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bourbongal

From Langley, British Columbia Canada
Joined Thursday, January 29, 2009
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4 weeks all time
books registered 0 202
released in the wild 0 75
controlled releases 0 26
releases caught 0 10
controlled releases caught 0 8
books found 0 22
tell-a-friend referrals 0 0
new member referrals 0 2
forum posts 0 324
Extended Profile
My profile picture is often an indicator of the book I am currently reading.

Some random BC Stats:

As of May 8/09 I have released 55.5% of the books I have registered

16.4% of those books have been caught.

The bulk of my releases have been wild.

I spent more time reading and less time on the internet and stopped recording my 2009 reads in about July (the count then was 55)

Books read in 2010:

January
(1) Peony in Love - Lisa See
(2) The Lost Highway - David Richard Adams
(3) Under the Dome - Stephen King
(4) Cut - Patricia McKormick
(5) The End of the Affair - G. Greene
(1001 book)

February
(1) The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
(2) Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels
(3) Go Ask Alice - Anonymous
(4) Story of O (1001 Book)-Pauline Reage
(5) Shanghai Girls - Lisa See
(6) The Time Travellers Wife

March
(1) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1001 Book)
(2) The Book of Lies - Brad Meltzer
(3) Microserfs - Douglas Coupland
(4) Final Breath - Kevin O'Brien
(5) A Painted House - John Grisham

My "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" Bookshelf:

The English Patient- Michael Ondaajte
Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams
Story of O-Pauline Reage
All Quiet on the Western Front-Erich Maria Remarque
Howard's End-E.M. Forster
The Last of the Mohicans-J. Fenimore Cooper
Pride & Prejudice-Jane Austen
A Farewell to Arms- E. Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury-W. Faulkner
The Scarlet Letter-N. Hawthorne
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (belongs to 1001 library)
Alice B. Toklas - Gertrude Stein (belongs to 1001 library)
Memoirs of a Geisha (belongs to 1001 Library)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
To Have and Have Not
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Rainbow - DH Lawrence
Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky
(belongs to 1001 Library)
The Hours - M. Cunningham
(belongs to 1001 library)


I'm willing to trade any of my "1001 Books" for other books on or off "The List"












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