My 1000th registered book ... !! :-o

Yes, I am a little impressed with myself right now. :-)

From the front cover:

'NATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Heartbreaking? Certainly. Staggering? Yes, I'd say so. And if genius is capturing the universal in a fresh and memorable way, call it that too'
Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times

'Is this how all orphans would speak - 'I am at once pitiful and monstrous, I know' - if they had Dave Eggers's prodigious literary gifts? For he does write wonderfully, and this is an extremely impressive debut' John Banville, Irish Times

BASED ON A TRUE STORY'

From the back cover:

''A hilarious book .. In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole' - Time'

This is a trade paperback copy from Picador, published in 2001. Eggers wrote the book from 1998 through 2000, and it was originally published in the US in 2001.

I've read this book, but I'm not sure whether it was this copy. Very well worth reading, anyway. But I'm not going to read it again so now it's time for the book to move on. :-)

I will bring this book with me to meetup this afternoon and release it in the zone if no one takes it with them. :-)

I found this book at a BookCrossing meetup - it is now waiting to be read.

I found this book at a BookCrossing meetup - it is now waiting to be read.