Recent Book Activity

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Reading now:
English: Stone Junction by Jim Dodge (to send to VeganMedusa); The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (to send to VeganMedusa)
German: Das Schloss by Franz Kafka
Swedish: Johan by Inger Sandberg

Next up:
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright (to send to VeganMedusa)
Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster (to send to VeganMedusa)
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (to send to crimson-tide)

Books read in 2012 (target: read/pass on more books than last year):
1. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (sent to dolphin-au)
2. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (RESERVED for Dublin)
3. Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere by Mykle Hansen (bookring hosted by GoryDetails)
4. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (RESERVED for Dublin)
5. Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (taken to meetup)
6. Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie (RESERVED for Dublin)
7. Skrot-Nisse by Jan Lööf (PC for now)
8. The Music of Chance by Paul Auster (sent to oppem)
9. Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (RESERVED for Dublin)
10. Larry's Party by Carol Shields (taken to meetup)
11. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (AVAILABLE)
12. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (sent to elsi)
13. The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte (AVAILABLE)

Books read in 2011 (total: 88, no target):
1. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (bookring)
2. Perdido Street Station by China Miéville (sent to crimson-tide)
3. Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (taken to meetup)
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (sent to perfect-circle)
5. The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett (library book)
6. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (library book)
7. Chaos by Edmund White (library book)
8. Full Moon: A Blandings Story by PG Wodehouse (library book)
9. number9dream by David Mitchell (sent to msjoanna)
10. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde (library book)
11. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier (sent to Neckarhex)
12. Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson (wild-released)
13. Kinki Lullaby by Isaac Adamson (taken to meetup)
14. Sombrero Fallout by Richard Brautigan (library book)
15. Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie (taken to meetup)
16. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (released at BCUK Unconvention)
17. Air by Geoff Ryman (sent to Xeyra)
18. The History Boys by Alan Bennett (taken to meetup)
19. Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (taken to meetup)
20. Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett (library book)
21. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (bookray)
22. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal (taken to meetup)
23. The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy (taken to meetup)
24. My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan (library book)
25. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, or 2000 Years of Upper-Class Idiots in Charge by John O'Farrell (sent to VeganMedusa)
26. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (sent out as a bookray)
27. A Room with a View by E.M. Forster (wild-released)
28. Where Did It All Go Right? by Andrew Collins (wild-released)
29. Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah (sent to YorkshireSoul)
30. The Finishing School by Muriel Spark (library book)
31. The Opposite House by Helen Oyeyemi (taken to meetup)
32. Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic by Terry Jones (taken to meetup)
33. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (taken to meetup)
34. Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel (sent to msjoanna)
35. The Pothunters by P.G. Wodehouse (library book)
36. Cuban Heels by Emily Barr (didn't finish, sent to eicuthbertson)
37. Basket Case by Carl Hiaasen (released at BCUK Unconvention)
38. Screen Burn by Charlie Brooker (released at BCUK Unconvention)
39. Arthur and George by Julian Barnes (released at BCUK Unconvention)
40. Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter by Peter Handke (wild-released in Germany)
41. Die Feuerzangenbowle by Heinrich Spoerl (wild-released)
42. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (released at BCUK Unconvention)
43. The Boy Who Kicked Pigs by Tom Baker (taken to meetup)
44. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (released at BCUK Unconvention)
45. The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin (released at BCUK Unconvention)
46. Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde (released at BCUK Unconvention)
47. Animal's People by Indra Sinha (released at BCUK Unconvention)
48. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (released at the BCUK Unconvention)
49. A Disaffection by James Kelman (released at BCUK Unconvention)
50. Embers by Sandor Marai (released at BCUK Unconvention)
51. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (released at the BCUK Unconvention)
52. An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge (given to my mum)
53. Topper by Thorne Smith (taken to meetup)
54. The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service (Vol. 1) by Eiji Otsuka and Housui Yamazaki (bookray)
55. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (sent to crimson-tide)
56. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (sent to itpdx)
57. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar (wild-released)
58. An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray (sent to klaradyn)
59. King Rat by China Mieville (sent to flambard)
60. Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan (taken to meetup)
61. Isle of 100,000 Graves by Jason (bookray)
62. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (sent to Makita21)
63. A Series of Unfortunate Events 1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (given to Megmac for All Hallows' Read)
64. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn (sent to elsi)
65. The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin (taken to meetup)
66. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley (given to Megmac for All Hallows' Read)
67. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories by Washington Irving (given to Megmac for All Hallows' Read)
68. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (given to Megmac for All Hallows' Read)
69. Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie (on DH's TBR pile)
70. According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (to give back to my mum)
71. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (to send to JPix)
72. Ich liebe Katzen und Katzen lieben mich by Lizz Lunney (PC for now)
73. Liquor by Poppy Z. Brite (sent to AKSarah)
74. Scots Wa' Straw by Ivor Cutler (PC for now)
75. Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (taken to meetup)
76. Teacher's Dead by Benjamin Zephaniah (wild-released)
77. The Crazy World of Ms Wiz by Terence Blacker (wild-released)
78. Border Vol. 1 by Kazuma Kodaka (bookring)
79. Sagan om det röda äpplet by Jan Lööf (sent to teapot)
80. The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi (didn't finish, took to meetup)
81. The Slow Fix by Ivan E. Coyote (sent to jaynereader)
82. The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth by Malcom Pryce (RESERVED for Dublin)
83. Rover Saves Christmas by Roddy Doyle (RESERVED for Dublin)
84. The River Girl by Wendy Cope (to send to gunmarga)
85. Alison Wonderland by Helen Smith (to send to gunmarga)
86. The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (given to my mum)
87. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (AVAILABLE)
88. Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (sent to salvami)

Books read in 2010: 83 (out of a target of 100)

Here's a list of stuff I like:
Weird stuff
Funny stuff
Foreign stuff (in the original for German or French, in translation for everything else)
Children's/YA/easy books in Swedish
Gay/lesbian/bi/genderqueer/intersex stuff.
Did I mention weird stuff?
Stuff set in the following cities: Manchester, London, Berlin, Birmingham
Stuff relating to languages and linguistics
Combinations of the above


Also, I collect stamps for albatrosses.