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Updated: Friday 6 June 2008

News ...

Book Crossing Meetup - Perth Australia
PBCMeetup Yahoo! Group

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Release Challenges ...

1001 Books to Read Before You Die Release Challenge
Read as many books included in the book 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. Thanks to amberjane, the list of books has been compiled on Listology. If you can’t release the book, then you must release two other books in its stead.

I plan to read (not necessarily in this order):
1. All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
2. White Teeth Zadie Smith
3. Life of Pi Yann Martel
4. Disgrace J. M. Coetzee
5. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy
6. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
7. The Reader Bernhard Schlink
8. A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry
9. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernieres
10. A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth
11. The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
12. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
13. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
14. Clarissa Vol. I and Clarissa Vol. II Samuel Richardson
15. Tom Jones Henry Fielding
16. Reveries of a Solitary Walker Jean-Jacques Rousseau
17. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
18. Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
19. Persuasion Jane Austen
20. Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
21. Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
22. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper
23. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
24. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
25. Vanity Fair W. M. Thackeray
26. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
27. Agnes Grey Charlotte Bronte
28. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
29. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Charlotte Bronte
30. Shirley Charlotte Bronte
31. The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
32. Moby-Dick Herman Melville
33. Villette Charlotte Bronte
34. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
35. The Woman in White Wilkie Collins
36. The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
37. Great Expectations Charles Dickens
38. Les Miserables Victor Hugo
39. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
40. The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope
41. Little Women Louisa May Alcott
42. Phineas Finn Anthony Trollope
43. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
44. Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy
45. The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
46. Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
47. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There Lewis Carroll
48. The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
49. The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
50. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
51. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
52. King Solomon's Mines H. Rider Haggard
53. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
54. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy
55. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
56. Foucault’s Pendulum Umberto Eco
57. Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
58. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams
59. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson
60. The Sea of Fertility Yukio Mishima
61. Smiley's People John Le Carre
62. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
63. The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham
64. The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
65. The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
66. The Third Man Graham Greene
67. Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford
68. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
69. The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
70. Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
71. Animal Farm George Orwell
72. The Pursuit of Love Nancy Mitford
73. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
74. The Power and the Glory Graham Greene
75. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
76. Brighton Rock Graham Greene
77. Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
78. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
79. Thank You, Jeeves P. G. Wodehouse
80. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
81. Vile Bodies Evelyn Waugh
82. Orlando Virginia Woolfe
83. Lady Chatterley's Lover D. H. Lawrence
84. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolfe
85. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolfe
86. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
87. A Passage to India E.M. Forster
88. Ulysses James Joyce
89. Kim Rudyard Kipling
90. Lord Jim Joseph Conrad
91. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Douglas Adams
92. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett

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What I am reading now ...

Bedside
1001 Books to Read Before You Die

Carry around
When We Were Young: A Compendium of Childhood John Burningham

What I have read ...

My taste in reading is somewhat eclectic and over the years have shed very few acquired books with the rather optimistic assumption that there is no such thing as a bad book, only a bad time to read that particular book. However, since participating in the Race to Three Million Registered Books Challenge, I have registered books that are in and around the house that I have not read, and very unlikely to read. These have either been given to me as gifts or part of that rather nebulous agreement of what's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own.

I have registered every book except computer software manuals and some Japanese language books that I am having trouble reading. If they are marked permanent collection on my bookshelf it is because they are PC or I did not wish to make up my mind on this first pass of registering everything that resembled a book.

It is the wild releasing that I am finding so much fun, so please do not contact me with regard to requesting anything on my bookshelf. My participation in Book Crossing is re-reading my books before wild releasing and joining the release challenges if and when I'm able.

BookBags, BookRings and BC Frolics that I have joined ...

Any books written by Enid Blyton
So Many Books, So Little Time
Cat Lovers Sweepstakes
The Show Your Love For Bookcrossing Contest
Race to Three Million Registered Books Challenge Our progress was charted on ardik's site, see how we went!
Happy Birthday Bookcrossing Contest
2006 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Release Challenge See our progress
The 2006 Fat Books Read and Release Challenge
2006 52 Towns In 52 Weeks Release Challenge
2007 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Release Challenge
2007 52 Towns In 52 Weeks Release Challenge
Happy Smile Day RABCK Sweepstake October 2007

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Book Crossing and Me ...

I have enjoyed sorting through my bookshelves (doubled up with books) and the piles of books on the floor. Most of which I have not looked at since I stopped going to a book club a few years ago now. I'm onto my third lot of stationery from the BookCrossing Supply Store that includes the Sweet Dreams bookplates, and have chosen books that I will re-read before letting my BookCrossing stationery near them.

Letting go is hard to do. It gets easier :) The Release Challenges help!

Computer Angels Official BookCrossing Zone ...

I have created a bookshelf for Computer Angels. Any books that come to me for Computer Angels I will label and wild release on their behalf.


[counting since 18 February 2006]



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