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BettyBoekwurm

From Porto - City, Porto Portugal
Age 45
Joined Friday, March 24, 2006
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"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head."

From "The Brooklyn Follies" by Paul Auster

Bookrings organized by me: PM me to join
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss - Started June 2006 - Finished
Fury by Salman Rushdie - Started June 2006

Bookrings/rays I'm participating in:
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins
Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
The Powerbook - Jeanette Winterson
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flag
The Girl with the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
A Fórmula de Deus - José Rodrigues dos Santos
Big Stone Gap - Adriana Trigiani
Marley & Me - John Crogan


Bookrings/rays received, read and sent on their merry way:
Felicidade - Will Ferguson
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Falling Angels - Tracy Chevallier
The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Dry - A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett
Lighthousekeeping - Jeannette Winterson
Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
Can You Keep a Secret? - Sophie Kinsella
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
Queimada Viva - Souad
Spider: A Teia da Loucura - Patrick McGrath
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
The City of Falling Angels - John Berendt
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Hero - Wing Shing Ma, Zhang Yimou
Gem Squash Tokoloshe - Rachel Zadok
Budapeste - Chico Buarque
Um Longo Domingo De Noivado - Sébastien Japrisot
Affinity - Sarah Waters
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler
A Casa Quieta - Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
Naked Pictures of Famous People - Jon Stewart
Porto: Caminhos e Memórias - Germano Silva
Stitch 'n Bitch - Debbie Stoller
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson



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