Here's the scoop, boys & girls...

At some point, almost without my noticing, I broke the 2,000 books lying-around-the-house-at-one-time barrier. :o My boytoy has gone from tolerantly amused at my folly, to (somewhat) seriously alarmed and dismayed... and even I am beginning to feel a wee bit overwhelmed by them all. And of course, by some strange and ironic natural law, the more books I buy, it seems the fewer I read. :(

So, in an attempt to remedy the situation, I'm launching a new RABCK contest. It will be ongoing, at least until I get tired of it. It is completely international, so none of y'all has an excuse not to enter! :piratewhip:

Check out my Availables and TBRs. All the books in the house are registered, so I think the two combined currently run to something like 24(!) pages, so maybe make a cup of tea, or a light snack to keep your strength up, before you sit down to browse...

Then post a list here of everything you're interested in (I expect looong lists people! Validate my taste in books please! :lol: )

Periodically (approximately whenever I feel like it) I will pick a winner, and choose a book or two from their list to send them.

One disclaimer up front... I can't guarantee that everything in my Availables and TBRs are actually up for grabs :blush: ... sometimes I forget to change Availables to Reserved when I promise them, some TBRs are destined for my PC, etc etc etc... this is why you should give me LOTS and LOTS of choices of what to send you!!! :evil:

Thanks in advance everyone, for taking the time to look and enter, and for helping to preserve both my relationship and what little sanity I have left! :hug:

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Edited Friday, 22 February 2008 - I've decided to update this post with what's been given away to date, as the winners receive their parcels and journal.

WINNERS OF ROUND #1:

Xeyra won:
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Neither Here Nor There: Travels to Europe by Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

CdnBlueRose won:
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn
Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas by Ann Douglas
Druids by Morgan Llywelyn
Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun by Kathleen Bacus
The Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters

redhot-brat won:
Black Lace: Aria Appassionata by Juliet Hastings
Black Lace: Crash Course by Juliet Hastings
Black Lace: Juliet Rising by Cleo Cordell
Black Lace: Pleasure's Daughter by Sedalia Johnson
Black Lace: The Gallery by Fredrica Alleyn
Black Lace: Virtuoso by Katrina Vincenzi
Bound in Blood: The Erotic Journey of a Vampire by David Thomas Lord
Living with the Seasons: Creating a Natural Home by Bonnie Trust Dahan, Shaun Sullivan
Matters Of The Blood by Maria Lima
Men At Work by Janelle Denison, Nina Bangs, MaryJanice Davidson
Navajo Taboos by Ernie Bulow
Quick Crafts: 30 Fast and Fun Projects by Livia McRee
Redneck Woman: Stories from My Life by Gretchen Wilson, Allen Rucker
Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing the Healing Touch into Home, Hospital and Hospice by Libby Barnett
Romantic Dinners: Surefire Recipes & Exciting Menus for a Flawless Party! by Rick Rodgers, Robbin Gourley
Sex in the Outdoors: A Humorous Approach to Recreation by Robert Rose, M.D., Buck Tilton, M.S.
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power by Vernon Howard
The Mythic Tarot by Juliet Sharman-Burke and Liz Greene
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Total Pilates by Malcolm Muirhead
Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead by Manuela Dunn-Mascetti

WINNERS OF ROUND #2:

Sunlightbub won:
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

AceofHearts won:
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
The Girl Who Married A Lion by Alexander McCall Smith
The Charles II Trilogy by Jean Plaidy
#1 The Wandering Prince
#2 A Health Unto His Majesty
#3 Here Lies Our Soverign Lord
The Norman Trilogy by Jean Plaidy
#1 The Bastard King
#2 The Lion of Justice
#3 The Passionate Enemies

nimrodiel won:
A Night Without Armour: Poems by Jewel, Jewel Kilcher
Burning Chrome by William Gibson
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum, Tom Schulman
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
Deepest Thoughts by Jack Handey
Dress Sense: Clothes of the Ancient World by Christine Hatt, Jane Tattersfield
Dress Sense: Clothes of the Medieval World by Christine Hatt, Danuta Mayer
Dress Sense: Clothes of the Early Modern World by Christine Hatt, Jane Tattersfield
Hackers by David Bischoff, Rafael Moreu
Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keefe's Journey with Emily Carr by Kate Braid
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
Suburban Confessions: The Truth About Birthdays by Ben Mason
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Immortal Coil by Jeffrey Lang
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Nightshade by Laurell K. Hamilton
Tai-Pan by James Clavell
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

WINNERS OF ROUND #3:

EllyMae58 won:
Ziggy: Working Is A Lousy Way To Earn A Living by Tom Wilson

dancing-dog won:
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley Star Trek's Dr. McCoy by Terry Lee Rioux
Mister Ed and Me by Alan Young, Bill Burt
Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John by Bridget Moran
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

cheesygiraffe won:
Jim Giraffe by Daren King
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind, John E. Woods
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

WINNERS OF ROUND #4:

apolonia won:
More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl
Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures by Kyoko Mori
Scottish Girls About Town by Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, Muriel Gray, Manda Scott
You Can Run but You Can't Hide: The Life and Times of Dog the Bounty Hunter by Duane Chapman

Kyrissaean won:
Beyond The Far Side by Gary Larson
Night World #1 - Secret Vampire by L.J. Smith
Night World #4 - Dark Angel by L.J. Smith
Night World #8 - Black Dawn by L.J. Smith
Old Magic by Marianne Curley

sejent won:
Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler
I'm the Vampire, That's Why by Michele Bardsley
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Secret History of The Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig
Zits Supersized: A Zits Treasury by Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman

WINNERS OF ROUND #5:

Marlene won:
Coffee, Tea or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses by Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones
Daughter of Troy: A Magnificent Saga of Courage, Betrayal, Devotion, and Destiny by Sarah B. Franklin
Diamonds Take Forever by Jessica Jiji
I Know You Really Love Me: A Psychiatrist's Account of Stalking & Obsessive Love by Doreen Orion, M.D.
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Night by Elie Wiesel
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons
Reconstructing Natalie by Laura Jensen Walker
Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic by Robin S. Wagner, Richard Shapiro, Esther Shapiro
Single Girl's Diary by Kate Morris
Single in Suburbia by Wendy Wax
The Solomon Sisters Wise Up by Melissa Senate
Willpower's Not Enough: Recovering from Addictions of Every Kind by Arnold Washton, Ph.D., Donna Boundy, M.S.W.
You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with ADD by Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo
Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Landvik

catsalive won:
All My Patients are Under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor by Dr. Louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel
Cat Chat: A charming true story of love in Provence by Helene Thornton
Cat House by Michael Peak
Catamount by Michael Peak
I.O.U.: A Jenny Cain Mystery by Nancy Pickard
Silhouette Timetwist: Bewitching Familiar by Caroline Burnes
The Cats of Seroster by Robert Westall

Potok-fan won:
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: The Classic Essay by Robert Fulghum
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Couples: A Celebration of Commitment by Catherine Whitney, M.I. Hamburg
Herman: The Fourth Treasury by Jim Unger
Other People's Dirt: A Housecleaner's Curious Adventures by Louise Rafkin
The Latest Herman by Jim Unger
The Tomorrow Trap by Karen E. Peterson, Ph.D.
"They're Gonna Settle Out of Court, Herman" by Jim Unger
Wake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Manheim

WINNERS OF ROUND #6:

jennannej won:
Foreign Correspondences: A Traveler's Tales by Lesley Krueger
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Japanese Fairy Tales by Philip Smith, Kakuzo Fujiyama
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
Queen of France: A Biography of Marie Antoinette by Andre Castelot, Denise Folliot
The Global Adventurer's Handbook by John Malarkey
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

camis won:
Package is in the mail...

SimplyCee won:
Bad As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman, Tim Keown
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Model Man by Genie Davis
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

WINNERS OF ROUND #7:

wss4 won:
Package is in the mail...

bartonz won:
Package is in the mail...

peachy93722 won:
Package is in the mail...

I would be interested in:

Sex in the Outdoors
Scottish Girls about town
Polite Lies
Madame Sadayakko
Kickboxing Geishas
More Book Lust
The life and times of Dog the Bounty Hunter

These were only from a few pages. I can't get through them all. :lol:

I'm about to head to bed, and will look more thoroughly tomorrow... BUT you know I had to take a quick looksie and happened to spot one. :giggle:

Ziggy: Working Is A Lousy Way To Earn A Living I LOVE Ziggy! :blush:

okay, I would be interested in reading the following books:

Kathleen Bacus "Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun"
Peggy Webb "Confessions of a Not-So-Dead Lidido"
Laurell Hamilton "Bloody Bones"
Dorothy Cannell "God Save the Queen!"
Og Madino "The Greatest Salesman in the World"
Jane O'Boyle "Catnip of the Soul"

Nicolé aka nikel27/Germany

I slogged all the way to the end!!! I'm so proud of me :lol:

You twisted my rubber arm -- how could I say no to the opportunity to suddenly, without warning, possibly receive fun books out of the blue?

AVAIL
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Spring Moon: A Novel of China
Catnip for the Soul (for my sister bxer Onnada -- prettymuch any of those heartwarming cat-ish books would be right up her alley. I bought her Chicken Soup for the Catlover's Soul for her birthday, and it turned out to be a bum edition -- with a section reprinted and pages missing!)

TBRs
Eighth Moon: The True Story of a Young Girl's Life in Communist China
A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller (I enjoyed her style in Under a Tuscan Sun)
I am Becoming the Woman I Wanted (tell me about this, there's nothing written in the journal about it)
Shadow Magic
Kickboxing Geishas : How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation (this looks quite interesting!)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
The Lady And The Unicorn
The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror, Version 2.0
The Nine Days Queen (Lady Jane is one of my favourite historical figures!)
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
Starship Troopers
The Rice Mother
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Mary, Called Magdalene (for my mother, bxer sunsetb)



ps...
~ Well, you said to make a long list!
~ Can you tell I'm building a feminist library?
~ I'm a big Chris Moore fan!
~ I read Wait 'Til Helen Comes waaaaaaay back when I was in grade 3 or 4 and though I remember very little of it, I know it made a great impression on me, and I quite liked it at the time! I hope you like it, too!
~ Joy Kogawa's Obasan is also a really fantastic book. She's a poet, and you can see that in some of her passages, but it doesn't mar the narrative at all. It's quite phenomenal... and a real eye-opener for Canadians.
~ Though I have not yet read it, I've heard endless good things about Jonathan Livingston Seagull

I picked these out from your TBR shelf:

• Matters of the Blood by Maria Lima
• Pornucopia by Piers Anthony
• The Magic Fart by Piers Anthony
• Witches' Night Out by Silver Ravenwolf

Sorry I couldn't make a longer list to "validate your reading tastes" for ya. :lol: But (1) I actually do have a lot of what's on your shelf on TBR or have read it already, at least with regards to a lot of the fantasy and paranormal, and (2) remember that I'm moving from one side of the country to the other this summer, and will most likely be living out of my RV for a couple months at least, while we look for a new house, so I only chose stuff that I knew absolutely, positively that I want to read, rather than choosing everything that looked interesting, since I've been trying to move a lot of stuff into AVL piles myself. :wink:

OMG. So generous NW.
Darn I know what I am going to do the next 20 minutes or so. :whip: :whistle:

OMG So many good books.
I love your taste in books nw



I am not done yet but I already have loads.

Even one wish list book. It is not on cliff's because someone had promised it to me (My former coach :wacko: ) but never did. :whip:

It is just fun looking at your shelf. I can add some books to my wish list now.


Available
* Diamonds Take Forever
* Reconstructing Natalie

TBR
* You Can Remember Your Past Lives
* Coffee, Tea or Me
* I Know You Really Love Me
* Night
* Sarah T--Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
* Willpower Is Not Enough
* You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?
* Daughter of Troy
* Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
* Patty Jane's House of Curl mooched
* Your Oasis on Flame Lake
* Single in Suburbia (Rowena)
* The Solomon Sisters Wise Up (Ro and me?)
* Single Girl's Diary?
* Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
* Icy Sparks

Done!

Oh go on then, you've tempted me to have a look!

Availables:
Perfect For The Beach - various

TBR:
The Secret History of The Pink Carnation - Lauren Willig
Carpe Demon - Julie Kenner
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

AVL
Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun: A Tressa Jayne Turner Mystery by Kathleen Bacus
TBR
Jim Giraffe by Daren King
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Matters Of The Blood by Maria Lima
Perfume by Patrick Suskind

I now know Holly loves cats, Buffy, and Star Trek. :rofl:

ETA:
Thanks for this kind offer. :hug: :kiss:

Okay to be honest I see many many more.

But I know how expensive it is to send international.
Maybe I could pay for the shipping?

*Sigh* I wasn't GOING to..... but you DO have a good shelf, nw!! So I'll enter for any of these:

Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
Blood Lines
Book of Enchantments
Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas
Druids
Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy
Helen of Troy
Katherine
Mummy Case


:hug:

here you go :)

Hackers
Suburban Confessions The Truth About Birthdays
Deep Thoughts
Tai-Pan
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Yearling Newbery)
Dead Poets Society
Any of the Star Trek books
Any of the Fairy Tale Books (Blue, Anderson's, Grimm's, Perault's)
Water by Robin McKinley
A Night Without Armour: Poems - Jewel
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley Star Trek's Dr. McCoy
Burning Chrome by William Gibson (wishlist title!)
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Hawks Tony (wishlist title)
Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
The Rebel Worlds/a Knight of Ghosts and Shadows by Poul Anderson
The Earth Lords by Gordon R. Dickson
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Inward to the bones: Georgia O'Keefe's journey with Emily Carr by Kate Braid
Madame Sadayakko by Lesley Downer
Kickboxing Geishas : How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation by Veronica Chambers
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Norse Myths And Legends by Cheryl Evans
Clothes of the Ancient World by Christine Hatt
Clothes of the Medieval World by Vincent Douglas
Clothes of the Early Modern World by Christine Hatt
Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh
Tigana by Guy Kay

2,000? The mind boggles. I think having 500 registered books is way too much already (for me). Congrats!!!!! :)

Okay, I'm putting my name down for your raffle and here's a list of the books I'd be interested in.

You did ask for a big list... :P

Lucky by Alice Sebold
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
The Faded Sun Trilogy by C. J. Cherryh
Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
Any of the Bill Bryson books

Wow! You weren't kidding about that number of books! Some of the ones that interested me were:

Round Ireland with a Fridge
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Scottish Girls About Town
Pern - Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern
The Blue Fairy Book
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Medieval People
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Secret History Of The Pink Carnation
Secret History
Queen of France
44 Scotland Street
Neither Here Nor There: Travels to Europe
Foreign Correspondences : A Traveler's Tales
Norse Myths And Legends
Paris to the Moon
Japanese Fairy Tales (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)
The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
The Global Adventurer's Handbook
Amazing Traveler: Isabella Bird - The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer


jennannej
http://bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/jennannej

available:
Beyond the Far Side
The Blue Fairy Book
Zits: Supersized: Spring 2003 Treasury

TBR:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Back When We Were Grownups
Blackwood Farm
Blood Canticle
I'm the Vampire, That's Why
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Princess Diaries
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Whitethorn Woods

Thanks! :D

edited to strike out books I have received since posting this

:rofl: It's fun to see what my shelf says about me! :P

Keep the entries coming guys! I will probably draw the first winner this weekend... :)

Oh you do have good taste. Here's my list for you:

Marmaduke
Mutt Mugs
I'm Too Young To Be Seventy And Other Delusions
Horses of the Camargue
Royal Sisters: Private Lives & Loves of Queen Elizabeth II & Princess Margaret
45 Master Characters
Dark Side Of The Moon : A Dark-Hunter Novel \
You May Not Tie an Alligator to a Fire Hydrant : 101 Real Dumb Laws
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Cool Dead People: Obituaries of Real Folks We Wish We'd Met a Little Sooner

Added to List:
"They're Gonna Settle Out of Court, Herman"
Jay Leno'S Police Blotter
Baghdad Witout A Map And Other Misadventures In Arabia
Raymond Moody
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange & Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Horse laughs and hard knocks
The Bathroom Trivia Book II
Adventure Capitalist: the Ultimate Road Trip
The Eternal Journey: How Near-Death Experiences Illuminate Our Earthly Lives
The Century
Uncle John's Legendary Lost Bathroom Readers
The real Klondike Kate
Dark Side Of The Moon : A Dark-Hunter Novel
They Went Broke?!: Bankruptcies and Money Disaster of the Rich & Famous
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

What a generous offer!

I would be interested in:

Stoney Creek Woman: The Story of Mary John by Bridget Moran

From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley Star Trek's Dr. McCoy
by Terry Lee Rioux

Mister Ed and Me by Alan Young, Bill Burt

Pug Hill by Alison Pace

The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald

thanks!

Well since you're FORCING people :wink: I'm gonna check this when I get home. I'm sure I'll be able to come up with a book or two. :D

I'd be interested in a couple of your TBRs

Haunted by Kelly Armstrong
Mysteries Of Animal Intelligence by Sherry Hansen Steiger


I didn't get all the way through the list. :P

Thank you! Sweet of you to be doing this. :hug:

Well - I went through your entire list (all 34 pages) and feel like I'm being a greedy pig for the size of my list. You have a lot of alternative/new age books, which is something I've recently gotten into, but haven't read much of yet.
Excluding the books that fit into that category, my list is fairly small. So please excuse how long my list is. It does vaildate that you have great taste in books though. :giggle: I'll be happy to cover postage on anything you should decide to share with me.

Thanks for such a wonderful offer of sharing.

From your AVL list ....
Redneck Woman:Stories From My Life
Total Pilates
Reiki:Energy Medicine

From your TBR List....
Men At Work
Pornucopia
The Magic Fart
You Are Psychic
Richard Hittleman's Intorduction to Yoga
The Perfection of the MOrning:An Apprenticeship in Nature
Romantic Dinners
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
What Dreams May Come
Strange Unsolved Mysteries
Quick Crafts:30 Fast and Fun Projects
Living With the Seasons:Creating a Natural Home
Matters of The Blood
Yoga, Youth, and Reicarnation
The Eternal Journey
Tales From The Great Turtle
You Can Communicate With the Unseen World
The Riddle of the Bermuda Triangle
Navajo Taboos
Sex in the Outdoors
Dark Prince
Winter Moon
Very Crazy G.I.
Mysteries of the Bizarre Animals and Freaks of Nature
Strange Powers of Pets
Meditations for Women Who Do To Much
Mysteries of People and Places
Merlin's Book of Magick and Enchantment
Crimes of Passion:An Unblinking Look at Murderous Love
The Science of Vampires
Last Rights:The Struggle Over the Right To Die
We Are Eternal
Psychic Diaries
Kick Ass
Vampires:The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead
Dark Symphony
If The Spirit Moves You:Love and Life After Death
Goddess Summoning:Goddess of Light
Crash Course (Black Lace)
Virtuso (Black Lace)
The Gallery (Black Lace)
Pleasure's Daughter (Black Lace)
Aria Appassionata (Black Lace)
Words of the Witches
Bound in Blood:The Erotic Journey of a Vampire
Corgi Library of Psychic Exploration:50 Years a Medium
You Can Remember Your Past Lives
The Nympho and Other Maniacs
The Woman Warriors:Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Traditional Christmas:Cooking, Crafts, and Gifts
Traditional Christmas II:Cooking, Crafts, and Gifts
The Mythic Tarot
The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power :hug:

Well, if it's helping you out :whistle:

I'd love
The Blue Fairy Book
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
or Harriet the Spy

THanks for running the competition! :kiss:

Wow!! What a great shelf!!

The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
The Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall Smith
44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith

Goddess Summoning - Goddess of Light - P.C. Cast

Broken - Kelley Armstrong
Stolen - Kelley Armstrong

any Jean Plaidy book


I really tried to be good - Honest I did :lol:

Ok, I'd be interested in:

Patty Jane's House of Curl - Lorna Landvik
Bad as I Wanna Be - Dennis Rodman
A Night Without Armour: Poems - Jewel
Model Man - Genie Davis
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler

Thanks for the offer :D

I understand how you feel. my dad is beyond alarmed since he recently came in to wake me up and saw I was sleepin gin this tiny corner of my room while I let my books use my bed (I can't let them sit on the ground where it alternates between hot and cold!).

that said...here's what I liked XD

AVL:

--The Blue Fairy Book (Andrew Lang)
--Spring Moon (Bette Bao Lord)
--Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn! Classic Romances Retold
--Hackers***
--Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

((*** is my favorite movie of all time))

TBR:
--Spellsingers
--On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894
--Young Hercules #3: The Ares Alliance
--Young Hercules #4: Mission From Zeus
--Brick Lane
--Daughter of Troy: A Magnificent Saga of Courage, Betrayal, Devotion, and Destiny
--Haunted Baby Sitters
--Kickboxing Geishas : How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
--Queen of the Amazons
--What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as Spiritual Guide
--Amazons!
--Hercules: The Legendary Journeys #3 - The Eye of the Ram
--Mode #3 - Chaos Mode
--Water (Robin McKinley)
--The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes got another copy
--Tales from the Captain's Table (Star Trek)

and yeah I went through the entire list...

Crazy foreign woman! :piratewhip:

Post your whole list, Marleney... give me oodles to choose from... pretty please? :kiss:

As for the rest of ya... ya call those lists?!? :piratewhip:

Brat's the only person so far who's posted an almost halfway decently long one!!! :P

Heeheehee... I'm having so much fun reading this thread & seeing what people are interested in! :)

BTW, I think it's a sign Mt. TBR is too large when people post their list and I'm looking at them going -- really? I have that?!? I don't remember that one! :rofl:

Oh crap! I just made a list and it got eaten in cyberspace!! But I can assure you that you have very good taste in books indeed. In fact there are tons of books in there that I have already thought were awesome, so of course I'm very impressed all around! :giggle: :lol: :wink:




I wonder what the heck was on the list? :lol:


Let's see...

Old Magic by Marianne Curley
Matters of the Blood by Maria Lima
Black Dawn: Night World by L. J. Smith
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
Beyond the Far Side by Gary Larson
Bound in Blood by David Thomas Lord

lol when I saw all those wishlisted books I was like 'OMG SHE LIKES YOUNG HERCULES JUMP ALEX JUMP'

which is to say, if I could trade and/or pay for postage on any of the books I listed I would be more then happy to...

Lexie

I had to give up llooking and go to bed!! That's my excuse :lol:

BTW., also noticed you have a couple of duplicates there NWP - would it help with the boyf if you told him you actually have 2 of each book so really it's just 1000 :whistle:

How generous, nw! No tea here, but I did refill my coffee cup & settled in. (It's snowing here & no school for kids today....perfect opportunity to sit & browse....)
But I have a pitifully scant list. My excuse is that I'm trying to be ultra picky in order to gain control of my own out-of-control book hoarding. :unsure:

Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
anything except Avalon by Anya Seton
anything not already on my shelf by Jean Plaidy

Sorry....that IS pretty pitiful, isn't it?? But I know what you mean by having fun looking at what other people pick off your shelves.

:blush: So why do I still feel like I'm being greedy? :giggle:

Broken - Kelley Armstrong
Stolen - Kelley Armstrong
Kickboxing Geishas

There's my list! :P

Well I have to admit that I only made it through 11 pages of TBR but I did find a few that look interesting.

:hug:


Availables

Ghouls Just Want To Have Fun: A Tressa Jayne Turner Mystery by Kathleen Bacus
CSI #6 - Binding Ties by Max Allan Collins (for my dd who loves CSI and is an avid reader)


TBRs

The Pleasure Slave by Gena Showalter
Post-it Ideas That Stick!: 222 Ingenious, Creative, Practical and Simply Preposterous Ways of Using Post-it Notes by The Post-it Notes® Team
The Magic Fart by Piers Anthony
Pornucopia by Piers Anthony
Mummy Case by Elizabeth Peters
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange & Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist by William R. Maples, Ph.D., Michael Browning

and she believes in reincarnation!! :lol:
Plus she also likes horses and has a very eclectic taste.

Well, since you're so blimmin' bossy...

Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton by Phillip Kerr
Medieval Women by Eileen Power
A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller by Frances Mayes
Across the Top of the World: The Quest for the Northwest Passage by
James P Delgado
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Finding Serenity by Jane Espenson
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Kickboxing Geishas by Veronica Chambers
More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Seductress by Elizabeth Prioleau
Somebody has to do it by Penney Kome
Staying Sane by Dr Raj Persaud
Sync by Steven Strogatz
The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden
The Birth of Venus by Sarah Dunant
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Cup by Stewart Lee Allen
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Procrastinator's Guide to Success by Lynn Lively
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris
The Science of Vampires by Katherine Ramsland
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
This is not Chick Lit by Elizabeth Merrick
Too Good for her own Good by Claudia Bepko & Jo Ann Krestan
Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul
Wake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Manheim
What would Buffy do? by Jana Riess
What should I do with my Life? by Po Bronson

And now I think I need a lie down...

Edited to strike out those I've now read or got.

Well I did add more books cause I don't want Brat to feel guilty :whistle: :lol:

I was also trying to find something Rowena might like but it is hard.
Her taste in books has changed over the last year.
She is the one that told me "Mom, You have to read The Kite Runner" :blink: and another book like that, I forgot which one.

So she is now more into literature.

I just gave her Go Ask Alice which she read in a day. ( a bit dated but she did like it)

There is such a great book written by a Dutch lady . It is the story of a mom of a drug addict who gets worse and worse. Rowena read that also.
I wonder if that book has ever been translated.
Yvonne Keuls. The Mother of David S?
Let me check. yep I was right. Great book.

I have fun just checking your shelf. It gives you ideas, see what someone else is reading, very interesting and lots of fun! .


Thanks NW :hug:

I added some more, and only made it through page 12 of the TBR shelf.

but wow, in those two pages I saw five titles with double copies!

As promised, I drew the first round of winners today... in case anyone is curious as to methodology, I put everyone who's entered's name in a hat, and drew three... each of the winners will receive a package from me, based on their list of books.

I will be drawing more winners after I get the necessary books for round 1 read, packaged, and sent out... so there is still plenty of time to enter (if you haven't yet), or to add more books to your list before the next round!

With no further ado, I'd like to wish (in the order they came out of the hat)...

CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNERS of ROUND 1!

:bananacheer: Xeyra!

:bananacheer: CdnBlueRose!

:bananacheer: redhot-brat!

Thanks so much again to everyone who's entered so far!!! :hug:

My excuse is that I stgarted seeing double while reading thrugh your books. :wub: I'm off to look again and possibly add more to my loist.