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I love all types of books - sci-fi, thrillers, paranormal/horror, mysteries, true crime are among my favorites but I can't really think of a genre I DON'T read.

Favorite Authors - Jim Butcher, Stephen King, JD Robb, Laurell K Hamilton, Janet Evanovich, Charlaine Harris

I don't mind swaps or RABCK's - just PM me if you see something you want. I also have no conditions on what you do with them after you're finished - if I swap it, it's yours to do as you see fit - wild release, trade, etc. I do hope you'll journal it when you get it and after you've read it.

I have an unofficial BCZ at work - I keep a shelf stocked at the Ft Campbell main pharmacy. Ft Campbell is an Army post located on the Tennessee/Kentucky border and is home to the 101st Airborne - an awesome Army division and true American heroes. If something is noted as there, let me know and I will try to get it. However, many folks do not journal the books they've taken (although I've tried to convince them that it's fun and free...) and other books are left there without a BCID (something I try to correct).

The home page listed is the link to the scholarship established in memory of my daughter, Catie - I am honored to have been her mother and hope that I live my life so that one day I'll join her in Heaven. My profile photo is Catie at the 2005 Lance Armstrong Ride for the Roses.

Saw another BC'er who kept track of books she'd read each year. What a great idea!

Beginning in Feb 2005 I've read......(32)

Big Stone Gap
We're Just Like You, Only Prettier
Charlie All Night
Leave No Trace
All That Matters
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Eyre Affair
The Sweet Potato Queen's Field Guide to Men
Five Days in Summer
Shopaholic & Sister
The Fifth Child
Hope Springs from Mended Places
When Katie Wakes
World of Pies
The Anatomy of Hope
Invisible Acts of Power
Angels & Demons
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Psychopath
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince
Lost Horizon
Night Sins
A Change of Heart
It's Not About the Bike
Every Second Counts
Mystic River
The Nanny Diaries
The Hot Flash Club
Chocolate for a Woman's Soul
As Nature Made Him
The Christmas Letters
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar

Jan 2006 - Happy New Year & New Books! (44)

The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again
Sink Reflections
Model Patient
Blow a Bubble, not a Gasket
The Devil in the White City
Make the Connection
Obsession
Original Cyn
The Things I Know Best
Life's Little Annoyances
Strange Bedpersons
Don't Kiss Them Goodbye
It's Always Something
A Girl Named Zippy
Cell
Bel Canto
Body Clutter
Twisted
The Four Agreements
Clover
Digital Fortress
Talk to the Hand
The Narrows
A False Sense of Well Being
Dance with Me
Confessions of a Bigamist
He Sees You When You're Sleeping
Mother's Day
Big Trouble
Edge of Evil
A Perfect Day
Without Pity
Deception Point
The Devil Wears Prada
Private Pleasures
The Widow Ginger
At Home in Mitford
For One More Day
Don't Eat This Book
Silver Bells
The Rule of Four
Suspect
Tuesdays with Morrie
A Light in the Window

Jan 2007 - Here's to a better year! (29)

These High, Green Hills
Lisey's Story
Out to Canaan
The Traveler
Apocalipstick
Shopgirl
A Southern Belle Primer
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman
Black Wind
Little Altars Everywhere
Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper, Case Closed
The Codex
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Wow! What a conclusion to a marvelous series!)
The Book of the Dead
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
A New Song
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
What We Keep
Angels All Over Town
Shopaholic & Baby
The Red Tent
Under the Tuscan Sun
Carved in Bone
Wicked
The Grrl Genius Guide to Life
Long Time Gone
A Common Life
The Orchid Thief

For those of you who have swapped with me over the past few years... I wanted to say that our family appreciates all your concerns and prayers. Catie, our 16 yr old daughter, lost her battle with cancer in December. She will forever be our Angel.

2008 - a time to grieve (57)

Too Perfect
Treasure of Khan
Jacob's List
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
In This Mountain
Just Perfect
Duma Key
Kitchen Confidential
90 Minutes in Heaven
Daddy's Girl
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls
Grendel
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
The Undomestic Goddess
Home to Harmony
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Be My Neat-Heart
The Book of Lost Things
She Got Up Off the Couch
The Last Lecture
The Alchemist (audio)
The Shack
Organize Yourself!
There's Always Plan B
The Amber Room
Remains Silent
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn (OMG! The Twilight series is an obsession!)
Body Trace
Bad Boys Online
Blaze
The Applause of Heaven
Summer's Child
The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel
Angela's Ashes
Praying for Sleep
Twilight (yes, again - it's an obsession!)
Dead Until Dark
New Moon
Eclipse
Guilty Pleasures
Breaking Dawn
Almost Perfect
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Secrets of the Monarch
The Laughing Corpse
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
The Next Big Thing
Dead to the World
Circus of the Damned
We Are All Fine Here
New Times in the Old South or Why Scarlett's in Therapy and Tara's Gone Condo
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead

2009....(165!!! A new record for books read)

All Together Dead
The Lunatic Cafe
Bloody Bones
The Killing Dance
From Dead to Worse
Monkeewrench
Ghost Soldiers
Burnt Offerings
Blue Moon
Grave Surprise
A Kiss of Shadows
An Ice Cold Grave
A Caress of Twilight
Seduced by Moonlight
Marked
Storm Front (F)
Nights in Rodanthe
A Stroke of Midnight
Dark Lover
Mistral's Kiss
Undead & Unwed
A Lick of Frost
Undead & Unemployed
Shakespeare's Landlord
101 Things You Should Do Before Going to Heaven
The Zookeeper's Wife
Heart-Shaped Box
I'm the Vampire, That's Why
Grave Sight
The Graveyard Book
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Beauty's Punishment
Fool Moon
Beauty's Release (M)
Out of This World
Swallowing Darkness
Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire
Grave Peril
Naked in Death
Because Your Vampire Said So
Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch
Carpe Demon
Fairyville
Undead & Unappreciated
True Stories of Law & Order
Tithe
Summer Knight
Wait Till Your Vampire Gets Home
Undead & Unreturnable
Grief
Bite
You Slay Me (A)
Undead & Unpopular
Undead & Uneasy
Exit to Eden
Death Masks
Witch Fire
Glory in Death
Spin the Bottle
Blood Rites
Immortal in Death
Dead Beat
Single White Vampire
Proven Guilty
Strange Attractions (M)
Something Naughty, Something Nice
Dead & Gone
Fat Chance
White Night
Rapture in Death
Make Your Creative Dreams Real
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
A Killer Workout
Shakespeare's Champion
Small Favor
Shakespeare's Christmas
The Accidental Vampire
A Secret Rage
High Stakes
Shakespeare's Trollop (J)
Shakespeare's Counselor
Really Unusual Bad Boys
Sucker Bet
First Test
Piercing the Darkness
Cure for the Common Life
Bled Dry
Bit the Jackpot
Page
Nineteen Minutes
How to Kill a Guy in 10 Days
Fire Me Up
Hissy Fit (Jy)
Dipped in Chocolate
Squire
Something More
Lady Knight
Light My Fire
Turncoat
Angel Letters
Holy Smokes
Bound & Determined
Bitter is the New Black
The Bodacious Book of Succulence
Wife for Hire
8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
Moon Crossed
Real Murders
Alluring Tales
Blood Bound (A)
Iron Kissed
The Sea is so Wide and my Boat is so Small
Ceremony in Death
Obsidian Butterfly
Real Vampires Have Curves
Narcissus in Chains
We Thought You Would Be Prettier
Cerulean Sins
The Traveler's Gift
Real Vampires Live Large (S)
Incubus Dreams
I am the Messenger
Micah
How to Train Your Dragon
Bone Crossed
Nine & a Half Weeks
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
Nightseer
The Dark Garden
The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Cowboy
Blue Bloods
One More Time (O)
Running Out of Time
The Power of Now
Demons are a Ghoul's Best Friend
Seduction by Design
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun
Vengeance in Death
The Lightning Thief
The Gift
Walking After Midnight
A Touch of Dead
Danse Macabre
Murphy's Law
The Sea of Monsters (N)
50 Ways to Hex Your Lover
The Monster of Florence
The Demon's Daughter
The Harlequin
A Redbird Christmas
Blood Noir
Skin Trade (D)
Back to the Bedroom
Holiday in Death
Sink Reflections
Cupid, Inc
The Host
Divine Misdemeanors
Christmas Stories for the Heart
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
The Tale of Holly How
I'm Your Santa

2010....(162, close to last year's record)

I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise
Forbidden Pleasures
One for the Money
Grave Secret
Bitten
We Are Their Heaven
Blood Brothers
The Heart of a Mother
The Hollow
The Pagan Stone
I'm So Glad You Told Me What I Didn't Want to Hear
The Titan's Curse
Two for the Dough
Life of Pi
Three to Get Deadly (F)
Bound to Love Her
Cry Wolf
Slow Dancing
A Quick Bite
Hunting Ground
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
An Angel to Die For
Wicked Pleasure
Flirt
Burning Alive
Four to Score
When Demons Walk
A Whole New Life
High Five (M)
Telling Christina Goodbye
Manhunt
HeartSick
A Bone to Pick
If Mama Goes South, We're All Going With Her
Tears of the Giraffe
Glass Houses
House Husband
The Twelfth Angel
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
It Sleeps in Me
The Hob's Bargain
Hot Six
Metro Girl
Seven Up
Hard Eight
Visions of Sugar Plums
Silver Borne (A)
To the Nines
Ten Big Ones
A Walk to Remember
Morality for Beautiful Girls
Eleven on Top
Unforgettable
The Night I Disappeared
NIght Child
Black & Blue
Sugar & Spice
The Wednesday Letters
Twelve Sharp
Bad Boys of Summer
Plum Lovin'
Stolen
Lean Mean Thirteen
Due South
Plum Lucky
Fearless Fourteen (M)
Watchmen
Confessions of a Pagan Nun
Dead in the Family
Plum Spooky
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Undead & Unworthy
The Song of the Lioness
Hero at Large
Rhymes with Witches
Kitty & the Midnight Hour
Nickel & Dimed
Never After
1st to Die
The Last Olympian
Bright Lights, Big Ass (J)
Sheldon & Mrs Levine
Anxiety
You're not a Kid Anymore...
Love Bites
Morrigan's Cross
Twenties Girl
What a Woman Needs
Fireproof
So Many Books, So Little Time
Changes
The Timewaster Letters
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
The Magician's Elephant
Sizzlin' Sixteen (Jy)
Conspiracy in Death
In the Hand of the Goddess
Such a Pretty Fat
The Hunger Games
Bullet
Loyalty in Death
Other People's Dirt
Tempt Me, Taste Me, Touch Me
What Would MacGyver Do?
Dance of the Gods
Valley of Silence (A)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Finding the Lost
Running Scared
Tall, Dark & Hungry
Catching Fire
Vampires Are Forever
Nailed
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
Because of Wnn-Dixie
My Immortal Protector
My Immortal Promise (S)
The Official I Hate Cats Book
Mockingjay
Evermore
Notes Left Behind
Vampire, Interrupted
Many Bloody Returns
The Book Thief
The Lost Symbol
Tea & Spices
Beauty Sleep
The Tale of Despereaux
Garden Spells (O)
Sh*y My Dad Says
My Life Among the Serial Killers
Out of Body
Heather
A Thousand Tomorrows
The Pocket Power Book of Performance
Motor Mouth
2nd Chance (N)
Primal Heat
Side Jobs
PS I Hate It Here
3rd Degree
Sam's Letters to Jennifer
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Cross My Heart
Hot Stuff
4th of July
Bloodlist
Lifeblood
Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt)
The 5th Horseman
Undead & Unwelcome
Instant Gratification (D)
Wicked Pleasure
Witness in Death
Bloodcircle
Midnight in Death
People of the Book
The Glory of Christmas
First Impressions
Judgement in Death

2011.... (total 146)

Betrayal in Death(J) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8613946
Seduction in Death http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8613927
Reunion in Death
The 6th Target
Numbers
Purity in Death
Panic in Level 4
Portrait in Death
7th Heaven
Imitation in Death
Keep Climbing
The 8th Confession
Divided in Death
Visions in Death
Survivor in Death
Plato & a Platypus Walk into a Bar 16
Origin in Death (F)
Scandalous Lovers
The Ultimate Gift
Memory in Death
Full Dark, No Stars
Remember When
Bump in the Night
Born in Death
Innocent in Death
One Simple Act
Creation in Death
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Strangers in Death
The Secret (F14 - T30)
Salvation in Death (M)
Promises in Death
Kindred in Death
Fantasy in Death
River Marked
The Gargoyle
Living Nightmare
Dime Store Magic
Lioness Rampant
How to Be Cool
Briar Rose
The Kalahari Typing School for Men (M12-T42)
The Full Cupboard of Life
Partner in Crime
The Good Thief
Dead Wrong
Sweet & Sinful
Damage Control
Indulgence in Death
The Other Side
Suite 606
A Hunger Like No Other (A10-T52)
Dispatch
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
Treachery in Death
Dead Reckoning
The Time Traveler's Wife
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The 9th Judgement
Dearly Devoted Dexter
Spin Cycle
Pleasure & Purpose
California Demon
Oregon Littlebooks Reflections ( M12 - T64)
Dexter in the Dark
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff For Women
Dexter by Design
Losing Gemma
Justice Denied
The Reader
Fire & Ice
In the Forests of the Night
The Julius House
Dead Over Heels
Sex and Shopping
Smokin' Seventeen
Bastard Out of Carolina (J13-T77)
A Fool and His Honey
Last Scene Alive
The Greatest Miracle in the World
Hit List
Fairytale
Instinctive
The Grand Finale
A Bite to Remember
Saving Zoe
The Weight of Water
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen
The Immortal Hunter
Ghost Story
Fantasy (Ju14-T91)
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Poppy Done to Death
Bite Me If You Can
Riding in Cars with Boys
What Dreams May Come
Journey into Darkness
To Tempt the Wolf
Cat's Meow
Night
Furies of Calderon
The Millionaire Next Door
Cursed by a Happy Childhood
Academ's Fury (A13-T104)
Cursor's Fury
Blockade Billy
Captain's Fury
Erotic Fairy Tales
Names of the Dead
Princeps' Fury
First Lord's Fury
Born to Bite
New York to Dallas
Foul Play (S10-T114)
Blood Hunt
Naughty Neighbor
Over My Dead Body
The Poisoner's Handbook
Hungry for You
Silent Night
Dark Origins (Level 26)
Obedience
Hot Spell
Room (O10-T124)
Wicked Appetite
Double the Heat
Eat, Pray, Love
The Man Who Walked Through Time
Masques
The Rogue Hunter
Sleeping with the Fishes
The Jester
Swimming Without a Net
Chicken Soup for the Surviving Soul (N10-T134)
Wolfsbane
Full House
Explosive Eighteen
Shepherds Abiding
10th Anniversary
Seven Stories of Christmas Love
The Sweet Potato Queen's Big Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)
Sandcastles
Murder in Mayberry
Full Tilt
The Little Book of Christmas Joys
Fall into His Arms 12

2012

The Lost
Master of the Mountain
Full Speed
Sweetheart
Life, Italian Style
The Shimmer
Hot for the Holidays
Industrial Magic
Riding the Line
Just Beyond the Clouds
never eighteen (J11)
Max
Haunted
The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing
Derik's Bane
Great Lies to Tell Small Kids
The Surgeon
Snaring the Huntress
Full Bloom (F8-T19)
Celebrity in Death
Bad Boys with Red Roses
Full Scoop
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Evil at Heart
Nights in Black Leather
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Blue Shoes and Happiness (M8-T27)
The Historian
Private
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Smoke, Mirrors & Murder
Hello, Gorgeous
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Blue Moon
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Alexander and the Wonderful...Days (A9-T36)
Living on the Edge
The Reluctant Vampire
If Chins Could Kill
Razor's Edge
11/22/63
Dying Wish
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Wild Magic
The Apprentice. (M9)

2012 Challenges:
Reduce Mt TBR challenge (GOAL = 110 CURRENTLY = 38 )

Master of the Mountain http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10230456
Full Speed http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6282393
Sweetheart http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8395059
Life, Italian Style http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7162198
The Shimmer http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8350181
Hot for the Holidays http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7631392
Industrial Magic http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8536940
Riding the Line http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8649191
Just Beyond the Clouds http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10256105
never eighteen http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10416454
Max http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8062681
Haunted
The Girls' Guide to Hunting & Fishing http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6659392
Derik's Bane http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10331321
Great Lies to Tell Small Kids http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10344977
The Surgeon
Full Bloom http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10427915
Celebrity in Death
Bad Boys with Red Roses http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10245498/
Full Scoop
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10422224/
Evil at Heart http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10268644/
Nights in Black Leather http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10220575
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6516945/
Blue SHoes and Happiness http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8562730
The Historian http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3571423
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11034303
Hello, Gorgeous! http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8138323
Drop Dead, Gorgeous http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8075407
Blue Moon http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10369114/
The Miracle at Speedy Motors http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11084726
Alexander and the Wonderful...Days
Living on the Edge
Razor's Edge
If Chins Could Kill
Dying Wish
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/860044
The Apprentice

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What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Dedicated Reader   You are always trying to find the time to get back to your book. You are convinced that the world would be a much better place if only everyone read more.

2009 Challenges:
RABCK release challenge (released =93) :-)
History release challenge (goal=12 actual=1) :-(
Reduce TBR challenge (goal=25 actual=17) :-(

2010 Challenge
Reduce TBR challenge (goal=75 actual =80) :-)

2011 Challenge
Reduce TBR challenger (goal = 85 actual = 108) :=)