Recent Book Activity

I'm from North Yorkshire, currently in York, but used to live in Sweden (Karlstad and Linköping) and in Edinburgh. I love Scotland. Mad about Japan. Very interested in Scandinavia. I read books in English and Swedish. Other interests include snailmail, old Hollywood films, travel, languages, history, music, concerts, tea, chocolate, monkeys, dressmaking, taking photos and countless other random things =)

I do put all my books onto bookcrossing, even the ones I'd never want to give away, as I also see this site as a bit of a bookjournal for me. And what I think I want to keep forever today, might not seem so necessary to keep in a couple of years... who knows! I do also have some books on my shelf that have come my way by various routes and I've never read as they're not my taste, and just passed straight on. But looking at the books I have read and the kind of ratings I give, you can get a reasonable idea of my reading tastes, which are quite varied to be honest.

TRADES I am open to trades - with my books set to Available. PC books are ones I want to keep for now, so I'd really only lend them to friends and/or people who live local. TBR - until I've read them I don't know whether they will become a PC or AVL. I realise that my wishlist is rather long - of course if anyone has one of these books and would like to trade, that would be great, but this is not the main use of my wishlist (I am not expecting to get hold of all of these books via bookcrossing!). I use it as a place to keep a note of books I would like to read to aid my own memory.

I am also on bookmoochwhere I also trade some books =) and I also use goodreads.

I was at the Nottingham UK Uncon September 2011 =)

Bookrays I have arranged:
The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson - FINISHED 2011
Desert Dawn - Waris Dirie - FINISHED/MIA 2009
The Savage Garden - Mark Mills FINISHED (04/2009)
The Miracles of Santo Fico - D L Smith FINISHED (11/2007)
On the Beach - Nevil Shute FINISHED (07/2007)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata FINISHED (06/2007)
Love of Fat Men - Helen Dunmore FINISHED (01/2007)
Bookrings I've organised
My Forbidden Face - Latifa FINISHED (09/2008)
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan FINISHED (03/2008)
A Spy in the House of Love - Anais Nin: Lost in the post (2007)
The Diving-bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby: FINISHED (05/2007)
Kollektivt Självmord - Arto Paalisinna: FINISHED/Fizzled out (04/2007)
The Silence of Islands - N D Williams: FINISHED (06/2006)