Recent Book Activity

I love books and enjoy reading very much, although I never feel I have enough time for it (like most other people, I suppose...).

Please note that the books on my bookshelf do not necessarily reflect my personal taste, because I have obtained many of them for the purpose of bookcrossing only. The books that I have rated are the ones I have actually read.

Books read in 2011:
True Grit, Charles Portis
Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Opstigende skorpion, Kristian Ditlev Jensen
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

Books read in 2010:
Homicide
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Bangkok 8, John Burdett
South of Broad, Pat Conroy
The Secret Speech, Tom Rob Smith
Liberty, Jakob Ejersbo
Revolution, Jakob Ejersbo
Eksil, Jakob Ejersbo
Present Danger, Stella Rimington

Books read in 2009:
Case histories, Kate Atkinson
Efter midnat, Haruki Murakami
Child 44, Tom Rob Smith
Blekingegadebanden 2, Peter Øvig Knudsen
Vejen til varigt vægttab, Carl J. Brandt & Lisa Bolting
What I talk about when I talk about running, Haruki Murakami
Blekingegadebanden, Peter Øvig Knudsen
Forbrydelse og straf, Dostojevskij
Strangers, Taichi Yamada

I'm participating in the following bookrings/rays:
50 Faboulous Chocolate Cakes - courtesy of veritas9 (most recent journal entry was made 9 March 2004)
You're Only Old Once! by Dr. Seuss - was supposed to have reached me in January 2006 when I turned 30, but it seems to have been lost.

I have participated in the following bookrings/rays:
The God of Small Things The Coffee Trader, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex, Biblioholism - The Literary Addiction, The Devil's Cup - Coffee, the Driving Force in History, The Map of Love, Life of Pi, 1984, A Fine Balance, 84 Charing Cross Road, Anne Frank In The World/Die Welt Der Anne Frank: 1929 - 1945 and Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (didn't finish), Apple of My Eye

I'm organising the following perpetual bookrays:
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen replaced by the kind Antof9's copy
From a Buick 8, Stephen King
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Christine, Stephen King - this died in action...

...and these bookrings:
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert - now closed
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - now closed (stalled with Red644 - last journal entry in June 2004)