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(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Request for DC-area BCers: Black Box by Amos Oz
BecFromMD 17 yrs ago
Hello everyone, Tomorrow is a special occasion for which I would like to give my boyfriend a copy of one of my favorite books, Amos Oz's Black Box (in English). Of course I didn't plan ahead, so I thought I would see …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » Bookring: David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice
BecFromMD 18 yrs ago | 5 replies
Starting a bookring for David Sedaris's little book Holidays on Ice. PM BecFromMD with location and shipping preference to join. Journal: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2897758/
Chit-Chat » Songs ruined by commercials. » Another good use of a song
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
I agree that many commercials have ruined many songs, but here is another one I think was used well in the commercial and didn't ruin the song at all, IMHO: Nick Drake's "Pink Moon," in a VW Cabrio commercial (a year…
BookCrossing Site Announcements » University research project invitations coming to you by PM » The lists were the same!
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
All 3 lists I got were identical. (Which made it hard to answer the questions on the last page about preferred list, etc.!) On the plus side, I got one book that I had read and more than half of the rest either already a…
Chit-Chat » Really Stupid Things To Say To A Pregnant Woman... » In a language class where we had been learning words for apologies and complaints,
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
For a pop quiz the teacher (a short, thin man) met with each of us individually and said with a perfectly straight face, "I am a very large woman. You have just congratulated me on my pregnancy, and I have told you I am …
Chit-Chat » "What we have here is a failure to communicate." » veering away from funny momentarily...some faves...
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
"It’s the hardest thing in the world to believe in something. If you do, it’s a miracle!" Steve Prefontaine in Without Limits "It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m…
Chit-Chat » Peanut butter: Help me test my hypothesis » Re: Peanut butter: Help me test my hypothesis
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
(Being American,) I like peanut butter with almost anything (including just a spoon!). But a Greek friend who came to the States for the first time this week tried Reese's Peanut Butter cups and hated them! He wasn't…
Chit-Chat » "What we have here is a failure to communicate." » Re: "I wouldn't say I've been missing it, Bob"
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
Um, yeah...I'm gonna have to go ahead and...agree with you on that one. (Rip off of Bill Lumbergh.)
Chit-Chat » "What we have here is a failure to communicate." » Re: "Oh yeah, like you blend"
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
There's not a bad line in that movie! I could watch it 100 times. One of the best, in my opinion: "Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing around. You get thirsty. You spot a little brook. You put your little deer lips…
Chit-Chat » "What we have here is a failure to communicate." » Re: "There's no crying in baseball."
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago | 3 replies
LOVE that one! ...and use it surprisingly often. :)
Chit-Chat » Question for the ladies! An adult and private subject!! » advice for waxing anywhere
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
Take a painkiller half hour to an hour before going. It helps!
Chit-Chat » Are readers unsociable? » interesting question
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
Yesterday I co-hosted a barbecue, after which the party decided to move to a coffee house up the street. I told them to enjoy, but I would stay home. When they asked me what I was going to do, I said "read a book." This …
Site Watch » Nice BC animation » Re: I found it by going to people search & entering Sam-
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago | 4 replies
I found it by clicking on the link above and then manually adding a hyphen at the end of "Sam" in the Address bar of my browser.
Chit-Chat » Who is the sexiest (fictional) person ever? » In recent film...
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago
How about Julian (the doctor) in Something's Gotta Give. I am not usually such a huge Keanu fan, but that character made me swoon!
Site Watch » BookCrossing gets dissed... » Re: I think she was just looking for an original angle.
BecFromMD 19 yrs ago | 2 replies
> Since BookCrossing gets positive press, > negativity was the only original angle she > could think of, apparently. That was exactly what I thought when I read the article. I was another one of the people int…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » New Intl. Bookring: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown » RING CLOSED
BecFromMD 20 yrs ago
I didn't get the PM from bookgal23, but try again and I will include you. This makes 11, which I think is big enough for now!
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » New Intl. Bookring: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown » Capping at 10
BecFromMD 20 yrs ago
I already have 7 for this one, and I'd like to cap it at 10 so that the ring doesn't get out of control. So please also post here if you are PMing me (so that others will know), and I will try to make a prompt "ring is c…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes » New Intl. Bookring: Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
BecFromMD 20 yrs ago | 8 replies
This is the "prequel" to The Da Vinci Code (not really, because he wrote this one first...but most of us heard of it after...so......) Anyway, it's another fast-paced novel following symbologist Robert Langdon on an i…
Chit-Chat » WHAT kind of picture is on your desktop screen? » an old pic
BecFromMD 20 yrs ago
...of my dad and uncle and some of their cousins, sitting on a raft at the beach, circa 1953 (they were all under 10). I also have (framed) a picture of the same five people, sitting in the same order in the same poses, …

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