Recent Book Activity

*QUICK NOTE* I'm on holiday for the first two weeks of April I will reply to any pms after this time

In 2012 I am trying to bump up my numbers of RABCKs, I used to be good at these but I seem to have slacked off. If you have recieved a RABCK from me please try to keep it moving when you have finished reading it, I love to see my books travel. I will be trying to RABCK books which have already been bookcrossed, as I seem to be accumulating stcks of them at the minute. I have labeled some of the RABCKed books as 'Hitchhiking Books' with a desired destination writen on the cover of the book. If you recieve one of these books you are not responsible for getting it to that destination, unless you are travelling there of course. I'm just asking you to play a part in the books journey so we can see if it does finally arrive at its desired destination. These books like all bookcrossing books can be RABCKed, traded, wild released or passed to a friend, I'm just seeing if this method makes books travel that bit further.

I love reading a mix of literature, everything from Dickens to Sarah Waters, Haruki Murakami to Roald Dahl. My tbr is only a very small part of what I actually have at home! I'm open for swaps or book requests (providing the other person has actually registered some books of their own!) and also always willing to receive books off my wishlist, which I keep up-to-date. I'm also the host of several book rays :

Please PM me if you're interested in taking part in any of these bookrings.
The Passion
The Shipping News
Fugitive Pieces
The Bookseller of Kabul
The Colour Purple LOST?


Completed Bookrings/rays:
The Gathering
The Around the World Virtual BookBox
Maps For Lost Lovers
Take Me With You
A Thousand Acres
Of Mice and Men
Monster
The Almost Moon
The Book Thief




CHALLENGES 2010:
52 Weeks 52 RABCKs:
#1 Bel Canto by Ann Pratchett (RABCK Box) Hitchiking to Japan
#2 The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia (RABCK Box)
#3 Beauty by Robin McKinley (RABCK Box) Hitchiking to Disneyland, Florida
#4 Purple Hibiscus by Adichie (RABCK Box) Hitchiking to Barcelona, Spain
#5 Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani (RABCK Box)
#6 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (RABCK Box)
#7 Beauty Sleep by Cameron Dokey (RABCK Box) Hitchhinking to Disneyland, Paris
#8 The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende (RABCK Box)
#9 Something of Samoa by Gavin Young (RABCK Box)
#10 A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka Hitchhiking to Mexico
#11 My Children! My Africa! RABCK Chocolate, Tea and a Book draw
#12 My Lovers Lover New Year RABCK (This will have been moving since 2003 now!)
#13 The Fire Gospels by Michel Faber Off to fulfil a wishlist wish
#14 Crack Down
#15 We Need to Talk About Kevin
#16 Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
#17 Whole of a Morning Sky
#18 A Suitable Boy by Vickram Seth
#19 The Valykeries Seen on this persons wishlist
#20 Amok and Other Stories, Stefan Zweig RABCK Bookbox
#21 The Viceroy of Ouidah, Bruce Chatwin RABCK Bookbox
#22 Captain Corelli's Mandolin RABCK Draw
#23 The Storekeepers Daughter RABCK Draw
#24 The Virago Book of Wicked Verse
#25 Ash by Malinda Lo
#26 The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
#27 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
#28 Arranged Marriage


The Olymic Challenge: London 2012

I've seen this on Book Talk, this was the original post:
"The goal is to read one author's work from the 202 participating countries by Summer Olympic Games by 2008.
I will use my bookshelf to post all countries listed and suggested authors but the list is open to other authors or works. The only requirement is the author must be a citizen of that country (or was if deceased). I have put reserves by some coutries - these are books that tell us a lot about that particular country and will only be used as a relacement if I can't manage to get a text by an author from that country.
Who will carry this torch with us?"
Several members didn't finish and are aiming to complete it by the winter olympics or London 2012, so I thought I'd give myself another challenge and attempt this, by London 2012

visited 44 states (19.5%)
Create your own visited map of The World

ANOCA AFRICA
ALG Algeria
ANG Angola
BEN Benin The Viceroy of Ouidah, Bruce Chatwin
BOT Botswana
BUR Burkina Faso
BDI Burundi
CMR Cameroon
CPV Cape Verde
CAF Central African Republic
CHA Chad
COM Comoros
CGO Congo
CIV Côte d'Ivoire Aya by Margueritte Abouet (Graphic Novel)
COD Democratic Republic of the Congo
DJI Djibouti
EGY Egypt
GEQ Equatorial Guinea
ERI Eritrea
ETH Ethiopia
GAB Gabon
GAM Gambia
GHA Ghana
GUI Guinea
GBS Guinea-Bissau
KEN Kenya
LES Lesotho
LBR Liberia
LBA Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
MAD Madagascar
MAW Malawi
MLI Mali
MTN Mauritania
MRI Mauritius
MAR Morocco
MOZ Mozambique
NAM Namibia
NIG Niger
NGR Nigeria The Famished Road by Ben Okri
RWA Rwanda Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda, by Stassen (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7520148)
STP Sao Tome and Principe
SEN Senegal
SEY Seychelles
SLE Sierra Leone A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

SOM Somalia
RSA South Africa Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton
SUD Sudan Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
SWZ Swaziland
TOG Togo
TUN Tunisia

UGA Uganda
TAN United Republic of Tanzania
ZAM Zambia
ZIM Zimbabwe An Elegy for Easterly, Pettina

ONOC OCEANA
ASA American Samoa
AUS Australia Gould's Book of Fish (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7112822)
COK Cook Islands
FSM Federated States of Micronesia
FIJ Fiji
GUM Guam
KIR Kiribati
MHL Marshall Islands
NRU Nauru
NZL New Zealand The Whale Rider, Ithimaera
PLW Palau
PNG Papua New Guinea
SAM Samoa Something of Samoa, Gavin Young
SOL Solomon Islands
TGA Tonga
TUV Tuvalu
VAN Vanuatu

OCA ASIA
AFG Afghanistan Afghanistan, Where God Comes Only to Weep, Siba Shakib
BRN Bahrain
BAN Bangladesh
BHU Bhutan
BRU Brunei Darussalam
CAM Cambodia First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
TPE Chinese Taipei
PRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea Fox Girl

HKG Hong-Kong
IND India Family Matters, Mistry
INA Indonesia
IRQ Iraq
IRI Islamic Republic of Iran Blood of Flowers, Anita Amirrezvani
JPN Japan Goodbye Tsugumi by Yoshimoto 07/09/08
JOR Jordan
KAZ Kazakhstan
KOR Korea Fox Girl, Okja Keller
KUW Kuwait
KGZ Kyrgyzstan
LAO Lao People's Democratic Republic
LIB Lebanon Varjak Paw by S.F Said
MAS Malaysia
MDV Maldives
MGL Mongolia
NEP Nepal
PAK Pakistan (As a reserve) Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson
PLE Palestine
CHN People's Republic of China Sky Burial, Xinran (Set in Tibet and told by a Chinese womans perspective
PHI Philippines
QAT Qatar
KSA Saudi Arabia
SIN Singapore
SRI Sri Lanka Funny Boy, Shyam Selvadurai
SYR Syrian Arab Republic
TJK Tadjikistan
THA Thailand
TLS Timor-Leste
TKM Turkmenistan
UAE United Arab Emirates
UZB Uzbekistan The Railway by Hamid Isailov (half read!)
VIE Viet Nam
YEM Yemen

EOC EUROPE
ALB Albania
AND Andorra
ARM Armenia
AUT Austria Amok by Stefan Zweig
AZE Azerbaijan
BLR Belarus
BEL Belgium Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
BUL Bulgaria
CRO Croatia
CYP Cyprus
CZE Czech Republic The Metamorphosis, Kafka
DEN Denmark
EST Estonia Homo Novous
FIN Finland
MKD Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia


FRA France Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa
GEO Georgia
GER Germany Inkheart, Funke
GBR Great Britain
GRE Greece
HUN Hungary
ISL Iceland
IRL Ireland
ISR Israel
ITA Italy If on a winters night a traveller, by Italo Calvino
LAT Latvia
LIE Liechtenstein
LTU Lithuania
LUX Luxembourg
MLT Malta

MNE Montenegro
NED Netherlands
NOR Norway
POL Poland Polish Fables by Ignacy Krasicki
POR Portugal
MDA Republic of Moldova
ROM Romania
RUS Russian Federation One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
SMR San Marino

SRB Serbia
SVK Slovakia
SLO Slovenia
ESP Spain The Hive, Cela
SWE Sweden
SUI Switzerland
TUR Turkey
UKR Ukraine Two Caravans, Lewycka (Ukraine immigrants in England)

PASO AMERICA
ANT Antigua and Barbuda Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
ARG Argentina
ARU Aruba
BAH Bahamas
BAR Barbados
BIZ Belize
BER Bermuda
BOL Bolivia
BRA Brazil The Valkyries, Coelho
IVB British Virgin Islands
CAN Canada Fugitive Pieces, Micheals
CAY Cayman Islands
CHI Chile = Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende (o5/09/08)
COL Colombia Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (APRIL 09)
CRC Costa Rica
CUB Cuba The Aguero Sisters, Cristina Garcia
DMA Dominica
DOM Dominican Rhythm Republic
ECU Ecuador
ESA El Salvador
GRN Grenada
GUA Guatemala
GUY Guyana Whole of a Morning Sky, Grace Nichols
HAI Haiti The Farming of Bones & After the Dance by Edwidge Dantica
HON Honduras
JAM Jamaica
MEX Mexico
AHO Netherlands Antilles
NCA Nicaragua
PAN Panama
PAR Paraguay
PER Peru
PUR Puerto Rico
SKN Saint Kitts and Nevis
LCA Saint Lucia
VIN Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
SUR Suriname
TRI Trinidad and Tobago
USA United States of America
URU Uruguay
VEN Venezuela
ISV Virgin Islands