Protected: The funeral

One of the books I released at Northlands in January, a double-sided book of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson was caught today. I was initially amused by the finder’s comment that the writing was “old-fashioned” (surprising that, considering Robinson Crusoe was written in 1719!), but according to her profile, she’s only 8, so…

After a lovely evening with the early – arriving book crossers I’m now sitting in kiwiinengland’s hostel room with her and edwardstreet, where we’re all being terribly antisocial in a geeky bookcrosser sort of way sitting here with laptops and tablets registering books and making release notes and eating fudge and drinking wine.  and I’m…

Well that turned into a busy sort of day. It started with a breakfast meetup at Trattorie, attended by me, lytteltonwitch, awhina, Mr awhina, meerkitten and giraffe02, and angela7715. As always, London and the Bookcrossing World Tour were the main topics of conversation, plus the clean up of the database (who knew a simple question…

Boreal and Mr Boreal are in Christchurch at the moment, so she PMed me on Friday to see if we could arrange a meetup. Sunday night looked like the only possible time, so I contacted the local Bookcrossers, and despite the last minute organisation, we managed to get together a small meetup (me, the boreals,…

Yesterday’s little pre-booksale meetup actually ended up turning into a whole series of meetups. MrPloppy and I had arranged to meet lytteltonwitch and alkaline-kiwi (a visiting bookcrosser from Greymouth) at Starbucks for lunch (not our usual choice of dining establishment, but it’s in the Square, so easy to find for someone from out of town)…

I really should make a list of what I want to mention in my diary before I write the entry, because I pressed the button and then remembered a couple of notable catches. One is A History of the United States: Volume Two: The Growth of the USA by RB Nye and JE Morpurgo, a…