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Site Watch » Great catch for BookFrog - after 2 years and 5 months! » Catch
BookFrog 18 yrs ago
They do still reappear even after years have gone by! Thanks 'mave!
BookCrossing Site Announcements » librarians give bookcrossing two thumbs up
BookFrog 18 yrs ago | 4 replies
My friend - a librarian who I am trying to encourage to bookcross tells me that she read a journal which encouraged setting up a bookcrossing site in the library. She said she will photocopy the article for me but in th…
Book Talk » Daddy's Favorites: what books were your parents passionate about and encouraged... » Every room had a bookshelf bar the bathroom
BookFrog 18 yrs ago
My parents were avid readers and imparted it across to me which meant reading cereal boxes and anything with print if no books were available. My father was (and is) an avid Sci Fi reader from the 40's and 50's - even…
Book Talk » How do you keep track of the books you read? » Still haven't found what I am looking for
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
> but I am on the lookout for something else... So am I! I first started my journal in gosh 2003 and started off with marks out of 10but I find it hard to do that so I do that off and on but more stars out of 3.…
Book Talk » FINAL DRAFT - BC author list (EDITED) » Alison Rushby
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/seealliread Have you got this one? Alison Rushby (http://www.allisonrushby.com/) author of allmenarebastards.com and Hating Valentine's Day and some others...
Book Talk » What Books Do You Wish You Hadn't Bothered With This Year » a couple
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
Ancient Future by Traci Harding - wish I hadn't finished it Dirt Music by Tim Winton - gave up There have been a couple of others but those two spring to mind
Chit-Chat » The colour of your money » Re: Yep! Australian money is very dazzling:
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
Ahh but with those colours and different sizes I can oopen up my wallet and immedietly know if I am broke or have money - and the money isn't that bright but easily distinguishable. One of the hardest things for me is…
Chit-Chat » Have you got a TV in your bedroom? » Re: apartment's so tiny, the 1 tv can be seen from the bed, couch, kitchen, hallway....
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 2 replies
Hee Hee sounds like my place your-book-fairy I have one room and in that room is my bed, my computer area, my TV/lounge area, my bookshelves, my dining table - it's a really big room. The only thing not in the room …
Book Talk » The Red Tent, how is it? » Re: The Red Tent, how is it?
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
I thought it was interesting the portrayal of different people in the story. I also enjoyed Sarah by Orson Scott Card and Mary Magdalene by.... I have forgotten, its on my shelf. I did enjoy the Red Tent and passed…
Chit-Chat » luck?
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
I was asked by a 6 year old - what is luck? Is there such thing as luck.. I was slightly floored and tried to think about this question. I know the rational answer but I didn't want to to tally destroy their innocen…
Chit-Chat » Damn, looks like the liberals are back in. » Re: Damn, looks like the liberals are back in.
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
But at least I don't have to watch those political ads for another 3-4 years. I managed to block out the election to some point this morning, logged onto SMH, saw the bad news and hurriedly logged off. It's going to …
Chit-Chat » Car Advice » Re: car share?
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
Wow that looks fantastic! I have been trawling websites but cannot find one in Sydney yet but I wish it was.. I have been told I am not allowed to move to San Fran just for the car share. *sigh*
Chit-Chat » Car Advice
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 5 replies
I am thinking of buying a car. I have survived many years without owning a car and using public transport - my way of helping reduce pollution - or relying on friends. I am coming to see though that a car would be usef…
Book Talk » Any fans of Matthew Reilly's work . . . ? » Re: Any fans of Matthew Reilly's work . . . ?
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
I met him last year and enjoyed his talk and thought I would read his books since I wanted to get an insight as to why the year 6 boys I was teaching were such big fans. I really enjoyed Contest which was his first no…
Book Talk » "Something Rotten" - certainly is! » Re: "Something Rotten" - certainly is!
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
I think he should have stopped at 1 but 4 was better than 3 and I did see him speak the other day and I enjoyed him reading from Something Rotten and listening to him but it seems he wrote a good first book and is now be…
Chit-Chat » Now we'll have to think twice about visiting the US.... » Re: Now we'll have to think twice about visiting the US....
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
Well I have been singled out for "special" treatment when I have flown through the states. I was told once it was because I paid in cash for my airline ticket rather than a visa card *I don't have a limit high enough to…
Chit-Chat » Signatures, initials, colors...a mild rant » Re: Signatures, initials, colors...a mild rant
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
*LOL* she better not see how I initial my students work when I am marking... I teach year 1 and my signature and initials are a scrawl but it is my way of stamping to say I have seen there work. *besides using the actu…
Chit-Chat » Which authors did you hear reading from their work? » Re: Which authors did you hear reading from their work?
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
Terry Pratchett Michael Oondatje (typo) and I have just gone blank oh wait Matthew Reilly - bought his books because I heard him speak and a poet Steven Herrick I think I have all four on my bookshelf
Book Talk » Keeping a record of what you've read » Yup - I have a book journal
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
I started last year... I can tell you when.. I was teaching at a boy's school and I was reading this book which talked about a person who kept a book journal so she could look back, not just at what books she had read, b…
Chit-Chat » Be kind and tender to the frog » Re: Be kind and tender to the frog
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 7 replies
I just had to find out what frogs you were being kind and tender too.. how come it is assumed that all bookcrossers are female and all frogs are male ;) I was very excited to find that my favourite lolly (candy) compa…
Book Talk » Sept 6: What are you reading, and give a mini review » THe Ancient Future by Traci Harding
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
struggling through it as it is part of the Aussie Bookring but I cannot work out why it got out there, badly written, stupid that I splutter over the stupidity but I am pressing on - no idea why. sort of a yankee in k…
BookCrossing Site Announcements » anyone from Prague? CZK Republic? » Kuju currently resides between London and Prague
BookFrog 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/kuju also if you do a memeber search and put prague in city you come up with 88 members enjoy your trip - beautiful city!!
Chit-Chat » Another normal/abnormal test...I just received in an e-mail... » 2%
BookFrog 19 yrs ago
There were a lot of wrenches I thought spanner orange - so that's an orange spanner but I visualised in my head a screwdriver so obviously I know nothing about tools or I am very abnormal. Is a wrench a spanner?

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