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2012 Challenges Participating in:

2012 Rings, Rays, Boxes participating in:

Books read in 2012:
1. The Full Cupboard of Life (unregistered; borrowed from my boss)
2. The Chocolate Cat Caper
3. Naked - David Sedaris
4. Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs
5. Murder is Binding
6. Biography of a Germ
7. Hotel World
8. De Sang Et d'Ébene
9. Little Indiscretions
10. Lighthousekeeping
11. Making the Rounds With Oscar (started in 2011; set aside because I didn't want it to end; finished in Jan. 2012)
12. Brokeback Mountain
13. Heart and Soul
14. She Taught Me to Eat Artichokes (short, illustrated book)
15. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
16. The Three Evangelists
17. The Case of the Roasted Onion (Dr. McKenzie, #1)
18. The Cat Lady of Concord
19. Purr-fect Crime
20. Historical Cats (Cartoons)
21. The Bachelor's Cat
22. Chi's Sweet Home Vol. 1 (manga)
23. Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?
24. Cats in the Belfry
25. The Heroine's Bookshelf
26. Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott
27. This Love is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez
28. Gritty Grace
29. Whose Body?
30. Chi's Sweet Home, Volume 2 (manga)
31. Rats
32. Mrs. Chippy's Last Expedition




I have varied reading interests, especially love cozy mysteries. The books on my shelf don’t accurately reflect my tastes, as most are acquired at library sales…I go at the end when you can “fill a bag for [$3, $5, $8…]”. And believe me, you can cram a lot of books into one paper shopping bag if you set your mind to it. Nor do I usually stop at one bag…(bit of a hoarding problem, perhaps? [smile]). So I always have lots of books to release as well as to swap on PaperbackSwap and BookMooch. I love wild releasing, and have had most luck so far with books left at ATMs and Trader Joe's.

My other interests include languages (read several, but speak none fluently – except English, of course and that may be open for debate [smile], cross-stitch (little spurts of activity now and then), tutoring ESL, travel, thrift store shopping, aka retail therapy…

I belong to a Russian Reading group that meets weekly. Reading in that language takes up a large percentage of my free time. It's enjoyable, but I think about how many pages in English I could read in the time it takes to read just one in Russian (30-60 minutes!!). That's why so many of my books are released unread :-(

On June 27, 2011 my beloved kitty Muffet passed away after a short illness. She was 18. After nearly 6 months without one, in December I adopted another all black kitty whom I call "Puff" (short for Little Black Puff, as shelter staff named her). She's 4 years old, and, although I never raised children, I think I now know what it's like to have a toddler in the house - she's into EVERYTHING - no more candles or cups of tea carelessly placed on end tables! She provides so much amusement that it more than compensates for these little inconveniences :-).

My dream is to live in Europe for a year, ideally in a border town in order to practice two languages at once…and possibly gain fluency in at least one of them!

It's great to be here!

Countries I've visited:

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