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Conventions and Meetings
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🇬🇧 Manchester May BookCrossing meetup - Saturday 18th May
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Intend to attend
Spartaca
1 day ago
I should be able to make this one. I've put it into my diary.
Spartaca
1 mo ago
Cough candy
Kendal mint cake (Ramblers/hill walkers in Britain live on it.)
Dessert: strawberry cheese cake
Christmas pudding
Spartaca
1 mo ago
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How many of you start a book that looks interesting to begin with but the plot runs out of steam well before the end, or the author doesn't engage your sympathy with the characters, or the main character is too dislikeab…
Spartaca
1 mo ago
Because it's fun. Because I have few real-world friends who read much and this is a way of sharing books with people who appreciate them. Because the alternative of joining reading groups isn't available to me because mo…
Spartaca
1 mo ago
Thanks for posting this. Trust the French to be combative enough to win their cause.
Spartaca
1 mo ago
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The US has a written constitution which, I thought, sets out that freedom of speech is a right and yet some places there are banning books whereas in Britain there is no written constitution, what passes for a constituti…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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The Diary of Bookseller - Shaun Bythell UK/Europe bookring
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The Diary Of A Bookseller
Spartaca
1 mo ago
Just finished reading it, will send it back to plum-crazy shortly. I liked it.
Conventions and Meetings
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🇬🇧 Manchester March BookCrossing meetup - Sunday 24th March
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Manchester Bookcrossing Meetup
Spartaca
1 mo ago
I'd be very interested in this, even if there's just a few people. I too have noticed how little bookcrossing activity there is in Manchester. I prefer Sundays but could do a Saturday if it is a day I'm not working.
Spartaca
2 mos ago
I collect them in a casual way, I have two vintage short vases where I stash them. I've got all types from the leather ones you get in souvenir shops with the name of the place on them to cardboard ones that advertise ev…
Spartaca
2 mos ago
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Like another person here, I am dipping into the full Dr Who catalogue that the BBC has put online for the 60th anniversary. And I watched the new episodes which saw David Tennant and Catherine Tate return as the Doctor a…
Spartaca
3 mos ago
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I've used audio-only audio books on Youtube a few times. I prefer to just listen to them without the distraction of video. Does this count?
Chit-Chat
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Woman swaps out “unChristian” books in Little Free Libraries in Arkansas
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This annoys me intensely
Spartaca
7 mos ago
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Because she is not offering other people the chance to read about her religion and see if it suits them, she is asserting that her lifestyle and beliefs are the only right ones and trying to impose them on everybody else…
Book Talk
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Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 list (2023) : Closing soon!
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Rudyard Kipling Short Stories
Spartaca
7 mos ago
I've already read The Jungle Book and the Just So stories and Kim back in the day and enjoyed them so i thought I'd read 'The Man Who Would Be King' and other short stories. Unfortunately most of them were dire. They wer…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Book ring, matching pair of books about two Auschwitz survivors
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On its way this week
Spartaca
7 mos ago
No more takers, so I'm sending it this week.
To accommodate everybody's preferences for posting, the order will be:
Olivia_Lo Please would you pm me your address Olivia?
Alia_Rus - Alia, Penelopewanders only wants 'C…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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X-post] Ray: Scotland's Stories of Home
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Received and finished reading
Spartaca
7 mos ago
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I've read it. It's surprising how many variations on the theme of home the writers came up with. I enjoyed all of them.
I was the last person on the list, so I take it there is no-one else to post it on to?
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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book ray Tales of Liverpool Murder, Mayhem and Mystery [now closed]
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RE: Finished!
Spartaca
7 mos ago
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Plum-crazy,
It seems I put this down as a book ray, and you're the last person on the list. I haven't ahd any more requests for it, so it's yours to keep or pass on as you wish.
I'm glad everybody seems to have enjoyed…
Spartaca
7 mos ago
They're the same as Little Free Libraries, all in weather proof structures fixed into place. I don't know if they're generally called LFLs in the UK. I've seen one of the old red telephone boxes (no longer connected to …
Spartaca
8 mos ago
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In the past two years book swap boxes seem to be increasing in my region. Whether it's the same in other reqions of the UK I don't know. But since spring 2022 I have discovered such boxes at Media City i Manchester, near…
Spartaca
8 mos ago
I wish that was happening where I live. There's been almost no bookcrossing activity in the past four or five years, so little that my county seldom comes up in the Go Hunting pages because nobody is releasing books here…
Book Talk
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Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 list (2023) : Closing soon!
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Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Spartaca
8 mos ago
Like a lot of people of my generation, I first came across Tarzan in the TV series that starred Ron Eli and the chimpanzee Cheeta (late 1960s). Later I saw the odd Johny Weismuller film on Saturday morning TV. I'm not su…
Book Talk
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Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 list (2023) : Closing soon!
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RE: RE: Decided to take part, made some progress
Spartaca
8 mos ago
No, that's sound.
Book Talk
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Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 list (2023) : Closing soon!
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RE: 5# If Not Now, When by Primo Levi
Spartaca
8 mos ago
I'm midway through reading this one too and agree. It's a bit slow moving but a fascinating story. I've read a fair about the Holocaust and the social history of WWII but have never read about this aspect of Jewish exper…
Book Talk
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Challenge yourself to read from the 1001 list (2023) : Closing soon!
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Decided to take part, made some progress
Spartaca
9 mos ago
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Despite what I said earlier, about essentially not having much time for a new challenge, I have taken this up. I went to my local library and took out the first ten books I could find that are on the list that I haven't …
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Book ring, matching pair of books about two Auschwitz survivors
Spartaca
9 mos ago
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They are The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, by the same author. The main characters were both in Auschwitz and knew each other there and they lived to see the liberation of the concentration camp, for simila…
Spartaca
9 mos ago
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The one person who expressed an interest in this didn't PM me their address, so I'm offering it again. It's a classic war story, the first one about the First World War to be told from the German persepective. And it's o…