Recent Book Activity

Reading now: May 2012
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card


Thank you booklady331 for two months extension on my wings, (for being a winner in your 8000 rabck)!
Thanks to Into-the-Blue for one month's wings from Wishlist Tag Game
Thank you also to Flossie771 for THREE whole months of wings from the Wish List Tag game!! Much appreciated.
UPDATE: I just noticed today, (19th March), that my wings have been extended by one extra month! I do not yet know who has kindly gifted me with an extra month of wings. Please own up so that I can thank you properly. This is much appreciated since I do not have a PayPal account or even a bank account in this country where I live now. So I can never order things, such as wings, without help from others! So thank you my mystery winger!

My birthday is on 14th September.


I am willing to do trades from my available list if the book you want doesn't cost too much to send. I try to send out only books that fit through a letterbox, from here in The Netherlands, because The postal costs here are extremely expensive. Whenever I'm in England, then I'm willing to post most sizes of book to others, because the English postal charges are very reasonable and affordable for what you can send. A bit about myself:

Fridge dweller! :))
I have always loved reading books. I am happy to be a member of bookcrossing because it's nice to know that my books are being passed on to others after I have read them.I love reading because stories take me into another world! I love books with happy endings, and I also love thrillers. I like audiobooks, because it is so relaxing for me to put my feet up, close my eyes and listen to a tape or cd that tells a story, or even comedy, or poetry. In fact, if someone else is doing the reading, then I don't mind what it is they are reading!
My favourite author at this time is Alexander McCall Smith, and I would really love to read all of his books. I am now also looking for his children's books. So if anyone has one that they can offer me, I'd be willing to swap a book from my shelf for it.

I like almost any genre: children's books, teen's, thrillers, horror, poetry books, audiobooks, some romance,(NOT Barbara Cartland or Silhouette or Harlequin), sad or happy!

I like most books written by M.C.Beaton. I really like ghost stories, and horror stories, and children's books, and oh how I love books of short stories, or even just one short story. I love those little thin books that just have one story. They are perfect to fit inside my handbag, to be read whilst I'm travelling by bus or car, (as the passenger, not the driver)! I like chick-lit, too! :)) I especially love stories set at the seaside, because I like to transport myself there in my imagination. I do so miss the seaside, because where I live now is nowhere near the sea! :( Ooooh nearly forgot my lifelong love of Rupert Bear annuals. Whenever I visit England the annuals are not on sale. So I can never get more of them!:(

More about me: Well I am English, born and bred, and I come from good old Essex, (forget all the jokes about "Essex Girls"), but I do come complete with Essex sayings like "It's good here innit", and of course I have an Essex accent, although I can speak "The Queen's English" if I put my mind to it. (My mother speaks it all the time!), but I use it as my telephone voice, (according to the views of my children), and also if I'm talking to posh people, or if I'm going for a job interview! :)

I moved to The Netherlands in 2002. Books are just too expensive here and English books are so hard to find.I am unemployed, and it is so difficult to get a job here in The Netherlands. I do not receive unemployment benefit, nor any benefit at all. My partner supports me fully! So it is always hard to get any money together to buy books! I really love people, (ok, not everyone), and I never forget kindness from others.I'm just a friendly person! I hate being lonely, and as an expat in another country you can get very lonely sometimes. That's where books can help, by taking you into a different environment for a short while. I am willing to do book swaps, if I can afford the postage at the time! (I am willing to send out smallish books, but until I can get a job, I can't send out any that cost too much in postage)!

I love cats, and I love babies! I like swimming and I swim every week. I go to a gym twice a week. After my first year here in the Netherlands I got very ill, and unfit. Now after being on the Atkins diet for 3 years I am managing to reverse all that. So I can say I also love food, and I try to find low-carb recipes that are really easy to do. I also like stories about fat people, and their successes and failures. One of my fave books is Diary of a Fat Housewife by Rosemary Green. That was so funny, so sad and so inspiring.
I hope that I am a nice person. I try to be. Please do try to get to know me if you wish to. PMs are always welcome. I collect friends! . :)

Oh I forgot to mention that digital photography is another hobby of mine. I take photos almost every single day!
Please read my wish list, as I would be so grateful for any wishes granted.
** I read books in the English language only.








































Note to myself: my wings are due to expire on 15th May 2013.