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Update July 11: As libraries are under threat here I've significantly increased my library usage. I'd recommend this to all UK Bookcrossers. Library books are marked "lib" in the list below. Unfortunately this means that my TBR pile is reducing very slowly. Apologies if you've passed a book to me and I've yet to write a review. If you'd like to see something move faster PM me.

I've been an avid reader all my life moving from reading library books under the bedclothes to openly reading the books I just can't stop buying.

Joining BookCrossing has expanded my reading from the comfortable rut I'd settled in. Recommendations, rings and rays have increased the number of books I read and exposed me to material I'd never have bought in the past (and I've developed a charity shop habit I didn't have until I joined BC).

My shelf contains a lot of my Permanent Collection. These books aren't available for release, rings or exchanges, at the moment. I don't buy books specifically to release, so my shelf will give you an idea of my tastes in reading, apart from the odd box of books from fellow bookcrossers to keep the shelves of the Cambridge and Ipswich Caffe Nero OBCZ's topped up.

I experienced my first Bookcrossing Convention at the 2008 Convention in London.

I'm also a member of a local reading group; the Ethelreaders (a play on Etheldreda the founder of Ely Cathedral) and I've recently started to pick more books up from my local library. These books will be added to my overall count here.
Update July 2011 - Ethelreaders has become "The Borrowers" as the name was considered by some as a block to getting new members.


Bookcrossing Release Challenges

To wild release more books
Further advances on TBR and starting with books I've had the longest from generous bookcrossers.

Books I'm Reading

Books Read in 2012

11. Blind Eye - Stuart MacBride (L)
10. Flesh House - Stuart MacBride
9. Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
8. Before I Go to Sleep – S J Wilson [9]
March
7. A Faint Cold Fear – Karin Slaughter
6. The Affair of the Blood-stained Egg Cosy – James Anderson
5. Flight of the Maidens – Jane Gardam [8]
February
4. The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse(L)
3. The City and the City – China Mieville (L) [8]
2. The Somnambulist - Essie Fox [8]
1. Trick of the Dark - Val McDermid [9]
January


Books Read in 2011
December
46. The Small Hand - Susan Hill ( 9)
45. A Cure for All Diseases - Reginald Hill (9)
November
44. The Mesmerist - Barbara Ewing (Borrowers) (8)
43. The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore (lib) (8)
42. Snuff - Terry Pratchett (10)
October
41. The Death of Dalziel - Reginald Hill - (9)
40. Midnight Fugue - Reginald Hill ( lib) (9)
39. Life Class - Pat Barker (9)
September
38. The Raphael Affair - Iain Pears (7)
37. The Moon Tunnel - Jim Kelly (lib) (8)
36. The Burning Wire - Jeffery Deaver (8)
August
35. Pandaemonium - Christopher Brookmyre (lib) (8)
34. The Broken Window - Jeffery Deaver (7)
33. The Night of the Miraj - Zoe Ferraris (Borrowers)(6)
July
32. Kisscut - Karin Slaughter (lib)
31. At the Chime of a City Clock - DJ Taylor (lib) 7
30. Mr Chartwell - Rebecca Hunt (lib) (8)
29. One Day - David Nicholls (6)
28. Girl Reading - Katie Ward(9)
27. White Nights - Ann Cleeves (Ethelreaders) (5)
June
26. Blindsighted - Karin Slaughter (lib) 8
25. Breakfast on Pluto - Patrick McCabe
24. My Cousin Rachel - Daphne DuMaurier (Ethelreaders) 8
23. Broken Skin - Stuart MacBride (lib) 9
22. Ask Alice - D J Taylor (lib) 8
May
21. Neverwhere graphic novel - Mike Carey/Glenn Fabry ( lib) 7
20. Dying Light - Stuart MacBride (lib) 9
19. Fenland Chronicles ( Ethelreaders) gave up
18. Present Danger - Stella Rimington (lib) 6
April
17. Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett 8
16. Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson 8
15. The Apple - Michel Faber (lib) 7
14. Bleeding Heart Square - Andrew Taylor (lib) 8
13. The Ghost Road - Pat Barker (rr)(Ethelreaders) 8
March
12. The Fire Gospel - Michel Faber (lib) 5
11. Angel with Two Faces - Nicola Upson (lib) 6
10. The Private Patient - PD James 7
February
9. The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamed 7
8. Skating to Antarctica - Jenny Diski 7
7. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Torday 7
6. Sweet Thames - Matthew Kneale 6
January
5. Revelation - CJ Sansome (Ethelreaders) 10
4. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle 10
3. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle 10
2.Any Human Heart - William Boyd 10
1. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde 7


Books Read in 2010
January
1. The Woman in Black, Susan Hill (rr)(Ethelreaders) [9]
2. Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett (8)
3. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (8)

February
4. The Sea - John Banville(Ethelreaders) (7)
5. A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood (7)
6. When will there be good news - Kate Atkinson (9)
7. Year One - Marianne Faithfull (Penguin 60)
8. The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society - Christine Coleman (6)
9. Good Morning Midnight - Reginald Hill (rr) (Ethelreaders) (8)

March
10. Doors Open - Ian Rankin (8)
11. Someone to Watch Over Me - Paul Wilson (9)
12. The Rain Before It Falls - Jonathan Coe (Ethelreaders)(8)

April
13. The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce - Paul Torday (7)
14. The Ghost - Robert Harris(5)
15. What a Carve Up - Jonathan Coe (8)

May
16. The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver (library)
17. Sourcery - Terry Pratchett
18. An Expert in Murder - Nicola Upson (library) (8)

June
19. The Visible World - Mark Slouka ( Ethelreaders) 9)
20. Beggar's Banquet - Ian Rankin (8)
21. Politics - Adam Thirlwell (7)
22. Juniper Street - Sandra Freeman
23. Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
24. Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs (8)
25. Tomorrow - Graham Swift

July
26. The Room of Lost Things - Stella Duffy (lib)(9)
27. What Becomes - A.L. Kennedy (library)
28. Guards! Guards! - GraphicNovel - Terry Pratchett(library) (8)
29. Coraline - Graphic Novel - Neil Gaiman (lib) (8)
30. The Chimneysweeper's Boy - Barbara Vine (8)
31. Cleanskin - Val McDermid (lib)
32. Ordinary Thunderstorms - William Boyd (8)
33. The Night Climbers - Ivo Stourton ( lib)

August
34. Pyramids - Terry Pratchett(lib)
35. Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster (lib) (8)
36. Sweet Danger - Margery Allingham (lib)
37. Kafka on the Shore - Hanu Murakami ( Ethelreaders) (7)
38. The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll & Martin Gardner)(lib)
39. The Cambridge Curry Club - Saumya Balsari (Ethelreaders)
40. Showing the Flag and Other Stories - Jane Gardam ( lib) (8)

September
41. Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett (lib)
42. Loyalty in Death - JD Robb ( lib)
43. The Bad Quarto - Jill Paton Walsh (lib) (8)
44. The Dwarves of Death - Jonathan Coe
45. 206 Bones - Kathy Reichs (7)
46. The Crystal Skull - Manda Scott (gave up)
47. Twisted - Jeffery Deaver ( 9)
48. A tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre (8)

October
49. The Coral Thief - Rebecca Stott (lib) (9)
50. Oystercatchers - Susan Fletcher (Ethelreaders) (8)
51. Eleven on Top - Janet Evanovich (lib)
52. Plum Spooky - Janet Evanovich (lib)
53.Conspiracy in Death - JD Robb ( lib)
54. Twelve Sharp - Janet Evanovich ( lib)

November
55. Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid ( Ethelreaders) (7)
56. Fearless Fourteen - Janet Evanovich (lib)
57. Our Fathers' Lies - Andrew Taylor (lib)
58. Netherland - Jospeh O'Neill(lib)
59. Born in death - JD Robb (lib)
60. Call the Dying - Andrew Taylor
61. Woman with Birthmark - Hakan Nesser

December
62. Mary Ann in Autumn - Armistead Maupin (10)
63. Thud - Terry Pratchett (8)
64. Moab is my Washpot - Stephen Fry
65. The Warden - Anthony Trollope (Ethelreaders)
66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (rr) (Ethelreaders)

Books Read in 2009
Can be found on my Live Journal dated 12th January 2010.
MrsDanvers LJ

Books Read in 2008 and Rings and Rays I've participated in
Can be found on my Live Journal dated 21st January 2009.
MrsDanvers LJ

Books Read in 2007 and Rings and Rays I've participated in
Can be found on my Live Journal dated 4th January 2008.
MrsDanvers LJ

Books Read in 2006 and Rings and Rays I've participated in
Can be found on my Live Journal dated 8th January 2007.
MrsDanvers LJ