My Bookshelf: I've moved away from most of my books, but if you are interested in a trade, let me know and I can find a way to get them dug out of the closet and into your mailbox.

As for me, I like well written books with good pacing. If the book has humor, then that's a welcome bonus. I also like to read in German, but it takes me a long time.






I'm currently reading:

In 2008 I've read:
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
City of Thieves, David Benioff
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, Michael Lewis
Girls In Trucks, Katie Crouch
The Spellman Files, Lisa Lutz
Shame In the Blood, Tetsuo Miura
The Pig Did It, Joseph Caldwell
Now You See Him, Eli Gottlieb
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith
Atonement, Ian McEwan
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Marley & Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog, John Grogan
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
In the Woods, Tana French
The Alchemist's Daughter, Katharine McMahon

Books I read in the past years and loved:
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
Lost and Found, Carolyn Parkhurst
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Curious Incident Of the Dog In the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand

My favorite books ever:
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
My Life and Hard Times; "The MacBeth Murder Mystery" (short story), James Thurber
Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Winds of War; War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
The Joy Luck Club; One Hundred Secret Senses; The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan