BookCrossing Releases

I released my first two BookCrossing books last weekend, in and near Floyd on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Seven of us visited the lovely Thompson Tree Farm for an early Thanksgiving. If you spend a little time playing with the BookCrossing website, you'll be able to discover what I released, where, and read my reviews of the books. I look forward to seeing where my books will resurface. Happy Hunting!

We made a surprising and delicious discovery when we visited Foggy Ridge Cider, tasting their delicious beverage. It was a closer cousin to fine wine than apple cider. Delicious.

The only connection that my weekend had to Iceland was a sentence I came across in a book I'm reading, "The Case of the Missing Books", by Ian Sansom:

I don't know. People love reading round here. It's like Iceland.

(Spoken by an Irishman.)

If not Iceland...

...then why not BOOKS?
Warning: another post that is sadly not about Iceland.






But second best is good. Have you discovered BookCrossing? As so often happens, Wikipedia does a wonderful job of explaining it:

BookCrossing is defined as "the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise". The term is derived from bookcrossing.com, a free online book club which began and encouraged the practice. Bookcrossing.com's stated goal is to "make the whole world a library".

There are also shorthand terms for BookCrossing which are: BC, BCing, or BXing.

What could be better? Currently there are about 600,000 members, and I'm the newest for the next minute or two. Over 4 million books have been registered, and many are currently "in the wild". Soon I will select a favorite book to send off into the world, on its own journey. I'll keep you posted!