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Flashgirl
15 yrs ago
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Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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What Should I Do with My Life by Po Bronson (US only, sorry everyone else)
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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I am currently reading this inspiring collection of stories from people who are wrestling with the question of what to do with their lives. I want to keep it in my permanent collection, but I can't resist sharing. So I'm…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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RABCK looking for a good home [CLAIMED]
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Re: I'd love to read this book!
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
Sure, I was just trying to save on postage! Actually it seems fitting that it should go back home to Canada. Just PM with your address!
: )
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/391785
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
For the first year or so. Then I caved.
Book Talk
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Anyone else going on a book-buying moratorium?
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My goal: fit all books back on the bookshelves
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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That means:
-NO MORE books in piles on the countertops!
-NO MORE books in piles on the floor, under the bed, in the bathroom, in the dresser drawers...
-NO MORE books stacked in grocery bags all over the place
-NO MO…
Book Talk
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Negative Reviews?
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My experience in reading it is not really about the quality of the book
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
Sometimes I feel crabby or dissappointed or whatever, but when I read the book again my experience is totally different. It's not just personal, it's also about what's going on in my life when I read it.
Actually if I…
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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(Not sure if this is the right forum for this post, but here goes...)
The Women's Prison Book Project sends free books to women in prison all over the United States. They rely almost exclusively on donated books.
"…
Book Talk
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Who suffers from Book Anxiety?
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Re: Each time I start a new book, I wish I already were finished,
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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I am a semi-compulsive page-checker, too! And while I'm back there at the end of the book looking for the last page, I sometimes get a glimpse of something I wish I hadn't seen. Grr!
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
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A very mixed batch here. One per person, please. And I don't want to enable the really hardcore addicts out there. Please don't respond if you're like me and you already have more BookCrossing books than you could read i…
Book Talk
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"Self-help" or "self-improvement" books: Read any that changed your life?
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Also Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner
Flashgirl
18 yrs ago
This and The Dance of Anger are about the only two that have spoken to me. I often pick up this kind of book, but rarely read them all the way through.
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
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http://bookcrossing.com/journal/196806
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
I have friends who are deaf and they say that infants are able to learn sign language much, much earlier than they can learn to talk, because their mental ability and hand coordination develop much faster than their abil…
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
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Can I be a beta tester?
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Does anyone search the wish lists and do RABCKs?
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Wishlist RABCKs: better than trading
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
Think of it this way: when someone offers me a trade, I could find something on their bookshelf that I might be sort of interested in and it will sit on my shelf unread for years (there are some there now like this), or …
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
Congratulations.
And yay! We will be excited to have you join the ranks of Minnesotan bookcrossers! Welcome.
This might just be enough to get me to go to a MeetUp...
--flash
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
And in another state, too!
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/1030833
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
I stopped putting pics of myself up when I noticed all the cute cartoons, etc... but now I'm back!
Chit-Chat
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What is the most uncomfortable (fictional) drama you have ever watched?
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How about a classic?
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
For sheer emotional/psychological torture, there's 1966's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
And of course anything by Tarantino for sheer meaningless violence (especially Reserv…
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
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Turtle woman might just be my favorite bookplate so far!
Flashgirl
19 yrs ago
But as a pre-teen I saw some movie where Christopher Walken didn't play a bad guy, and I developed a crush on him that lasted quite a while. I'm over it now (whew!), but I still delight in finding myself attracted to unu…
Flashgirl
20 yrs ago
Flashgirl
20 yrs ago
by wendy8869.
Now that I think of it, please PM her if you're interested in sharing it, instead of me.
Flashgirl
20 yrs ago
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by Charlotte Burley and Lyah Beth LeFlore.
Offered to the first PM in my e-mail box. Please don't post responses to this forum, as I don't check it.
If there is alot of interest, names will be passed along to the re…
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Flashgirl
20 yrs ago
Now if only we can get this kind of voter turnout in November!