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Welcome to my virtual bookshelf! If you have found one of my books, welcome to bookcrossing. This book is a gift from me to you.
You are welcome to keep the book for as long as you want, but what I really hope is that once you are done with it you will give it away again. Also, it would be great if you wrote a journal entry (it can be anonymous) to update us on this book's adventures.
Please do not write to me out of the blue to request books without offering a trade (and even then I might say no). Also, please assume my TBR books are "reserved" rather than "soon to be available".
- Thank you! to darkpunkangel and fairy godmother ghir for recent RABCKs :)
More about my BookCrossing:
I first heard about BookCrossing from someone who told us about people leaving books in trains and other public places, tracking their journey by internet. She didn’t remember any details about it, though. I next read about it on Neil Gaiman's website (he's actually been plugging it since 2002), and that is what eventually led me to register.
It took me a few weeks after joining to put together a small stack of books, register them, and give them in trade to another ex-pat who was looking for English books. About a month after that I made my first wild release, and soon I was attending local BC miitit.
- I've wild-released at least one book in each of these countries:
Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, USA, and in international waters - Books I've caught in the wild (not counting books at OBCZs):
The Broken Sword, Moll Flanders, Menopäällä, The Cat Who Saw Red and Whiteout. - Bookrings I have organized: Last Days of Dogtown ring (completed July 2007), Blackberry Wine bookring (completed July 2006), Book of Lights ray (completed June 2006), Stephanie Plum bookray (stalled July 2006 with kbudgie), Davita's Harp (stalled May 2007 with charlenemartel), Panic (stalled Feb 2008 with cherryprincess).
- Bookrings I've joined and am waiting for: None!
- Bookrings in my possession: Classical Mythology
- Past bookrings I've participated in:
The Time Traveler's Wife, Scuba Dancing, The Wedding, Cold Comfort Farm, Hyacinth Bucket's Book of Etiquette, The Eyre Affair, Hard Eight, Talk to the Hand, Twelve Sharp, Tipping the Velvet, Reading Lolita in Tehran, How to walk in high heels, Book Lust, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Graphic Novel and Great Expectations.
Postage: All the books I promise to send out do get sent eventually, but there is no post office convenient to my house or workplace - I send books out only once or twice a month, and I almost always use "economy" shipping rates.
Thank you! Sobergirl was the first Turku bookcrosser I met. She's full of enthusiasm and has passed on some great books to me. Just about everyone on my friends list has done me a BC good turn at some point: Thank you all!
And of course, thank you to Ron, founder of BookCrossing – what a great idea.
I adapted this guide to book rating from the one by used Scism, florafloraflora, and others, but I'm disappointed with it. It feels too late to change now, but I get too much bunching between 7-9. Read my journal entries rather than relying on my numbers:
10: Excellent. This book has impacted me deeply, 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, but it didn't grab me in a *big* way.
6: Decent, but not really my type of book.
5: I'm sure somebody else would like this, although I didn't.
4: Only OK. The line between taking it and leaving it is very thin.
3: Major problems. I don't recommend this.
2: Major problems. I recommend you DON'T read this.
1: Ugh! Stay away! It's hard to imagine *anyone* liking this book.
