The-Mad-Swede
From Göteborg, Västergötland Sweden
Age 48
Joined Monday, September 25, 2006
Home page the-mad-swede.blogspot.com/
Recent Book Activity
Shadowmagic - Prince of Hazel and Oak
Hundraåringen
Kirurgi
Hey Princess
Poetry Journal
Banditen Murietas bravader och död
Evangelium enligt Snobben
Doktor Murkes samlade tystnad och andra satirer
Asleep
The Crucible
Last of the Mohicans
Silke
Stephen Hawking's Universe
A Can of Worms (Red Fox Young Adult Books)
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books registered | 0 | 7 |
released in the wild | 0 | 1 |
controlled releases | 0 | 7 |
releases caught | 0 | 1 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 7 |
books found | 0 | 15 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 54 |
new member referrals | 0 | 0 |
forum posts | 0 | 1 |
Extended Profile
I am NOT a BookCrosser! ... strictly speaking.
It is not in my nature.. which is a collector's soul. I rarely liberate books. I provide a home for lost ones, and I believe it is a good home, with lots of family and friends, where they'll be loved and cherished.
All this having been said, here I am.
And I guess it was inevitable considering my living with a converted BookCrosser. The nail in the coffin was meeting up with a bunch of fellow BookCrossers at the Göteborg Book Fair on Sunday 24 September. Having picked up two books, I felt that it would be quite silly just anonymously to register their having been picked up. So, as said... here I am.
But I maintain: I am NOT a BookCrosser. :)
MEMORABLE QUOTES ON DISPLAY:
"Blackguard, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market – the fine ones on top – have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"Egoist, n. A person of very low taste, more interested in himself than in me."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"... No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence — that which makes its truth, its meaning — its subtle penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream — alone. . . ."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)
It is not in my nature.. which is a collector's soul. I rarely liberate books. I provide a home for lost ones, and I believe it is a good home, with lots of family and friends, where they'll be loved and cherished.
All this having been said, here I am.
And I guess it was inevitable considering my living with a converted BookCrosser. The nail in the coffin was meeting up with a bunch of fellow BookCrossers at the Göteborg Book Fair on Sunday 24 September. Having picked up two books, I felt that it would be quite silly just anonymously to register their having been picked up. So, as said... here I am.
But I maintain: I am NOT a BookCrosser. :)
MEMORABLE QUOTES ON DISPLAY:
"Blackguard, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market – the fine ones on top – have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"Egoist, n. A person of very low taste, more interested in himself than in me."
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
"... No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence — that which makes its truth, its meaning — its subtle penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream — alone. . . ."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899)