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gill846

From Victoria, British Columbia Canada
Age 50
Joined Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Okay, I've gotten way behind on my bookcrossing. My house is now full of great books that I need to read, and through Bookcrossing I have rid my house of all the books I HAVE read, so I am stepping out of the trade/rabck etc thing while I catch up. As I read them, I will slowly release the books I have (because I certainly don't have the space to keep them!). Unfortunately, since I started taking courses in my free time, most of my reading seems to be academic, so it may be some time before all these great books get read and re-released!

This is an awesome site!
I'm 32 years old and though I'm originally from Montreal, have lived in Victoria for 9 years. I'm in the Canadian Navy and have travelled all over the world. In 2002 I went on a seven month deployment and brought a box of books with me (most of which I read!) I went to Thailand, Malaysia, Saipan, UAE, Hong Kong, Hawaii...Oh.... if only I had known about Bookcrossing then, I could have released books in every port!
I have a four and a half year old daughter and other than travelling and reading, my other interests are folk music, gardening, and sports...HOCKEY in particular (in fact, a huge amount of my free time is spent on the ice--there's really no better life!). So if there are any other Bookcrossing hockey chicks out there, I'd love to hear from you!


My Bookcrossing Top 100 list!
1. Jack London, Martin Eden
2. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
3. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
4. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
5. Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
6. Rudyard Kipling, Kim
7. John Dos Passos, The 42nd Parallel
8. John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
9. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
10. Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True
11. Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer
12. John Irving, The Cider House Rules
13. Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
14. Helen Forrester, Twopence to Cross the Mersey
15. Carolyn Chute, Merry Men
16. Alex Haley, Roots
17. JM Barrie, Peter Pan
18. Jack London, The Sea-Wolf
19. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
20. Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey

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