BookCrossing.comA page to keep track of the various Bookrays and Bookrings that I've joined in with on BookCrossing.
In my possession:
Waiting for:
Embers- Sandor Marai (FreePages) I'm next
The Bell - Iris Murdoch (tqd)
Silk - Alessandro Baricco (MarysGirl)
Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb (MarysGirl)
Vile bodies - Evelyn Waugh (Danielle23)
Watchmen - Alan Moore (katrinat)
Story of the eye - Georges Bataille (perryfran)
What a carve up! - Jonathan Coe (shnedwards)
Disgrace - J. M. Coetzee (J4shaw)
I'm not scared - Niccolò Ammaniti (shnedwards)
Quicksand - Nella Larson (perryfran)
Absolute beginners - Colin MacInnes (davemurray101)
The last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper (literarylover)
Crash - J. G. Ballard (bookowl1000)
The edible woman - Margaret Atwood (JenKazoo)
Ethan Frome- Edith Wharton (tqd)
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto (LyzzyBee)
Measuring the world - Daniel Kehlmann (davemurray101) with JF
Cakes and ale - W. Somerset Maugham (cally-c) with JF
Veronika decides to die - Paulo Coelho (fushmush) with JF
Crewel World spiral - Monica Ferris
Crewel world read & passed on
Framed in lace read & passed on
A stitch in time
Unraveled sleeve
A murderous yarn
Hanging by a thread
Cutwork
Crewel Yule
Embroidered truths
Sins and needles
Knitting bones
Rings/Rays that appear to be stalled
The iron heel - Jack London (perryfran) lost in the post
The picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde - (literarylover) Stalled for over one year
Travelling:
Like water from Chocolate- Laura Esquivel (FreePages) - received 24/09/09, posted 24/10/09
Vernon Godlittle - DBC Pierre (shnedwards) received 24/10/09, posted 31/10/09 (surface mail)
Arrived:
The drowned world - J. G. Ballard (lucy-lemon) received 22/10/09, posted 24/10/09, arrived 02/11/09
The Magus - John Fowles (cat207) received 08/09/09, posted 26/09/09, arrived 26/10/09
The inheritance of loss- Kiran Desai (Miss-Owl) received 01/10/09, posted 05/10/09, arrived 24/10/09 (JF)
Sexing the cherry- Jeanette Winterson (FreePages) - received 22/09/09, posted 30/09/09, arrived 01/10/09
House of orphans - Helen Dunmore (Seethroughfaith) received 19/08/09, posted 07/09/09, arrived 10/09/09
They shoot horses, don't they? - Horace McCoy (lucy-lemon) received 20/08/09, posted 01/09/09, arrived 08/09/09
The New York trilogy - Paul Auster (JenKazoo) received 17/08/09, posted 01/09/09, arrived 03/09/09
Beach Babylon - Imogen Edwards-Jones - received on 29/01/09, posted air mail 02/02/09, appears to be lost in the post. Proof of posting retained. Ring restarted with new book, arrived 20/08/09
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson (cally-c) received 16/07/09, posted 31/07/09, arrived 05/08/09
The Monk - M. G. Lewis (CaterinaAnna) received 09/07/09, posted 31/07/09, arrived 05/08/09
Empire of the sun - J. G. Ballard (CaterinaAnna) received 20/06/09, posted 08/07/09, arrived 21/07/09
The 13 Clocks - James Thurber (davemurray101) received 14/05/09, posted 29/05/09, arrived June
The piano teacher - Elfriede Jelinek (shnedwards) received 01/06/09, posted 27/06/09, arrived 16/07/09
A Thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hossieni (lunacia) received 26/06/09, posted 08/07/09, arrived 16/07/09
Fugitive pieces- Anne Michaels (katrinat) received 11/06/09, posted 27/06/09, arrived 01/07/09
An artist of the floating world - Kazuo Ishiguro (MarysGirl) received 28/05/09, posted 08/06/09, arrived 11/06/09
Enduring love - Ian McEwan (CaterinaAnna) received 16/05/09, posted airmail 29/05/09, arrived 02/06/09
The museum of unconditional surrender- Dubravka Ugresic (davemurray101) arrived 14/05/09, posted 24/05/09, arrived 01/06/09
Vineland - Thomas Pynchon (davemurray101) - received on 07/03/09, posted 16/03/09, arrived - don't know exactly when? They didn''t journal its arrival.
Flaubert's parrot - Julian Barnes (lucy-lemon) received 28/04/09, posted 11/05/09, arrived 26/05/09
The body artist - Don DeLillo (lucy-lemon) - received on 27/03/09, posted 07/04/09, arrived ?
The lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (Jozebedee) received 28/04/09, posted 01/05/09, arrived 05/05/09
Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd (lucy-lemon) - received on 17/04/09, posted 25/04/09, arrived 30/04/09
The immoralist - Andre Gide (lucy-lemon) - received on 06/04/09, posted 12/04/09, arrived 26/04/09
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Jozebedee) - received on 17/04/09, posted 2nd class 19/04/09, arrived 22/04/09
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann (lucy-lemon) - received on 06/04/09, posted 12/04/09, arrived 16/04/09
The wind-up bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami (CaterinaAnna) - received on 19/03/09, posted 25/03/09, arrived 15/04/09
The cider house rules - John Irving (literarylover) - received on 23/03/09, posted 07/04/09, arrived 09/04/09
The lost honor of Katharina Blum- Heinrich Boll (lucy-lemon) - received on 11/03/09, posted airmail 18/03/09, arrived 25/03/09
The Swarm - Frank Schatzing (davemurray101) - received on 27/03/09, posted 07/04/09, arrived 08/04/09
Rabbit run - John Updike (perryfran) - received on 20/03/09, posted 28/03/09, arrived 02/04/09
The lambs of London- Peter Ackroyd (Wigglywoods) - received on 11/03/09, posted 2nd class 24/03/09, arrived 27/03/09
Saturday -Ian McEwan (FreePages) - received on 18/03/09, posted 2nd class 24/03/09, arrived 27/03/09
The lost honor of Katharina Blum- Heinrich Boll (lucy-lemon) - received on 11/03/09, posted airmail 18/03/09, arrived 25/03/09
Strait is the gate - Andre Gide (lucy-lemon) - received on 11/03/09, posted 2nd class 18/03/09, arrived 24/03/09
Broken April - Ismail Kadare (davemurray101) - received on 07/03/09 , posted 2nd class 15/03/09, arrived 18/03/09
Their eyes were watching God - Zora Neale Hurston (perryfran) - received on 03/03/09, posted airmail 11/03/09, arrived 18/03/09
The postman always rings twice- James M. Cain (lucy-lemon) - received on 07/03/09, posted 2nd class 11/03/09, arrived 16/03/09
The blind owl - Sadegh Hedayat (Davemurray) - received on 03/03/09, posted 2nd class 11/03/09, arrived 16/03/09
The master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov received on 19/02/09, posted 2nd class 23/02/09, arrived 25/02/09
Herzog- Saul Bellow received on 05/02/09, posted 2nd class 14/02/09, arrived 19/02/09
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood - received on 24/01/09, posted airmail 07/02/09, arrived 16/02/09
The talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith - received on 30/01/09, posted 2nd class 09/02/09, arrived 13/02/09
The story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor - received on 30/01/09, posted 2nd class 09/02/09, arrived 13/02/09
Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal - received on 30/01/09, posted 2nd class 09/02/09, arrived 13/02/09
Cat's eye - Margaret Atwood - received on 21/01/09, posted 2nd class 26/01/09, arrived 31/01/09
Passing - Nella Larson - received on 20/01/09, posted 2nd class 23/01/09, arrived 26/01/09
The summer book - Tove Jansson - received on 16/01/09, posted 2nd class 17/01/09, arrived 20/01/09
War with the newts- Karel Capek - received on 12/01/09, posted 2nd class 15/01/09, arrived 20/01/09
Bad Faith - Gillian Philip - received on 09/01/09, posted 2nd class 11/01/09, arrived 14/01/09
Murder must advertise- Dorothy L Sayer - received on 09/12/08. posted 2nd class 18/12/08, arrived 23/12/08
Unless - Carol Shields - received on 15/12/08, posted 2nd class 18/12/08, arrived 20/12/08
Fear and loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson - received on 15/12/08, posted 2nd class 18/12/08, arrived 20/12/08
The magic lands - Mark Hockley - Received on 11/11/08, posted airmail on 24/11/08, arrived Germany 03/12/08
Black Water - Joyce Carol Oates - received 27/11/08, posted first class 28/11/08, arrived 29/11/08
The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood - Received on 06/11/08, posted second class on 17/11/08, arrived approx 20/11/08
Lady Chatterley's lover - D. H. Lawrence - Received on 18/10/08, posted airmail on 22/10/08, arrived Germany 27/10/08
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