Recent Book Activity

Hi! I am an aquatic biologist in Austin, Texas, and enjoy the outdoors. My current work involves drinking water quality for the state of Texas. I volunteer with several non-profit organizations in Central Texas, including Texas Master Naturalists, Capital Area Chapter, Sierra Club, and Girlstart. When I am not spending my free time in environmental education, I enjoy hanging out with my computer geek friends, watching movies and brewing beer.

I have always been an avid book reader, and remember vividly weekly trips to our local library as a kid, and anxiously awaiting my Scholastic Books orders. My first fundraiser was a readathon in fifth grade for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. My sponsors had to dig deep in their pockets for that one!

I came across a freed book while at the Ginger Man in Austin, for a Blue Dog Rescue benefit. Glad to finally be a full-fledged member with my first releases to be this week! Hope to make it to a Meetup with fellow members.

ALL-TIME FAVORITES:
The Little Prince by Antoine St. Exupery*
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold*
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut*
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu*
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
* books I've bought multiple copies and gave away to friends!

Bookrings I have started:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Bookrings I am participating in:
And in anticipated order of arrival/reading
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts - 7/23/04 received and reading!;8/2/04 mailed to zizzr, highly recommended
Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy - 8/6/04 received>;8/19/04 mailed to bksfmly; recommended
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III received 8/13/048/25/04 mailed
Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton had to mail before reading :(
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; 10/5/05 mailed
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach; received
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Itty Bitty Buddha by Nicole Dixon

My first RABCK received!
Anne Sexton: A Selfportrait in Letters by Linda Gray Sexton Thanks, Chellis!

My Wish List
thanks, Cliff1976!

My forum question:
What's your favorite/most memorable bookstore?

And a challenge by goatgrrl