Recent Book Activity

Currently reading - Tropic of Cancer


Available 1001-Library books looking for a new home:
Interview with a Vampire http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/2879593
Of Mice and Men http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/7578471
Perfume http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/9828346
Aesop's Fables http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/9848302
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/4049016
Memoirs of a Geisha http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/5687744
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/5428505/
Moll Flanders http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/5669709/
The World According to Garp http://www.bookcrossing.com/---/9702439/

** EU 1001-Library VBB - PM me
** Calling all British 1001-Library Members for a Bookbox and VBB - PM me if you are interested
** just moved to Spain, but still have a British address.
I heard about bookcrossing a while ago from a work colleague, but was recently sent a link and jumped on board! I travel a lot anyway and usually trade books with fellow backpackers or in youth hostels, and this really seems like an extension of that. I have released a few books and can't wait to see where they end up! I am always trying to discover new authors, so bookcrossing is a great way to read books you haven't heard of or considered before.

A note on my star system, I rate books in the categories they are in. A classic could get an 8 out of ten as well as a trashy read, this is because it is rated from my expectations of the book. Hope that makes sense :)

My bookshelf contains a mixture of books: ones I have read as well as ones that have been given to me by family, friends and colleagues. With regards to NSS, please only take my wishlist into account. Check out my library page for a more comprehensive list of my books. Click Here

OLYMPIC CHALLENGE

Read a book from each of the following countries. 24 Aug 2008 to the Opening Ceremony in London. OK, well this will have to make this a lifetime challenge!

AFRICA
ALG Algeria The Sheltering Sky
ANG Angola The Return of the Water Sprite
BEN Benin
BOT Botswana The Wind and a Boy (From Being Here collection of short stories)
BUR Burkina Faso
BDI Burundi
CMR Cameroon The Shadow of the Sun
CPV Cape Verde
CAF Central African Republic
CHA Chad
COM Comoros
CGO Congo The Poisonwood Bible
CIV Côte d'Ivoire
COD Democratic Republic of the Congo Blood River
DJI Djibouti
EGY EgyptThe Cairo Diary
GEQ Equatorial Guinea
ERI Eritrea The Shadow of the Sun
ETH Ethiopia Children of the Revolution
GAB Gabon
GAM Gambia
GHA Ghana Bitter Chocolate
GUI Guinea
GBS Guinea-Bissau
KEN Kenya Petals of Blood
LES Lesotho
LBR Liberia Blutsbrüder: Unsere Freundschaft in Liberia
LBA Libyan Arab JamahiriyaTale of a Certain Orient
MAD Madagascar
MAW Malawi Dark Star Safari
MLI Mali The Shadow of the Sun
MTN Mauritania Carrot and the Stick
MRI Mauritius
MAR Morocco
MOZ Mozambique A Despedideira - Mia Couto (from Versoes (d)Escritos em Portugues)
NAM Namibia Long Way Down
NIG Niger
NGR Nigeria The Other Hand
RWA Rwanda An Ordinary Man
STP Sao Tome and Principe Ossobo: Essays on the Literature of Sao Tome and Principe
SEN Senegal The Shadow of the Sun
SEY Seychelles
SLE Sierra Leone - We love China by Lindsey Hilsum taken from The View from Africa
SOM Somalia The Shadow of the Sun
RSA South Africa Gem Squash Tokoloshe
SUD Sudan The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Dafur
SWZ Swaziland African Trombone (From Being Here collection of short stories)
TOG Togo
TUN Tunisia Long Way Down
UGA Uganda - The War of the Ears by Moses Isegawa taken from The View from Africa
TAN United Republic of Tanzania Long Way Down
ZAM Zambia The Eye of the Leopard
ZIM Zimbabwe An Elegy for Easterly

OCEANIA
ASA American Samoa Something of Samoa
AUS Australia The House at Riverton
COK Cook Islands
FSM Federated States of Micronesia
FIJ Fiji
GUM Guam
KIR Kiribati
MHL Marshall Islands
NRU Nauru
NZL New Zealand Some Other Country: New Zealand's Best Stories
PLW Palau
PNG Papua New Guinea Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
SAM Samoa Something of Samoa
SOL Solomon Islands
TGA Tonga Kisses in the Nederends
TUV Tuvalu
VAN Vanuatu

ASIA
AFG Afghanistan A Thousand Splendid Suns
BRN Bahrain
BAN Bangladesh
BHU Bhutan Danziger's Travels
BRU Brunei Darussalam
CAM Cambodia Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma ** currently reading
TPE Chinese Taipei
PRK Democratic People's Republic of Korea
HKG Hong-Kong The Painted Veil
IND India Q and A
INA Indonesia The Flamboya Tree
IRQ Iraq Salam Pax
IRI Islamic Republic of Iran Ali and Nino
JPN Japan Birthday Girl(from Birthday Stories)
JOR Jordan
KAZ Kazakhstan
KOR Korea Fox Girl
KUW Kuwait
KGZ Kyrgyzstan The Railway
LAO Lao People's Democratic Republic Mother's Beloved
LIB Lebanon Dreams of Water
MAS Malaysia A River in Borneo
MDV Maldives
MGL Mongolia Barbed Wire & Babushkas: A River Odyssey Across Siberia
MYA Myanmar Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma ** currently reading
NEP Nepal Tea for Two
PAK Pakistan The Age of Kali
PLE Palestine
CHN People's Republic of China From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
PHI Philippines
QAT Qatar
KSA Saudi Arabia Girls of Riyadh
SIN Singapore The Singapore Grip
SRI Sri Lanka The Sandglass
SYR Syrian Arab Republic In Xanadu
TJK Tadjikistan
THA Thailand Siam or the Woman who shot a Man
TLS Timor-Leste
TKM Turkmenistan
UAE United Arab Emirates Dubai Tales
UZB Uzbekistan The Dancer from Khiva
VIE Viet Nam The Tapestries
YEM Yemen

EUROPE
ALB Albania
AND Andorra
ARM Armenia
AUT Austria The Hinge Factor
AZE Azerbaijan Ali and Nino
BLR Belarus
BEL Belgium
BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina
BUL Bulgaria Danube
CRO Croatia
CYP Cyprus
CZE Czech Republic The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
DEN Denmark From the Ngong Hills
EST Estonia Homo Novus
FIN Finland Finlandia: Los campeones del mundo Chapter 2 from the book Basta de Historia
MKD Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
MON Monaco
FRA France Bonjour Tristesse
GEO Georgia
GER Germany The Karnau Tapes
GBR Great Britain Gentlemen and Players
GRE Greece Hungry Ghosts
HUN Hungary Embers
ISL Iceland
IRL Ireland Close to the Water's Edge from Birthday Stories
ISR Israel Ten Thousand Lovers
ITA Italy The City of Falling Angels
LAT Latvia
LIE Liechtenstein
LTU Lithuania Vilnius Poker
LUX Luxembourg
MLT Malta The Intelligence Officer
MNE Montenegro Montenegro
NED Netherlands Amsterdam
NOR Norway
POL Poland Heat and Dust
POR Portugal Portugal Diary - William Beckford
MDA Republic of Moldova
ROM Romania Danube
RUS Russian Federation The Black Monk
SMR San Marino
SRB Serbia Danube
SVK Slovakia Danube
SLO Slovenia
ESP Spain Blood on the Saddle
SWE Sweden The Eye of the Leopard
SUI Switzerland The Snow Cow
TUR Turkey My Name is Red
UKR Ukraine

AMERICA
ANT Antigua and Barbuda Mr. Potter
ARG Argentina The Book of Murder
ARU Aruba
BAH Bahamas
BAR Barbados
BIZ Belize
BER Bermuda
BOL Bolivia The Trail to Titicaca
BRA Brazil Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
IVB British Virgin Islands
CAN Canada The Gargoyle
CAY Cayman Islands
CHI Chile The Stories of Eva Luna
COL Colombia Paradise Travel
CRC Costa Rica The Old Patagonian Express
CUB Cuba The Aguero Sisters
DMA Dominica
DOM Dominican Republic Dead Man in Paradise
ECU Ecuador Portrait of a Nation
ESA El Salvador Bitter Grounds
GRN Grenada Buxton Spice
GUA Guatemala Leyendas de Guatemala
GUY Guyana This Body
HAI Haiti Masters of the Dew
HON Honduras
JAM Jamaica The Pirate's Daughter
MEX Mexico The Poison that Fascinates
AHO Netherlands Antilles
NCA Nicaragua
PAN Panama The Old Patagonian Express
PAR Paraguay Travels with my Aunt
PER Peru Inca-Kola
PUR Puerto Rico
SKN Saint Kitts and Nevis
LCA Saint Lucia
VIN Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
SUR Suriname
TRI Trinidad and Tobago The Magic Seeds
USA United States of America The Wonderful O
URU Uruguay: Uruguay y Peru: Una Computadora para cada ninho Ch. 10 in the book Basta de Historia
VEN Venezuela Simon Bolivar: A Life
ISV Virgin Islands