Recent Book Activity

Due to postal charges, I will only trade books within the Netherlands. Always happy to send copies of my e-books [e] or audio-books [a]!

Hall of Honour:
These amazing Bookcrossers have sent me RABCKs:
matlockjames for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
CheyenneAutumn for Ice Blues, A Shock To The System and On the Other Hand, Death
RonOren for The Bourne Trilogy


Books I've read in 2012: (and what I've done with them...)
01: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
02: Fadeout by Joseph Hansen (PC)
03: Death Claims by Joseph Hansen (PC)
04: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen (PC)
05: The man Everyone Was Afraid Of by Joseph Hansen (PC)
06: The 38 Million Dollar Smile by Richard Stevenson (PC)
07: Cockeyed by Richard Stevenson (PC)
08: Heldere Hemel by Tom Lanoye
09: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
10: Rafa by Rafael Nadal en John Carlin [e]
11: Torchwood: The Sin Eaters by Brian Minchin [a]
12: Torchwood: Hidden
by Steven Savile [a]


Books I've read in 2011: (and what I've done with them...)
01: Open by Andre Agassi [e] [a]
02: The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
03: The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
04: The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
05: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
06: Maigret en de gele schoenen by Simenon
07: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
08: Exit Music by Ian Rankin
09: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
10: Shadow by Karin Alvtegen
11: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
12: The Adventures of herlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
13: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
14: The Return of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
15: The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
16: The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
17: His Last Bow & The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
18: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry [a]
19: De graaf van Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas


Books I've read in 2010: (and what I've done with them...)
01: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgeral (Canongate OBCZ)
02: "Merlin": The Magic Begins by Various (Always Sunday OBCZ)
03: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Always Sunday OBCZ)
04: Tart Noir: An Anthology by Various (Schlemmer OBCZ)
05: "Merlin": The Dragon's Call by Various (Always Sunday OBCZ)
06: Tirza by Arnon Grunberg (PC)
07: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
08: The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler (Canongate OBCZ)
09: Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry [a]
10: A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
11: The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (PC)
12: Wilde; The Complete Plays by Oscar Wilde (PC)
13: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (Canongate OBCZ)
14: Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (Canongate OBCZ)
15: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
16: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen (PC)
17: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Always Sunday OBCZ)
18: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowlings [a]
19: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
20: The Hourglass by Julie Parsons (Schlemmer OBCZ)
21: The Accidental by Ali Smith (Schlemmer OBCZ)
22: Graffiti My Soul by Niven Govinden (Schlemmer OBCZ)
23: The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald (Schlemmer OBCZ)
24: The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Schlemmer OBCZ)
25: Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding (Schlemmer OBCZ)
26: Two Days in Aragon by M J Farrell
27: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro


Books I've read in 2009: (and what I've done with them...)
01: The Paperchase (BC meet-up)
02: A Plague on Both Your Houses (BC meet-up)
03: Girl Meets Boy (BC meet-up)
04: The Translator (BC meet-up)
05: A Month in the Country (BC meet-up)
06: Death Vows (PC)
07: Notes from a Small Island (BC meet-up)
08: Shadow of the Serpent (BC meet-up)
09: Dead Man's Ransom (BC meet-up)
10: Auden In Love (Canongate OBCZ)
11: Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (BC meet-up)
12: Fade Out (PC)
13: Running with the Demon (BC meet-up)
14: Yesterday's Houses (BC meet-up)
15: Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography (BC meet-up)
16: Brother Cadfael's Penance (BC meet-up)
17: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (PC)
18: The Book Thief (Canongate OBCZ)
19: Up in Honey`s room (Canongate OBCZ)
20: A Monk Swimming (Canongate OBCZ)
21: The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Trade)
22: The Gathering (OBCZ Schlemmer)
23: The Raven in the Foregate (Always Sunday OBCZ)
24: They Do it with Mirrors (Always Sunday OBCZ)
25: The Devil in Amber (Canongate OBCZ)
26: Murder on the Orient Express (Always Sunday OBCZ)
27: Death Claims (PC)
28: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
29: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (Canongate OBCZ)
30: Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (Canongate OBCZ)
31: The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas (Canongate OBCZ)
32: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Always Sunday OBCZ)


Books I've read in 2008: (and what I've done with them...)
01: My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Malcolm Durrell (BC meet-up)
02: A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (BC meet-up)
03: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (BC meet-up)
04: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Edinburgh Book Swap)
05: Sourcery by Terry Pratchett (Edinburgh Book Swap)
06: Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (BC Meet-up)
07: Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett (BC Meet-up)
08: Torchwood: Something in the Water by Trevor Baxendale (Sold)
09: Torchwood: Trace Memory by David Llewellyn (Sold)
10: Torchwood: The Twilight Streets by Gary Russell (Sold)
11: Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka (RABCK)
12: Flying Dutch by Tom Holt (BC Meet-up)
13: The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood by Eugenie Fraser (BC Meet-up)
14: The Liar by Stephen Fry (BC meet-up)
15: Over the Rainbow by Various (Canongate OBCZ)
16: Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee (BC Meet-up)
17: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (BC Meet-up)
18: The Little Death by Michael Nava (PC)
19: Goldenboy by Michael Nava (PC)
20: How Town by Michael Nava (PC)
21: The Hidden Law by Michael Nava (PC)
22: The Death of Friends by Michael Nava (PC)
23: The Burning Plain by Michael Nava (PC)
24: Rag and Bone by Michael Nava (PC)
25: The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (BC meet-up)
26: Saturday by Ian McEwan (BC Meet-up)
27: On Beauty by Zadie Smith (BC Meet-up)
28: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (BC Meet-up)
29: The Naming Of The Dead by Ian Rankin (BC Meet-up)
30: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (BC Meet-up)
31: Atonement by Ian McEwan (BC Meet-up)
32: Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (BC meet-up)
33: Under the Skin by Michel Faber (Trade)
34: St. Peter's Fair by Ellis Peters (Canongate OBCZ)
35: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters (Canongate OBCZ)
36: Under High Stakes: A Tale of Vegas Vampires by Erin McCarthy (BC meet-up)
37: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Trade)
38: Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack (BC meet-up)
39: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowlings (RABCK)
40: The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (BC meet-up)
41: My Booky Wook by Russell Brand (BC meet-up)
42: Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall (BC meet-up)
43: Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (BC meet-up)
44: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson(Christmas mini-meetup)
45: Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann(BC meet-up)


Books I've read in 2007: (and what I've done with them...)
01: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (BC meet-up)
02: Mr.Hosie's Journey to Tibet, 1904 by Tim Coates (BC meet-up)
03: Fields Away by Sarah Wardle (BC meet-up)
04: The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping by Nasdijj (BC meet-up)
05: Busconductor Hines by James Kelman (BC meet-up)
06: Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje (BC meet-up)
07: Supping with Panthers by Tom Holland (BC meet-up)
08: Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite (BC meet-up)
09: The Vampyre by Tom Holland (BC meet-up)
10: Neptune's Staff & Other Formations by Jim Aitken (BC meet-up)
11: Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend (BC meet-up)
12: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (BC meet-up)
13: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (BC meet-up)
14: A Mad World, My Masters by John Simpson (BC meet-up)
15: When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro (BC meet-up)
16: Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J Fox (BC meet-up)
17: Dune by Frank Herbert (BC meet-up)
18: To Roslin from the Far West by Unknown (BC meet-up)
19: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (RABCK)
20: Along the Wall and Watchtowers by Oliver August (BC meet-up)
21: Dubliners by James Joyce (Wild)
22: Genghis Khan by John Man (BC meet-up)
23: The Railway Man by Eric Lomax (BC meet-up)
24: Hamlet's Dresser by Bob Smith (Book Festival meet-up)
25: The Word According to Garp by John Irving (BC meet-up)
26: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips (BC meet-up)
27: Tokyo by Mo Hayder (BC meet-up)
28: A Shock to the System by Richard Stevenson (PC)
29: On the Other Hand, Death by Richard Stevenson (PC)
30: Ice Blues by Richard Stevenson (PC)
31: Death Trick by Richard Stevenson (PC)
32: Of Gods and Men by Donal O'Neill (BC meet-up)
33: The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett (BC meet-up)
34: Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams by Alexander McCall Smith (Trade)
35: Temptation at Every Turn by Tricia Owens(PC)
36: Tongue Tied by Richard Stevenson (PC)
37: Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (Wild)
38: What Happens in Vegas by Ally, XenoVale (PC)
39: A Lesson in Discord by Angela (PC)
40: Exodus by Grumpy Demon (PC)
41: Song of the Mer by Marsha Hinds (PC)
42: Gilded Cage by Grumpy Demon (PC)
43: A Serious Person by Orland Outland (Canongate OBCZ)
44: Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (BC meet-up)
45: Third Man Out by Richard Stevenson (PC)
46: Chain of Fools by Richard Stevenson (PC)
47: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife by Mary Roach (BC meet-up)
48: No Logo by Naomi Klein (RABCK)
49: Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson (PC)
50: One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (Edinburgh Book Swap)
51: The Leper of Saint Giles by Ellis Peters (BC Meet-up)
52: A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters (BC meet-up)
53: The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (BC meet-up)


Books I've read in 2006: (and what I've done with them...)
01: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter Stockton Thompson (BC meet-up)
02: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (BC meet-up)
03: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (BC meet-up)
04: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (Ring)
05: The Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman (BC meet-up)
06: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall (BC meet-up)
07: Timeless Sentinels by Merlyn Horn (Always Sunday OBCZ)
08: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Wild)
09: A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice (BC meet-up)
10: Popcorn by Ben Elton (BC meet-up)
11: Running Threads by Various (1x Wild, 1x BC meet-up, 1x Book Festival meet-up)
12: The Fatal Englishman by Sebastian Faulks (BC meet-up)
13: My Elvis Blackout by Simon Crump (Trade)
14: Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler (BC meet-up)
15: Empress Orchid by Anchee Min (BC meet-up)
16: X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant (BC meet-up)
17: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (BC meet-up)
18: Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (BC meet-up)
19: To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Always Sunday OBCZ)
20: The Dumb House by hn Burnside (BC meet-up)
21: Starr In Charge by Chris White (PC)
22: Cocaine Nights by James Gr. Ballard (BC meet-up)
23: The Accomplice by Kathryn Heyman (Ring)
24: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Always Sunday OBCZ)
25: Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry (Trade)
26: As Good As Gold by Colin Dexter (Always Sunday OBCZ)
27: Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard (BC meet-up)
28: Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (Ray)
29: CSI: Serial by Max Allan Collins (Ring)
30: The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe (Book Festival meet-up)
31: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Ring)
32: Tumberlaine must die by Louise Welsh (BC Meet-up)
33: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Ring)
34: A Child called It by Dave Pelzer (BC meet-up)
35: Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (BC meet-up)
36: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (BC meet-up)
37: The Color Purple by Alice Walker (BC meet-up)
38: Teacher Man by Frank McCourt (BC meet-up)
39: The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (BC meet-up)
40: The Safe House by Nicci French (BC meet-up)
41: Girl with Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier (BC meet-up)
42: Shadowmancer by Graham P. Taylor (BC meet-up)
43: The Book of Blood by Vicki Feaver (BC meet-up)
44: Final Demand by Deborah Moggach (BC meet-up)
45: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Ring)
46: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl (Ring)
47: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke (BC meet-up)
48: The Kindness of Strangers by Kate Adie (BC meet-up)