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JUNE 19, 2012- MY EIGHT-YEAR BOOKCROSSING ANNIVERSARY !!
SO..... to celebrate eight years with BookCrossing, I've registered a few more books... enough to take me over the 500 mark. Plan to release ten books the weekend of May 11/12 in Prescott, AZ during BookCrosser KimKerry's FB & BC meetup.
25 November 2006 - wild release # 100 !!!
20 August 2008 - tell-a-friend referrals - hit the 100 mark!
Check out this great flash fiction web site , started by a bookcrosser.
THIS is my most favorite new member (not active) and journal entry for a "catch". It's pretty special.
STATS
43 out of 222 Wild Releases have been caught & journalled as of April 2012.
This is my favorite ; it just keeps traveling and this one
278+ (lost count somewhere) books mailed out as RABCKS or as part of a Trade
Here's where they went:
USA: (37 states as of August 2009)
AZ AL CA CO CT DC FL GA HI IA IL KS KY LA AR MD MI MN MO NC NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OR PA RI SC TX VA WA WI WV PR DE
UK : England, Scotland
Canada : Ontario, Vancouver, New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia, Quebec
And, as far away as ... Portugal, Cyprus, the Netherlands, France, Russia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Argentina, Australia, Iran, New Zealand, China, Germany, Italy, SriLanka, Brazil, Finland, Uganda, India
My new favorite book (2011): Eat, Pray, Love. Just totally related to this woman and her take on life. Love her philosophies. Wish I had her adventurous spirit in regards to travel.
Books, BookCrossing & Me:
So what is it about BookCrossing I enjoy so much? There are so many bits and pieces:
I love the book club aspect of book rings, the altruistic facet of wild releases, the sharing part of RABCKS and trades, and of course the community feeling of the forums.
Generally speaking, I prefer books about women and books written by women; women and their perspectives just seem so much more interesting to me, in general, than men !! Broad (excuse the pun :) ) statement, but there you have it ! I particularly enjoy memoirs and biographies.
I go through phases with authors, which have included Jane Austen, Anne Rice, Barbara Kingsolver, Amy Tan, Leon Uris, Alice Walker, Carol Shields, Diana Gabaldon, Elizabeth Berg, Anita Shreve, Sunetra Gupta, Gail Tsukiyama, Nuala O'Faolain, Jhumpa Lariri, Anchee Min, Toni Morrison, and recently, Marilynne Robinson, Lisa See, and Tom Robbins.
One of the joys of BookCrossing has been the introduction to authors and book titles I might have otherwise left untried.
BOOK RINGS STARTED BY ME
A Bookray, Still Traveling:
Bad Cats - 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad,
journal entries
COMPLETED and then RABCK'd:
Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik
A FEW UNCOMPLETED RINGS, STALLED SOMEWHERE or LOST:
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories
The DaVinci Code has surfaced - 2011 - unbelievable !!!!
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
and, the first copy of this book
By The Light of My Father's Smile - by Alice Walker
BOOK RINGS I'VE JOINED - WAITING MY TURN
BOOKRINGS - RECEIVED, READ/JOURNALED & PASSED ALONG:
The Second Mark: Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold booklemur
Sense and Sensibilities Eva Lowrain
Falling Leaves LGinder
BSL FingerSpelling Coloring Book Funsour
The Cat Who Went to Heaven Halliek
Wanted Words (set of two books) jessibud
Desert Rose mystic-nz
A Random Act of Kindness Journal SpedBud
Stasiland tqd
Momilies (2 books) jessibud
The Time Traveller's Wife jarrett622
Story Teller's Daughter jessibud
Without Reservations: Travel of an Independant Woman fizzfred
House of Belief cordelia-anne
Writing Bookbox KateKinTail
"Landscape of Love" redhouse
A Journal of Seasons - The 4 Seasons Journal jessibud
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patrica Volk Brooklinbrat.
Between Two Worlds therubycanary.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver Pooker3.
As Always Jack:A Wartime Lovestory by Emma Sweeney - jessibud
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by E. Berg started by indygo88
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen started by whiskeyjane
The Shack by William Young started by JDT
Floating in my Mother’s Palm by Ursula Hegi
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Daughter of the River by Hong Ying
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
Plum Wine by Angela Davis-Gardner
Forms of Shelter by Angela Davis-Gardner
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Hindi-Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Siam by Lily Tuck
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
The Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
Peony In Love by Lisa See
Kabul Beauty School by Deborah Rodriguez
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Barrows.
The Ghost in Love – a novel—by Jonathan Carroll
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
The Ballroom Class by Lucy Dillon
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Fifty is Not a Four-Letter Word by Linda Kelsey
Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Princess – (behind the veil in Saudi Arabia) – J. P. Sasson
Hot Flashes – the novel – by Barbara Raskin
BOOKS READ IN 2010
The Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
An Unfinished Marriage by Joan Anderson
A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson
Paris to the Moon
Hypocrite in a White Dress
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
The Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
The Hiding Place by Corrie TenBoom
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguaro
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
have not really been keeping track this year, sorry
BOOKS READ IN 2009
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos (started in Dec '08)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (reading in spurts)
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Noble Prize Winner)
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Word for Word by Andrew M Rooney
Between Georgia by Joshilyn Jackson
Suddenly Sixty by Judith Viorst
Toujours Provence by Peter Mayle
Women Make the Best Friends - Lois Wyse (collections of shorts)
A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
The Red Hat Club by Haywood Smith
The Shack by William P Young
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
The Book Club by Mary Alice Monroe
Burnt Bread and Chutney by....
If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
The Shack by William P Young
The Hidden Life of Dogs by ...
Men in Kilts by Katie MacAlister
Do the Windows Open by Julie Hecht
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi
A Year By the Sea-Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson
There are more but I haven't had time to keep 2009 current. Doing more writing than reading this year.
BOOKS READ IN 2008
Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo (Booker Prize,1982)
Beloved by Toni Morrison (Pulitizer Prize,1988)
At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (Booker Prize short list 1997)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (Pen/Hemingway Award - 1980?)
Growing Up by Russell Baker (Pulitzer Prize)
Say When by Elizabeth Berg
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
A Celibate Season by Carol Shields & Blanche Howard
Current: A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers, edited by Colleen Sell
Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher (skimmed)
Eighth Moon by Bette Bau Lord
Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
Where or When by Anita Shreve
Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain
Dog is My Co-Pilot - a compilation of stories by many well-known writers (reading in bits inbetween things)
French Women Don't Get Fat by Meireille Guiliano
Neither here Nor There by Bill Bryson
Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
The Accomplice by Katherine Heyman
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
Goodbye to the Buttermilk Sky by Julia Oliver
Still Life With Chickens by Catherine Goldhammer
Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Current: In The Garden by Marjorie Harris (A RABCK - I LOVE this one !)
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
My Story: Sarah, Duchess of York
Mason's Retreat by Christopher Tilghman (AUDIO)
Power by Linda Hogan
The Firey Cross by Diana Gabaldon (didn't finish, passed on)
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Life With Father by Clarence Day
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted by Elizabeth Berg (audio)
Gods of Noonday by Elaine Neil Orr
A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster
Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Not finished reading: The Woman with the Alabaster Jar by Margaret Starbird
Cats with Attitude by Nicole Hollander
Pitching My Tent by Anita Diamant
Isabels's Bed by Elinor Lipman
The Language of Threads by Gail Tsukiyama
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman (still reading in 2009)
Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos (still reading in 2009)
Favorite Books of 2007
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
True North by Jill Ker Conway
A Year of Pleasure by Elizabeth Berg
Australian Terriers (a reference book) (ongoing)
Ordinary Days by Elizabeth Berg
Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi
H, a Novel by Elizabeth Shepard
Sarah's Quilt by Nancy Turner
The Artist's Way of Seeing (current/ongoing)
Voyager by Diana Gabaldon
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be by Farley Mowat
Katherine by Anchee Min, an AUDIO book
Swimming Naked by Stacy Sims
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle
Nine Part of Desire:The Hidden World of Muslim Women by Geraldine Brooks
My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
Favorite books of 2006:
The Pull of the Moon by Elizabeth Berg
The Road From Coorain by Jill Ker Conway
Paris in the Fifties by Stanley Karnow
The Village of Stone by Xiaolu
The Story Teller’s Daughter (AUDIO) by Saira Shah
Before Women Had Wings by Connie May Fowler
The Samuri’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Without Reservations - Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
Gweilo: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth
Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg
The Box Garden by Carol Shields
