Recent Book Activity
The Unwanted Gaze : The Destruction of Privacy in America (Vintage)
Lives of the saints
Waiting for Leah
The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)
Plays: Vol 1 (Methuen World Dramatists)
The Comfort of Strangers (Picador Books)
Astonishing Splashes Of Colour :
Seize the Day (Penguin Modern Classics)
Deadly Decisions
What You Wear Can Change Your Life
Affinity
A Special Relationship
The Night Watch
Middlesex
Turtle Moon
Instances of the Number 3
Good Harbour
The Habit Change Workbook: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Virago Modern Classics)
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Statistics |
4 weeks | all time |
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books registered | 0 | 225 |
released in the wild | 0 | 132 |
controlled releases | 0 | 0 |
releases caught | 0 | 69 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 0 |
books found | 0 | 32 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 11 |
new member referrals | 0 | 0 |
forum posts | 0 | 296 |
Extended Profile
As with everybody else on this site, books and reading are a great love of mine. A day without reading, even if only for a few minutes, feels somehow incomplete. I like contemporary fiction, but am also willing to take on anything else that looks interesting.
The best kind of novel is the one which I am thinking about for days, even months, afterwards. I'm always looking for books like this, and just sometimes, I find them.
It's still my aim to read as much and as widely as possible, tackle Mt TBR and generally slim down my book collection! Releasing them, particularly to other bookcrossers who want to read them would be the best outcome, and I'll be happy to send them on their way as either trades or RABCKs if you ask nicely, so please feel free to ask.
Here's what I'm reading this year -
BOOKS READ IN 2008
JANUARY
1) On Beauty - Zadie Smith
2) Uphill All The Way - Sue Moorcroft (Bookring)
3) Affinity - Sarah Waters
4) The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
FEBRUARY
5) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
6) Rape, A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates (Bookring)
7) The Apple - Michel Faber (Bookring)
8) Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (Bookring)
MARCH 08
9) No Logo - Naomi Klein
10) Our Betty - Liz Smith
11) Such A Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
12) The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
APRIL 08
13) The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
14) A Month Of Sundays - John Updike (Bookring)
15) Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
16) The Fatal Englishman - Sebastian Faulks (Bookring)
17) African Diary - Bill Bryson (Bookring)
MAY 08
18) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
19) The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
20) The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
21) Is There Anything You Want - Margaret Forster
JUNE 08
22) The Last Station - Jay Parini (Bookring)
My Wish List
STATS - 68 true wild releases, of which, 14 have been caught and journalled
It's still my aim to read as much and as widely as possible, tackle Mt TBR and generally slim down my book collection! Releasing them, particularly to other bookcrossers who want to read them would be the best outcome, and I'll be happy to send them on their way as either trades or RABCKs if you ask nicely, so please feel free to ask.
Here's what I'm reading this year -
BOOKS READ IN 2008
JANUARY
1) On Beauty - Zadie Smith
2) Uphill All The Way - Sue Moorcroft (Bookring)
3) Affinity - Sarah Waters
4) The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
FEBRUARY
5) A Patchwork Planet - Anne Tyler
6) Rape, A Love Story - Joyce Carol Oates (Bookring)
7) The Apple - Michel Faber (Bookring)
8) Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (Bookring)
MARCH 08
9) No Logo - Naomi Klein
10) Our Betty - Liz Smith
11) Such A Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
12) The Comfort Of Strangers - Ian McEwan
APRIL 08
13) The Alchemist - Paul Coelho
14) A Month Of Sundays - John Updike (Bookring)
15) Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
16) The Fatal Englishman - Sebastian Faulks (Bookring)
17) African Diary - Bill Bryson (Bookring)
MAY 08
18) The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
19) The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
20) The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
21) Is There Anything You Want - Margaret Forster
JUNE 08
22) The Last Station - Jay Parini (Bookring)
My Wish List
STATS - 68 true wild releases, of which, 14 have been caught and journalled