Any takers for another book swap circle thingummy?

[CocoDeBearisCocoDeBear]

I've missed out on two now. I quite like the idea, anyone else?

hi coco cant cat you because cant subscribe as still waiting for bank card can you give me your email address so i can send it that way

ooh....we up to the 12 then!

small prob my end tho....I not yet set up with CAT, so either me or flame will sort and contact later or on the weekend if that is ok?

so exciting

I can't cat either

Have CATed you both mine and Psycho's details.

Just checking on the details to this - we send on the book that we were sent the last month yes? So just 12 books in total in circulation?

Or do we send a different book of our own each month?

(The first makes more sense to me but don't want to be confused )

We each choose just one book that we have read and enjoyed to send, and that book works it's way round the book circle. After 12 months, theoretically, you get your original (now splattered wth old food, with bath-water soaked pages and child's doodles on) book back.

So I guess choose a book to send that you have really enjoyed, but which is not a family heirloom or prized treasure.

No chick lit.

I will get DH to tell me how to set up an e-mail address for book circle members who can't CAT. (I'm a technophobe.) Don't really want to post my normal e-mail address on the thread, as it is my real full name.

Am all excited about the Book Circle .

what is CAT and how do I do it??? is it private messageing???

missing, if you have a look at the blue bar at the top you'll see 'Contact a Mumsnetter', you have to sign up for it (£5 for the year I think) and then you can CAT other people!

I just need to renew mine & then I'll be in touch!

done mine now, thanks

Does Jane Austen count as Chicklit????? (just joking)

All excited about my book being bath soaked, food splatter and child drawn on

Can we have some guidance on what book to choose? I see no chicklit is mentioned....but can we have a run through of what people actually like to read so we don't all choose something we all hate?

If you can't CAT then e-mail me at:

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whispywhisp, personally I'm just anti-chick lit. If anyone else has any major hates then let us know!

My only strong hate is jane Eyre

Other than that I will read absolutely anything.

not liking poetry here, altho to be fair, that wouldn;t come under fiction really would it.

oh, and not a lover of sci-fi either, altho have not tried really hard with it either, so could possibly be surprised!

really really love crime tho, so if someone hates it then I had better be aware, as that would be the book I would choose to pass on!

hey flame....I am passing to you!!!!

otherwise no-one would get a book with my lack of being able to remember to post anything!!

Might be worth mentioning that to coco... But still, you can't pass me the book I have read.

I have no idea what I am sending...

Enclopaedia Brittannica?

what about the book I also have and that got poured wine on

altho, that is part of a set, so totally unfair maybe!

what about......hmmmmm......oh well, dunno......maybe we should go shopping for something!

Oi! I've read that!! Will go look now and see if it is in returnable condition...

Oooh - spine is a bit cracked, but I think it is ok

Cracked spines, wine stains, doodled on, food splatters and steamed from the bath....oh my god....what are we all going to end up with? I can't wait. !!!!

lmao - NOT the cracked spine one... that one we are considering if it looks new enough to be returned in place of the wine stained one (she bought the book... i already had it at my house for our set - we share a set is that odd?... she planned to return and then carelessly let Psychogirl2 pour wine over it... you can work out the rest)

I did not let psychogirl2 pour wine on it....she tried to look at the pretty label and caused the wine to fall out of the bottle.....all over my as yet unread and brand new book, AND my carpet.....!

what a waste of decent wine

i want to try stuff i would normally not pick up in a bookshop so please send me anything, whoever is sending to me! no rules need apply