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Memoirs of a Geisha
looking good dead
All That Remains (Dr Kay Scarpetta Mysteries)
Housewife Down
The broken window
Amnesia
Hard Eight
Artemis Fowl
Everyone Worth Knowing
The Da Vinci Code
Four to Score
Night tales
The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (Lincoln Rhyme Novels)
The Bean Trees
A Friend Like Henry
Holy Fools
The American Boy
The Ship of Brides
The Tea House on Mulberry Street
Coming to Terms
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books found | 0 | 58 |
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Extended Profile
I am a book hoarder - I probably have nearly every book I have ever bought or been given.Before I started coming on the bookcrossing site I wouldn't have imagined that I'd be passing any of them on.Now I can , but I haven't totally reformed as I feel the
need to read them again before I release them in the wild or pass them to someone else ! I have got quite alot of books stored in boxes and plan to release all but my favourites or ones I want to keep for other reasons.It may take a while if I read them all
again first ! while at the same time reading books I haven't read before. I now think other people could be enjoying the books which are currently in boxes and I can get enjoyment seeing where they travel and what other readers think of them.
I have decided to devise a rating system(I have seen this done on other people's bookcases and decided to do my own).I seem to have given most books a 6 or 7 score and this should help me to be consistant with rating the books.I have checked the ratings on the books I have done before(prior to 6/1/08)but none needed amending.
1 - only read a few pages
2 - read more than a few pages but didn't finish
3 - finished book, but more a chore than pleasure
4 - finished book , but wouldn't choose to read another by this author
5 - average, but wouldn't put me off another book by same author
6 - slightly better than average , would try author again
7 - better than average, would definately read this author again
8 - Very good and enjoyable would look out for author again
9 - Very very enjoyable, would recomend to others, possible permanent collection
10 - Excellent, definately permanent collection,actively recomend to others
Books read in 2007 - 35
Books read in 2008 - 60(includes 1 quick read paperback)
Books read in 2009 - 35(so far)
Bookrings/Rays participated in -
Relentless
A Gathering Light
Agatha Christie - 13 For Luck
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Light on Snow
I am Legend
Endless Night
Life of Pi
The Angel Makers
Chart Throb
Chocolat
Leave me alone I'm reading
The Weight of Water
The War of the Worlds
Outlander
The Godfather
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Beloved
Three Act Tragedy
Peter Pan
The Swarm
Atonement
A is for Alibi
Spirals started - Agatha Christie spiral
Bookrings started - My Booky Wook
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
PLEASE NOTE I WILL NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS FROM 25TH OCTOBER - 1ST NOVEMBER.
I have decided to devise a rating system(I have seen this done on other people's bookcases and decided to do my own).I seem to have given most books a 6 or 7 score and this should help me to be consistant with rating the books.I have checked the ratings on the books I have done before(prior to 6/1/08)but none needed amending.
1 - only read a few pages
2 - read more than a few pages but didn't finish
3 - finished book, but more a chore than pleasure
4 - finished book , but wouldn't choose to read another by this author
5 - average, but wouldn't put me off another book by same author
6 - slightly better than average , would try author again
7 - better than average, would definately read this author again
8 - Very good and enjoyable would look out for author again
9 - Very very enjoyable, would recomend to others, possible permanent collection
10 - Excellent, definately permanent collection,actively recomend to others
Books read in 2007 - 35
Books read in 2008 - 60(includes 1 quick read paperback)
Books read in 2009 - 35(so far)
Bookrings/Rays participated in -
Relentless
A Gathering Light
Agatha Christie - 13 For Luck
One for the Money
Two for the Dough
Light on Snow
I am Legend
Endless Night
Life of Pi
The Angel Makers
Chart Throb
Chocolat
Leave me alone I'm reading
The Weight of Water
The War of the Worlds
Outlander
The Godfather
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Beloved
Three Act Tragedy
Peter Pan
The Swarm
Atonement
A is for Alibi
Spirals started - Agatha Christie spiral
Bookrings started - My Booky Wook
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
PLEASE NOTE I WILL NOT HAVE INTERNET ACCESS FROM 25TH OCTOBER - 1ST NOVEMBER.