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(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Moving to Egypt book giveaway **closes sunday**- please help me find homes for these books! » Closing
turbobarge 13 yrs ago
I will close this on Sunday 8th August at midnight GMT. Books taken so far are: The Fourth Bear Pepys A Thousand Splendid Suns. Let me know if there is any interest in any of the others. T x
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Moving to Egypt book giveaway **closes sunday**- please help me find homes for these books! » RE: Have a Good Move.
turbobarge 13 yrs ago
Thank you. It's very exciting, though a little stressful at the moment. Three weeks to go!
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Moving to Egypt book giveaway **closes sunday**- please help me find homes for these books!
turbobarge 13 yrs ago | 15 replies
I'm about to move from the UK to Egypt and can only take 55 kilos of stuff with me. That means that lots of my books need new homes. I'm wild releasing many of them but have a selection of books that I would like to offe…
Book Talk » Do you dogear or use a bookmark? » Dogear? Why would you DO that?!
turbobarge 17 yrs ago
It has to be a bookmark of some sort. Receipt, train ticket, business card, anything. But I would never dogear the pages. It's just wrong. I nearly had an apoplectic fit the other day when I saw my boyfriend dogearing hi…
Book Talk » I'm looking for books set in the Second World War and I'd be so grateful for any... » Some more suggestions
turbobarge 17 yrs ago
Island Madness by Tim Binding: Follows the lives of a family living in Guernsey in the Channel Islands during the German Occupation Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home by Michelle Magorian: both YA books focussing on eva…
Book Talk » Which are your favourite books from India? » A Fine Balance
turbobarge 17 yrs ago | 2 replies
Is my all-time favourite book. I read it for a module at uni on South Asian Literature and just couldn't put it down- I read it in two days and try to make everyone I know read it!! I have read all of Rohinton Mistry's…
Book Talk » What do you like to use for a bookmark ? » Whatever is to hand at the time
turbobarge 17 yrs ago | 1 replies
I think that the bookmark kind of sums up where I was in my life at the time as much as the book I was reading, so I tend to use things like tickets and postcards and receipts. I then tend to leave them in the book when …
Book Talk » WOW! Has anyone heard about the literary controversy going on in Arkansas?! » I'm with you MJM. What an overreaction!
turbobarge 17 yrs ago
Those 'pornographic' pictures are just cartoon drawings of a man and a woman in a bed (covered by a blanket!) or a diagram of reproductive organs. What next- ban biology textbooks? I'd rather kids knew about this sort of…
Chit-Chat » Eurovision » Re: FINLAND WINS EUROVISION!!! GO SUOMI!
turbobarge 18 yrs ago
yay- what a wicked song! Chris Moyles has been playing he 'hard....rock....Hallelujah!' bit in randomplaces on his show- in the middle of interviews on the news and stuff. I was hoping they would win!
Book Talk » Books for 12 year old boy who likes adventure? » Louis Sachar books are great
turbobarge 18 yrs ago
Holes in particular. There is a sequel, too: Small Steps
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Loads of good news RABCK draw! (INTL) WINNERS DRAWN! » WINNERS DRAWN!
turbobarge 18 yrs ago | 4 replies
Congratulations Maenade (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and KMQ (Madame Bovary) Please send me your addresses by PM and I'll get the books in the mail.
Book Talk » What was the funniest book you have ever read? » Re: High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
turbobarge 18 yrs ago
A Long Way Down is excellent. That was the one I was going to nominate. I found it quite hard to explain to my dad when he came to see what all the cackling was about that the book was about a group of four suicidal p…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » (Closed: Mum donated them) Any Toddlers Want To Trade? » I have a toddler you can have RABCK!
turbobarge 18 yrs ago | 1 replies
Don't worry about sending me yours, unless he/she is super-cute!! LOL!
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » RABCK question » Absolutely!
turbobarge 18 yrs ago
An RABCK is a gift and BCers don't expect anything in return, but I'm sure that wings as an expression of gratitude and good will would be very much appreciated. I also asked on this forum about the etiquette of asking …
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness » Loads of good news RABCK draw! (INTL) WINNERS DRAWN!
turbobarge 18 yrs ago | 86 replies
I have just reached my first bookcrossing anniversary today and also I have got a great new job to start in September. In light of this I am offering two RABCKs. Please look at my availables and choose a book. Post it i…
Book Talk » Have you every had to put a book aside because reading it was too upsetting? » Re: Wild Swans
turbobarge 18 yrs ago
I loved this but my mum had to stop- the atrocities of the cultural revolution were too much for her. She also couldn't finish watching The Shawshank Redemption because it was so shocking and unjust.

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