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HOLIDAYS NOTICE: June 20 - July 3

Just a quick note to let you know that I'll be away on holidays from June 20 till July 3.
And while my folks will be home, they might not be at home when the postman calls.
And seeing how I'm the only one who can pick up from the post office the parcels addressed to me, do take into account the time when I won't be home so as not to have your parcel returned to you.

So if you have something to send my way, either send it soonish, or refrain for a while and send later so it reaches Croatia at the beginning of July.

If I'm in a ring/ray/spiral of yours and this might hold the book up for too long, feel free to skip me or bump me down the line. I do prefer to ship within Europe these days, but if push comes to shove I will send international if you have to change the order because of me.


Freelance translator and subtitler
(English/Croatian)

I joined BC a long time ago, but meatspace (as one of my friends calls real life) just got in the way.
Four and a half years later I found my way back and I'm loving every minute of it!
I'm reading new books and authors, venturing into different genres, but most importantly,
I'm meeting some truly wonderful people. I just love BC! :D

And....   I have now learned how Mount TBRs form. ;)

I am a sporadically active member of Kiva, the micro-loans website,
mostly loaning via the BookCrossing team which is rather active. :)
You, too, can join Kiva if you'd like.
Lend $ 25 and help change somebody's life.

I'm at my computer almost daily, so if I'm not responding to PMs it probably means they're not getting through. In that case, send me an email to vedranaster -at- gmail -dot- com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.


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Profile pic - Shaun the Sheep © Aardman Animations Ltd.

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HOST OF THESE RINGS AND RAYS:

• Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut - international ray   ... CLOSED & COMPLETED
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman - international ring, travelling   ... CLOSED & COMPLETED
• InterWorld by Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves - international ring, travelling, still open
• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - international ring, travelling ... CLOSED but NOT YET COMPLETED
• Neuromancer by William Gibson - international ring, travelling, still open
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut - international ring, travelling, still open

Also hosting a permanent postcard RABCK. If you want a postcard from Zagreb, Croatia, send me a PM with your postal address, using the code CROCARD in the title of the PM, and I'll send you a postcard when finances and my busy schedule allow. :)

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My preferred genres: comedy, SF, mystery/thrillers

I also thoroughly enjoy scientific books but written for us "ordinary" folk.
A good conspiracy theory book also always feels very welcome in my hands. :)

Well, come to think of it, I enjoy all the books except for the ones which I don't. ;)
There's often no way of knowing whether I'll like a book until I start reading it.
BC is a great site for exactly that - testing the waters - finding new authors and genres to read.

Horrors are a mysterious genre to me, I often muse whether to register a book as horror or mystery or fantasy... I enjoy horrors, but of the psychological kind, not the ones with loads of gory details. Think movies and you'll know what I mean - Ring was fantastic, Saw is just plain horrible. :)

Favourite authors, currently: Neil Gaiman and Scarlett Thomas.

Other authors I've enjoyed: Dennis Lehane, Haruki Murakami, Garth Stein, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alice Sebold, Niccolò Ammaniti, Agatha Christie, Peter James, Paul Micou, Charles Dickens, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Maeve Binchy, Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, F. Scott Fitzgerald, C. S. Lewis, Clive Barker ...

Authors I probably won't try reading again: Anne Rice, Susan Hill

I still miss my copy of Barker's The Thief of Always like hell...
Some acquaintances never return books. :(
But in his defence, he did "loose" it during a break-up...
I don't expect books are at the top of ones list of priorities in such a situation.
No longer missing it like hell...
Received a copy of The Thief of Always as a wonderfully sneaky surprise RABCK from ghir! :D

I keep my Wishlist updated - if something's on it, I want it. :D
My wishlist is huge, and will probably grow even bigger, because it is mostly a reminder to myself so as not to forget books people have recommended me.
Note that some of the books on my wishlist might become part of my permanent collection. Though, I must admit that if I stumble onto something that I really love, the more likely scenario is that I'll try and get a new copy for my bookshelf, and let the BC copy go spread it's wonderfulness around. :)

Particularly would like to get my hands on:
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale & Stan Redding,
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
The Dead Zone by Stephen King,
Paul Micou - any book except The Cover Artist
The Halfmen of O by Maurice Gee
Andra by Louise Lawrence
Side Effects: Death - Confessions of a Pharma-Insider by John Virapen
Haruki Murakami - any book except Norwegian Wood, Sputnik Sweetheart & Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Blind Faith by Ben Elton
Zecharia Sitchin - any book
David Icke - any book

Other interests and likes: travelling, cooking (I just LOVE stir-fries), movies, photography, web page design, graphic design, ice-skating, swimming, cats, Garfield, Wallace and Gromit & Shaun, James Rizzi, crafts (jewellery making, FIMO, sewing, greeting cards, gift wrapping...), choir singing - now long-time neglected - just like my stamp collecting........

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If you find something you like among my availables or TBRs (status set by me), feel free to send me a PM and I'll let you know if I'm able to ship it your way at that particular moment (finances don't always allow me to ship internationally). If at the same time you also offer me something I've got on my wishlist, chances are I won't be able to resist the urge to swap. ;)

I apologise in advance that you will most likely not receive any goodies with the shipment, even though I love to throw in a postcard, tea or anything I might find out you like by doing some forums snooping ;) - however, I am currently only able to ship "surface media mail" which means - no goodies. Darnit!   ;(

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Booklist for 2011:

  1) InterWorld by Neil Gaiman & Michael Raves ... READ
  2) Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy ... READ - bookswap with Into-the-Blue *
  3) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby ... READ ***
  4) Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ... READ - bookring
  5) Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice ... READ - bookray
  6) Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane ... READ - bookring *
  7) The Joy of Shaun by Aardman Animation ... READ - RABCK from hakkalina :)
  8) Mr. Quiet by Roger Hargreaves ... READ - RABCK from Bloedengel :)
  9) Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote ... READ - bookray
10) Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn ... READ - bookray *
11) The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman ... READ - book spiral
12) Bad Karma by David Safier ... READ - bookray
13) The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood ... READ - bookray
14) Leopard Rock by Tarras Wilding ... READ
15) Psychic Cats by Theresa Cheung ... READ - bookray
16) Trash by Andy Mulligan ... READ - for work
17) Of Mice and Men (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck ... READ
18) Friends from Philadelphia and Other Stories (Penguin 60s) by John Updike ... READ - Never Won a Sweepstake, from jules5 :)
19) Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman ... READ - bookray
20) The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo ... READ - Never Won a Sweepstake, from hakkalina :)
21) Bennie Black Lamb by Unknown Author ... READ - RABCK from maju30 :)
22) Lucky by Alice Sebold ... READ - bookray **
23) The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham ... READ - Never Won a Sweepstake, from jules5 :)
24) The Sandman Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman ... READ - bookring
25) Have Space Suit - Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein ... READ - bookray
26) 31 Dream Street by Lisa Jewell ... READ - bookray
27) Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach ... READ - RABCK from BSAChris :) **
28) Surviving Galeras by Stanley Williams ... READ - Volcanic bookray **
29) Garfield - This is Your Life by Jim Davis ... READ - RABCK from JPix :)
30) The Small Hand by Susan Hill ... READ
31) Children of the dust by Lousie Lawrence ... READ
32) Ako ostanem by Gayle Forman ... READ
33) Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen ... READ - bookray
34) Creatures of the Night by Neil Gaiman & Michael Zulli ... READ - bookring
35) A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ... READ - RABCK from ghir   :)
36) The Sandman Vol. 3 by Neil Gaiman ... READ - bookring
37) Chasing the Falconers (On the Run 1) by Gordon Korman ... READ - book spiral

Booklist for 2012:

  1) Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff... by Christopher Moore ... READ - bookray
  2) The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro ... READ - RABCK from marsala   :)
  3) Freaconomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner ... READ - non-fic VBB
  4) Un Lun Dun by China Mieville ... READ
  5) The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ... READ
  6) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid ... READ - WorldBookNight RABCK from kinedi   :)
  7) The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman ... READ
  8) Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace ... READ
  9) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ... READ - bookray spiral
10) The Sandman Vol. 4 by Neil Gaiman ... READ - bookring spiral

• V for Vendetta: New Edition by Alan Moore, David Lloyd ... NOW READING - bookray
• Room by Emma Donoghue ... NOW READING - RABCK from hon-no-tomo :)   ... RESERVED for MartinaViola
• ... by ... ... TBR - bookring/bookray/book spiral

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ... TBR - First Sentences VBB #3 - no deadline
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus ... TBR - First Sentences VBB #3 - no deadline
In the Absence of Mrs Petersen by Nigel Balchin ... TBR - First Sentences VBB #3 - no deadline
Dark Matter by Greg Iles ... TBR - RABCK from star69 :)
Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes ... TBR - no deadline; not BC
Catch Me When I Fall by Nicci French ... TBR - no deadline; not BC
PopCo by Scarlett Thomas ... TBR - no deadline; PC (?)
M Is for Magic by Neil Gaiman ... TBR - no deadline, PC
Neuromancer by William Gibson ... TBR - no deadline, PC - currently travelling as a ring before coming back to me to be read
The Oswald Bastable Trilogy by Michael Moorcock ... TBR - RABCK from davemurray101 :)
  1) The War Lord Of The Air (Warlord)
  2) The Land Leviathan (A Nomad of the Time Streams)
  3) The Steel Tsar
The Color Purple by Alice Walker ... TBR - RABCK from wal-89 :)
Evening Class by Maeve Binchy ... TBR - RABCK from hakkalina :)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy ... TBR - RABCK from ravencat :)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll ... TBR - RABCK from ApoloniaX :)
Stewart: A Life Backwards by Alexander Masters ... TBR - WorldBookNight RABCK from KiwiinEngland :)
The Other Hand by Chris Cleave ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from ApoloniaX :)
The Codex by Douglas Preston ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from yorkshire-lass :)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman ... TBR - WorldBookNight RABCK from flambard :)
Sidetracked (a Kurt Wallender Mystery) by Henning Mankell ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from Totje2 :)
The Beach by Alex Garland ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from footymadgill :)
Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from footymadgill :)
The Reincarnationist by M. J. Rose ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from frutz :)
Light on Snow by Anita Shreve ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from hakkalina :)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from Bloedengel :)
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from redfox5 :)
The "Time Out" Book of London Short Stories by various authors ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from marsala :)
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from mafarrimond :)
The Neil Gaiman Reader by Darrell Schweitzer (editor) ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from Releanna :)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin ... TBR - RABCK from kazmum2boys :)
Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from AngelChild :)
The Resurrectionist by James Bradley ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from Moriquen :)
Silver wedding by Maeve Binchy ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from motherof11 :)
Mercy by Jodi Picoult ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from wal-89 :)
The Well by Elizabeth Jolly ... TBR - RABCK from meganh :)
An Open Swimmer by Tim Winton ... TBR - RABCK from meganh :)
An Imaginary Life by David Malouf ... TBR - RABCK from meganh :)
Quentins by Maeve Binchy ... TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from KiwiinEngland :)
Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson ... TBR - no deadline
Brighton Rock (Twentieth Century Classics) by Graham Greene ... TBR - no deadline
Frankenstein (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ... TBR - no deadline
Lord of the Flies by William Golding … TBR
Dissolution by C. J. Sanson ... TBR - RABCK from Deltic :)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ... TBR - RABCK from JPix :)
The Pact by Jodi Picoult ... TBR - Kalman's 18th BD VBB
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts ... TBR - Kalman's 18th BD VBB
A Spot of bother by Mark Haddon ... TBR - Kalman's 18th BD VBB
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick ... TBR - RABCK from judygreeneyes   :)
Down Under by Bill Bryson ... TBR - bookswap with MartinaViola   :)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey ... TBR - VBB raffle win from Bloedengel   :)

NOTE: I have stopped adding books to this part of the list because there's so much HTML in this window already that it's too hard to handle. ;) There's the TBR sorting for bookshelves which shows nicely what's on my plate... er... I mean my shelves.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon ... INCOMING - bookray
Dark Places Gillian Flynn ... INCOMING - bookring
All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe ... INCOMING - bookray
Nip the buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe ... INCOMING - bookray
On The Run Series by Gordon Korman ... INCOMING - book spiral
  Book 2: The Fugitive Factor
  Book 3: Undercover in the Underworld
  Book 4: The Stowaway Solution
  Book 5: Public Enemies
  Book 6: Hunting the Hunter
The Sandman Vol. 5 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 6 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 7 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 8 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 9 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 10 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
The Sandman Vol. 11 by Neil Gaiman ... INCOMING - bookring
Howl's Moving Castle Diana Wynne Jones ... INCOMING - bookring

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I'm in a dystopian phase, so here's a dystopian list of sorts, of the books I've read
and those I'd like to get my hands on. Any new recommendations welcome. :)

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell … READ
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson … READ
Animal Farm by George Orwell … READ
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro … READ
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury … READ
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess … READ

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Neuromancer by William Gibson … TBR - PC (?)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy … TBR - RABCK from ravencat
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks … TBR - Never Won a Sweepstake, from redfox5 :)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding … TBR
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. … TBR - RABCK from JPix :)
Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks … TBR - RABCK from 4evagreen :)
  1) The Traveler (The Traveller in the UK)
  2) The Dark River
  3) The Golden City
Blindness by José Saramago … TBR - RABCK from Nakipa & nismo :)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley … TBR - RABCK from Moem :)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick … TBR - RABCK from judygreeneyes   :)
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner … TBR - RABCK from Diabetes-3136   :)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson … TBR - RABCK from quietorchid   :)


LOKING FOR:

This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
Blind Faith by Ben Elton
The Children of Men by P. D. James
Fatherland by Robert Harris
The Bar Code Tattoo by Suzanne Weyn
The Bar Code Rebellion by Suzanne Weyn
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
The Sword of Spirits trilogy by John Christopher
  1) The Prince In Waiting
  2) Beyond The Burning Lands
  3) The Sword of the Spirits
The Book of The New Sun a four volume novel by Gene Wolfe
  1) The Shadow of the Torturer
  2) The Claw of the Conciliator
  3) The Sword of the Lictor