I love books and enjoy reading very much, although I never feel I have enough time for it (like most other people, I suppose...).

Please note that the books on my bookshelf do not necessarily reflect my personal taste, because I have obtained many of them for the purpose of bookcrossing only. The books that I have rated are the ones I have actually read.

I've participated in the following bookrings/rays:
50 Faboulous Chocolate Cakes - courtesy of veritas9 (most recent journal entry was made 9 March 2004)
You're Only Old Once! by Dr. Seuss - was supposed to have reached me in January 2006 when I turned 30, but it seems to have been lost.
The God of Small Things The Coffee Trader, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex, Biblioholism - The Literary Addiction, The Devil's Cup - Coffee, the Driving Force in History, The Map of Love, Life of Pi, 1984, A Fine Balance, 84 Charing Cross Road, Anne Frank In The World/Die Welt Der Anne Frank: 1929 - 1945 and Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image (didn't finish), Apple of My Eye

I've organised the following perpetual bookrays:
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy
Pretend You Don't See Her, Mary Higgins Clark
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen replaced by the kind Antof9's copy
From a Buick 8, Stephen King
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
Christine, Stephen King - this died in action...

...and these bookrings:
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert - now closed
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - now closed (stalled with Red644 - last journal entry in June 2004)