Recent Book Activity

Hi! Welcome to my bookshelf! Bookcrossing.com is one of the best websites in the world! Thank you to everyone supporting my reading habit with trades, rays/rings, RABCKs, and simply great book discussions! As far as I know, ALL of my books are registered. I register them as I get them, even if they are to-be-reads.

My wishlist is up to date!!

My profile picture is a photo I took of a page in the amazing Neverwhere graphic novel by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry (ISBN #1401210074).

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The Red House - Mark Haddon


:::: A Note on Trades... ::::
If you'd like to do a book trade with me, take a look at my 'available' book list! I can look at your shelf and see if I'm interested! I love trades. ALSO, if you are in the United States and if I don't find any books I'd like to trade for, I am willing to send the books on my available list registered by other bookcrossers if you are willing to send me shipping money in exchange for them. (I'd love to ship all these books out to new readers for free, but it just isn't possible.) OR I'd be happy to trade for these things: Paperbackswap, swapacd, swapadvd, Bookmooch, titletrader, etc credits, TEA, magazines, videogames, music, DVDs... I don't like 'releasing books in the wild' too much because I wouldn't want the books I love to be thrown away (which is always a possibility when leaving a book somewhere). And if someone threw my book in the trash or something without writing a journal entry, I would feel heartbroken. SO I would much rather just mail books to people who I KNOW are interested in them. It saves me the heartache! Most of my spare money goes to shipping books out. I don't want to sound macabre or anything, but I have no intentions of ever not fulfilling my BC obligations, sending out rays/rings/trades etc. So if you aren't hearing from me, it probably means something happened to me and I won't be around to Bookcross anymore, IF you know what I mean. I just wanted to say this because there are a couple people that have disappeared and are now considered book thieves but I worry more if that person is even okay. Let's just say I will be a Bookcrosser for life!

:::: A Note on My Wishlist... ::::
If a specific edition of a book is listed, I'm looking for that edition. ie: Agnes Grey- Anne Bronte (Modern Library edition) means I'm looking for the Modern Library edition of the book only. The order of preference for editions of classic novels depending on if they were released in that edition: 1) Broadview 2)Modern Library 3)Everyman 4) Penguin (the TRADE size - not mass market) So if a book doesn't have a Broadview edition, then I'd like a Modern Library edition, and if there isn't a Modern Library edition, then an Everyman and so on. This is just ideally how it would go though. :D
Books are my one addiction. My wishlist is mainly a reminder to myself (notes on what I'd like to read eventually). BUT if you have a book on my wishlist, I love and appreciate RABCKs and rings/rays. I'm not registered on rabck.com because I worry about someone sending me a book I already have. I don't mind PMs asking me if I'm still interested in a book! My wishlist stays up to date, and if it is on there, I'm still interested (even if a wish is years old). Every time I open my mailbox and I receive a book, it is ALWAYS TRULY APPRECIATED. I can't say that enough.

I'm searching for MAGAZINE backissues: Especially looking for PASTE magazine and BOOKMARKS magazine. Anything media related: books, music. Also looking for: Under the Radar, The Big Takeover, Filter, Magnet, Pages, Tracks, Book, Mental Floss, Revolver, Spin, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, Poets & Writers, TAPS paramagazine... doesn't matter how old they are! Try me!

PASTE magazine and the cd samplers/ dvds I'm missing:
The issue #s of Paste I'm missing: 1,2,3,5
The CD samplers of Paste I'm missing: 1,2,3,4
The DVD samplers of Paste I'm missing:
14,15,16, any of the newer ones they started up
So let me know what you have and we can work something out!

<3<3<3 My Top 20 most wished for books <3<3<3
01. Sandman - Neil Gaiman (Volumes 3,4,5,6,9), Cages & Pictures That Tick - Dave McKean
02. The Art of Tim Burton
03. H.P. Lovecraft: complete stories (1435122968) & Necronomicon - H.P. Lovecraft (or any Lovecraft)
04. 'Dance Dance Dance', 'After the Quake', 'Pinball 1973', 'Hear the Wind Sing'- Haruki Murakami
05. Kurt Vonnegut's 'Timequake', 'Jailbird', 'Bagombo Snuff Box', 'Look at the Birdie' 'Sirens of Titan' 'Armageddon in Retrospect' & 'While Mortals Sleep'
06. A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley - Jeff Apter
07. The Five - Robert McCammon
08. Shirley/Professor (Everyman edition)- Charlotte Bronte
09. The Winds of Marble Arch - Connie Willis
10. Ganymede, Clementine - Cherie Priest
11. The Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P.D. Ouspensky
12. The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Hardy (1857994388)
13. The Dead Zone - Stephen King (THIS edition: 1444708090)
14. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (THIS edition: 0099540797)
15. Under Heaven - Guy Gavriel Kay
16. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out - Mo Yan
17. The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick
18. A Hardy Companion:A Guide to the Works of Thomas Hardy&Their Backgrounds- F.B. Pinion
19. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (THIS edition: 0141192429)
20. Joss Whedon's shows essays/analysis books & graphic novels (Redeemed, Finding Serenity, Serenity Found, Serenity 2, Buffy season 8, spike omnibus, buffy omnibus (any), Angel:after the fall, Conversations)

Also looking for BROADVIEW editions of a bunch of classics: Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Woman in White, Peter Pan, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Odd Women, New Grub Street, Winona or the Foster Sisters, Lodore, Harrington, Country of Pointed Firs, The Romance of a Shop, On the Origin of Species, Nature and Art, Secret History and Laura, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym


-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-Book Title ABC Challenge-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-
The goal: To read every letter of the alphabet by book title and the books MUST be registered by other Bookcrossers to count! This will be a fun way to read and send on books sent to me by other Bookcrossers. Start: 4.1.09 I have read 65 other books that didn't count for this challenge since the start of it(because it wasn't registered by another bookcrosser or because it was but I just read the same letter of the alphabet more than once!)
A -:- At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
B -:- Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
C -:- Corvus - Esther Woolfson
D -:- Drop City - T.C. Boyle
E -:- Ex-Libris - Anne Fadiman
F -:- From Time to Time - Jack Finney
G -:- The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Durrow
H -:- The Help - Kathryn Stockett
I -:- I Am the Messenger - Markus Zusak
J -:-
K -:-
L -:-
M -:- The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett
N -:- Neverwhere (the graphic novel)- Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey, Glenn Fabry
O -:- Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
P -:- Paradise - Toni Morrison
Q -:- The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
R -:- The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
S -:- Swamplandia!- Karen Russell
T -:- The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffengger
U -:-
V -:-
W -:- A Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
X -:- --No BC Books available with X
Y -:-
Z -:- --No BC Books available with Z

Click here to see all the current book rings/rays in the Bookcrossing world

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (combined two book ray)
Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro


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Tea box around the world -:-started by rodespringbal
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin-:- started by Lemon-Crisis
V For Vendetta - Alan Moore -:-started by NICNIC2
Pinball 1973 - Haruki Murakami -:- started by Lizzy-stardust
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami-:-started by Stoepbrak
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami -:- started by sedna5213



-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-Book rings/rays I've COMPLETED-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-
Tea Bag Box & Journal -:- started by Llednyl
Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk -:-started by stubee
Anne Frank Remembered - Miep Gies -:-started by redragonlady
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell -:-started by lmn60
Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler -:-started by Feralreader
An Unquiet Mind - Kay Jamison -:-started by moontree
Autobiography of a Geisha - Sayo Masuda -:-started by Nut
The City of Falling Angels - John Brendt -:-started by Quico
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut -:-started by efs300
Perfume - Patrick Suskind -:-started by chas04
Post Secret -:-started by unknowncritic
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman -:-started by airyaa
Kindred - Octavia Butler -:- started by GorgeousGlo
Audacity of Hope audiobook - Barack Obama -:- started by Gnissorckoob
Serenity graphic novel - Joss Whedon -:- started by Midwinter
Obasan - Joy Kogawa -:- started by SqueakyChu
The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski -:- started by SqueakyChu
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman -:- started by itpdx
Maus and Maus II - Art Spiegelman -:- started by MaryZee
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver -:- started by LGinder
Wampeters, Fomas and Granfallons - Kurt Vonnegut -:- started by top-sapper
Bells of Nagasaki - Takashi Nagai -:- started by SKingList
The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan -:-started by VividReader
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading - Maureen Corrigan -:-started by Rivercassini
Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk -:-started by stubee
Cinema Macabre - Mark Morris -:- started by dark-draco
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman -:-started by twinkpuddin
Passing - Nella Larson -:- started by lakelady2282
Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat -:- started by jlautner
The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave -:- started by canongatebooks
Neverwhere graphic novel - Neil Gaiman, Mike Carey, Glenn Fabry -:- started by Crossing-Guard
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - Allison Hoover Bartlett -:- started by bobbarama
Corvus: A Life With Birds - Esther Woolfson -:- started by karen07814
City of Thieves - David Benioff -:- started by galleycat
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
The Help - Kathryn Stockett -:- started by mssaver
Watchmen - Alan Moore -:- started by ChiBoiler
Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie -:- started by ApoloniaX
World War Z - Max Brooks-:-started by MysticalZoe
The Castle - Franz Kafka-:- started by Sfogs
Interworld - Neil Gaiman & Michael Reeves-:-started by Vedranaster
Swamplandia! - Karen Russell-:-started by book-man-8
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky - Heidi W. Durow-:-started by akosikulot


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-:-Best reads of 2011-:-
01. The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson
02. A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
03. When the Killing's Done - T.C. Boyle
04. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell
05. World War Z - Max Brooks
06. If This Is A Man (Survival in Auschwitz) - Primo Levi
07. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
08. Our Noise - Jeff Gomez
09. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
10. Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie

-:-Best reads of 2010-:-
01. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
02. Neverwhere (Graphic novel) - Mike Carey, Glenn Fabry
03. Far North - Marcel Theroux
04. Becoming Odyssa - Jennifer Pharr Davis
05. To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
06. Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
07. Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
08. Paradise - Toni Morrison
09. Watchmen - Alan Moore
10. Romancing Miss Bronte - Juliet Gael
11. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
12. Corvus - Esther Woolfson
13. Wild Sheep Chase - Haruki Murakami
14. They Poured Fire On Us From the Sky - Benjamin Ajak, Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng

-:-Best reads of 2009-:-
01. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
02. 'Ward 9' (a story) - Will Self
03. At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
04. Sons of Heaven - Terrence Cheng
05. The Song Is You - Arthur Phillips
06. The Day the Falls Stood Still - Cathy Marie Buchanan
07. Drop City - T.C. Boyle
08. Laughter in the Dark - Vladimir Nabokov
09. Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat
10. Pilgrim At Tinker Creek - Annie Dillard
11. The Trial - Franz Kafka

-:-Best reads of 2008-:-
01. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
02. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
03. The Farming of Bones - Edwidge Danticat
04. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
05. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
06. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
07. Maus + Maus II - Art Spigelman
08. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
09. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
10. Great Expectations -Charles Dickens
11. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
12. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
13. Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
14. Girl With A Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
15. The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald

-:-Best reads of 2007-:-
01. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
02. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
03. The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski
04. Special Topics in Calamity Physics - Marisha Pessl
05. Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
06. Caucasia - Danzy Senna
07. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
08. Truck - Katherine Dunn
09. East Is East - T.C. Boyle
10. A Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle
11. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
12. Time & Again - Jack Finney
13. A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
15. Parnassus On Wheels - Christopher Morley

-:-Best reads of 2006-:-
01. The Tortilla Curtain - T.C. Boyle
02. Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer - Vik Muniz
03. Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
04. A Fistful of Fig Newtons - Jean Shepherd
05. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
06. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
07. Son of A Witch - Gregory Maguire
08. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
09. The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
10. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
11. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
12. The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
13. Birds of America - Lorrie Moore
14. Fall On Your Knees - Anne-Marie MacDonald
15. The Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
16. Wind, Sand & Stars - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

-:-Best reads of 2005-:-
01. Restless Mind, Quiet Thoughts - Paul & Charles Eppinger
02. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
03. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
04. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
05. Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund
06. Bartleby - Herman Melville
07. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
08. Not the End of the World - Kate Atkinson
09. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
10. On Writing - Stephen King

-:-Best reads of 2004-:-
01. The Stand - Stephen King
02. The Beach - Alex Garland
03. Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
04. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
05. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
06. We the Living - Ayn Rand
07. Making History - Stephen Fry
08. She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb
09. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
10. When the Elephants Dance - Tess Uriza Holthe
11. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
12. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Peter Hedges
13. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
14. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
15. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
16. Paycheck: Stories - Philip K. Dick
17. City of Light - Lauren Belfer
18. Stones From the River - Ursula Hegi

-:-Best reads of 2003-:-
01-03. Ishmael / Story of B/ My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
04. 1984 - George Orwell
05. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
06. I Know This Much Is True - Wally Lamb
07. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
08. Eating the Cheshire Cat - Helen Ellis
09. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
10. Ship of Fools - Katherine Anne Porter


-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-Author ABC Challenge-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-
The goal: To read every letter of the alphabet by author name and the books MUST be registered by other Bookcrossers to count! This will be a fun way to read and send on books sent to me by other Bookcrossers. Start: 6.27.08 Finish: 1.28.09 I have read twenty-three other books that didn't count for this challenge (because it wasn't registered by another bookcrosser or because it was and I just read the same letter of the alphabet more than once!)
A -:- The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
B -:- The Lost Continent - Bill Bryson
C -:- Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading - Maureen Corrigan
D -:- The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat
E -:- Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
F -:- The Book Shop - Penelope Fitzgerald
G -:- Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
H -:- The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
I -:- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
J -:- War Trash - Ha Jin
K -:- Animal,Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
L -:- The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
M -:- Cinema Macabre - Mark Morris
N -:- Bells of Nagasaki - Takashi Nagai
O -:- The Black Pearl - Scott O' Dell
P -:- The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
Q -:- The Book of the Damned - Daniel Quinn
R -:- Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
S -:- Journal of a Solitude - May Sarton
T -:- Digging to America - Anne Tyler
U -:- No BC books available with U
V -:- Wampeters, Foma, & Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut
W -:- Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
X -:- No BC books available with X
Y -:- The Devil's Arithmetic - Jane Yolen
Z -:- A People's History of the USofA - Howard Zinn


-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-1001 Books To Read Before You Die-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-
I have read 81 of the 1001 Books. Not to mention the ridiculous amount on Planet To-Be-Read I haven't read yet. Now, I'm not trying to read all 1001 of these. Some of them just plain don't interest me and there are way too many other amazing books not on this list. But it is fun to see how many I have read. A special THANK YOU to 'quinnsmom' for supplying a LOT of these books (unintentionally for the 1001 Books list).
Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum - Edgar Allan Poe
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
King Solomon's Mines - H Rider Haggard
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G. Wells
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Castle - Franz Kafka
Passing - Nella Larson
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
At the Mountains of Madness - H.P. Lovecraft
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Plague - Albert Camus
If This Is A Man - Primo Levi
1984 - George Orwell
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Surfacing - Margaret Atwood
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. LeGuin
Interview with A Vampire - Anne Rice
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
Fall On Your Knees - Ann Marie MacDonald
Memoirs of A Geisha - Arthur Golden
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Drop City - T.C. Boyle
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid

The most recent 1001 books I've read: Birdsong, If This Is A Man, The Castle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Cat's Cradle, Watchmen

thanks so much!