How to be Good by Nick Hornby (2nd copy)

How to be Good was one of the first books I ever released through BookCrossing back when I joined in 2003 and one of my first wild catches too (see this blog entry). I bought this copy from a charity store because I thought it would be fun to wild release the same book and see if I received another catch. I wasn't disappointed!

I released this on 15 February 2006 at the opening party for Tropicalia at the Barbican Centre. I left it in the greenhouse garden on the third floor near one of the bars. I've generally had good luck with releasing in art galleries and theatres - I guess people who are interested in art and culture are also likely to be into books.

It was picked up and the person who found it (who appears to be new to BookCrossing) left this journal entry:

Journal entry 3 by solar-flare(0/0) from Stroud, United Kingdom on Friday, February 17, 2006
Found it hiding away in the plants at the Tropicalia launch - so thanks Fire Dragon! Just finished my last book this morning so will get stuck into this one soon. The find prompted an interesting discussion with my work colleague, who I dragged along to the event, he admitted that he doesn't read books because he's not confident with his reading... a few drunken conversations later and he wants me to help him get into books being a kind of mentor and hard taskmaster. So this book crossing discovery has helped two of us!

See all journal entries for this book.