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Anitra
17 yrs ago
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FifthElement sent me a copy of the 1976 paperback edition of The Screwtape Letters, with study guide by Walter Hooper and Owen Barfield. I am looking for an active discussion group on the book: does anyone know of one?
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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FifthElement sent me a copy of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewsis, 1976 paperback edition, illustrated, with study guide by Walter Hooper and Owen Barfield. I never want to give it up. :) But I would be interested in…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Bookray : Smoke and Mirror (Neil Gaiman)
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Re: Bookray : Smoke and Mirror (Neil Gaiman)
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I would like to be added, please. I've PM'd you. I'm in the U.S.: willing to ship anywhere.
I agree with Susan -- there is nobody like Neil Gaiman!
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I am starting a bookring for Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, by Jared M. Diamond: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4734605
If you want to be added to the ring, please PM me with 1) YOUR ADDRES…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I have set up a new bookring for God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4734557
If you want to be added to the ring, please PM me wit…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I am starting a bookring for Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by Susan Jacoby: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4734534
I wasn't really planning on giving this book up, but it is on a number of wish …
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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A number of people have Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister on their Wish Lists, so I am starting my copy out on a Bookring: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4711815
If you want to be added to this bookring, PM me wi…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I registered a book I was planning to release, and now I can't decide where to put a BookCrossing label in it. It's a 1974 hardback edition of Shardik, by Richard Adams, and the inside of both front and back covers (as …
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I have a request from a Real Change vendor for "any Thieves World book."
Since the Real Change address is public, anyway, I'm going to post it here. If you want to do a RABCK, you can send books directly to:
Rea…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Maybe there is a bit of prejudice against newbies
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I'm a newbie here myself.
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I have had warm welcomes myself, and found members very helpful. Still, it has taken me a week since I first offerred books to figure out how to mail them and to get the mailing supplies and to get books ready to mail -…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I accidentally posted this as a reply to my last ISO; I am reposting it to improve its chances of being seen. :)
I am looking for a copy of Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Welsch. This is for a vendor at Real …
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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ISO Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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ISO Conversations with God
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I am looking for a copy of Conversations with God, by Neale Donald Welsch. This is for a vendor at Real Change.
Real Change is a "street newspaper" -- it is sold by homeless and low-income vendors who buy the paper…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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A friend of mine has not yet read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and I already gave away my copy. :( I am going to give her The Half-Blood Prince, which I still have, but she has to read OotP first! :D Does…
Chit-Chat
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What's the weather where you are on this first day of 2007?
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Re: raining and cold in Seattle
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I spent the whole day inside and never noticed. :)
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I'm a newbie here. Are there any regularly scheduled BC get-togethers in Seattle?
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I still remember it. I also still remember looking around the room and chirruping brightly, "Wow! I've been to bed with books from ALL of you!" :D
Chit-Chat
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Bookaholics Anonymous
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Re: sometimes I find myself carrying the latest book like a toddler with her toy -
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I can NOT go to the bathroom without something to read in my hand. Even if it's just to tinkle. I laugh at myself, awkwardly running around the apartment holding my bladder until I find where I put my book down, for th…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I enjoy writing 12-step programs, both serious and in fun. I have never written a Bookaholics 12-step program because I do not WANT to recover! Unlike Overcommitment Anonymous: http://anitra.net/writing/humor/overcommit…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
I really have found, in my first two weeks on Bookcrossing, that BC has helped me to start "freeing" books that I thought I'd never let go of. It's turned it into a game -- somebody somewhere *might* someday log on to B…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I've been playing with some ideas for a Bookaholic's 12-Step Program. Like:
* Never have less than 12 books in your TBR stack.
* Never be more than 12 steps away from a book you can open and read.
* Never go more th…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Book for trade: mediaeval mayhem for classic lit
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Re: Book for trade: mediaeval mayhem for classic lit
Anitra
17 yrs ago
> ... my pile of books TBR is huge!
That seems to be endemic among booklovers. :) I have two (or is that three?) shelves just of TBR books I already possess -- and hundreds on a list of books I want to read "someday!…
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I have two other Maguire books: Mirror, Mirror which I've finished reading; Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, which I haven't. I'll trade them both, or any other two books in my Available stack, for Wicked.
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Book for trade: mediaeval mayhem for classic lit
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Re: Book for trade: mediaeval mayhem for classic lit
Anitra
17 yrs ago
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I have Cervantes' "Exemplary Stories" but I haven't finished reading it yet myself. When I finish it, I'll let you know -- I expect this book will have gone out to someone else by then, but maybe you'll have another up.…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Wishing for The Book of the New Sun
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Re: ISO: The Book of the New Sun
Anitra
17 yrs ago
Further info - The Book of the New Sun is actually an omnibus volume containing four books:
* The Shadow of the Torturer
* The Claw of the Conciliator
* The Sword of the Lictor
* The Citadel of the Conqueror
The…
