I'd like to note that...
the sort-of-bookcrossing shelf (it's not part of the actual bookcrossing network) here in the village continues to be exceptional. Someone's got seriously good taste hereabouts... Since I moved here, I've found Charles Stross' The Fuller Memorandum there (in English!!), which introduced me to the Laundry series - a series which pushes *all* the right buttons for me, and which I'd never have discovered without that accidental introduction, because I'm not usually that keen on series; I've found John Crowley's Little, Big (in German; I read it in English, three years ago, but would love to give it so some people who don't read English), and most recently, Haruki Murakami's Hardboiled Wonderland, which was recommended to me by