I have two books available for Book Crossers!

First up, it's Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves.

Second, Love of Gold.

If you're interested in either of these books, shoot at e-mail over to laurelian AT livejournal DOT com. :)

Hello! I'm looking for bookcrossing labels (bookplate, with BCID space) formatted for Avery 5164 (two across, three down - vertical). I'm done some pretty extensive searching on the website and on google and have only found one option for that size labels (these ones - .pdf). I like some variety in my life!

If anyone else finds any, can you comment here. (Or if someone is graphically talented and wants to make some, can you let me know?)

Thanks!

I had never read any Pratchett and was intimidated by the huge number of Pratchett novels available.  I kindly soul pointed out that this would be a good place to start.  Once I got my head round Discworld law I really enjoyed this book.  So if you have not read Pratchett and would like to, this is the First Discworld Novel.

From the back cover

"On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out.  There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet ..."

tags: fantasy, humour, science fiction

...I've decided not to "reserve" the books going toward my OBCZ, so they're up for grabs now. My list is here, so take a look and tell me what you're willing to trade.

Technically I'll read just about anything, but I do prefer non-fiction. I'm also a huge music fan, so anything dealing with music is good, too.

(x-posted to bookcrossing and kiji_kat.)

Hello, everyone! I'm new here, and I've made it a goal to read more (and spend a little less) in 2007. I thought I'd come here and ask if anyone was interested in trading some books for books. There are a few specific books I'm looking for, and then just some authors whose works I'm curious about. I've provided some links to some of the books as well:

1) Reallivepreacher.com by Gordon Atkinson.

2) New Poems of Oriel, edited by Mary Kearns. I own a copy of this, but I'm unwilling to part with it - my boyfriend (theycallmeboy) wrote two of the poems featured in it!

I'd also like to read some poetry by Patrick Kavanagh, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsburg. Also, I'm ashamed to say that I've never read Walden, so if someone would like to help me remedy this, I'd be greatly appreciative.

My list of books is here. I'm hoping to start a Bookcrossing Zone, so that's why so many titles are "reserved." However, disregard those labels for now - if you see a reserved book that you're interested in, let me know and I'll send it your way.

(x-posted, with edits, in bookcrossing.)

mood: curious

I have not forgotten you. It's just been a really busy month, and I was on vacation last week. Books will go out this week, I promise.

tags: announments

Roads Not Taken

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4379442

You ever wonder "what if"? Then you might like this book. Mixed reviews on amazon.com, but I enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed this book. It is the first book I have read in ages where I read practically the whole book in one day. I didn't know anything about the controversy of this book in the Aboriginal community until I had finished reading the book. I thought the book was fiction, captivating, inspiring, thought provoking fiction, but none the less fiction. Since finishing the book I have also enjoyed reading the controversy and understanding why the Aboriginal community is opposed to the book. I still think it is worth reading.

From the back cover "An american woman is summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals who call themselves the "Real People" to accompany them on a four-month-long walk-about through the Outback.  While traveling barefoot with them through 1,400 miles of rugged desert terrain, she learns a new way of life, including their methods of healing, based on the wisdom of their 50,000-year-old culture.  Ultimately, she experiences a dramatic personal transformation."

OK. I have doubles of the following books, and am willing to send out my second copy... :)

1. The wizard of oz by L frank baum
2. the da vinci code - dan brown (I don't know why i have two copies of this. I haven't even read it yet...)
3. veronika decides to die - paulo coehlo

If you'd like any of these, send your address to ginnigux at yahoo dot com and it shall be yours. :)

This is the 4th book in the Thursdy Next series, and again I managed to acquire 2 copies.

tags: fantasy, humour, science fiction

Another classic kid's book of which I've managed to acquire multiple copies.

tags: children's, fantasy

This was one of the Louisa May Alcott books I didn't like as much, but it's still a classic!

tags: children's, historical

This is well-written, fun, high fantasy. Reminds me somewhat of Mercedes Lackey's Sword Sworn series. I've got the rest of the books in the series and I'm going to be reading them as my required fluff.

tags: books, fantasy

1610: A Sundial in a Grave (Gollancz SF S.) by Mary Gentle  category History BCID: 835-4482319 delete book | edit book details | new journal entry | make release notes

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I'm not sure if I've categorised this right - it's more a historical fantasy

I'll let the (very long!) book jacket speak for itself:

Four hundred years ago, Hermetic magic is about to transform into science: 1610 is the year when everything could change.

Robert Fludd, English physician and astrologer, wields the heritage of Doctor John Dee and Giordano Bruno: he uses their method of foretelling the future. It appears to work. Fludd doesn't like the centuries that he is predicting. So someone will have to change the future...

Valentin Rochefort, duellist, down-at-heels aristocrat and spy for the Duc de Sully, France's powerful finance minister, has troubles of his own, thank you very much - not the least of which is Dariole, a young man of his acquaintance who is (in Rochefort's opinion) lust walking on two legs, and as irresponsible as an alley-cat. The last thing Rochefort needs is a mad English astrologer in his life.

Continental Europe is briefly at peace - but Henri IV is planning to invade the German principalities. In England, only five years earlier, conspirators nearly succeeded in blowing up King James and his Parliament. The seeds of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War are visibly being sown...

For a man of no conscience, Rochefort is about to find himself caught between loyalty, love - and blackmail - between kings, queens, politicians and Rosicrucians - and all of this before he encounters the woman he has, unknowingly, crossed land and sea to meet.

Robert Fludd is pulling the strings. And Rochefort is not a man who takes kindly to being someone's puppet...

As many will remember, the famous Edwardian historical novel The Sons of Sword and Hazard was based on what survived of the Rochefort Memoires. Now, with the fire-damaged manuscript reconstructed using modern computer techniques, this full translation is finally available.

location: OL4 tags: fantasy, historical

Hi Rin
I've received your address thanks but unfortunately I wasn't able to post With No One as Witness out to you today (I've been sick as the proverbial) - it's going to be next week now.
On the upside there'll now be three books in the package because I've got Polar City Nightmare and War of the Oaks (which I finished in one sitting - it's a GREAT book) for you too.
Sorry to keep you waiting

tags: announcements

 

Polar City Nightmare (Gollancz SF S.) by Katharine Kerr, Kate Daniel  category Science Fiction & Fantasy BCID: 842-4468185

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I enjoyed this. It's a fairly short, quick read for its genre but Kerr and Daniel still manage to construct and interesting world and an engaging plot.

Although it's a sci-fi setting the story itself is more of a crime/political mystery type thing

An artefact from a neighbouring power has disappeared along with a member of embassy staff. A local major league baseball player is being blackmailed to smuggle something off planet. The blackmailer then turns up dead but there still seem to be several groups interested in getting their hands on the artefact - not least the police who are looking to avert a diplomatic incident over it.

I'm afraid my copy is a little dogeared (it's been a favourite holiday book for a while) but there are no loose or damaged pages

book rating:

tags: mystery, science fiction

With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George  category Mystery & Thrillers BCID: 723-4465528

I haven't read this - it was left at my house and I'm unlikely to read it so I'm releasing it. It's an Inspector Lynley mystery and the jacket blurb says:

When the Metropolitan Police fail to realize a serial killer is at work, London ignites over the fact that the killer's victims are young black and mixed race boys. Institutionalised racism is claimed by the community's activists and tabloids alike.
Acting Superintendant Thomas Lynley is given the case, and finds himself thwarted by office politics as he tries to have Barbara Havers reinstated, and to keep control of events surrounding the murders. Soon, his Scotland Yard task force is handling an epidemic of killings and a looming tragedy.

tags: mystery

From the back cover

Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.

Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll.  But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse.  Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk.  Now, more than her own survival is at risk--and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the point.

By turns tough and lyrical, fabulous and down-to-earth, War for the Oaks is a fantasy novel that's as much about this world as about the other one.  It's about real love and loyalty, about real music and musicians, about false glamour and true art.  it will change the way you hear and see your own daily life.

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I loved this book and would keep it forever if it had not come into my life as a book crossing book.  I must be strong and let it continue its journey. 

tags: fantasy

 

The Year of Our War (Gollancz SF S.) by Steph Swainston  category Science Fiction & Fantasy BCID: 595-4436410

I haven't read this all the way through so I'll just put the jacket blurb here:
Jant is the Messenger, one of The Circle, a cadre of fifty immortals who the Emperor. He is the only immortal, indeed the only man alive, who can fly.
The Emperor is seeking to protect mankind from the hordes of giant insects who have plagued the land for centuries, overwhelming towns with their beautiful nests, eating everything and everyone in their path. But he must also contend with the rivalries and petty squabbles of his chosen immortals. These are squabbles that will soon spill over into open civil war.

It got very good reviews in SFX magazine. I didn't finish it myself - it was just a little too weird for the mood I was in and I haven't gone back to it but if you're looking for a very original fantasy book I think you'll like this.

tags: fantasy

From the back cover: "Cat's Cradle deals with atomic scientists, ugly Americans, gorgeous sex queens, vengeful midgets, Caribbean dictators, undertakers, Hoosiers, a new way of making love, ice-nine, Bokononism, the end of the world...Ice-nine? Bokononism? The end of the world?"

I don't think I can describe this book any better than that, except to say that it's one of my favourites. I accidentally ended up with two copies, so one's up for grabs.

--Rin, proud member of bzzagent.com

tags: books, humour, science fiction