Hi!
I am a middle-aged psychiatric nurse, married, and two grown-up kids already away from home, a grandmother to two girls, born 5/21 and 3/23, and I love books!

I love cozy mysteries, travel stories and books about food (especially food-related memoirs and such) and modern writers like Anne Tyler, Paul Auster, Julia Glass etc, but I also love a good classic!
I read both in Finnish and English.
If you look at my BC-bookshelves, they don't tell you the whole truth, I have plenty of books that are not registered in BC. Like books from my favourite authors that I like to keep.

Most of the books in my wishlist are in English, but I would be as happy to get the same book in Finnish :) I update my wishlist very often.

I am trying to declutter my house, so it is pretty hard to think about other wishes, but here's some:
* my biggest wish is wishlist-books!
* CHOCOLATE , especially unusual taste or chocolates with filling (rather than plain) like with pineapple, or champagne truffle ,Fry's Turkish Delight or Kalev's Tommu! And I like more milk chocolate than dark, but anything is good!
* Notebooks, nice good pens and pencils, decorative tapes, bujo stickers. I have a bit sarcastic, dark sense of humor, so stickers suitable for it are great!
* woollen or cotton socks, size 40 / 6 uk/8,5 us (especially thin wool socks for nightsocks! )
* bookplates in English or Finnish
* candles, scented or not, doesn't matter!
* I don't usually wear make-up, but I love nail-polishes!
* wings for a month, if I've been without for a while
* a magazine in English (can be used) about cooking, decorating, generally women/home-kind of themes. Not gossip-, music-,movies- or fashion (they are not my cup of tea).
* I love to do 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles too!
* got my ears re-pierced, so I really like hanging ear-rings too, any shape and colour!
* Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 Cards for Discovering the Unexpected, Wherever Your Journey Leads (can be used!)

* Recycled and second-hand items are defenitively big YES!


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" Book A Day Keeps Housework Away! "
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BOOKS I'VE READ 2024

JANUARY:
1. Only Child / Rhiannon Navin
2. Backpackerit Kaakkois-Aasiassa - Retkiä ja ruokaa / Merituulia Lehtinen
3. Devil's Food Cake Murder / Joanne Fluke
4. Päiväkirjan uudet sivut / Tellervo Koivisto
5. The Diary of a Bookseller / Shaun Bythell
6. Sairas tyttö tanssii / Aila Meriluoto
7. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops / Shaun Bythell
8. Delphine Jonesin tuhat pientä unelmaa / Beth Morrey
9. Rottien pyhimys / Anneli Kanto
10. Punainen pata / Kati Tervo
11. Sydämenmurskajaiset / Markus Ahonen
12. Lumimaa / Nura Farah

FEBRUARY:
13. Korvapuustikesä / Maija Kajanto
14. Viestejä Saigonista / Danielle Steel
15. Without Reservations / Alice Steinbach
16. Varastettujen rukousten vuori / Jennifer Clement
17. Mitäs nyt tehdään? / Doris Dörrie
18. Tummanhopeinen meri / Susan Fletcher
19. Kuninkaan aamiainen / A. A. Milne
20. Khao Lakin sydämet / Marja-Leena Tiainen
21. Taatelitalvi / Maija Kajanto
22. The Various Flavours of Coffee / Anthony Capella

MARCH:
23. Myrskylasi / Anna-Kaisa Linna-Aho
24. Cover the Butter / Carrie Kabak
25. Enigma of China / Qiu Xiaolong
26. Jos joku ei just kohta nipistä mua pepusta, mä lähden kotiin / Anna-Karin Elde
27. Niinkuin kaikki muutkin / Margit Ravn
28. Kutsuvieraat / Lucy Foley
29. Lapinkylä / Annica Wennström
30. Mind Over Murder / Allison Kingsley
31. Kimppakämppä / Beth O'Leary
32. Pakumatkalla / Aino Huilaja
33. Piin elämä / Yann Martel
34. Death Is Like A Box Of Chocolates / Kathy Aarons

APRIL:
35. The Lacuna / Barbara Kingsolver
36. Vie De France: Sharing Food, Friendship, and a Kitchen in the Loire Valley / James Haller
37. Pyörre / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
38. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer
39. Syyllisyys / Karin Alvtegen
40. Nora & Alicia / Cecilia Samartin
41. Synninpäästö / Yrsa Sigurdardottir
42. In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd / Ana Menendez
43. The Newcomer / Mary Kay Andrews
44. Yhdeksäs aalto / Enni Mustonen
45. Neither Nowt Nor Summat: In search of the meaning of Yorkshire / Ian McMillan

MAY:
46. A Time of Love and Tartan / Alexander McCall Smith
47. The Peppermint Tea Chronicles / Alexander McCall Smith
48. Revanssi / Max Manner
49. Demi-Sec / Max Manner
50. Haaksirikkoisen tarina / Gabriel García Márquez
51. 14 solmua Greenwichiin / Olli Jalonen
52. Recipes for Love and Murder / Sally Andrew
53. Tushka / Anja Kauranen
54. Makuhermolla / Jukka Mannerkorpi
55. Katariinanpyörä / Johanna Valkama
56. Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Crime / Tamar Myers
57. Top Secret Twenty-One / Janet Evanovich
58. Tricky Twenty-Two / Janet Evanovich
59. Linnunaivot / Johanna Sinisalo
60. Witch Hunt / Ian Rankin
61. Jäämeren tarinoita / Teuvo Hahl-Marjokorpi
62. Pieni bistro Bretagnessa / Nina George
63. Musta enkeli / Elly Griffiths
64. Windsorin solmu / S. J. Bennett

JUNE:
65. Pahan polku / Robert Galbraith
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