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Caterinaanna

From Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom
Age 54
Joined Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Recent Book Activity

An Unrestored Woman
What I Do
Like a Sword Wound
Speak
The Reading Group
I Am Number Four. by Pittacus Lore (The Lorien Legacies)
His Illegal Self
The Power
Tin Man
Sunset Song
Blind to the Bones
Fixing Shadows
The Taxidermist's Daughter
The Outrun: A Memoir
The Invisible Library
The Book Ninja
The Love of Stones
No Place
Tatterdemalion
The Devil and Miss Prym
Statistics
 4 weeks all time
books registered 0 1,008
released in the wild 0 1,834
controlled releases 0 223
releases caught 0 776
controlled releases caught 0 201
books found 0 945
tell-a-friend referrals 0 88
new member referrals 0 19
forum posts 0 824
Extended Profile

Last time I updated this, I was reading:
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Bhante Gunaratana
Poems of the Decade - William Sieghart (ed)
The Artist's Way - Julia Cameron

Next up:
Full House - Maeve Binchy
On Women and Writing - Virginia Woolf
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals - Niall Ferguson
The Spa Decameron - Fay Weldon

How I got here

I have bulging shelves of books. Some are old friends that I return to time & time again. Others I picked up at stations in my commuting days, when I didn't feel like tackling the work in my bag, but had nothing to read on the train (my diary is NOT sensational!). Most of this latter category are candy floss - fun at the time, but a bit sickly, and when looked at more closely there's not much there. I know that sounds a bit snobby - but many of the books I come back to don't count as great literature either - just look at this year's list! I kept meaning to give them to Oxfam, but somehow giving such a worthy cause books about people up to all sorts of unworthy things seemed a bit ... distasteful. I thought that if I started this lark, people could pick them up, or leave them for someone else, but someone out there is bound to like them - after all, I doubt I possess the only copy of any of them!

My Wish List

My bookshelf wish list is wish list 1: books I would like to read, or re-read, one day. However it is far from exhaustive! I'm always willing to give anything else that my reading list suggests, or anything from the 1001 list, a go. I also have several, more categorised, lists on Amazon.

Books read so far this year

(R) (in any colour) indicates a re-read
These books are linked to their JEs.
These books are from the library or were lent to me by non-bookcrossers (or by naughty bookcrossers who haven't registered them).
These books are on Kindle (yes, I gave in at last).
These books are ones I've not got round to registering and are still in my possession at the time of posting.

I am, of course, willing to at least lend them, or indeed anything from my bookshelf that is marked PC or TBR, to other bookcrossers if asked very nicely ;o)


0. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (zero because finished on New Year's Day, but more read last year than this)
1. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
2. The Double Comfort Safari Club - Alexander McCall Smith

AudioBooks
None (yet) this year.

Books Read in 2012
Books Read in 2011
Books Read in 2010
Books Read in 2009
Books Read in 2008
Books Read in 2007
Books Read in 2006

A word of warning about 'my' availables ...

Chances are that if these were registered by katisha50, then they are with her rather than me - a slight flaw in the registering party plan!

... and an explanation of my weird stats
Just in case you are wondering how I have managed to catch and release many more books than I have registered.

I'm far too lazy to register much of my PC and too much of a magpie to release it, so most of 'my' books have been supplied by Molyneux who gets more than she can possibly dispose of herself.

Thanks to:

Eleanor A (not a bookcrosser, as far as I know, but I'm working on it) for the picture and
LightSmoker (ditto) for the html book that helped me brighten this up.

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