Recent Book Activity

Howdy y'all :)

In the picture are my favorite reading buddies.
I like to read. I'd also like to travel a lot more and make this world a happy place… hopefully some of the books that cross my roads will make it far - or at least make someone else happy and let those books make a lot of new friends. If you found something I released in the wild and you liked the book it made my day - it would be nice to have a small note to let know the book is happy and safe.

A geek with a billion interests from Futurama to crocheting, gardening to encryption, mafia history to crime authors from exotic locations, cats to cooking to photography. And good thrillers always make me happy. Other things that always make me happy: Robert Ludlum, Ian Fleming (and similar) books, unusual pieces of history (like the Moors history in Europe, or voyages of Ibn Battuta), fairytales such as Thousand and One Nights, books with crafty ideas, anything about cats (small or big). Oh, and I LOVE thrillers that are happening somewhere else in the world. Like those of Andrea Camilleri, Jo Nesbø, James Thompson, Henry Chang, Natsuo Kirino etc.

Some Bookcrossing labels + info labels etc in a ton of languages.

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Rings/rays:
- Cleveland Amory: The Cat who came for Christmas http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6142186
- Arto Paasilinna: Howling Miller http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6190741
- Audrey Niffenegger: Time Traveler's Wife http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6710881

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Etymology for the nick would come from "a & m", I'm the A (though M has registered here too). I learned to read when I was 3 and I guess I never really stopped.

I read most of my books in English. But if there are other books on my way, in languages I understand why not...
And not all the books released by me reflect my taste of literature.
Some may even be in languages I don't master if they cross my way.
Some books just had to be set free, so they may be coming from anywhere and were just somehow crossing my path.

A note of the scale I use for rating, copypasta:
10: Excellent, at the top of its category. This book has impacted me deeply, challenged me profoundly, or has just been a pure delight to read.
9: Really great book, with most (but not all) of the elements of a perfect 10.
8: Great book, gripping, well written, one that I would recommend to others.
7: Good book, enjoyable
6: Decent read, interesting, but didn’t grab me in a big way
5: Not my type of book, but I can see why other people would like it.
4: Only OK. Could take it or leave it.
3 Has major problems. I don’t recommend it.
2: Irritatingly bad. Life is too short!
1: It's hard to imagine anyone liking this book. Total waste of trees or hard drive space.

My current reads (since 2010) are also in Goodreads, with the same username.

"Don't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... "
— Neil Gaiman

I take care of Triumph OBCZ shelf in Austin (closed, looking for the next great shelves in Austin) and the shelf of Suomi-Library, and I also read in Italian, Finnish, Spanish, and Portuguese. But I love seeing books in other languages too, you'd be surprised how many readers of any language there are all over! And when traveling, I love setting a few books free in the places I've been to...