"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 26: www.bookcrossing.com/---/588866
First Sentence VBB round 24: www.bookcrossing.com/---/588984
Non fiction round 5: www.bookcrossing.com/---/589160/
Cat bookbox: www.bookcrossing.com/---/589149

Book Rays/Rings
My Antonia - Willa Cather: www.bookcrossing.com/---/536961/
DCI Ryan spiral: www.bookcrossing.com/---/576386/ (up to book 14 sent)
Guess Who - Chris McGeorge: www.bookcrossing.com/---/583601
Favourite book of 2022 roundabout: www.bookcrossing.com/---/584859
The Murder Books bookring: www.bookcrossing.com/---/587549
Rugby World Cup game: www.bookcrossing.com/---/589431/

Currently reading: A Christmas Party
Next up:
The Valley of Horses
Another Little Christmas Murder

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 166 books TBR. Note to self: don't sign up to any more until this becomes more reasonable!
1/10 164
1/11 159
1/12 167
1/1 168
1/2 164
1/3 169
1/4 169
1/5 165
1/6 162
1/7 165
1/8 167
1/9 166
1/10 165

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 years:
www.bookcrossing.com/---/16028737/

Loughborough Unconvention 2017




Oxford BC World Convention 2015


Books I owe:
DCI Ryan (for spiral) - yorkshire-lass
Favourite book 2022 - Poodlesister
First Sentence book - delphi-reader - sent
Winter Flowers - Arvores

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.