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The Last Straight Face
Down River
The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
A Quiet Belief In Angels
The Extinction Club
Dinner for Two. A one-night stand with whole-life consequences.;
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Making History
Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?: And 114 Other Questions
Mr Dixon Disappears (The Mobile Library)
In Her Shoes
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Emigre
Down among the women
Past Mortem
The World According to Clarkson
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
Barcelona Plates
The Promise of Happiness
This Book Will Save Your Life
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Extended Profile
Appropriately, this is me reading the guidebook at the fantastic Angkor Wat in Cambodia in 1999/2000 (a book I shall not be releasing). We must have set free 100s of books when we were travelling, if only BookCrossing had existed then!
I'd love to know where half of them are now! Especially the book we picked up that we'd never heard of by an author we'd never heard of amongst a shelf of boring-looking books in a tiny guesthouse in Hanoi. I only bought it because the cover looked really battered and read-to-death and possibly the best of a bad bunch. Actually, it was a pretty good read, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's life just before he died. Also our Oz road atlas and book of Australian fish & how to catch them - I hope the Norwegian couple who inherited those (along with our campervan, Bobby) had as much luck and fun as we did!
We swapped countless books with fellow travellers, left them in bookswaps in public libraries in Australia, left them in guesthouses all over the world and even had a mini garage sale in Sydney of 30 or so we'd managed to stockpile without noticing.
I wonder what happened to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy after it left my hands for 20 cents in that dingy dungeon in Sydney, or the Cider with Rosie I had to convince the Librarian in a small town in the Northern Territories to take because she didn't like the old-fashioned picture on the cover and would rather have added to the shelf loads of Mills and Boons, even when I insisted it was a literary classic!
Where is Wuthering Heights now, or The Colour Purple, or the God of Small Things, even Travels with my Aunt? For the life of me, I can't even remember where I left them, although I can remember where I read each of them (Ayers Rock, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina). Where is the HUGE hardbound PG Wodehouse set (4 in one volume) I read aloud while we were fishing in Esperance and all over the South West coast? Or The Stark Conspiracy I read aloud (with separate voices for each character) as we drove through North Western Australia because there was no radio signal?
I hope they're still out there travelling somewhere... I wish I was.
I'd love to know where half of them are now! Especially the book we picked up that we'd never heard of by an author we'd never heard of amongst a shelf of boring-looking books in a tiny guesthouse in Hanoi. I only bought it because the cover looked really battered and read-to-death and possibly the best of a bad bunch. Actually, it was a pretty good read, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's life just before he died. Also our Oz road atlas and book of Australian fish & how to catch them - I hope the Norwegian couple who inherited those (along with our campervan, Bobby) had as much luck and fun as we did!
We swapped countless books with fellow travellers, left them in bookswaps in public libraries in Australia, left them in guesthouses all over the world and even had a mini garage sale in Sydney of 30 or so we'd managed to stockpile without noticing.
I wonder what happened to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy after it left my hands for 20 cents in that dingy dungeon in Sydney, or the Cider with Rosie I had to convince the Librarian in a small town in the Northern Territories to take because she didn't like the old-fashioned picture on the cover and would rather have added to the shelf loads of Mills and Boons, even when I insisted it was a literary classic!
Where is Wuthering Heights now, or The Colour Purple, or the God of Small Things, even Travels with my Aunt? For the life of me, I can't even remember where I left them, although I can remember where I read each of them (Ayers Rock, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina). Where is the HUGE hardbound PG Wodehouse set (4 in one volume) I read aloud while we were fishing in Esperance and all over the South West coast? Or The Stark Conspiracy I read aloud (with separate voices for each character) as we drove through North Western Australia because there was no radio signal?
I hope they're still out there travelling somewhere... I wish I was.
