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Bruxelles / Brussel, Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium

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Friday, May 31, 2002

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Recent Book Activity

Statistics

4 wksall time
books registered:4490
released in the wild:2554
controlled releases:131
releases caught:1220
controlled releases caught:19
books found:0124
tell-a-friend referrals:0114
new member referrals:038
forum posts:4643

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Extended Profile

**For a lover of reading, lover of surprises, lover of travelling-- could there be a better concept than bookcrossing? My reading universe has "literally" exploded since joining bookcrossing almost 10 years ago, and I love those random book-y encounters that introduce me to new books, authors, people, concepts and ideas. I am a Canadian currently living in Belgium, and enjoy meeting up with bookcrossers all over the world.

Some of my current favorite writers include David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jeanette Winterson, Neil Gaiman, Ali Smith, Terry Pratchett, Kate Atkinson, and Tom Robbins. I am always looking for new suggestions and ideas for reading material, so please feel free to PM me anytime with suggestions or ideas.**

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Now Reading: Slaves of New York; Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Phiosophy through Jokes

Up next: Loneliness; Shalimar the Clown; The Debt to Pleasure; The Virgin Suicides; Cleopatra: A Life

Recently Read: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet; How to be a Woman; The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; Song of Solomon; Star Struck; SuperFreakinomics; Cloud Atlas

Countries where I have travelled and released bookcrossing books into the wild: Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Macedonia, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Russia,
Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

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My Wish List. Thanks Cliff1976! (Am also registered on RABCK.com, if interested)

THANK YOU!!!! to the following wonderful bookcrossers who have sent me RABCKS: creativeMGE, teuffi, Metropolitan, PrettyLilAriel, vanmoe, kryan, raralovestoread, shimi, Moriquen, tokorua

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Have a look at my perpetual bookrays, and drop me a PM if you are interested in joining:


The Salt Fish Girl bookray (lost in the mail...)
The Hotel World bookray (stuck with christine_bpc....)
The Better World Journal bookring (currently stuck...?)
The Juggling bookray (Completed!)
The Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress bookray (43 journalers and counting!)
The Ghostwritten bookring (stuck with luintaurin....)
The Oranges are not the only Fruit bookray (Completed!)
The Portrait in Sepia bookray (Completed!)
The Black Swan Green bookray (Completed!)
The Fabric of the Cosmos bookring (Completed!)
The History of Love bookray



Bookrings/rays I am participating in and am still waiting to read:

Nothing for now!

Bookrings/rays currently in my possession:

Nothing for now!

Bookring/ray books I have read and sent on:


No Logo (kangu)
Divorce Your Car (ecoboy)
The Meaning of Life (kbgoffe)
Peace is Every Step (talon2claw)
Fingersmith (swan-scot)
Day in the Life Bookcrossing Journal (iagal)
Twilight of American Culture (avanta7)
A Book Without Covers (starbytes)
Five Quarters of the Orange (savannahblue)
Lists to Live By (KAT123)
A Whistling Woman is Up to No Good (weeblet)
Eva Moves the Furniture: A Novel (KASA)
How Walmart is Destroying America (Shendoah)
The Brilliant Women Journal (felicia-fairy)
Culture Jam (may-eve)
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (bella-cat)
Blank Book Project (funsour)
Favorite Desserts Journal (marajade)
Awakening to the Sacred (kz4ufo)
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence (Fillebelle)
Intimacy (newk)
Requiem for a Dream (Anitanovel)
The Alchemist (Arwen-Galadriel)
Life of Pi (Loopy1)
Jennifer Government (JonAzrael)
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (metropolitan)
Tipping the Velvet (Flashgirl)
Twice Upon a Time (puppymummy)
Einstein's Dreams (jmg49)
Ella Minnow Pea (reetpetite)
Love (Laura0141)
Affinity (Molyneux)
The Tao of Pooh (caligula03)
The Seduction of Water (loopy1)
The Endless Bookring No. 13 (WakefieldOrloff)
Wicked (karendawn)
Affluenza
Cloud Atlas (Squirk)
In Praise of Slowness (DrBrown)
Coraline (cicakgirl)
Change the World with a Fiver (laura0141)
Sea Glass (mississippimom)
Toast (Smurphie)
The Red Queen (LisaGriffith)
A Wish for Peace (cordelia-anne)
Neverwhere (dospescados)
In the Land of the Unknown (Flaming-Ice)
Never Let Me Go (bestfriends)
The Shadow of the Wind (zepplin)
Lighthousekeeping
Son of a Witch
House of Sand and Fog (Myastone)
The Golden Compass
The Kite Runner (firegirl)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (pakasanelly)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (bluedevils)
The Passion (perfect-circle)
Floating Opera
A Picture of Dorian Grey
World of Love (tqd)
The Little Stranger
The Music of Chance



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I've had a bunch of wild catches, but here is a sampler of some of my favorites:


NEW!: What the Dog Saw (caught very quickly, left among the goggles...)
In Search of the Missing Eyelash (caught in one of my favorite peaceful airport release spots)
All Around Town (caught 5 years later... to the day!!)
A Gracious Plenty (a friend gave it to her as a birthday present)
Still Life with Woodpecker (4 years later!)
Saving the World (another airport catch)
Ganja Coast (caught randomly by an already-active bookcrosser)
The Traitor of St. Giles (1 Anonymous finder and two new members, all from one book)
Waking Beauty (2 anonymous finders in two cities and still going)
Atlas Shrugged (A birthday catch)
The Abbot's Gibbet (A Whopping 3 1/2 years later!!)
South of the Border (Themed release caught!)
People, States and Fear (the only one of mine ever journalled and left where it was)
Breakfast of Champions (themed release caught)
Dr. Zhivago (people fighting over the book!)
Way Up (international traveller)
American Gods (another good airport catch)
Wicked Women (got everyone around her involved)
End Game (has been making its rounds...)
Pour Toi (almost a year later!)
Behind the Attic Wall (first catch for a person I later met through bookcrossing and am now friends with!)



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Books read in 2012

17. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
16. How to be a Woman
15. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
14. Song of Solomon
13: Star Struck
12. Superfreakinomics
11. Cloud Atlas
10. Nothing to Envy: Real lives of People in North Korea
9. The General in his Labyrinth
8. Brave New World
7. Oscar and Lucinda
6. The Accidential Woman
5. Interesting Times
4. The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
3. The New York Trilogy
2. Kitchen
1. What the Dog Saw


Books read in 2011


42. A Visit from the Goon Squad (looooooooved it!)
41. The Great Fire
40. The Lacuna
39. Nineteen Eighty-four
38. The Fruit Hunters
37. A Partisan's Daughter
36. The Lovely Bones
35. In Search of the Missing Eyelash
34. F**k It: the Ultimate Spiritual Way
33. Mary Swann
32. Men at Arms
31. The Stone Carvers
30. American Gods
29. The Echo Maker
28. On Chesil Beach
27. A Hat Full of Sky
26. The Satanic Verses
25. Equal Rites
24. Moon Palace
23. The Dark Side of the Sun
22. When Will There Be Good News?
21. Reaper Man
20. Quarantine
19. Moving Pictures
18. Fugitive Pieces
17. Unaccustomed Earth
16. The Wee Free Men
15. Brick Lane
14. Thud
13. Night Train to Lisbon
12. To Say Nothing of the Dog
11. Bruxelles Insolite
10. The Music of Chance (bookring)
9. Another Roadside Attraction
8. Elizabeth Costello
7. Affinity
6. The Zombie Survival Guide
5. The Accidental
4. Uncommon Arrangements
3. Tales of the Unexpected
2. Bel Canto
1. Oyster



Books read in 2010


41. Fahrenheit 451
40. The Alchemist
39. Angels and Insects
38. The Little Stranger (bookring)
37. The Truth
36. Indigenous Beasts
35. A Lion Among Men
34. The Blind Assassin
33. The Book of Color
32. A Spot of Bother
31. The Red Passport
30. Villa Incognito
29. Oranges are not the Only Fruit
28. The Sunday Philosophy Club
27. Fear and Trembling
26. Angela's Ashes
25. The Optimists
24. Introducing Einstein
23. Norwegian Wood
22. Tales of the City
21. Morality for Beautiful Girls
20. Conundrum
19. Vernon God Little
18. Mr. Vertigo
17. World of Love
16. The Girl on the Landing
15. Boating for Beginners
14. A Picture of Dorian Gray
13. Jingo
12. Theft: A Love Story
11. The Solitude of Thomas Cave
10. The Secrets of a Fire King
9. The Elegance of the Hedgehog
8. Fragile Things
7. The Tree Bride
6. Autobiography of Red
5. Girl meets boy
4. The Lightning Keeper
3. The Flying Troutmans
2. Wolf Hall
1. Floating Opera



Books read in 2009



Books read in 2008








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