Recent Book Activity

**Note: if you ever end up with a book I have registered, please feel perfectly free to move it on either by wild or controlled releasing. Of course, if you want to keep it, that's ok too.**

Full time employed, wife, and mother of three, I still find [a little] time to read. I think bookcrossing is a cool idea, and I'm enjoying finding new places to set books free. Since I have a long drive to work, I enjoy many of my books in an audio format (CD only). I don't have very much time to read, but I would not dream of being without a book, plus one more for when I'm done that one.

Bookcrossing has opened my eyes and experience to many books I would never otherwise have known about. The community of people here is amazing and generous! I have learned a tremendous amount by being connected with this international group. My family thinks I'm nuts with the information I have now gained, but looks forward to seeing the interesting links I sometimes come across in Chit Chat.

BookCrosser ballpointvision is my lovely daughter.

I manage a bookcase (unofficial zone) in my workplaceI also try to drop books at my local train station, when I can get there.
Good news is that a cafe has opened where my old OBCZ was, and they are up for having a bunch of books in there. Please visit blacksaltcafe!

I do a lot of wild releases - it pleases me enormously to think of the pleasure a found book might bring to someone.

Wishlist....
I would love to get a note or postcard from you. I am on rabck.com, or PM me for my address.
I would love to receive US unused postage stamps, because I send a lot of notes and letters to people (a daughter and 2 nieces in college, plus assorted others).
I can always use BookCrossing labels and supplies, since I do a lot of wild releasing. Homemade, self-stick or not - all are welcome.
A box of books would never go wrong, either, because I like to keep a variety of books around for releasing and sharing.
I love birds, and enjoy having small figures of them or cards with them.
Wings (MemberPlus) are always a nice surprise...

Because of postage costs, I trade or send books seldom. Because I don't have much time to read, getting involved in rings or rays is not really practical. I will consider rings for audiobooks (on CD), since I get through these books more quickly than paper ones.

**My list of registered or available books does not necessarily reflect my personal reading taste or political leanings; if I see inexpensive copies of interesting fiction or nonfiction, I will buy them for release. **

I am on rabck.com.

Books finished in 2012 (most recent first)

Peony in Love (audio, abridged) by Lisa See
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Eleven on Top (audio) by Janet Evanovich
Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
Jane Eyre (audio) by Charlotte Bronte
A Game of Thrones (audio) by George R. R. Martin
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larson
A Handbook of American Prayer by Lucius Shepherd
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Books finished in 2011 (most recent first)

Misfortune by Wesley Stace
Madame Bovary (audio) by Gustave Flaubert
The Sex Lives of Cannibals by Maarten Troost
206 Bones (audio) by Kathy Reichs
Family Affair* by Debbie Macomber
March by Geraldine Brooks
In Cold Blood (audio) by Truman Capote
Grounded by Seth Stevenson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (audio) by Rebecca Skloot
Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card
Saturday (audio) by Ian McEwan
Shoot the Moon (audio) by Billie Letts
Long Division by Jane Berentson
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
I Capture the Castle* by Dodie Smith
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by (audio)
The Mountain of the Women by Liam Clancy (audio)
Round Ireland with a Fridge* by Tony Hawk
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
The Saffron Kitchen (audio) by Yasmin Crowther
A River in the Sky (audio) bye Elizabeth Peters
Lamb by Christopher Moore
What the Dog Saw (audio) by Malcolm Gladwell
Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
Devil's Corner (audio) by Lisa Scottoline
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Confessions of a Lingerie Addict* by Jennifer Ashley
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Books finished in 2010 (most recent first)

Lost in Place by Mark Salzmann
Three Junes by
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
Uncle Boris in the Yukon by Daniel Pinkwater*
Sarah's Key by Tatiane de Rosnay
Hard Truth (audio) by Nevada Barr
The Bookman's Promise by John Dunning
A Light in the Storm (Dear America series) by Karen Hesse
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger*
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
I Feel Bad About my Neck by Nora Ephron*
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (audio) by Stephen Chbosky*
A Geography of Time by Robert Levine
Shades of Grey (audio) by Jasper Fforde
Passion, Betrayal and Killer Highlights by Kyra Davis*
The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other Jazz Age Stories (audio) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The River Between Us (audio) by Richard Peck
Flow: the Cultural Story of Menstruation by Elissa Stein & Susan Kim
So Brave, Young, and Handsome (audio) by Leif Enger
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss*
Bite Me (audio) by Christopher Moore
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka*
High Country (audio) by Nevada Barr
The Observations by Jane Harris
Daddy's Girl (audio) by Lisa Scottoline
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey*
Burning Bright (audio) by Tracy Chevalier
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (audio) by Alexander McCall Smith
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Barby
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read*
On Chesil Beach (audio) by Ian McEwan
Till Human Voices Wake Us by Mark Budz
Candide by Voltaire
Fool (audio) by Christopher Moore
The Next Queen of Heaven by Gregory Maguire

* Books I read solely due to the influence and/or generosity of BookCrossing and/or BookCrossers!


(last updated 5/18/12)