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Bookcrossing Adventures Day 2

Posted by turquoisefloyd on July 8, 2004

So I was awake at 4am this morning, fiendishly thinking up places to release my books for Bookcrossing. I came up with a few.

  • The Charity Book Box on Mr Michette the Optician’s outside windowsill in aid of the church.
  • The Surgery Waiting Room magazine pile
  • Inside the church somewhere.
  • Inside one of the pubs, perhaps The George or The Cock and Bell.
  • In the magazine pile at either my old dentist or my new dentist – could’ve done that today but I was chicken!

Yeah, I admit I was chicken. I was a bit downhearted by the fact that someone on a Bookcrossing community commiserated with me that it would probably be hard to do Bookcrossing in a rural area. However I’d like to hope I might be able to leave one in the waiting room at Marks Tey railway station in a few weeks time when I go down to my fella’s place, and maybe even release one on the Underground somewhere. Books are such a shared interest of ours, I might even be able to get him involved. Some couples go Geocaching… we could go Bookcrossing!!!!
Fun!

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Henry James Hots Up…

Posted by turquoisefloyd on July 8, 2004

Well surprisingly enough, The Europeans has hotted up a bit. Felix proposed to Gertrude that they engineer a match between her sister Charlotte and the staid clergyman Mr Brand who previously mooned after Gertrude and HEY PRESTO! Suddenly there’s a great complicated circle of people mooning after other people! Most of them are cousins, which is one thing that would be frowned upon in this day and age, but that didn’t stop them in the 1800’s!
It’s still not as rich and fabulous as Edith Wharton’s work, but it’s certainly imporved enough for me to want to get to the end.
I’ll update when I’ve read the last 30 pages… hopefully tonight!

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