Hi Everyone!
I'm a stay-at-home mom with a part-time job and a couple of very part-time businesses--I keep pretty busy! I have a 10-year-old daughter who got very excited the morning I first told her we were going on a search for something I heard was "released into the wild." She immediately made up a song, the chorus of which was: "We're goin' on a book hunt!" We weren't successful but she thought it was great fun. I have been married for 14 years now to a very smart man--he married me, didn't he? *wink-wink*

My interests include whatever my kid is into, reading everything I can get my hands on, scouting out cool stuff to sell on eBay, singing, writing--poetry, songs and just began trying my hand at fiction--and art. I have a degree in journalism and plan to begin a Bachelors in Art Education very soon.

I found out about this website from my sister-in-law, elle311, whom I now refer to as the "Book Angel." Her enthusiasm rubbed off and now here I am! I'm hoping to capture a few wild ones and release just as many.

I truly believe "knowledge is power" which is a famous quote by someone; I just don't know who! *snort* Seriously, the more you know about a particular subject, or just in general, the more power you wield within your own sphere of influence and the more likely you are to make informed choices. That's where reading comes in!

Books I would like to read this year:
Winter of Red Snow/Kristiana Gregory
ANY books by Oliver Sacks
Born on a Blue Day/Tammet
The Lives Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic/Peter Stastny & Darby Penney
Mazel Tov: Celebrities' Bar and Bat Mitvah Memories/Jill Rappaport
How to Spell Chanukah..and Other Holiday Dilemmas: 18 Writers Celebrate 8 Nights of Lights
The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming: A Christmas Story/Lemony Snicket
The Portable Atheist/Hitchens
The Gift/Richard Paul Evans
The Christmas Pearl/Dorothea Benton Frank
The Darkest Evening of the Year/Dean Koontz
The Choice/Nicholas Sparks
Daring Book for Girls/Andrea J. Buchanan & Miriam Peskowitz
The Dangerous Book for Boys/Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
Love in the Time of Cholera/Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Born Standing Up/Steve Martin
Water for Elephants/Sara Gruen
Into the Wild/Jon Krakauer
Rhett Butler's People/Donald McCaig
Twilight/Stephanie Meyer
The Sleeping Doll/Jeffrey Deaver
The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Books I have read in 2008:
The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories/edited by Edward Wagenknecht (thanks, Elle!)
The Bridges of Madison County/Robert James Waller
The Autobiography of Santa Claus/as told to Jeff Guinn
The Lightning Thief/Rick Riordan
Phyllis Diller's Marriage Manual/Phyllis Diller
Foreskin's Lament/Shalom Auslander
Dear John/Nicholas Sparks
90 Minutes in Heaven/Don Piper, Cecil Murphrey
Zodiac/Robert Graysmith
Left Behind/Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins
How Stella Got Her Groove Back/Terry McMillan
Forever Odd/Dean Koontz
Fried Green Tomatoes/Fannie Flagg
Good Grief/Lolly Winston
A Prisoner and Yet.../Corrie ten Boom
Peyton Place/Grace Metalious
Incredible/Kevin McFarland
Gracie/George Burns
America's Favorite Janitor/Heno Head Jr.
I'm Not Really Here/Tim Allen
Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man/Tim Allen
It's Always Something/Gilda Radner

Books I have read in 2007 (partial; list still under construction):
Creating Christmas Memories/Zondervan Publishing
Peter and the Starcatchers/Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson
The Thief Lord/Cornelia Funk
The entire Chronicles of Narnia/C.S. Lewis
The Science of Harry Potter/Roger Highfield
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows/J.K. Rowling