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Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom

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Monday, September 08, 2003

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Recent Book Activity


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4 weeksall time

books registered:3426
released in the wild:2367
controlled releases:268
releases caught:0119
controlled releases caught:065
books found:140
tell-a-friend referrals:00
new member referrals:023
forum posts:152,290

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"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living." - Anais Nin

"I am a siren, a mermaid, I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves." - C. Joy Bell

Supporter of 'Save the British Postcard Campaign':
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/sep/28/save-the-postcard-campaign-auction

I have quite eclectic tastes in books, but my true love is crime, mysteries & thrillers. From the classics (Conan Doyle, Collins, Christie), to present day authors (P.D.James, Ian Rankin, Jacqueline Winspear). Nothing beats curling up with a mug of Assam tea, chocolate & a crime novel!

I also love the Classics (Gaskell, Austen, Brontes), contemporary fiction, women's literature, historical fiction (M.M.Kaye, C.J.Sansom, Hilary Mantel), World War I & II fiction, biographies/memoirs (actors,musicians, sports, World War 1 & 2, politics, royalty, Interior Home Design/Style aka property porn!). Dislike Sci-Fi, Horror, Romance & Fantasy (Harry Potter is the exception to this rule!).

I love living on the south coast of England, & am a keen walker. This gives me the opportunity to release books on coastal paths & even in the sea! One sea release was caught after 4 years at sea, by a student who was looking to practice sea-knots, & was amazed to find a book about how to tie sea knots! Don't know what the book had been up to at sea for 4 years, but think a mermaid might have been involved somewhere! ;-)

As you might have gathered from my avatar - I am fascinated by mermaids! Magical creatures - I was enthralled by them as a child. If there is such a thing as reincarnation -that's what I'd like to come back as please!

I also love ballet, theatre, opera, musicals, comedy, music, art galleries, museums & art-house/foreign films. Love watching sport - particularly football, tennis (Murray & Nadal!), athletics, boxing, sailing & rowing.

I was beyond thrilled to discover Bookcrossing nine years ago, and whenever I visit this site I feel that I am among 'my people'!

My address is on RABCK.com

Currently Reading:
The Light Behind the Window - Lucinda Riley

Books Read in 2013:
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn
The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty
Human Remains - Elizabeth Haynes
The Vintage Teacup Club - Vanessa Greene
Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyce
Villa Triste - Lucretia Grindle
Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
Unseen - Karin Slaughter
Fairy Tale Interrupted - Rose Marie Terenzio
The Sealed Letter - Emma Donoghue
Welcome to Rosie Hopkin's Sweet Shop of Dreams - Jenny Colgan
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
Margot's Secrets - Don Boyd
Believing the Lie - Elizabeth George
The Queen Mother (the untold story) - Lady Colin Campbell
Dear Lupin: Letters to a Wayward Son - Roger & Charlie Mortimer
My Time - Bradley Wiggins
Standing in another Man's Grave - Ian Rankin
The Impossible Dead - Ian Rankin
The Complaints - Ian Rankin

Books read in 2012:
Extreme Rambling - Mark Thomas
The People's Manifesto - Mark Thomas
Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky - Simon Mawer
The Behaviour of Moths - Poppy Adams
Instruments of Darkness - Imogen Robertson
Heartstone - C.J.Sansom
One Summer - Rachel Billington
Revelation - C.J.Sansom
Sovereign - C.J.Sansom
Dark Fire - C.J.Sansom
Room - Emma Donaghue
Dissolution - C.J. Sansom
Blue Monday - Nicci French
The Housekeeper's Diary - Wendy Berry
Criminal - Karin Slaughter
Their Finest Hour and a Half - Lissa Evans
Cats - Sarah Kennedy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Medicine River - Thomas King
Mischief - Amanda Quick
Hanging Hill - Mo Hayder
The Unseen - Katherine Webb
Summer of Love - Katie Fforde
The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
A Room Full of Bones - Elly Griffiths
This Body of Death - Elizabeth George
Belle - Lesley Pearse
How to be a Woman - Caitlin Moran
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton - Elizabeth Speller
Small Spaces (maximising limited spaces for living) - Elizabeth Wilhide
Before I go to Sleep - S.J.Watson
Absolutely - Joanna Lumley
Beauty Disrupted - Carre Otis

My bookshelf does not entirely reflect my tastes, as I often collect books from other genres solely for the purpose of releasing, I'm still in the process of updating my permanent collection.





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