A couple of days after I first joined Bookcrossing (8 February 2003), I got a PM from Mothercat, another Christchurch Bookcrosser, inviting me to a meetup the next evening. I was understandably a bit nervous about the idea, but she seemed friendly, and the group was meeting in a public place (a cafe in the…
MrPloppy and I just came back from a walk to the supermarket to get some bread for lunch. There’s a park bench outside the supermarket, so when I go up there, I try to remember to take a book with me to release on the bench. I haven’t had a lot of catches from there,…
I was going to post a short photo-essay of a release I just did, but my first attempt to log in to the HamiPiks site was unsuccessful (basically, it won’t let me past the terms and conditions page), and of course, Steve posted a message the other day saying that support requests won’t be answered…
No, not mine (although the house is getting close to overflowing, so that might be the next step!), but Lytteltonwitch’s. She’s been complaining for ages that her garage is so full of books that she can’t get her car in it, so this morning she invited a bunch of bookcrossers over for lunch, with the…
My new passport has finally arrived (it’s really depressing when you realise your old passport expired a couple of years ago, but you didn’t notice, because you haven’t used it for so long!), so now I’m all ready for my Sydney trip. I’ve even gone and got some of the funny-coloured Monopoly money they use…
Another two bookring books showed up at the weekend: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and The Meaning of it All by Richard Feynman. At this rate, I’m never going to get those NZ books read, so I’m breaking the ettiquette slightly and alternating reading a bookring book and then a NZ book…
Bet the title made you look! No, I haven’t been infesting fast food restaurants with larvae, but I did release the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle in the High Street KFC this afternoon – not my best themed release idea, but it just seemed to fit at the time. I was going…
A couple of weeks ago, Lyttletonwitch, who is New Zealand’s most active Bookcrosser (she’s registered an amazing 3,682 books, and released 2,785 of them!), offered me a couple of bags of random books that she was clearing out of her garage (she gets a lot of her books for free – they’re normally ones that…
One of the joys (and sometimes banes) of a Bookcrosser’s life is the TBR pile – that tottering stack of books waiting to be read before you send them off into the world (by the way, I’m not going to explain every bit of Bookcrossing terminology I mention in this diary – other people have…
Well, you’re probably wondering what this Bookcrossing thing is all about. Basically, it involves giving away books. To complete strangers. Ok, so now you think I’m really weird, but bear with me. If you’re a booklover, then you’ve probably got shelves full of books, just sitting there collecting dust. “But they’re my favourites!” you exclaim,…