Asian Bookbox Round 5

Decided to send this one out again on the request of a previous participant. So, Soffitta1's 2nd U.K. Bookbox (Asia Theme) is on its fifth round! I managed to get a wide variety of books, especially as I am trying to complete the Olympic challenge.
In the box:
Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog Iraq
Behind the Wall: Journey Through China A great book about China
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 A historical book about the global effects of the eruption
The Piano Tuner Burma
Kowloon Tong: A Novel Hong Kong setting for a novel by the travel writer
Slow Boats to China
Barbed Wire & Babushkas: A River Odyssey Across Siberia
From Heaven Lake : Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet
The Sandglass Sri Lanka
Ten Thousand Lovers Israel
My Name is Red Turkey
Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
Siam or the Woman Who Shot a Man: A Novel
The Harmony Silk Factory Malaysia

British Mysteries, Crime and Thrillers Bookbox

British Mysteries, Crime and Thrillers Bookbox set up by Fellraven

who has taken part in my Asia-themed bookbox a couple of times. The idea was to include British authors only in the box.

Taken out:
Beauty Story, read and released in London
for Mum:
Saviour's Gate, Nest of Vipers and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me.

Added:
Arabesk
The White Russian a great book
The Leader
Killing the Shadows
Hornet Flight

Latin American Bookbox

Soffitta1's 4th Bookbox (Latin America Theme) arrived back just before Christmas with some great books. Tubereader, who had the box last, exchanged all the books I had put in that they were left in the box. Thanks! People tried really hard to get lots of different books, from all over. My wee brother has already informed me which books he wants to take travelling in Latin America.

The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas - one of my favourite authors
Inca Kola: A Traveller's Tale of Peru
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord
The Fragrance of Guava (Faber Caribbean)
Innocent Erendira (Picador Books)
Jaguars and Electric Eels (Penguin Great Journeys) Will be great for the Olympic Challenge.
Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree
Masters of the Dew (Caribbean Writers Series)Memories of My Melancholy Whores
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream passing on to my NSS
Portrait in Sepia
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto
Daughter of Fortune

Asia-themed Bookbox Round 4

This arrived back a couple of weeks ago, but have only just got back to register the books.
A really good mixture, though a fair number of my own came back. It will be good to read some more varied books, especially ones from central Asia.

To the Navel of the World: Yaks and Unheroic Travels in Nepal and Tibet
The Bookseller of Kabul - a book I have read, but have a friend who'll love it.
Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story
Ali and Nino: A Love Story - read this one straight off, when I saw it recommended.
The People's Act of Love
The Dancer from Khiva: One Muslim Woman's Quest for Freedom
Dancing in Cambodia, at Large in Burma - very excited, love this author
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers (Paladin Books)
The Virgin Soldiers

Canongate Readalong

Signed up for another of canongatebooks's RABCKs, The Poison That Fascinates . I missed out on this the first time round, but am glad to have made the list for the second time round. There will be a readalong, which will start on the 22nd of January. Canongate is a great publisher, I now make a point of looking out there books in shops as they have such a good selection.

1001-Library

A little update, I still have a long way to go, especially as there is a new edition of the book. I understand why they have done this, but really they should have waited a while as I expect some of the 2008 additions will be dropped in the next edition.

Sent on to others:
The God of Small Things
Slaughterhouse-Five
Saturday

Received
American Psycho (1001 book)
The Wonderful O
The Postman Always Rings Twice

To Be Read: Portugal
I intend to read these and either pass them on to the 1001-Library or add them to Tubereader 's 1001 bookbox in the new year. I like the thought of the box, as it gives you another push to read as well as giving you access to new books. Also Tubereader is another British exile living on the continent and has taken part in some of my other boxes, so I know it will be a good box.

On Beauty
To the Lighthouse
A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin)
The Stone Diaries (The Perennial Collection)
Tipping the Velvet
The Emigrants
Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey
The Great Gatsby

Christmas Exchanges

For NSSFC 2008, I got microsquid as a partner, which was a pleasant surprise as met up with her while I was in Cork at the Cork meet-up. I have never known my partner before. I sent her the following books, The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History, Destination Unknown (diff. cover) and The Mysterious Mr.Quin. A HUGE parcel arrived for me a few weeks ago, luckily I was out the country or I would have cracked and opened it! My partner, BuilderBill, sent me 3 books from my wishlist: Travels with My Aunt (Vintage Classics)
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart and Long Way Down.

International Secret Santa
The Rose Of Sebastopol sent to PepeLePew, hope she enjoys this. I had it on my shelf and this was a great incentive to bump it up Mount TBR. I still haven't received a book :( It seems that quite a few of us didn't get one.

UK Bookswap organised by lucy-lemon, thanks!
I sent out The Mermaid Chair, though it still hasn't been journalled.
and received The Purity of Blood (Adventures of Capt Alatriste 2) from my partner, mazzlestar.