Recent Book Activity

My profile picture is in honor of my beloved javaczuk, who shares my passions for books, good company, and great coffee. (The espresso macchiato art is by a local barrista here in Charleston at our Kudu Coffee OBCZ.)
Peace on Earth; Good Books to All.
Please do not ask me for trades or send unsolicited requests for me to send books out to you. You may be the sweetest person on earth, but I don't want to send you a book simply because you request it. My budget is limited. I concentrate mostly on wild releases and stocking the OBCZs. :)

This was taken at the Book Tree (aka Bücherwald) in Berlin. And it's a great bookshelf! Brilliant! It's in front of a store called Noa Noa just off the corner of Kollwitzstraße and Sredzkistraße in Prenzlauer Berg.


Our Charleston (and SC, and those who are interested in Charleston...) BookCrossers group is hosted by Yahoo! Click here to visit or join.


The Charleston area has A Bunch of OBCZs .
Downtown

• Kudu Coffee (Kuducoffee) 4 Vanderhorst St Downtown (just off King and very near Blue Bicycle Books at 420 King St
  
  
• WildFlour Pastry 73 Spring St, Downtown Charleston between Coming and Rutledge. Parking on street or in rear.
  
  
• Rising High Natural Bread Bakery & Cafe (RisingHighBaker) at 480 East Bay St.

James Island, West Ashley, Folly Beach

• Muddy Waters Coffee Bar (MuddyWatersCafe) 1739 Maybank Hwy at the corner of Maybank and Folly Rd on James Island
  
  
• Kronic Coffee and Cafe (KronicCoffee)827 Folly Rd, James Island, 843-225-7574
  
• Local Coffee (Local CoffeeOBCZ) on 1331 Ashley River Road, West Ashley
  
  
  
• Haddon Hall Apartments, run by ali-books, West Ashley, in the office of Hadden Hall Apartments
  
  
  
• Simply Your Spa on 1901 Ashley River Road (Hwy 61), West Ashley
  
  
• How Art Thou? Cafe; 1956 Maybank Hwy (Terrace Shopping Center), James Island

I also manage the OBCZ at Grapes and Beans in Clayton, Georgia (the release zone is here, though I get there far less frequently than I wish.)


Here is my favorite picture of my mum (known as bumma), who left us in 2009 at age 87 and another to honor her love of Jane Austen (Full story is here. )


Bookczuk is pronounced book-chuk, roughly as in "how many books could a bookczuk chuck...The icon is by shadie, but it should help you remember how to say my name right, should we ever meet!




I am awaiting my turn at book for several bookrays/rings. If for some reason I do not answer your PM, please try again. I usually am fairly good about getting back to folks who contact me, but sometimes my mailserver shuffles PMs off to the spam trap. Go figure.

BookRing for Crossing Paths:
North America (from bookczuk):
aetm USA
SeamonkeyofTVCH USA
oldreader USA
Mystery52 USA
plainjane8160 (USA) USA preferred <-- here now
back to bookczuk

Bookring (at author's request) for Jerusalem Spring (Shipping preferences in parentheses):
LovesOU US (Intl)
Sherlockfan NZ (Intl) aster, New York USA)
JudySlump612 (Minneapolis, Minnesota USA)
disneyfreaksam, (Warminster, Wiltshire United Kingdom)
raluk68 Romania (Intl)
mafarrimond UK (EU)
karen07814 UK (EU)
okyrhoe Greece (intl)
Totje2 The Netherlands (EU)
ruzena Finland (Intl)
minesayn
judygreeneyes US (US/Canada preferred)<-- here now
bookczuk US

Here are my bookrings "Stalled in Translation":
700 Sundays Has been to : MaryZee,allysther,WelshHelen, Trelk, BountifulPots, Veleta, bean-frog,Alive, FeralReader, bakerwhencan, jamesmum (see journal for explanation) , fsr44
otakuu NZ, Intl <-- headed here by surface mail, but apparently LOST in the mail, June 2008
glade1 US
rebeccaljames, then back to me

Walden and Civil Disobedience- Thoreau bookring:
Last with simietta-Sept 24 2004- stalled; Jan 05 "to be mailed soon" ), STALLED here
Netstation,and then back to me

Cafe Haiku
nimrodiel, IL,
hpfairy01- MI STALLED here July 2005,
symphonicca, Vienna Austria
duza-kaluza, Poland
netstation UK



Haiku U
Last with s3rendipity GRE and supposed to be headed to RockDg9 in OZ (Int'l)as of Sept 2 2006- but is MIA. If it turns up, it heads out to:
over-the-moon SUI (Int'l)
vannessave USA (USA)
ladiibbug USA (USA)
twiggywig USA (USA)
buffra USA (Int'l)
quizgirl UK (Int'l) (PM me- I want to RABCK it to someone on your side of the pond!)


Charleston SC BookCrossers were thrilled to host the 2007 Convention here, and the 2008 UnConvention, Redoing the Charleston. Thanks to all who helped and participated.


We have a website you can check for info on local activities and events. (Please note our old website http://charlestonbookcrossing.com currently does not work.)