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halleybird


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*updated* I think this would work better if we listed titles we have and are willing to share. That way, we can check them out on Amazon, etc. to see if we're interested. When you send a book off, edit your list. We may find more interesting books this way. If anyone disagrees, we'll change it back.


...Thanks to honey for the idea and the rules



  • List books you are willing to share. (Title and author, to avoid confusion)
  • If you have a book on someone's list, pm them, but respond to the thread so that others know.
  • Try to mail the book within 7 days if possible.

One thing we should think about (and maybe this can just be worked out between members via PM) is whether these are loans or gifts. Maybe take it on a case-by-case basis, and don't send out anything that you would  die without. Personally, I usually end up giving away tons of books anyway, b/c I don't really re-read, but we should make that clear to the person we're swapping with.


Also, it's probably important to say you should use caution in sending your real name and address to anyone you don't feel comfortable with.



-- Edited by halleybird at 00:08, 2006-02-23

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halleybird


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I'll start. Some books I have laying around:



1. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffeneger


2. Girl With a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier


3. The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier


4. The Dogs of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst


5. The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, ed. Paul Rogat Loeb


6. Lost in Translation, Nicole Mones


7. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire


8. Shopgirl, Steve Martin


9-11. Several Middle Ages British history novels: Here Be Dragons, Sharon Kay Penman; The Other Bolelyn Girl, Philippa Gregory; Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett



-- Edited by halleybird at 00:16, 2006-02-23

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Halleybird - I think we have the same books "lying around!" I'll update later with some books I'm willing to swap. I *hope* to get mine back but I suppose if it's a trade, it wouldn't hurt so much to lose the book.

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Halleybird, unfortunately I have a lot of the books you posted as well....Anyway, here are some more of mine to add:


Books I am willing to trade:


Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks


How to Lose Friends & Alienate People - Toby Young


What Was She Thinking - Zoe Heller


Slammerkin - Emma Donoghue


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami


Books I am willing to lend (basically books I have read recently and would love to share):


Forever Amber - Kathleen Winsor


The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber


Blindness - Jose Saramago (btw, this is my favorite book EVER)


Man and Boy - Tony Parsons (this is close 2nd for favorite book ever)


A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith


 


 



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I am going to do this next week when I get home from vacation - but I'm afraid I am going to be outed! Everyone will know what trashy murder mystery type crap I read!

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I am really interested in doing this, but I haven't had time to look through my book selection.  I can think of a few right now that I'd be willing to swap though:


1.  The Secret Life of Bees


2.  Devil in the White City;


3.  Middlesex (when I'm finished with it);


4.  She's Come Undone


I'll post again when I get a chance to look through my stash. 



-- Edited by alb at 08:49, 2006-02-27

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When we swap books, are we actually giving those people our books to keep, or can we get them back?  Do we just handle this case by case?  Or maybe we should clarify what we want to do in our post?  I would like to swap, but I'd like my books back and am happy to mail whatever I get back to their owners too.

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"History
of Love" by Nicole Krauss.  I really need this book for a bookclub.


I have for a swap,


The Known World


Animal Farm


Night by Elie Wiesel


Crazy in Love


Fast Food Nation


Girlfriends Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood


a ton more---will have to look when i get home, i sit next to the book buyer.



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