I’ve got some fun bookish things to share from the past week. First of all I received a RABCK from ApoloniaX in Germany: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. Did you know it is the prototype of the modern detective story in the English language?
But that wasn’t all. I also received my present from velvet’s 12 Days of Christmas giveaway on vvB32 reads. A package with no less than 3 books and some other goodies! A post about that will be up soon, so I’m keeping the exact contents a secret for just a while longer ;)
I also worked some more on Graasland: I added my list of books read in 2001 and published my review of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The classic is now on its way to another reader in the UK.
Me, I’m off to the suburbs for another release in Bookcrossing Monopoly. Sounds like I’m having a good time, right?
The Sunday Salon is a virtual gathering of booklovers on the web, where they blog about bookish things of the past week, visit each others weblogs, oh — and read ;)
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zondag 17 januari 2010 bij 20:44
Ash
I’m reading The Moonstone this semester! I can’t wait to start it.
maandag 18 januari 2010 bij 18:50
gnoegnoe
Maybe we will be buddy reading without knowing it! Fun ;)
maandag 18 januari 2010 bij 18:07
Jackie (Farm Lane Books)
I loved The Moonstone, so I hope you enjoy it too. I also read The Suspicions of Mr Whicher at the same time and really recommend it. It is the non-fiction story of the crime on which The Moonstone is based.
maandag 18 januari 2010 bij 18:49
gnoegnoe
Oh! I have heard of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (Simon Mayo’s Book Panel was really enthusiastic on BBC radio 5), but I didn’t know it was about the same crime! Now I MUST read it! But first, The Moonstone ;)