Recent Book Activity

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Reading now:
Feeding Frenzy by Will Self
Vad händer om man vänder på Paris by Viveca Sundvall
Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (to send to HI77)

Next up:
The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart (borrowed from my mum)
Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin (borrowed from my mum)
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (borrowed from my mum)
Dune by Frank Herbert (to give to discovery-lover)
Books for the Leeds Unconvention

Put aside for the time being:
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks (bookray)
Das Schloss by Franz Kafka

Books read in 2013:
1. The Stories of English by David Crystal (taken to Gothenburg)
2. Happy Birthday Or Whatever by Annie Choi (taken to meetup)
3. First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (taken to Gothenburg)
4. Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen (wild-released)
5. A Beginner's Guide To Acting English by Shappi Khorsandi (sent to eicuthbertson)
6. Notes From A Small Island by Bill Bryson (taken to Gothenburg)
7. Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised As A Man by Norah Vincent (sent to VeganMedusa)
8. And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (library book)
9. River Out Of Eden by Richard Dawkins (sent to Vekiki)
10. The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (sent to GateGypsy)
11. Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen (taken to Gothenburg)
12. The Best of Myles by Flann O'Brien (wild-released)
13. Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (taken to Gothenburg)
14. Set In Darkness by Ian Rankin (taken to Gothenburg)
15. Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins (sent to HI77)
16. Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol 2 by Eiji Otsuka (given to pippis)
17. Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol 3 by Eiji Otsuka (sent to HI77)
18. The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst (taken to Gothenburg)
19. How To Be An Alien by George Mikes (taken to Gothenburg)
20. Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Vol 4 by Eiji Otsuka (given to pippis)
21. Jeeves in the Offing by P.G. Wodehouse (taken to Gothenburg)
22. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (sent to maid-of-kent)
23. Love of Fat Men by Helen Dunmore (taken to meetup)
24. I Feel Bad ABout My Neck by Nora Ephron (given to LyzzyBee)
25. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (sent to perfect-circle)
26. Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman (taken to meetup)
27. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl by Grayson Perry (taken to meetup)
28. SVJ by Roald Dahl (sent to babelfisk)
29. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (AVAILABLE)
30. I Am A Cat by Natsume Soseki (sent to HI77)
31. A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon (to give to bookanooks)
32. The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt (sent to dolphin-au)


Books read in 2012 (target: 89; total: 100):
1. Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (sent to dolphin-au)
2. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (released in 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 (released in Dublin)
5. Putting on the Ritz by Joe Keenan (taken to meetup)
6. Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie (released in 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 (released in Dublin)
10. Larry's Party by Carol Shields (taken to meetup)
11. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (wild-released)
12. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (sent to elsi)
13. The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte (wild-released)
14. Stone Junction by Jim Dodge (sent to VeganMedusa)
15. The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (sent to VeganMedusa)
16. Ash by Malinda Lo (taken to meetup)
17. Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson (taken to meetup)
18. Solibo Magnificent by Patrick Chamoiseau (didn't finish, taken to meetup)
19. The Hell of it All by Charlie Brooker (PC for now)
20. A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright (sent to VeganMedusa)
21. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (sent to chocdrop)
22. Bad Science by Ben Goldacre (released in Dublin)
23. Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (released in Dublin)
24. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (released in Dublin)
25. Wicked by Gregory Maguire (released in Dublin)
26. The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (sent to crimson-tide)
27. Timeless Stories edited by Ray Bradbury (released at Colchester Unconvention)
28. Seinlanguage by Jerry Seinfeld (released at Colchester Unconvention)
29. Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster (sent to VeganMedusa)
30. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (sent to VeganMedusa)
31. A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (taken to meetup)
32. Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host by Garry Shandling (wild-released)
33. The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde (taken to meetup)
34. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (released at Colchester Unconvention)
35. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (sent to eicuthbertson)
36. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams (wild-released)
37. At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid (taken to meetup)
38. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (sent to voveryte)
39. The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst (taken to meetup)
40. The Successor by Ismail Kadare (sent to perfect-circle)
41. The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (taken to meetup)
42. Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl (PC for now)
43. The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri (taken to meetup)
44. Heart On Your Sleeve by Christa Weil (wild-released)
45. Reef by Romesh Gunesekera (sent to over-the-moon)
46. Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse (taken to meetup)
47. The Information by Martin Amis (sent to dolphin-au)
48. Hotel World by Ali Smith (released at Colchester Unconvention)
49. The Doll and Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier (taken to meetup)
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (released at Colchester Unconvention)
51. Watching the English by Kate Fox (released at Colchester Unconvention)
52. Border Vol 2 by Kazuma Kodaka (bookring hosted by laevina)
53. Border Vol 3 by Kazuma Kodaka (bookring hosted by laevina)
54. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (released at Colchester Unconvention)
55. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (released at Colchester Unconvention)
56. The Owl Service by Alan Garner (taken to meetup)
57. One People by Guy Kennaway (released at Colchester Unconvention)
58. Wise Children by Angela Carter (sent to crimson-tide)
59. Spies by Michael Frayn (released at Colchester Unconvention)
60. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson (released at Colchester Unconvention)
61. Interesting Facts About the State of Arizona by Jeremy Poolman (released at Colchester Unconvention)
62. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (taken to Gothenburg)
63. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (released at Colchester Unconvention)
64. Contact by Carl Sagan (sent to perfect-circle)
65. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (released at Colchester Unconvention)
66. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark (released at Colchester Unconvention)
67. 4 Blondes by Candace Bushnell (didn't finish, taken to meetup)
68. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (released at Colchester Unconvention)
69. Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage (library book)
70. Lint by Steve Aylett (sent to nimrodiel)
71. CloudCuckooLand by Simon Armitage (library book)
72. Why Don't You Stop Talking? by Jackie Kay (library book)
73. Happy Accidents by Tiffany Murray (library book)
74. The Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall (sent to eicuthbertson)
75. I Found This Shirt: Poems and Prose from the Centre by Ian MacMillan (library book)
76. If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One by Stewart Lee (library book)
77. Hope and Glory by Stuart Maconie (library book)
78. Dog by John Hegley (library book)
79. Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (sent to amberC)
80. Salmon Fishing in The Yemen by Paul Torday (sent to therubycanary)
81. The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber (taken to meetup)
82. Random Acts of Kindness: 365 Ways To Make the World a Better Place by Danny Wallace (to send to teapot)
83. Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins (library book)
84. I Can Make You Hate by Charlie Brooker (PC for now)
85. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill (sent to eicuthbertson)
86. Selected Poems by Roger McGough (library book)
87. White Apples by Jonathan Carroll (sent to VeganMedusa)
88. Carrying the Elephant: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Michael Rosen (library book)
89. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (sent to dolphin-au)
90. Dark Glasses by Blake Morrison (library book)
91. Dangling Man by Saul Bellow (sent to dolphin-au)
92. Perfect Catch by Ian McMillan (library book)
93. Johan by Inger Sandberg (sent to teapot)
94. Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge (given to my mum)
95. The 39 Steps by John Buchan (wild-released)
96. The War of the Worlds by HG Wells (wild-released)
97. Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (taken to meetup)
98. How I Became Stupid by Martin Page (taken to meetup)
99. Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems ed. by Wendy Cope (library book)
100. The Complete Acid Drops by Kenneth Williams (taken to meetup)

Books read in 2011: 88 (no target)

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.