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tqd From:Sydney, New South Wales Australia Age:41 Joined:Sunday, November 30, 2003 Home page:www.wookiebender.com/

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Last updated: 31 July, 2010

Unless I've already agreed to, I will not be sending books overseas. Please do not ask.

Join the Australian Bookcrossing group on Yahoo!
Join the Sydney Bookcrossing group on Yahoo!
Come along to a Sydney meetup!

Bookrings/rays I am currently running:

RAY: Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Australia/NZ only.
RAY: Pankaj Mishra's The Romantics - a 1001 book! International.
RING: Linda Grant's The Clothes on Their Backs - part of Fleebo's 2008 Man Booker Shortlist Reading Challenge. Australia only. Still open, PM me (or Fleebo!) to join!
RAY: Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Italo Cavalino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Iris Murdoch's The Bell - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: Richard Flanagan's Wanting - part of DrCris's 2009 Miles Franklin Shortlist Reading Challenge. Australia only. Still open, PM me (or DrCris!) to join!
RAY: All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque - a 1001 book! International.
RAY: World of Love, Elizabeth Bowen - a 1001 book! International.

Miles Franklin Reading Challenge 2010

Want to read some quality Australian literature? Then sign up! We'll be reading & passing along the winner & shortlisted books of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Truth, Peter Temple - WINNER
Lovesong, Alex Miller
The Bath Fugues, Brian Castro
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
The Book of Emmett, Deborah Forster
Butterfly, Sonya Hartnett

Participants are (so far): myself (tqd), Jubby, goodthinkingmax, and Fleebo.

What I've been reading:

Currently reading: Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott.

Recently finished reading: The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck.
The Long Firm, Jake Arnott.
Howards End, E.M. Forster.
A Few Green Leaves, Barbara Pym.
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne.
Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler.
Child 44, Tom Rob Smith.
JUNE: 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Peter Carey.
The Chalk Circle Man, Fred Vargas.
Love Among the Chickens, P.G. Wodehouse.
The Coroner's Lunch, Colin Cotterill.
The City and The City, China Mieville.
Graceling, Kristin Cashore.
Nights at the Circus, Angela Carter.
Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World, Barbara Ehrenreich.
The Act of Roger Murgatroyd, Gilbert Adair.
MAY: A Shilling for Candles, Josephine They.
On the Art of Making up One's Mind, Jerome K. Jerome.
The Ask and the Answer, Patrick Ness.
The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami.
Soulless, Gail Carriger.
The Children's Book, A.S. Byatt.

Next bookcrossing book to read (in roughly planned order, although it's not set in stone):

Book	Reason	Going to
Not Untrue, And Not Unkind, Ed O'Loughlin	Bookring	Fleebo
Quicksand, Nella Larsen	Bookray	Cally-c

Currently obsessed about: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (not that there's any pressure, no...).

I've also joined the Set It Yourself Reading Challenge, and will be reading 25 books this quarter, no limitations on genre (but picture books don't count).

Bookrings/rays I have joined: Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventures, Dave Gorman Mother Love, Martine Oborne Portrait in Sepia, Isabel AllendeA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers The Complete Autobiography, Janet Frame Bibliotherapy : The Girl's Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives, Nancy Peske Rain, Kirsty Gunn 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson Intimacy, Hanif KureishiThe Cat Who Covered the World, Christopher S. Wren Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs The White Hole: a Jim Long Space Adventure, Robin G. Howard Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner It's a Slippery Slope, Spalding Gray Popcorn, Ben Elton Stark, Ben Elton The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella The Australian slanguage: a look at what we say and how we say it, Bill Hornadge Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh The Body Artist, Don DeLillo WAS, Geoff RymanEverything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer Are You Dave Gorman?, Dave Gorman & Danny Wallace See Jane Run, Joy Fielding What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson Mad About the Boy, Maggie Alderson Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominque Bauby Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine De Saint-Exupery Just Ella, Margaret Peterson Haddix A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov Spring Torrents, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Tea From An Empty Cup, Pat Cadigan The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier Unreliable Memoirs, Clive James Jennifer Government, Max Barry Rough Music, Patrick Gale The Secret History, Donna TarttUnderdog, William Johnston Handbag Heaven, Maggie Alderson Leviathan, Paul Auster Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem, Peter Ackroyd The Reading Group, Elizabeth Noble The Man in My Basement: A Novel, Walter Mosely A Baby in a Backpack to Bhutan, Bunty Avieson Geisha of Gion: The Memoir of Mineko Iwasaki, with Rande Brown The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom Thai Die, Greg Fleet Not Happy, John! Defending our Democracy, Margo Kingston Worst First Sentence of a Novel, Brian Edwards Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, James Patterson The Dilbert Principle, Scott Adams The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd Man and Boy: A Novel, Tony Parsons Man and Wife, Tony Parsons Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson Dark Victory, David Marr & Marian Wilkinson Sellevision: A Novel, Augusten Burroughs 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature, Nicholas J. Karolides Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom Exodus, Julie Bertagna The Colour: A Novel, Rose TremainThe Book of Night with Moon, Diane Duane The Gods Themselves, Isaac Asimov Syrup, Maxx Barry Enchantment, Orson Scott Card The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1), Lemony Snicket The Light of Day, Graham Swift Shade's Children, Garth Nix The Neverending Story, Michael Ende Swahili for the Broken-hearted, Peter Moore The Wrong Way Home, Peter Moore Recipe Journal, Various Australian Bookcrossers Elegance, Kathleen Tessaro Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Don Watson The Story of the British Museum, Marjorie Caygill The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides Orson Welles: A Biography, Barbara Leaming The Wish List, Melanie La'Brooy Lady Chatterley's Lover, D.H. Lawrence An Insular Possession, Timothy MoDeath at the Priory, James Ruddick You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers A Million Little Pieces, James Frey Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down, Nicey & Wifey Gastronaut, Stefan Gates The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards Time on My Hands, Peter Delacorte No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub, Virginia Ironside The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh Drop City, T Coraghessan Boyle Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat from Commonsense, Shelley Gare Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain Dead Air, Iain Banks Ophelia, Lisa M Klein The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier, T.E. Carhart Germinal, Emile Zola In the Forest, Edna O'Brien Australia Only Surprise Fiction Bookbag The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster The Rules of Attraction, Bret Easton Ellis Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass Orpheus Lost, Janette Turner Hospital Beloved, Toni Morrison The Alchemist, Paul Coelho Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe The Virgin in the Garden, A.S. Byatt Steal You Away, Niccolo Ammanati Silas Marner, George Eliot Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou The Bell, Iris Murdoch The Gathering, Anne Enright The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moshin Hamid Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones Animal's People, Indra Sinha The Gift of Rain, Tan Twan Eng Gifted, Nikita Lawani The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies Darkmans, Nicola Barker Brighton Rock, Graham Greene The Quiet American, Graham Greene The Blue-eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi, Niall Murtagh Case Histories, Kate Atkinson Corelli's Mandolin, Louis De Bernieres Timbuktu, Paul Auster The Diary of a Nobody, George & Weedon Grossmith Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin The Devil and Miss Prym, Paul Coelho Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan Dearly Devoted Dexter, Jeff Lindsay Tomaree, Debbie Robson The Lover, Marguerite Duras The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins The Collector, John Fowles The Last Temptation, Nikos Kazantzakis The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks Antic Hay, Aldous Huxley London Orbital, Iain Sinclair The Talk of the Town, Ardal O'Hanlon Will the Vampire People Please Leave the Lobby?, Allyson Beatrice Love Without Hope, Rodney Hall Sorry, Gail Jones The Fern Tattoo, David Brooks Landscape of Farewell, Alex Miller The Memory Room, Christopher Koch Naked, David Sedaris Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood Burmese Days, George OrwellThe Invention of Curried Sausage, Uwe Timm Passing, Nella Larsen A Fraction of the Whole, Steven Toltz Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi The Iron Heel, Jack London Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston Breath, Tim Winton Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel Child 44, Tom Rob Smith Summertime, J.M. Coetzee The Quickening Maze, Adam Foulds Quicksand, Nella Larsen Not Untrue, And Not Unkind, Ed O'Loughlin

If you want to know how to do these drop-down menus, I've written up some instructions.


I'm also participating in the Sue Grafton Alphabet bookring (organised by Hawkette):

Sue Grafton Alphabet Ring A is for AlibiB is for Burglar C is for Corpse D is for DeadbeatE is for Evidence F is for Fugitive G is for GumshoeH is for Homicide I is for Innocent J is for JudgementK is for Killer L is for Lawless M is for MaliceN is for Noose O is for Outlaw P is for PerilQ is for Quarry R is for Ricochet S is for Silence

I'm doing DrCris's 2008 and 2009 Miles Franklin Award shortlist reading challenges. See DrCris's bookshelf for more information. (Go Aussie literature!) Plus, I've signed up for Fleebo's 2008, 2009 and 2010 Man Booker Prize shortlist reading challenge. You can visit Fleebo's bookshelf for more information.