Recent Book Activity

Who is John Galt? --Ayn Rand

Birthday buddy--wibba (July 22)

Hosting bookrings or bookrays--
"Alternative/surprise" bookray 2/4/2010 Nuclear Winter Wonderland completed
"The first colo'ring" bookring 9/15/2010 still going
"McGowan's Call" bookray 10/5/2010 completed
"Atlas Shrugged" bookring 5/1/11 still going
"The Book Thief" bookray 9/10/11 completed, book to be wild released by last reader

Participating in these bookrings
*One surprise bookring (read)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society bookring (read)
The Double Bind bookring (read)
How to Be Lost bookring (read)
Journal started in 2005 (read, journaled, and sent)
The Help bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
Sarkie's Journal bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
A Room Swept White bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
Please God Let Me Win the Lottery bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
How to Train Your Dragon bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
Freak The Mighty bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
Broken for You bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
The Omnivore's Dilemma bookring (received, sent on)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo bookray (read, journaled, and sent)
Thirteen Reasons Why bookring (read, journaled, and sent)
The Ginger Tree (read, journaled, sent)
Word Nerd (read, journaled, sent)
The Boleyn Inheritance (read, journaled, sent)
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (read, journaled, sent)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (read, journaled, sent)
The Book of Lost Things (read, journaled, sent)
Lolita (read journaled, sent)
The Beaufort Diaries (received, journaled, sent)
Eat, Pray, Love (received, journaled, sent)
Jerusalem Spring (read journaled, sent)
31 Dream Street (read, journaled, sent)
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other Concerns) (read, journaled, sent)
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (read, journaled, sent)
A Stolen Life (read, journaled, sent)
Warm Bodies (received, reading)
A Time of Gifts (received)

Participating in these book boxes
Wrap It Up (from Marysgirl) book box (already chosen, and sent on)
Bizarre reads book box (already chosen, and sent on)
VBB mystery/thriller hosted by bookstogive still continuing
Possessive book box (already chosen, and sent on)
Wrap It Up (from books2give) book box (already chosen, and sent on)
Something For Everyone (from Marysgirl) book box (already chosen, and sent on)
Potpourri book box (from nattabee) (ending with me, to be decided)
Last Book Standing book box (from the remains of the Potpourri box )--hosting
VBB 1001-library hosted by flewry
Wrap It Up book box hosted by wintermixie? (received, choosing)

Books 2011

The Cat and Mrs. Cary--Doris Gates
Broken for You--Stephanie Kallos
The Last Operative--Jerry B. Jenkins
Enchanted by Magic --Gloria Harchar
The Highlander's Sword--Amanda Forester
Divine Justice--David Baldacci
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County--Tiffany Baker
The Nitrogen Murder--Camille Minichino
Nerd Gone Wild--Vickie Lewis Thompson
Homer's Odyssey--Gwen Cooper
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo--Stieg Larsson
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England--Brock Clarke
Sidney Sheldon's After the Darkness--Tilly Bagshawe
Th1rteen R3asons Why--Jay Asher
The Poet--Michael Connelly
She's Come Undone--Wally Lamb
Word Nerd--Susin Nielsen
The Bad Beginning-Book the First--Lemony Snickett
The Man Who Loved China--Simon Winchester
The Red Hat Society: Fun and Friendship After Fifty--Sue Ellen Cooper
The Front--Patricia Cornwell
Keeper of the Bride--Tess Gerritsen
Lewis--A. Barsell Carlyle
The Boleyn Inheritance--Philippa Gregory
10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year--various Australian authors
A Secret Gift--Ted Gup
Girls' Poker Night--Jill A. Davis
When We Were Orphans--Kazuo Ishiguro
The Other Boleyn Girl--Philippa Gregory
The Girl Who Played with Fire--Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest--Stieg Larsson
The Book of Tomorrow--Cecelia Ahern
So Shelly--Ty Roth
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud--Ben Sherwood
Timepiece--Richard Paul Evans
Asleep--Banana Yoshimoto
Garden Spells--Sarah Addison Allen
Family Affair--Debbie Macomber
Dexter in the Dark--Jeff Lindsay
The Cleveland Creep--Les Roberts
A Tall Man in a Lowland:Belgians--Harry Pearson
The Ginger Tree--Oswald Wynd
44: Dublin Made Me--Peter Sheridan
Ernest and Ethel--Raymond Briggs
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers--Xiaolu Guo
Don't Blink--James Patterson/Howard Roughan
Shadow of the Hegemon--Orson Scott Card
Pobby and Dingan--Ben Rice
A War of Gifts--Orson Scott Card
The Book of Lost Things--John Connolly
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--Rebecca Skloot
Shadow Puppets--Orson Scott Card
Swan for the Money--Donna Andrews
Stork Raving Mad--Donna Andrews
The Reading Group--Elizabeth Noble
The Book Thief--Markus Zusak
Ender in Exile--Orson Scott Card
The Horsemaster's Daughter--Susan Wiggs
The Real Macaw--Donna Andrews
The Friendly Persuasion--Jessamyn West
One Summer--David Baldacci
Midwives--Chris Bohjalian
Shadow of the Giant--Orson Scott Card
Summer at Willow Lake--Susan Wiggs
The Winter Lodge--Susan Wiggs
Vanished--Mary McGarry Morris
Lakeshore Cottage--Susan Wiggs
The Innocent Man--John Grisham
The Cider House Rules--John Irving
Forever Ours--Janis Amatuzio
The Christmas Sweater: A novel--Glenn Beck
Freedom--Jonathan Franzen
A Place of Execution--Val McDermid
déjà vu--Fern Michaels
100 Voices--Scott McConnell
Home Free--Fern Michaels
The Beaufort Diaries--T. Cooper
Testimony--Anita Shreve
Follow the Star--T.D. Jakes
What We Keep--Elizabeth Berg
The Senator and the Priest--Andrew Greeley
Perfect Family--Pam Lewis
Jerusalem Spring--Fares Aoun
Fortune's Rocks--Anita Shreve
Chat to Your Cat--Martina Braun
Queen of Babble--Meg Cabot
Something Special--Iris Murdoch