Recent Book Activity

Update January 2012 - Although I'm not very active at the moment, I'm still interested in BookCrossing and participating in the occasional bookray/ring. If I don't reply to a PM you've sent, it's because I haven't received it, so please keep trying until you hear back from me. xxx

Bookrings/rays/spirals/boxes I've Been Involved In:

Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
2008-2009 UK Bookbox
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Bookrings/rays/spirals/boxes I've Organised:

The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Ox-Tales Spiral: Earth, Air, Fire, Water by Oxfam
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti
UK Award-Winning Women Writers Bookbox
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Books Read in 2012:

1. Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans (ebook)
2. A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (ebook)
3. The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (audiobook)
4. The Sign of The Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (audiobook)
5. Helen Sloane's Diary by Jeff Lucas

Books Read in 2011:

1. The Other Hand by Chris Cleve
2. By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coehlo
3. How to Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran (e-book)
4. PIrates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom by A C Crispin
5. The Pirate and The Puritan by Mary Clayton (ebook)
6. Bound By the Heart by Marsha Canham (ebook)
7. How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
8. My Wicked Pirate by Rona Sharon (ebook)
9. Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn
10. The Seahawk's Sanctuary by Lynne Marie (ebook)
11. Capture My Heart by Bobbi Smith
12. The Gate to Woman's Country by Sherri S Tepper
13. The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh
14. Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
15. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions On Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
16. Diary of a Diet: A Little Book of Big by Hannah Jones
17. Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
18. Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber
19. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
20. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
21. Voices by Ursula Le Guin

Books Read in 2010:

1. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks
2. Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
3. The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry
4. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
5. Saturday by Ian McEwan
6. Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
7. Not the End of the World by Kate Atkinson
8. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
10. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter by A. J. Rochester
11. Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
12. It's the Little Things by Erica James
13. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
14. Seriously Funny by Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas
15. Different Eyes: The Art of Living Beautifully by Steve Chalke
16. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
17. Love of Fat Men by Helen Dunmore
18. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings by Linda Anderson
19. Gateway by Frederik Pohl
20. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
21. No.1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
22. The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
23. Property by Valerie Martin
24. Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
25. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
26. The Editor's Wife by Clare Chambers
27. Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
28. A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
29. Gallows View by Peter Robinson
30. The Danger by Dick Francis

Books Read in 2009:

1. Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1/1001)
3. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
4. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
5. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (2/1001)
6. The Princess Bride by William Goldman
7. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (3/1001)
8. Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
9. The Rest of the Robots by Isaac Asimov
10. The Brave Little Toaster by Thomas M. Disch
11. Animal Farm by George Orwell (4/1001)
12. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
13. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
14. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
15. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (5/1001)
16. Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin
17. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
18. The Wives of Bath by Wendy Holden
19. Days by Eva Figes
20. The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt
21. The Bad Mother's Handbook by Kate Long
22. Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
23. Sassinak by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon
24. Horowitz Horror by Anthony Horowitz
25. Molly Fox's Birthday by Deidre Madden
26. An Angel's Story by Max Lucado
27. The Yellow Room - Issue 2 Various Authors
28. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
29. Moab is My Washpot by Stephen Fry
30. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
31. Trumpet by Jackie Kay
32. Ox-Tales: Earth by Various
33. Ox-Tales: Air by Various
34. Ox-Tales: Fire by Various
35. Ox-Tales: Water by Various
36. Octopussy and 007 in New York by Ian Fleming
37. Star Sullivan by Maeve Binchy
38. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (6/1001)
39. Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx
40. December by Elizabeth H Winthrop
41. The Cave by Kate Mosse
42. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
43. One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
44. When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
45. I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti (7/1001)
46. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (8/1001)
47. The Orchard On Fire by Shena Mackay
48. The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
49. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
50. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
51. Small Island by Andrea Levy (8/1001)
52. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (9/1001)
53. Seeking Rapture: A Memoir by Kathryn Harrison
54. Toast: The Story of A Boy's Hunger by Nigel Slater
55. Pirates! by Celia Rees
56. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
57. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
58. Disgrace by J M Coetzee (10/1001)
59. The Giver by Lois Lowry
60. The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
61. Don't Ever Tell by Kathy O' Beirne
62. Black-Eyed Devils by Catrin Collier
63. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
64. The Dare by John Boyne
65. A Cool Head by Ian Rankin
66. The Grey Man by Andy McNab
67. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
68. A Pirate's Love by Joanna Lindsey