Finders, readers
July 30th, 2005Viv Groskop finds that the most pleasurable part of Bookcrossing is looking for the books:
“The proof of the reading is in the finding, though. Since I found out about the site a few weeks ago I’ve passed through Chancery Lane tube station but miserably failed to spot Freud’s Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Penguin). I almost persuaded my dad to hunt for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon (Vintage) at the Village Pump Festival in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, last week but we decided the location listed was too vague. I had a disastrous expedition last Tuesday to the Prince’s Head pub on Richmond Green to find 1984 by George Orwell (Penguin). It’s long gone, said the barman, although no one has registered it as found yet.”
The next time I’m in the waiting room at the University of Stony Brook Hospital, I’m going to take a look…