Agatha Raisin: there goes the bride - M C Beaton 124 Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 125 Ten Days of Christmas - G.B Stern126 The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz 127 Death Comes to Pemberley - P D James128 Season of Secrets - Sally Nicholls 129 Murder at Mansfield Park - Lynn Shepherd




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