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When I discovered Bookcrossing, it seemed like such a simple idea. Read a book? Enjoyed it? Want to share it with other people? Being nosey by nature, I liked the idea of finding out what other people have thought of a book I've read as well. Not just the same book but the same copy as well. It gives you an idea of where your books go after they've left your mucky paws.

I am the Assistant Organiser for the Glasgow Bookcrossing meets. We meet every second Tuesday of the month in the 13th Note Cafe at 7pm. More up to date details can be found at our Yahoo! Group here. Feel free to PM me or contact me via the group with any queries you may have regarding the meet ups.

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No bloody reading goals this year apart from making a reasonable dent in Mount TBR arf arf

Reading Goals for 2006:
*Read more non fiction books = 9
*Re-read all the current Harry Potter books = 0
*Re-read and finish the Chronicles of Narnia books = 0
*Read at least 100 books - currently at 48

Click here for 2005 Reading Goals

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Bookrings I have organised
The Hours Closed - stalled with Clear-Skies since July 2005
The Starter Marriage Open
Finding Peggy Open
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Open

Bookrays I have organised
Old School Ties This copy is sadly missing in action.
Old School Ties mark two
Are You Dave Gorman? Stalled - I am trying to get this one back on track
Nickel and Dimed On (Not)getting by in America Open
Cross Bones Open



Bookrings that have been completed
Negative Space
Summer of My German Soldier
The Hole
Call Me Elizabeth
Different Seasons
Spin Cycle
Belle De Jour
Brother in the Land

Bookrings/rays I have joined
Hiroshima
Misery
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things
The Vagina Monologues
Good Bones and Simple Murders
The Birth of Venus


Wild Releases that have been caught
A Matter of Honour
All Around the Town
Big Fish
Blood Brothers
Bridget Jones's Diary
Engima
Girl, Interrupted
No.1 Ladies Detective Agency
Prince Caspian Note, this book was one of four I released so I assume the other three were caught as well as per the journal entry
Sliver
The Acid House
The Buddha of Suburbia
The Da Vinci Code
The Devil Wears Prada
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Magic Flute
The Shining
The Virgin Suicides
The World's Greatest Crooks, Crime and Corruption

Books I have caught
Angry Housewives Eating BonBons
Small Island
It's What He Would Have Wanted

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Books I've read in 2008:
1)The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho2)Love Over Scotland - Alexander McCall Smith 3)Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain - Polly Toynbee (re-read) 4)The Snow Empress - Laura John Rowland (library book)5)No More Mr Nice Guy - Howard Jacobson 6)On Beauty - Zadie Smith7)On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan 8)Enduring Love - Ian McEwan9)The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenberger 10)Atlantic Shift - Emily Barr11)The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson 12)Desert Governess - Phyliss Ellis13)A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon 14)Weekend - William McIlvanney15)Diary of a Married Call Girl - Tracey Quan 16)Hidden Lives - Margaret Forster17)Liars and Saints - Malie Meoldy 18)Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson 19)The Post-Birthday World - Lionel Shriver20)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 21)The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith 22)The Medici Curse - Matt Chamings23)Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult 24)Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris25)The Dark River - John Twelve Hawks 26)Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith27)I, Claudius - Robert Graves 28)The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexandrt McCall Smith 29)Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugh30)The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas 31)The Road - Cormac McCarthy32)Starter for Ten - David Nicholls BR>

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Books I've read in 2007:
1)Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder2)Canal Dreams - Iain Banks 3) Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt 4)Last Chance Saloon - Marian Keyes5)The Last Emperor - Edward Behr 6)The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden7)Frankenstein - Mary Shelly 8)The Crow Road - Iain Banks9)Small Island - Andrea Levy 10)Sophie's Choice - William Styron11)Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants - Ann Brashares 12)The Boy I Love - Marion Husband13)Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse 14)The Girls - Lori Lansens15)Kokopu Dreams - Chris Baker 16)The Piano - Jane Campion & Kate Pullington17)Twentieth Century Girl: The Diary of Flora Bonnington - Carol Drinkwater 18)Brown Owl's Guide to Life - Kate Harrison19)English Passengers - Matthew Kneale 20)IT - Stephen King21)The Interpretation of Murder - Jed Rubenfield 22)Brick Lane - Monica Ali23)Best Friends - Jacqueline Wilson 24)Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenrich25)The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt 26)The History of Love - Nicole Krauss27)Red Sky in the Morning - Elizabeth Laird 28)Cafe Europa: Life After Communism - Slavenka Drakulic 29)Why Do People Love America? - Louise Chunovic30)Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling 31)Grumpy Old Women - Judith Holder32)The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid 33)The Boleyn Inheritance - Philipa Gregory34)The 2 and 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom - Alexander McCall Smith 35)Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood36)The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards 37)Young, Female, Travelling Alone - Anne-Marie Pop 38)World War Z - Max Brooks39)Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire 40)I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti41)The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit - Sloane Wilson 42)The Children of Men - P.D. James43)Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson 44)Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence45)Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean - Justin Somper 46)Shadowlands: The True Story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman 47)Anyone Out There? - Marian Keyes48)Knots & Crosses - Ian Rankin 49)Buddha Da - Anne Donovan50)Out of Depth - Emily Barr 51)Fat - Rob Grant52)How to talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper 53)The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes54)Chart Throb - Ben Elton 55)Brave New World - Aldous Huxley56)A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away - Christopher Brookmyre 57)Toyko - Mo Hayder58)Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe 59)Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe60)Boy A - Jonathan Trigell 61)White Oleander - Janet FinchBR>

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Books I've read in 2006:
1)44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith 2)Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes2)Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 3)Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs 4)Under the Duvet - Marian Keyes5)Cambridge - Caryl Phillips 6)Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers - Alissa Quart7)The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks 8)Complicity - Iain Banks9)The Tenko Club - Elizabeth Noble 10)Watermelon - Marian Keyes11)The Wizard of Oz - Frank L. Baum 12)Cloud of Sparrows - Takeshi Matsho13)Falling Angels - Tracey Chevalier (highly recommended) 14)Angry Housewives Eating Bons Bons - Lorna Ladvik 15)The Fourth Treasure - Todd Shimoda16)A Sarong In My Backpack - Ayun Halliday 17)The Nazi Officer's Wife - Edith Hahn-Beer, Susan Dworkin 18)The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler19)The Dumas Club - Arturo Perez-Reverte 20)Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk Cross21)Other Voices, Other Rooms - Truman Capote 22)Blast from the Past - Ben Elton23)Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich 24)We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver 25)Cell - Stephen King26)84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff 27)Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke28)Balthasar's Odyssey - Amin Masslouf 29)Why Do Men Have Nipples? - Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner 30)Return to Suicide - Allison Pollack Alexander31)The Daughter of William Rowe - Allison Pollack Alexander 32)The Working Poor - David K. Shipler33)(Un)-arranged Marriage - Bali Rai 34)Elegance - Kathleen Tessaro35)Ring - Koji Suzuki 36)Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence - Paul Feig (non-fiction) 37)The Corporation - Josh Bakan (non-fiction)38)The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood 39)Backpack - Emily Barr40)Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes 41)Emperess Orchid - Anchee Min42)The Tale of Murasaki - Liza Dalby 43)West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder - San Francisco 1915. Edited by Roger Lea MacBride 44)The Drink and Dream Teahouse - Justin Hill45)The Constant Princess - Phillipa Gregory 46)The Traveller - John Twelve Hawks47)Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson 48)Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi (non-fiction) 49)The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollingburst50)Cuban Heels - Emily Barr 51)Notes on a Small Island - Bill Bryson (non-fiction) 52)The Business - Iain Banks53)Autobiography of a Geisha - Sayo Masuda (non-fiction) 54)Divided Kingdom - Rupert Thompson55)Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 56)The Resurrection Club - Christopher Wallace57)The Last Templar - Raymond Khoury 58)Hunting Unicorns - Bella Pollen59)Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverley Dorino (non-fiction) 60)The First Casualty - Ben Elton61)Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith 62) Atonement - Ian McEwan63) Balthasar's Odyssey - Amin Maalouf 64) The Amateur Marriage - Anne Tyler65) Night Crossing - Robert Ryan BR>