Recent Book Activity

Hello BookCrossers!!!


Thank you bookcrossing for reviving my passion for books after a bit of an arid period when everything else seemed to take up so much time I lost my way!

I have always read avidly in the past, was a bookworm as a child and yes I even enjoyed studying literature at school and read a lot as a teenager (how things have changed!). Should have done English at Uni but did something completely different and came back to it later in life doing an MA in my 30s.

Nowadays I like to escape into good fiction and its all for pleasure and as therapy in an increasingly fraught and stressful world.

My tastes are varied, although I do like my reading matter to be well written and thought provoking – I like to consume gourmet products rather than junk food!!!! Not that I’m a book snob or anything...

I’m particularly fond of classic spooky and gothic tales such as those of MR James and Sheridan Le Fanu and I like psychological thrillers, especially those set in interesting historical periods. I’m discovering new authors all the time – for which I have to thank Bookcrossing.

Favourite authors include Jane Austen, The Brontes, Wilkie Collins, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Raymond Chandler, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Susan Hill, Barbara Vine, Sarah Waters, Kate Atkinson.

I’m happy to trade any of my availables but please don’t ask for books unless you are offering something in return or I can see that you are an active releaser and giver of books yourself.

I occasionally do international RABCKS as I love to see my books go on interesting journeys and meet other book lovers all over the world.


BOOKS READ IN 2011
Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann
The Secret Life of Trees - Colin Tudge
Candlemoth - R J Ellory
When will there be Good News - Kate Atkinson
House of Silence - Linda Gillard (e book)
Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffennegger
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
Saints of New York - R J Ellory
The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Into the Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes
In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant
One Day -David Nicholls
Untying the Knot - Linda Gillard (ebook)
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Stiff - Mary Roach (bookray)
A Gathering Light- Jennifer Donnelly
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel

BOOKS READ IN 2012:
The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe
The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
A Room Swept White - Sophie Hannah
Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson
A Quiet Vendetta - R J Ellory
The Seance - John Harwood
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
A Venetian Reckoning - Donna Leon
Room - Emma Donoghue
Sleepy Head - Mark Billingham
Every Breath You Take - Michelle Spring

Currently reading: The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton
BOOKRINGS AND RAYS I'VE STARTED:

The Birth of Venus
Middlesex



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