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About me!
I am an ex-literature teacher, current school psychologist and an admitted bookaholic. I was immediately excited about the idea of Bookcrossing and am delighted that I'll be able to spread some books around - once I've finished reading them - and if I can bear
to part with them!
About my books!
I've got pretty eclectic tastes - my bookshelf doesn't necessarily reflect the books I love most, rather than the ones I'm prepared to part with! I love books that challenge me, give new ideas, entertain and are, most of all, well written!
Some of my favourite authors include: Isabelle Allende, Sheri Tepper, Louis de Berniere, Tim Winton, George R.R.Martin, Charles Dickens, Margaret Attwod... oh, I could go on and on!
As of January 2010, my 'catch rate' for the past year is approximately 10% of my wild releases - 20 from 190 - not too shabby I reckon! This doesn't include releases to Bookbags, Trades, Relays, Meetups or RABCKs
Bookrings/Rays That I have started....
One Hundred Great Books in Haiku by David Bader Open. Bookray. STALLED!
The 52 Most Depressing Songs You've Ever Heard by Tom Reynolds CLOSED. Bookray. STALLED!
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From Go-Quiz.com
2011 - Books read
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut - 7
Tamburlaine must Die - Louise Welsh - 7
The Good Mayor - Andrew Nicoll - 7
Experimental Travel - Rachel Antony - 7
Islandia - Austin Tappan Wright - 7
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris - 6
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortensen - 7
The 19th Wife - David Ebershoff - 8
Inheritance - Nicholas Shakespeare - 6
Currently Reading....
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Marukami
...and currently dipping in and out of....
The Brain that Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
The rating system
This is the scale I use to rate books that I've recently read. It was 'stolen' then adapted from the really useful book rating system on scism's bookshelf.
10: Excellent, at the top of its category. This book has impacted me deeply, challenged me profoundly, or has simply been a pure delight to read.
9: Great book - just a nitpick stands between it and a 10
8: Good, solid book that I would recommend to others.
7: Good book.. not necessarily one that I'd re-read or recommend to others, though.
6: Decent, but not for me.
5: Only just OK. Maybe somebody else would like this. I didn't.
4: Barely worth reading. The line between taking it and leaving it is very thin.
2-3: Has major problems. I don't recommend it.
1: It's hard to imagine anyone liking this book.I didn't finish it!
My 2011 bookrings/bookrays/bookbags*
*PLEASE NOTE I AM TRYING TO LIMIT THESE AT THE MOMENT UNTIL MT TBR GETS UNDER CONTROL. PLEASE DON'T TEMPT ME BY PMing ME TO OFFER ME ANOTHER ONE! I HAVE NO WILL POWER AS IT IS!
All She Was Worth - chich
What Wendell Wants - 300dogs
The Earth Hums in B Flat - TheLostBook
The Child In Time - perryfran
My 2011 Challenge....Again!
Having failed miserably in this challenge for the past three years - I'm lining up again with fingers crossed that I can do it! I'm taking part in the "Reduce my TBR mountain 2011" personal challenge started by DoveiLibri. I'm starting the challenge on January 1st and am planing to read 50 of the books I've received from other bookcrossers, and I promise that I won't bring another book into the house until I eliminate 3 from the pile. (Unless I REALLY like the book that is... or it's a bargain... or it's a major recommendation or.... Oh, God.. I'm hopeless!)
My list of books is:
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
A Thinking Reed - Barry Jones
Across the Nightingale Floor - Liam Hearn
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story - Paul Auster
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Authentic Happiness - Martin Seligman
Being Dead - Jim Crace
Bizarre Books - Russell Ash
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Bud: A Life - Bud Tingwell
Chasing the Dime - Michael Connelly
Compulsion - Jonathan Kellerman
East of Nowhere - Robert Chalmers
Excursion to Tindari - Andrea Camilleri
Falling Man - Don DiLillo
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Frantic - Katherine Howell
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon
Gotz and Meyer - David Albahari
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Love, Marriage - Alice Munro
Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Hotel World - Ali Smith
I am woman hear me draw - Judy Horacek
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
If you weren't a Hedgehog, If I weren't a haemophliac - Andrew Weldon
Immortality - Milan Kundera
Iris: A Memoir - John Bayley
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - Ayelet Waldman
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Mary Queen of Scots - Antonia Fraser
Max and the Cats - Moacyr Scliar
Messenger - Lois Lowry
My Judy Garland Life - Susie Boyt
My Life So Far - Jane Fonda
Our House in the Last World - Oscar Hijuelos
Payback - Margaret Attwood
Self- Yann Martel
Sex without Madonna - Peter Phelps
Somersault - Kenzabo Oe
Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
Spook - Mary Roach
Super-Cannes - J.G. Ballard
Supergirl - Jeph Loeb
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
The Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
The Butterfly Tattoo - Philip Pullman
The Colour - Rose Tremain
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
The Confessions of Max Tivoli - Andrew Sean Greer
The Giant's House - Elizabeth McCracken
The Gifted Gabaldon Sisters - Lorraine Lopez
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Wallis
The God of Animals - Aryn Kyle
The Greatest White Trash Love Story Ever Told - Rhett Ellis
The Hanging Garden - Ian Rankin
The Helmet of Horror - Viktor Pelevin
The Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
The Old Patagonian Express - Paul Theroux
The Plot Against America - Phillip Roth
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
The Sea - John Banville
The Sixth Lamentation - William Brodrick
The Spare Room - Helen Garner
The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris
Weight - Jeanette Winterson
What We Keep - Elizabeth Berg
White People - Allan Gurganis
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantell
Zorro - Isabel Allende
Miscellaneous silly information about me...of course, as a really truly psychologist I can't recommend these as reliable or valid personality inventories.. but they're lots of fun and strangely accurate........
One of my favourite books of all time... and I'm it!!
You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village.
Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.
Hmmmm... Now here's an interesting insight....
Dorothy Parker writes you, you wonderfully urbane,
witty boozehound, you.
Which Author's Fiction are You?
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And it appears that Edward Gorey agrees!
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
You will drink too much gin. Not the worst way to die, but you won't remember too much of your life. Hey, at least you made some people laugh!
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However....
You Are 40% Weird |
 Normal enough to know that you're weird... But too damn weird to do anything about it! |
Your Birthdate: April 5 |
 You have many talents, and you are great at sharing those talents with others. Most people would be jealous of your clever intellect, but you're just too likeable to elicit jealousy. Progressive and original, you're usually thinking up cutting edge ideas. Quick witted and fast thinking, you have difficulty finding new challenges. Your strength: Your superhuman brainpower Your weakness: Your susceptibility to boredom Your power color: Tangerine Your power symbol: Ace Your power month: May |
And if you're wondering what to get me.... books are ALWAYS welcome!
As an avid traveller I thought I'd include a map of the places I've been in the world.... don't like the look of those white patches though... time to start saving up and booking flights again!
visited 44 states (19.5%)
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And here's some of the places in the world where my books have wound up - either through trades, RABCKs, or most exciting of all... all on their own as wild releases! Looks like my books are getting to places I've never been!
visited 27 states (12%)
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