Recent Book Activity
Song of Survival: Women Interned
Up We Grew: Stories of Australian Childhoods
My forbidden face: growing up under the Taliban: a young woman's story
The Fatal Shore: History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 (Harvill Panther)
The Kite Runner
One Crowded Hour: Noel Davis, Combat Cameraman, 1934-85
Children's Wartime Diaries: Secret Writings from the Holocaust and World War II
An Anzac's Story
Head Over Heels: A Story of Tragedy, Triumph and Romance in the Australian Bush
The Perfect Puppy
Skipping Christmas
Australian Baby Names And Memories
Social research
FINAL JEOPARDY
We of the Never-never
Adventuring in Australia: Second Edition (Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides)
Yates Garden Gde Oe
Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Home!: Evonne Goolagong Story
Total Wellbeing Diet
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releases caught | 0 | 14 |
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books found | 0 | 9 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 6 |
new member referrals | 0 | 2 |
forum posts | 0 | 4 |
Extended Profile
I have been an avid reader as long as I can remember. I just can not go to sleep at night until I have read something. I can not sit on a bus or train unless I have something to read...in desperation I once went into a church in the city to grab "something/anything
to read" on the rather long bus journey home...even a church newsletter would do!
I instilled that same love of books and all things to be read with my two kids aged 29 and 27. They both devour books and since they could hold a book up, they have fallen asleep with a book on their chest!
So, my problem for some time now has been what to do with the vast number of books that we all collect. I have a real understanding of what my parents went through when I was living at home and why when I moved into my own home, over came my Dad with several boxes of books that I had refused to part with. At least Dad finally got to part with them!
I was so thrilled to read about BookCrossing in April 05. Apart from solving the burning issue in my house of what to do with all those book, I also loved the idea of actually releasing books. It feels amazing to leave them and I know that someone will pick them up and they can continue a journey that I just might be a part of.
I have had success leaving books at my daughter's netball courts on Saturday mornings. It is such a busy place with families and kids everywhere. Here I can leave them on a seat before her game and then I can usually manage to keep an eye on who picks them up....makes it hard to concentrate on the game though.
Hopefully my previously loved books will be loved by others and continue on their journey.
I instilled that same love of books and all things to be read with my two kids aged 29 and 27. They both devour books and since they could hold a book up, they have fallen asleep with a book on their chest!
So, my problem for some time now has been what to do with the vast number of books that we all collect. I have a real understanding of what my parents went through when I was living at home and why when I moved into my own home, over came my Dad with several boxes of books that I had refused to part with. At least Dad finally got to part with them!
I was so thrilled to read about BookCrossing in April 05. Apart from solving the burning issue in my house of what to do with all those book, I also loved the idea of actually releasing books. It feels amazing to leave them and I know that someone will pick them up and they can continue a journey that I just might be a part of.
I have had success leaving books at my daughter's netball courts on Saturday mornings. It is such a busy place with families and kids everywhere. Here I can leave them on a seat before her game and then I can usually manage to keep an eye on who picks them up....makes it hard to concentrate on the game though.
Hopefully my previously loved books will be loved by others and continue on their journey.