From: Karen <oceanripplesatnight @googlemail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 09:04
Subject: [BCUK] various books to get rid of
To: BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk

Hi,

i've got a stashof books I want to get rid of ASAP, about a medium box
worth. They are all registered on book crossing but are too many to
post, if you'd be interested in them and could collect from West Yorks
please let me know. Akk are marked AVL on my bookshelf (or will be very
soon) and have a journal entry saying that they were offered on here today.

Thanks.

Karen/oceanripples

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From: Geoff Elliott <gingergeoff@ googlemail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 11:55
Subject: [BCUK] A Lifetime Burning - Bookring
To: BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk

Is anyone interested in reading this as a bookring?

I was saving it for another family member, but they have lots of other
stuff to read at the moment and I have had a request from
smallbluepebble for it...

E-mail or PM me to let me know...

Geoff / gingergeoff.

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From: Annalee Rose <rubybluelady@ googlemail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 18:29
Subject: [BCUK] Bookray: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
To: BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk

Participants so far:
sharonrocks UK
aminida UK
Moonwoolfe Portugal

Anymore for anymore?

Annalee/RubyBlueLad y

On 29/12/2007, Annalee Rose
<rubybluelady@ googlemail. com<rubybluelady% 40googlemail. com>>
wrote:
>
> Reply to this, pm or email me (rubybluelady@ googlemail. com<rubybluelady% 40googlemail. com>)
if you would
> like to read this book, and let me know your posting preferences (will be
> sending it around Europe hopefully).
>
> http://www.bookcros sing.com/ journal/5663239
>
> Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson
> Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world
> consists of one accounting sheet - lost on the left, found on the right -
> and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in
> Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. Surrounded by death,
> intrigue and misfortune, his own life haunted by a family tragedy, he
> attempts to unravel three disparate case histories and begins to realise
> that in spite of apparent diversity, everything is connected.
>
> --

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From: Annalee Rose <rubybluelady@ googlemail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 18:18
Subject: [BCUK] Ray/RABCK: Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
To: BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk

PM, email (rubybluelady@ googlemail. com <rubybluelady% 40googlemail. com>) or
reply here if you would like to
read this book.
http://www.bookcros sing.com/ journal/5764122

At St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the
north of England, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the
school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and
Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straightley, Latin mast,
eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally - reluctantly -
contemplating retirement.

But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crimes of the
school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge hidden and
carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.

'A clever story of obsession and revenge...Ms Harris has scored another
success'
Sunday Telegraph

From: Karen <oceanripplesatnight @googlemail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 19:30
Subject: [BCUK] Book Ring Capabilities Eden (UK)
To: BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk

Hi,

I've had this for while since I read it and it's now got to the top of
my "books to release" pile. I had thought about a themed release at a
garden centre but to be honest I think it's too good for that, or maybe
that is just me.

Anyway, I'd like to offer it as a UK/European book ring (i.e. I'd like
it back at the end as a local friend wants to read it but hasn't time
right now).

Amazon describe it as:

The great English gardening novel? When celebrated landscape architect
Robert Boyd is asked to re-create The Garden of Eden on a strange
isthmus of land in Cornwall, it seems at first to be a dream job. Soon
the task in hand is well underway, as Robert begins bussing in
flamingoes and deer and replanting trees -- all under the vigilant eyes
of the very charismatic Mrs Lacey and her rather sceptical husband,
whose sister, Mrs Rochester-style, has been confined to a cottage on a
hill nearby, to which our narrator repairs for a little
telescope-gazing, history lessons and some brutal sex. Meanwhile,
through encounters with his ex and his daughter, we come to see Boyd's
weaknesses as a man; he is married to his work and then some. The
project devours him, and all who come into contact with it. But not
everyone can agree that what is being done, to the land, to lives, is
the right thing. Conflicts simmer, accidents happen, someone dies and
events quickly wind up to a satisfying crescendo.

Please pm me if you are interested.

Karen/oceanripples
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From: M. C. Milner <mcmilner@gmail. com>
Date: 4 Jan 2008 22:03
Subject: [BCUK] Paradise - Ring
To: bookcrossinguk <BookCrossingUK@ yahoogroups. co.uk>

My first read of the year arrived as part of the Not So Secret Father
Christmas BookCrossing Exchange from galexy. I'm not sure what I've said
that would indicate that this would be a good book for me -- most of the
fiction I read is crime fiction -- but it was an outstanding choice.

Paradise is a story of Africa, subtly told as a coming of age novel. Yusuf
is sent away from home to live with his "Uncle" Aziz near the sea and to
tend his shop along with Khalil, another boy pawned to Uncle Aziz for his
father's debts. As the book follows Yusuf from age 12 to late teens, he
learns about the complicated relations between master and servant, trader
and villager, Islam and animist religion, learns the landscape during
trading journeys, sees the effects of colonisation on the Africans, watches
the coming of war.

This novel is a good companion piece to Alan Moorhead's histories of early
African exploration and colonisation, all of which I also loved. Here's the
African side of the story.

http://www.bookcros sing.com/ journal/5521468/

If you would like to read this, PM or email me with location and mailing
preferences.

Margot / IoJima