BookCrossings
Kathryn is a member of BookCrossings. At BookCrossings you can register books you own and then send them into the wild. Hopefully people will find them and register them and then send them back out into the world. (And reminder to self, my screen name there is pearlwhoisshirl. I'm always forgetting those things.)

Kathryn sent me Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver in November, and I've been late getting it up into my reading list. I just completed it, logged it into bookcrossings.com, and plan to send it back out into the universe this week.

The book intertwines the summer stories of three main characters, told with insight and caring and, in the case of Mr. Walker, incredible humour. I had the unusual experience of actually being jealous of Deanna, one of the three. Unlike several reviewers at Amazon, I liked Prodigal Summer better than the Poisonwood Bible.

Thanks, Kathryn!