My latest bookmooch find is Dava Sobel's Longitude. Since I am reading seafaring books, I thought I might want to learn a few things about sailing, and the whole longitude problem seemed significant. When I first added my "inventory" to bookmooch, I had several people right away ask for books I wanted to get rid of. And drunk with points, I started mooching books off other people left and right. But then I noticed I was mooching far more than people were mooching from me, and I started feeling guilty. I've only sent three, but I have gotten six? Man, am I greedy. In my defense I had sent a book to Australia (and therefore gotten extra mooch points), but still I was feeling bad that no one seemed to want any of my books.
Alas, I am not sure what happened, but all of a sudden last week I received five requests for books (three mailed internationally--this means three points instead of one!). I have noticed that other bookbloggers have joined bookmooch, and I have either mooched books from them or sent them books--it is always nice to share books with people you "know". Now that my mooching has nearly evened out, I am feeling better. So much better in fact that I am waiting for copies of The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed by Barbara Ehrenreich and The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitrzgerald. I have never read anything by Fitzgerald, but this review makes me want to read her. I, of course, want to read Offshore but there are no copies to be mooched at the moment. I have been getting lots of ideas lately for books that I want to read from blogs (no big surprise there). I want to read The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (completely dismissed it in the bookstore until I read this review), Knight of the Maison Rouge by Alexandre Dumas (already bought that one), The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. These are the latest titles I have added to my bookmooch wishlist. So now it a matter of deciding whether to wait for these books or find books to be mooched. I have never "shopped" for books on bookmooch--I have always been looking for something specific. I am afraid that if I start browsing (as if it was the bookstore), I would use up my points in an hour! So for the time being I will be greedy and hoard my points until something really good comes along.