Recent Book Activity
Wild Animus
Solitary Pleasures
Passing on
Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
Drowning Ruth (Oprah's Book Club)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The Narrowing Stream
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Nell
Fallen Angels
The Slaves of Solitude
The Reluctant Devil
The Passion
Wise Children
Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Lottery
Less is more please
Force 10 from Navarone
Robert Morley's Book of Worries
Love of Fat Men
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books registered | 0 | 127 |
released in the wild | 0 | 103 |
controlled releases | 0 | 0 |
releases caught | 0 | 13 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 0 |
books found | 0 | 1 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 5 |
new member referrals | 0 | 8 |
forum posts | 0 | 294 |
Extended Profile
I'm an artist, and have loved books and paintings ever since I can remember.
I think Bookcrossing is a wonderful idea - let's hope it becomes as widespread in the UK as it seems to be in the US. I'll try to spread the word!
My favourite book of all time is I think, Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea,' perfectly crafted plotwise,beautifully written, and a completely convincing insight into the delusions of the central character. It's almost the only book I read again and again. (So I won't be parting with my old and battered copy, but I might buy another from a s/hand bookshop to release into the wild.) Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar,Clea and Mountolive) is also a favourite. (And I love Arnold Lobel's Owl at Home!)
Recent reads:
The Slaves of Solitude - Patrick Hamilton
The Stone Arrow - Richard Herley
The Philosopher's Pupil - Iris Murdoch
More Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul - courtesy of Brainiac
The Simple Heart - Gustave Flaubert
No Full Stops in India - Mark Tully
I also have a large collection of non-fiction - art books mostly, and some mythology, but I couldn't bear to part with any of these.
I've tended so far to release my least favourite books, and ones I don't expect to reread. My actual bookshelf contains far too many books to register, but I'm working on that.
I found an incunabulum
Upon a market stall,
It seemed to me so fabulum
It held me in its thrall.
I handled it très reverently
In deference to its age,
Imagining its owner once
A venerable sage.
What wisdom therein would I find -
What secrecies concealed -
What wonders lay within its depths
To shortly be revealed?
I placed my glasses on my nose
Too overwrought to speak,
I turned the pages one by one -
Oh Hell! - 'twas all in Greek!
Plume 2003