When I started this diary, part of the aim was to spread the Bookcrossing word a bit. And it looks like it’s working. One of the stats that is recorded on your Bookcrossing bookshelf, along with things like how many books you’ve registered and released, is your “tell-a-friend referrals” – the number of people (or…
It being a Friday night, and neither of us feeling much like cooking dinner, we were lazy tonight and rang for a pizza. When the delivery guy arrived, he took the pizza box out of his thermal bag thingy, went to hand it to me, and then paused with a puzzled look on his face….
It occurred to me as I was walking home last night that I haven’t done any ordinary book-releasing for ages. I’ve done mass releases, and release expeditions – loads of those special types of releases, but none of the spontaneous, happen to have a book in your bag and walk past a good spot, everyday…
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,…
I got some really interesting responses to yesterday’s entry – maybe I should be philosophical more often… However this entry is not going to be at all philosophical. Instead, it’s going to feature movies and chocolate 🙂 “Chick Flicks” had its inaugural movie night last night. We went to see Mad Hot Ballroom, which is…
The other day someone posted a message to the Bookcrossing forums asking how anyone could possibly read over 100 books a year and still have a life. The implication seemed to be that to read that much, some other aspect of your life must be suffering. The response was amazing – the thread almost immediately…
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…
…and that means it’s Bookcrossing meetup night. Back to Cafe Bleu again (but we’ve decided to go somewhere else next time – we’re all getting a bit bored with them now), and a smallish turn-out: me, Alithia, awhina, lytteltonwitch, and MonkeCatcher. Most of the conversation centred, unsurprisingly, around the rapidly approaching BCNZ Convention, as at…
Summer has truly arrived, because the nor’westers have started. Today’s was worse than usual (I thought we were going to lose part of the fence at one stage), so going outside to do anything was pretty much out of the question, and inside the house it was hot and muggy – and stuffy, because we…
Last night, I went with gwilk and Mrs gwilk to a games evening hosted by one of the other women in the film club (which is to be officially known as “Chick Flicks”). I haven’t been to a proper games evening in years, and had forgotten how much fun they can be. There were eight…