"Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens." - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Happy to RABCK any books I have available (or can bump a TBR book up my list for you), if you bookcross them on when you're done.

PMs do sometimes go astray - if I don't reply please try again!

Currently taking part in:

VBBs/Bookboxes
Alphabet VBB round 28: www.bookcrossing.com/---/594275/
First Sentence VBB round 26: www.bookcrossing.com/---/594767
Read it/Swap it/Leave it: www.bookcrossing.com/---/591084

Book Rays/Rings
My Antonia - Willa Cather: www.bookcrossing.com/---/536961/
DCI Ryan spiral: www.bookcrossing.com/---/576386/ (up to book 18 sent)
Guess Who - Chris McGeorge: www.bookcrossing.com/---/583601
Favourite book of 2023 roundabout: www.bookcrossing.com/---/591274
My Name is Eleanor - Val Scully: www.bookcrossing.com/---/594006 (sent)
Becoming - Chris Ord: www.bookcrossing.com/---/594014 (arrived and sent on)
Clockwork Magpies - Emma Whitehall: www.bookcrossing.com/---/594098 (sent)
There is an England - Harry Gallagher - www.bookcrossing.com/---/594389/ (arrived and sent on)

Currently reading: Bamburgh
Next up:
Exiles
The Uplift War

I aim to read and review all books sent to me within a year of receiving them (it's currently more like two years). I currently have 183 books TBR. Note to self: don't sign up to any more until this becomes more reasonable!
1/9 166
1/10 165
1/11 162
1/12 176
1/1 176
1/2 190
1/3 189
1/4 190
1/5 196
1/6 185
1/7 182
1/8 179
1/9 178
The books have got out of hand and I'm having a mini-cull!

As my personal challenge to release some of my favourite books ever, I have released the following:
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11282849
(put into International VBB - Fiction/Literature)
Gobbolino the Witch's Cat by Ursula Moray Williams - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11346077 (wild released)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11271561 (wild released)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11337667 (put into Alphabet VBB)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11537677 (sent as RABCK)
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11579957/ (put into Alphabet VBB)
A Lion in the Meadow by Margaret Mahy - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11710974/ (sent to LightlyBentHalo for a classroom BCZ)
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11711031 (wild released)
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - www.bookcrossing.com/---/11725266 (sent as RABCK)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - www.bookcrossing.com/---/12012093 (wild released)
Watership Down by Richard Adams - www.bookcrossing.com/---/12189996 (wild released)
The Little Witch by Otfried Preuβler - www.bookcrossing.com/---/12152036/ (sent as RABCK)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams - www.bookcrossing.com/---/12190121 (put into Books Beginning with L bookring)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper - www.bookcrossing.com/---/15745474/ (put into my Christmas Bookbox)

The book that's taken longest to get back to me, after 3 1/2 years:
www.bookcrossing.com/---/15894239/

Loughborough Unconvention 2017




Oxford BC World Convention 2015



Books I owe:
DCI Ryan (for spiral) - yorkshire-lass
Favourite book 2023 - estelle1806
Yellowface - ApoloniaX (Durham)
First Sentences - Brookler (sent)
Farenheit 451 - Shepparm (Durham)
Exiles - Tanamo

For NSS:
My wishlist is up to date. I enjoy a wide range of genres and am willing to give most things a go but don't enjoy horror or the more violent crime books.
I like dark chocolate, also jelly sweets, and am keen on a variety of fruit teas. I am allergic to almonds.