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(last update: 1st December 2015)
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I first heard about Bookcrossing when one of my daughters had found a travelling book in Amsterdam. It must have been in 2003. She wasn't too keen to join BC herself, but she let me know
'This is absolutely something for you to join' . It took a while before I became a member, because at the time I was too busy running a B&B in France and besides, I had a slow and very expensive dial-up internet connection, so I avoided on-line activities
like that. It took until August 2005 to actually join and I never regretted it.
I'm Dutch, but I left the Netherlands in 2002, to stay away for almost ten years. I first spent five years in Northern France, then four and a half years in the French speaking part of Belgium. Finally, I spent 3 months in the South of France, but I moved back
to Holland end of February 2012.
Being abroad for so long has made wild-releasing a little difficult for me; practically all my books are in English or in Dutch. In the beginning I used to send a lot of books abroad by mail, fulfilling wishes etc. I still do sometimes (especially books not
registered by me, see my "Keep them Moving" stats), but not as often as I used to while in France, where they were having a special low postal rate for books. In Belgium and Holland postage is very expensive. Well, now that I'm back I can wild-release books
more often of course!
My screenname is bestfriends , because of the saying in Dutch:
"Boeken zijn je beste vrienden" (A book is like a Best Friend)
I did not like the way I had to spell it though (in one word) but there was no other possibility as the correct spelling (like with capitals and a hyphen) was already taken or would not be accepted. I would have needed to add a number and I wanted to avoid
that.
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Currently reading:
Familieziek - Adriaan van Dis
W is for Wasted - Sue Grafton
next up:
The Fault in our Stars - John Green
Darkness Peering - Alice Blanchard
Books I've Read in 2015
1. Honingval - Unni Lindell
2. Verder helaas niet bijgehouden 3.
4. 5.
7. 8. 9.
10. 11. 12.
Books I've Read in 2014 (32)
1. De Indiaase bruid - Unni Lindell
2. Boetedoening - Michael Robotham
3. Bonita Avenue - Peter Buwalda 4. Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
5. Piece of my Heart - Peter Robinson
6. Rules of Deception - Christoffer Reich 7. Wegen der verbeelding - Hella S. Haase
8. Koudvuur - Manon Uphoff
9. Meander - Tessa de Loo 10.Wijze mannen - Susan Smit
11.Een broer in Brazilië - Beb Vuyk
12. Boeman - Unni Lindell 13. Kinderen van het Ruige Land - Auke Hulst
14. Liefde in Europa - Birgitta Stenberg
15. Indische Duinen - Adriaan van Dis
16. Begeerte - Manon Uphoff 17. Afke's tiental - Nienke van Hichtum
18. Jackdaws - Ken Follett
19. Moord op verzoek - John Lescroart
20. Het jaar van de kreeft - Hugo Claus 21. De zelfmoord van de meisjes - Jeffrey Eugenides
22. Inciendo - Tess Gerritsen
23. Wijze mannen - Susan Smit 24. Pappie's kleine meid - Stephanie-Joy Eerhart
25. Hoe de mummies verdwenen uit Wiewerd - Mimi Meester
26. De ooggetuige - Simone van der Vlugt 27. Toen ik je zag - Isa Hoes
28. Godverdomense dagen..... - Dimitri Verhulst
29. The Flood - Ian Rankin
30. Wie de wolf vreest - Karin Fossum 31. De laatkomer - Dimitri Verhulst
32. Kinsey and Me - Sue Grafton
Books I've Read in 2013 (60)
1. Ga niet naar zee - Tommy Wieringa
2. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling
3. Reisdagboek 1981 - J.J. Voskuil 4. Er zwom een garnaal door het Kattegat - Daan Zonderland
5. Flitslicht - Martin Hartkamp
6. Het huis op Tara Road - Maeve Binchy 7. Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
8. Lente voor beginners - Tom Pauka
9. Blauw water - Simone van der Vlugt
10. Wat te doen als iemand sterft - Nicci French 11. Timboektoe - Paul Auster
12. Knots & Crosses - Ian Rankin
13. In de Knoei - Herman Brusselmans 14. Vaderwraak - Roslund & Hellstrom
15. End in Tears - Ruth Rendell
16. Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs 17. Chasing the Dime - Michael Connelly
18. Kalme Chaos - Sandro Veronese
19. Black & Blue - Anna Quindlen
20. Wat ik nog weet - Annie M.G. Schmidt 21. Dans om het bestaan - Maya Angelou
22. Het hart van een vrouw - Maya Angelou
23. Duister spoor - Inger Frimansson
24. Instances of the Number 3 - Sally Vickers 25. Wie scheep gaat - Rascha Peper
26. Het huis met de zwarte vlinders - Leena Lander
27. Havinck - Marja Brouwers
28. Uit het gesticht - Anna Kavan 29. Denk aan Sarah - Chris Mooney
30. Het Marco-effect - Jussi Adler-Olsen
31. De verrekijker - Kees van Kooten
32. Nooit Alleen - Loes den Hollander 33. Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
34. Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs
35. De ordening - Kees van Beijnum 36. A New Map of the Universe - Annabel Smith
37. Bare Bones - Kathy Reichs
38. Let's make love - Annet de Groot 39. Ça va Poff - Paul Antipoff
40. Behind the Scenes in the Museum - Kate Atkinson
41. Leven is Liefhebben - Pierre Duchesne
42. Little House on the Prairie = Laura Ingalls Wilder 43. De onbenullige details... - Camilla Gibb
44. Kwellende liefde - Elena Ferrante
45. Fat Tuesday - Sandra Brown
46. Before I say Goodbuy - Mary Higgens Clark 47. Het dertiende sterrenbeeld - Unni Lindell
48. Een kleine gouden ring - Kjell Ola Dahl
49. Speurtocht - Iris Johansen
50. Het huis met de blinde serre - Herbjørg Wassmo 51. Straf - Birger Baug
52. De Daisy Sisters - Henning Mankell
53. Stoner - John Williams
54. Solar - Ian McEwan 55. Recalled to Life - Reginald Hill
56. de Sneeuwman - Jo Nesbø 57. The 19th Wife - David Eberhoff
58. PAAZ-Myrthe van der Meer 59. Boetedoening - Michael Robotham
60. Nachtzuster - Unni Lindell
Books I've Read in 2012 (54)
1. Memoir of an Unfit Mother - Anne Robinson
2. De winkel van mijn vader - Simon Rozendaal
3. En de beer ging over de bergen - William Kotzwinkle
4. Het vliegend hert - Snežana Bukal 5. Een soort familie - Kees van Beijnum
6. Omdat wij vrienden zijn - Tommy Wieringa
7. Levinsons reis - Hans Moll
8. Joyce Carol Oates - The Tatooed Girl 9. Reis naar een donker hart - Peter Hoeg
10. Offerande - Lydia Rood
11. Russisch Blauw - Rascha Peper 12. Begrafenis van de sardine - Hans Dekkers
13. Déjà Dead - Kathy Reichs
14. Trick of the Dark - Val McDermid 15. The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
16. V is for Vengeance - Sue Grafton
17. Gebroken - Kathy Reichs 18. Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs
19. Tweestrijd - René Appel
20. Maandagskinderen - Arnaldur Indridason 21. Alles te verliezen - Esther Verhoef
22. De schaduw in het water - Inger Frimansson
23. Verstoken - Jesse Kellerman
24. De Dromenvanger - Unni Lindell 25. De vierde overvaller - Kjell Ola Dahl
26. De Rouwmantel - Unni Lindell
27. After Dark - Haruki Murikami 28. Monday Mourning - Kathy Reichs
29. De Verdenking - Michael Robotham
30. Reiskoorts - Boudewijn Büch 31. Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
32. Falling Angels - Barbara Gowdy
33. De vrouw in de kooi - Jussi Adler-Olsen
34. De Noodkreet in de fles - Jussi Adler-Olsen 35. Dossier 64 - Jussi Adler-Olsen
36. Feest - Maarten 't Hart
37. Verraad - Karin Alvtegen 38. Zuiderkruis - Pauline Slot
39. Donderdagmiddag, half vier - Kristien Hemmerechts
40. Liefste in de verte - Jeroen Brouwer 41. Zoeken naar Eileen W. Leon de Winter
42. Zonder Poespas naar de Tapas - Roos Boum
43. Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
44. Exit Music - Ian Rankin 45. Crossing Path - Debbie Robson
46. Angel Falls - Kristin Hannah
47. De fazantenmoordenaars - Jussi Adler Olsen
48. Op hoge hakken naar Santiago - Cathelijne Paulus van Pauwvliet
49. The Woman who went to Bed for a Year - Sue Townsend
50. Spoetnikliefde - Haruki Murakami 51. Zusters in het kwaad - diverse schrijvers
52. The Unquiet - John Connolly
53. In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner - Elizabeth George
54. Daar ging m'n string - Jennifer Leo
Books I've Read in 2011 (71)
1. Broken - Karin Slaughter
2. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water - Michael Dorris 3. A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
4. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
5. After you'd Gone - Maggie O'Farrell
6. Een Spaans hondje - Rascha Peper 7. Playing for the Ashes - Elizabeth George
8. De Hinkelbaan - Sepha de Leeuw
9. De Asielzoeker - Arnon Grunberg 10. Margaret Forster - The Memory Box
11. De Mannentester - Heleen van Royen
12. Kinderen van de liefde - Marilyn French 13. Zoete Mond - Thomas Roosenboom
14. Dikke Dame - Hanneke Groenteman
15. The Evidence Exposed - Elizabeth George
16. Oesters - Rascha Peper 17. The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
18. Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler
19. Dooi - Rasha Peper
20. Indelible - Karin Slaughter 21. Something to tell you - Hanif Kureishi
22. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
23. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood 24. The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing - Melissa Bank
25. Midzomernacht - Åse Larsson
26. Kodiak-58 - Jef Geeraerds 27. Diamant - Jef Geeraerds
28. De Coltmoorden - Jef Geeraerds 29. Ronald Giphart - Keukenprins
30. De eenzaamheid van de priemgetallen
31. Hondendromen - Bernlef
32. Ongezien - Karin Slaughter 33. Roodkapje - Unni Lindell
34. The Winner Stands Alone - Paulho Coelho 35. Moederkruid - Carry Slee
36. Alleen maar nette mensen - Robert Vuijsje
37. Australië op blote voeten - Marlo Morgan
38. Het laatste offer - Mitchell Smith 39. Mijn eigen kind - Jacquelyn Mitchard
40. Solar - Ian McEwan
41. A matter of Honour - Jeffrey Archer
42. De gekwelde man - Henning Mankell 43. Verlies - Nicci French
44. De Intrigant - Patricia Snel 45. This Body of Death - Elizabeth George
46. Dorp van Steen - Xiaolu Guo
47. Portret van een heer - Tommy Wieringa
48. Torticollis - Jan Siebelink 49. A Pale View of Hills -Kazuo Ishiguro
50. Het verboden pad - Kees van Beijnum
51. Zomertijd- Suzanne Vermeer
52. Is uw man al af? - Esther Verhoef 53. Midwinteroffer - Anna Jansson
54. Siegfried - Harry Mulish
55. Moon Palace - Paul Auster 56. Deadly Décisions - Kathy Reichs
57. Not in the Flesh - Ruth Rendell
58. This sweet Sickness - Patricia Highsmith 59. Child's Play - Reginald Hill
60. Exit Lines - Reginald Hill
61. Eleven - Patricia Highsmith 62. China Lake - Meg Gardener
63. The Blunderer - Patricia Hightsmith
64. Going Wrong - Ruth Rendell 65. Ruling Passion - Reginald Hill
66. People Who Knock on the Door - Patricia Highsmith
67. A Lesson before Dying - Ernest J. Gaines
68. Grof Wild - Pieter Aspe 69. Fallen - Karin Slaughter
70. De plant die muziek maakte - Theodoor Holman 71. Verre Vrienden - Robbert Welagen
Books I've Read in 2010 (85)
1. The Water is Wide - Pat Conroy
2. The Ice Princess - Camilla Läckberg
3. Shadows of the Twilight - Henning Mankell
4. Spitzen - Thomas Rosenboom 5. Brieven aan een grote dochter - Harriet Freezer
6. In de ban van mijn vader - Sandro Veronesi
7. The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
8. A Valley Wide - Alexis Brown 9. The Help - Kathryn Stocket
10. Ik zal leven - Marianne Thamm 11. Kick Back - Val McDermid
12. Things I want my Daughters to Know - Elizabeth Noble 13. Tango - Pieter Aspe
14. Bitter with Baggage seeks Same - Sloane Tanen
15. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
16. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink 17. De oesters van Nam Kee - Kees van Beijnum
18. Brede heupen - Kristien Hemmerechts
19. Dorsvloer vol confetti - Franca Treur
20. Mannen met een groot hart - Inger Frimansson 21. A Faint Cold Fear - Karin Slaughter
22. The Breaker - Minette Walters
23. The Granny Diaries - Adair Lara 24. De Sandwich - A.F.Th. van der Heijden
25. A Darker Domain - Val McDermid
26. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith 27. Het beloofde land/in Afrika - Adriaan van Dis
28. Little Children - Tom Perrota
29. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill
30. Nachttrein naar Lissabon - Pascal Mercier 31. Dubbelliefde - Adriaan van Dis
32. Moord en Doodslag - Doeschka en Geerten Meijsing
33. Tirza - Arnon Grunberg
34. Ik verzin dit niet - Sylvia Witteman 35. Clean Break - Val McDermid
36. Crack Down - Val McDermid
37. De jonge Wallander - Henning Mankell
38. Honden van Riga - Henning Mankell 39. De Witte Leeuwin - Henning Mankell
40. Joe Speedboot - Tommy Wieringa
41. Koningswater - Rood en Rood 42. Blue Genes - Val McDermid
43. Dead Beat - Val McDermid
44. Star Struck - Val McDermid 45. Schaduwkind - P.F. Thomése
46. A Place of Excecution - Val McDermid 47. De Klokkenluider - Tomas Ross
48. Vertraging - Tim Krabbé
49. Veranderd Licht - Jens Christian Grøndahl
50. Invisible - Paul Auster 51. Figuranten - Arnon Grunberg
52. Betrayal in Death - J.D. Robb
53. We Are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka
54. De vrouw die op Greta Garbo leek - Tomas Ross & Maj Sjöwall 55. De Vlieger - Maarten 't Hart
56. Onder de sneeuw - Kerstin Ekman
57. Dwars door Groenland - Ronald Naar
58. Anna, Hanna en Johanna - Marianne Frederikson 59. De Zonnewijzer - Maarten 't Hart
60. Mechanica - Thomas Rosenboom
61. A Piano in the Pyrenees - Tony Hawk
62. The Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid 63. Skin Privilege - Val McDermid
64. The Book of Illusions - Paul Auster
65. Never hit a Jellyfish with a Spade - Guy Browning
66. A Suitable Vengeance - Elizabeth George 67. Genesis- Karin Slaughter
68. De man van 8 miljoen - Edwin Oden
69. While I was Gone - Sue Miller
70. Payment in Blood - Elizabeth George 71. Round Ireland with a Fridge - Tony Hawks
72. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
73. Als broer en zus - René Appel 74. De laatste liefde van mijn moeder - Dimitri Verhulst (read earlier, forgot to add it)
75. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
76. Brief aan mijn moeder - Waris Dirie 77. Triptych - Karin Slaughter
78. De kunst van het rijden in de regen - Garth Stein
79. Mama Tandoori - Ernest van der Kwast
80. Paradiso - Kees van Beijnum 81. Fractured - Karin Slaughter
82. Kathy's dochter - Tim Krabbé
83. Het grote Doek - various 84. A Place of Hiding - Elizabeth George
For the sake of Elena - Elizabeth George
Books I've Read in 2009 (68)
1. Knielen op een bed violen - Jan Siebelink
2. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman (1/2)
3. Unless - Carol Shields (ring)
4. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk 5. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6. Coastliners - Joanna Harris
7. Three cups of Tea - Greg Mortison
8. 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith 9. The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve
10. Sight Unseen - Robert Goddard
11. A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
12. The Great American Busride - Irma Kurtz 13. The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
14. The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway
15. De Meermin - Hella S. Haasse
16. Du vin, du pain, du ...Pindakaas? - Roos Boum 17. Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
18. Over de Liefde - Doeschka Meijsing (ring)
19. Een schitterend gebrek - Arthur Japin
20. Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent - Fred Vargas 21. Rendez-Vous - Esther Verhoef
22. Godin van de Jacht - Heleen van Royen
23. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
24. Tsotsi - Athol Fugard 25. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
26. Digging to America - Anne Tyler 27. Until it's Over - Nicci French
28. The Sea - John Banville
29. The Water's lovely - Ruth Rendell
30. De Gelukkige Huisvrouw - Heleen van Royen
31. Hoe God Verdween uit Jorwerd - Geert Mak 32. The Sum of our Days - Isabel Allende
33. Jigs and Reels - Joanna Harris
34. Never go Back - Robert Goddard 35. The Hour I First Believed - Wally Lamb
36. Hide & Seek - Ian Rankin
37. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 38. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
39. Rise and Shine - Anna Quindlen
40. Empress Orchid - Anchee Min 41. The Girl who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson
42. Gerechtigheid - Stieg Larsson
43. Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell 44. Het huis van de Moskee - Kader Abdolah
45. Dream Angus - Alexander McCall Smith
46. Petite Anglaise - Catherine Sanderson
47. The Wire in the Blood - Val McDermid 48. The Mermaids Singing - Val McDermid
49. The Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall Smith
50. In the Springtime of the Year - Susan Hill
51. Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding - Paulien Cornelisse 52. De laatste verzoeking - Val McDermid
53. Swimmer in the Secret Sea - William Kotzwinkel
54. Uit de dood herrezen - Fred Vargas
55. The Awakening - Kate Chopin 56. De dikke van Deelder - J.A. Deelder
57. Zwart Water - Kerstin Ekman
58. When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
59. Bont en Blauw - Anna Quindlen 60. The Torment of Others - Val McDermid
61. Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
62. Verlovingstijd - Maarten 't Hart
63. Beneath the Bleeding - Val McDermid 64. Het Meesterstuk - Anna Enquist
65. Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
66. 'U' is for Undertow . Sue Grafton
67. Beach Music - Pat Conroy 68. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shafer
Books I've Read in 2008 (76)
1. The Gathering - Anne Enright
2. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters (ring)
3. He Who Fears the Wolf - Karin Fossum
4. Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson 5. A Bridge to the Stars - Henning Mankell
6. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
7. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
8. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 9. Faithless - Karin Slaughter
10. One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
11. Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth
12. The Year the Gypsies Came - Linzi Glass 13. Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend - Laney Katz Becker
14. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
15. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold
16. I Know this Much is True - Wally Lamb 17. Water for Elephants - Sandra Gruen
18. The Hours - Michael Cunningham
19. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson
20. J is for Judgment - Sue Grafton 21. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Gil Courtemanche
22. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (1001 library)
23. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
24. Stop Pretending - Sonya Sones 25. A is for Alibi - Sue Grafton
26. Moderato Cantabile - Marguerite Duras
27. An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears (1/3)
28. Une mort très douce - Simone de Beauvoir 29. The Lady on my Left - Catherine Cookson
30. The Sorrow of Belgium - Hugo Claus (partly)
31. Bloodlines - Jan Burke
32. Isabel's Daughter - J.R. Hendricks 33. The Scold's Bridle - Minette Walters
34. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
35. Where the Heart is - Billie Lets (2/3)
36. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 37. We have always lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
38. A Child called "It" - Dave Pelzer
39. B is for Burglar - Sue Grafton
40. D Is for Deadbeat - Sue Grafton 41. C is for Corpse - Sue Grafton
42. E is for Evidence - Sue Grafton
43. F is for Fugitive - Sue Grafton
44. G is for Gumshoe - Sue Grafton 45. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
46. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman - Elizabeth Buchan 47. H is for Homicide - Sue Grafton
48. I is for Innocent - Sue Grafton
49. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 50. De terugkeer van de dansleraar - Henning Mankell
51. Komt een vrouw bij de dokter - Kluun
52. De Weduwnaar - Kluun 53. White Oleander - Janet Fitch
54. Where she has gone - Nino Ricci 55. Halfborn Woman - Colleen Higgs
56. K is for Killer- Sue Grafton
57. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon 58. Bread Alone - Judy Hendricks
59. The Sinner - Tess Gerritsen
60. "G" is for Grafton - Nathalie Hevener Kaufman 61. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
62. Blessings - Anna Quindlen
63. L is for Lawless - Sue Grafton 64. M is for Malice - Sue Grafton
65. N is for Noose - Sue Grafton
66. All Souls Day - Cees Nooteboom 67. These is my Words - Nancy Turner
68. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (1/4)
67. Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute (reread)
68. O is for Outlow - Sue Grafton 69. P is for Peril - Sue Grafton
70. Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
71. R Is for Ricochet - Sue Grafton 72. S is for Silence - Sue Grafton
73. T is for Trespass - Sue Grafton
74. Kennedy's Brein - Henning Mankell 75. Boerin in Fluweel - Roos Boum (proef lezen)
76. Marley & Me - John Gorgan
Books I've Read in 2007 (84)
1. The Murder Room - P.D. James
2. Ja-maar wat als alles lukt - Berthold Gunster 3. The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron
4. The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver
5. Valse Salie - Roos Boum
6. Public Confessions of a Middle Aged Woman - Sue Townsend 7. Strange fits of Passion - Anita Shreve
8. Mijn zoon heeft een seksleven(audio)- Renate Dorrestein
9. Losing You - Nicci French
10. Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong (reread) 11. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
12. Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall Smith
13. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
14. Under the Skin - Michel Faber (well, 1/3, not finished) 15. Until death do us part - Ingrid Betancourt
16. A Heart of Stone - Renate Dorrestein
17. Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
18. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver 19. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
20. Small Island - Andrea Levy
21. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
22. Parvana - Deborah Ellis 23. The Little Calico and Tortoiseshell Cat book
24. We need to talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
25. The Pact - Jodi Picoult
26. The Reading Group - Elizabeth Noble 27. In the country of men - Hisham Matar
28. The Kalahari typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
29. Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
30. The Pilot's Wife- Anita Shreve 31. A Tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
32. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
33. Sea Glass - Anita Shreve
34. Oeroeg - Hella S. Haasse (herlezen) 35. Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver
36. Night - Elie Wiesel
37.The Lobster Chronicles - Linda Greenlaw
38. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer 39. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
40. The Piano - Jane Campion
41. Schijnbewegingen - Floortje Zwigtman
42. Without Mercy -Renate Dorrestein 43. Year of Pleasures- Elizabeth Berg
44. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
45. Eenzaam - Boudewijn Büch
46.The Fifth Child-Doris Lessing 47. Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
48.The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
49. Parvana's Journey - Deborah Ellis
50. A Lifetime Burning - Linda Gillard (unfinished) 51. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
52. Double-Barrel - Nicolas Freeling
53. Of Love and Shadows - Isabel Allende
54. Labyrinth-Kate Mosse 55. Een man voor mijn moeder - Tatjana van Zanten
56. Nederveen - Arnaldur Indridason
57. Rode Handen - J.C. Grøndahl
58. The Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris 59. Sins of the 7th Sister - Huston Curtiss
60. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid -Bill Bryson
61. Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan (1/3)
62. The Conjuror's Bird - Martin Davies 63. De nacht van 4 november - Karin Fossum
64. Too many Crooks spoil the Broth - Tamar Myers
65. Earthly Joys - Philippa Gregory
66. Ben, In the World - Doris Lessing 67. The Rottweiler -Ruth Rendell
68. Moordkuil - Arnaldur Indridason
69. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
70. Dying to tell - Robert Goddard 71. De Rouwmantel - Unni Lindell
72. She's come Undone - Wally Lamb
73. The Promiss - Chaim Potok
74. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 75. Desperadoes - Joseph O'Connor
76. Lucifer - Connie Palmen
77. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
78. The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson 79. Zes sterren - Joost Zwagerman
79. White Teeth - Zadie Smith not counting, abandoned half way
80. On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
81. Out Staling Horses - Per Pettersen 82. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
83. Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres (not finished)
84. Red Azalea - Anchee Min
Books I've Read in 2006 (62)
1. Veronika besluit te sterven - Paulo Coelho
2. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 3. The Time Traveller's wife - Audrey Niffenegger
4. The 5 People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
5. The Theft - Saul Bellow 6. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
7. The Kindness of Strangers - Kate Adie 8. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
9. Enduring love - Ian McEwan 10. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
11. Een mooi leesboek - Marjan Berk 12. The Tao of Pooh - Benjamin Hoff
13. To kill a mockingbird - Harper Lee 14. Mag ik hem nog ruilen? - Yvonne Kroonenberg
15. Amsterdam - Ian McEwan 16. My sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
17. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank - Thad Carhart
18. Wanneer vraagtekens uitroeptekens worden - Roos Boum 19. Oostenwind, koningskind - Fleur Bourgogne
20. Even the stars look lonesome - Maya Angelou
21. The Whale Rider - Witi Ihimaera 22. Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
23. Year in Provence - Peter Mayle 24. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
25. House of sand and fog - Andre Dubus III 26. A Sight for Sore Eyes = Ruth Rendell
27. Stuffed - Patricia Volk 28. The tree of hands - Ruth Rendell
29. Oranges are not the only fruit 30. On Writing - Stephen King
31. The incident with the dog in the nighttime - Mark Haddon
32. In a Dark Wood Wandering - Hella S. Haasse 33. The Liars' Club - Mary Karr
34. The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields 35. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
36. Zij houdt van hem. Hij ook - Yvonne Kroonenberg
37. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs 38. Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
39. The Slow Train to Milan - Lisa St Aubin de Terán
40. Just one Look - Harlan Coben 41. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
42. Never let me go - Kazuo Ishiguro 43. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
44. Maps for Lost Lovers (1/2)- Nadeem Aslam 45. Lucky - Alice Sebold
46. The beginning of Spring-Penelope Fitzgerald
47. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency - A.McCall Smith 48. On the Way Home - Laura Ingalls Wilder
49. The Poinsonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
50. Dry - a Memoir - Augusten Burroughs 51. Don't let's go to the dogs tonight -Alexandra Fuller
52. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith 53. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
54. A Year in the Merde - Stephen Clarke 55. Me talk pretty one day - David Sedaris
56. West from Home - Laura Ingalls Wilder 57. Loot - Nadine Gordimer
58. A short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
59. Tears of the Giraffe - Alexander McCall Smith 60. The Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
61. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 62. The Gift of Asher Lev - Chaim Potok
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Books moved on in 2008 (48)
1. You're bringing out the animal in me - Arkas - (RABCK)
2. The Night Watch - Sarah Waters (ring)
3. Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer (RABCK)
4. He who Fears the Wolf - Karin Fossum (ray) 5.The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly (ray)
6. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (ring)
7. Labyrint - Kate Moss (RABCK)
8. The secret life of bees - Sue Monk Kidd (RABCK) 9. French women don't get fat - Mireille Guiliano (RABCK)
10. Bridge to Therabitha - Katherine Paterson (RABCK)
11. Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth (RABCK)
12. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (ring) 13. The Almost Moon - Alice Sebold (ring)
14. A short History of Tractors in Ukranian- Marina Lewycka (RABCK)
15. Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend - Laney Katz Becker (ring)
16. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Gil Courtemanche (ring)
17. Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson (RABCK)
18. The Hours -Michael Cunningham (ring) 19. Moderato Cantabile - Marguerite Duras (wild release)
20. Stop Pretending - Sonya Sones (trade)
21. East Anglian Recipes - Mary Norwak RABCK
22. The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith RABCK
23. Killing the Angel in the House - Virginia Woolf (RABCK) 24. Isabel's Daughter - J.R. Hendricks (ring)
25. A Bridge to the Stars - Henning Mankell (RABCK)
26. The Cauldron - Colin Forbes (RABCK)
27. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer(RABCK) 28 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Adichie (ray)
29. Morality for Beautiful Girls - AMS (RABCK)
30. Where the Heart is - Billie Letts(RABCK)
31. The Reading Group - Elizabeth Nobel (RABCK) 32. J is for Judgement - Sue Grafton (RABCK)
33. The World is my Home - James Michener OBCZ
34. Tears of the Giraffe _ AMS OBCZ
35. The Knowledge of Water - Sarah Smith OBCZ 36. An Instance of the Fingerpost - Ian Pears OBCZ
37. The Heart is a lonely Hunter - Carson McCullersOBCZ
38. Accordion Crimes - Annie E. Proulx OBCZ
39. The Liar - Stephen Frey OBCZ 40. Seaglass - Anita Shreve
41. Faithless -Karin Slaughter OBCZ
42. The Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell OBCZ
43. Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman - Elizabeth Buchan (ray) 44. On the Way Home - Laura Ingalls Wilder (RABCK)
45. Halfborn Woman - Colleen Higgs (RABCK)
46. On the Road - Jack Kerouac (ray)
47. Pardon my French - Charles Timoney 48. Possession - A.S. Byatt (1001-library)
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Books moved on in 2009 (22)
1. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
2. Unless - Carol Shields (ring) 3. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk (ray)
4. Blessings - Anna Quindlen (RABCK)
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson (RABCK)
6. Over de Liefde Doeschka Meijsing (ring) 7. The Child in Time - Ian McEwan (1001-library)
8. A child called 'It' - Dave Pelzer (RABCK)
9. The Great American Bus Ride - Irma Kurtz (RABCK)
10. Tsotsi - Athol Fugard 11. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens (1001-library)
12. Italian Shoes - Henning Mankell (ring)
13. Dream Angus - Alexander McCall Smith (RABCK)
14. How Reading Changed My Life - Anna Quindlen RABCK 15. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (RABCK)
16. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
17. The Sum of our Days - Isabel Allende (RABCK)
18. Marley & Me - John Grogan(RABCK) 19. The Road from Coorain - Jill Ker Conway (RABCK)
20. These is my Words - Nancy E. Turner (RABCK)
21. Swimmer in the Secret Sea - William Kotzwinkle (RABCK)
22. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (RABCK)
Books moved on in 2010 (28)
1. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee (1001)
2. Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi (1001)
3. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
4. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys 5. The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
6. Spitzen - Thomas Rosenboom
7. Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer 8. A Valley Wide - Alexis Brown
9. Bitter with Baggage seeks Same - Sloane Tanen
10.The Granny Diaries - Adair Lara 11. Dream Big - Ian Falconer
12. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
13. Ik zal leven - Marianne Thamm
14. In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith 15. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
16. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
17. Criminal Conversation - Nicolas Freeling
18. Een Ezeldroom - Inez van Dullemen 19. De Klokkenluider - Tomas Ross
20. Vertraging - Tim Krabbé
21. Schaduwkind - P.F. Thomése 22. A Darker Domain - Val McDermid
23. Christine Falls - Benjamin Black
24. Homo Faber - Max Frisch 25. Waiting for the Barbarians - J.M. Coetzee
26. De laatste liefde van mijn moeder - Dimitri Verhulst
27. Onder de Sneeuw - Kerstin Ekman
28. Dwars door Groenland - Ronald Naar
Books moved on in 2011 (15)
1. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
2. Een Spaans Hondje - Rascha Peper
3. De Hinkelbaan - Sepha de Leeuw 4. Het ontsnapte land - Geert Mak
5. Anna, Hanna en Johanna - Marianne Fredriksson
6. Moordvrouw - Hendrik Jan Korterink
7. De Pianoman - Bernlef 8. De Poortwachter - Kristian Lundberg
9. De kunst van het rijden in de regen - Garth Stein
10. Het Schnitzelparadijs - Khalid Boudou
11. Het land dat voor ons ligt - David Guterson 12. Dooi - Rascha Peper
13. Clean Break - Val McDermid
14. Crack Down - Val McDermid 15. Verlies - Nicci French
I also 'kept them moving' in 2012 and I do participate in the challenge, but I don't keep a list here anymore.
In 2013 I stopped taking part altogether, because I want to consentrate on challenge in the Dutch forum.
Contact info
You can find my email and snailmail address at RABCK.com
If you are not a member please leave a message in one of the forums, if I don't answer your PM's. I normally answer them within say 48 hrs. I fnot, it's possible I have not received it or......that I'm away from home without internet access.
Please note: dates that I'm away from home without internet access will be mentioned here:
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