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About Me:
Want to know what I'm doing? You can usually find me attending BookCrossing Meet-Ups, auditing home health clinical records, browsing the LibraryThing fora, drinking coffee, eating chocolate, feeding 3 feral cats, feeding birds and squirrels, planning an upcoming Bookcrossing event, studying medical coding, or thinking up new TIOLI challenges on LibraryThing.

My Reading Preferences:
I like both fiction and non-fiction. I prefer English translations of contemporary foreign (especially Middle Eastern and Asian) novels and books by lesser known authors. I'm attracted to matte-covered trade paperbacks as they seem more exotic than other books somehow.

My Wish List on BookMooch.

My Most Interesting Wild Catches:
Falling Leaves - Ex-girlfriend stimulates this guy's interest in the Asian experience.
Beloved - This book cruised the Amazon.
Mrs. Pollifax Pursued - Books suddenly appear out of nowhere.
The Wonders of the Invisible World - A short story writer finds...a book of short stories.
Airy Fairy - Young journaler returns to book festival to release a book found three years earlier.
Trinity - Finder inserts a rather humorous editorial comment into this journal entry.

My International Bookrays:
The Book of Proper Names (in New Zealand -- stop #39) - a BC 100 Most Traveled Book
The Omnivore's Dilemma (ready to travel to Chile--Stop #9)
Snow (in Ireland-- stop #25)
The Things They Carried (in Greece -- stop #24)
The Wooden Sea (ready to travel to France --stop #59) - a BC 100 Most Traveled Book (...and my most travelled active bookray!)

My Most Travelled (but no longer active) Bookrays on BC's list of 100 Most Traveled Books:
1. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie - #22 with 47 stops
2. Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi - #28 with 44 stops
3. Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto - #35 with 37 stops
4. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - #100 with 33 stops

In Memory of Becky Johns, a very special Bookcrosser:
To keep alive the memory of Becky Johns, who lost her life at the age of nine due to a tragic accident, all books that I release in the future with the words LOVE or HEART in the title will carry a special Becky Johns memorial Bookcrossing label. Valentine’s Day was Becky's birthday.

Notable Quote:
“I liked it when my mother shaped me this way. Clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.” (Astrid, White Oleander by Janet Fitch)

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Last Update: 05/26/12