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 completed, book to released by last reader
"The Book Thief" bookray 9/10/11 completed, book to be wild released by last reader
"The Most Beautiful Thing" bookring 9/18/12, completed
"The Casual Vacancy" bookring 12/1/12
"Wreck this Journal" bookring 1/2/13

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 (read, 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 (read, journaled, sent)
A Time of Gifts (read, journaled, sent)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (read, journaled, sent)
Bared to You (read, journaled, sent)
The Day the World Came to Town 9/11 (read, journaled, sent)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (read, jornaled, sent)
Undressing the Devil (read, journaled, sent)
Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (read, journaled, sent)
Psychic Cats (read, journaled, sent)
Brian, His Granddad, & The Cup of Ages (read, journaled, sent)
several various colo'rings (colored, journaled, sent)


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 winternixie (already chosen and sent on)
Medicine Chest book box hosted by (already chosen and sent on)
VBB Erotic/steamy hosted by Bkind2books (still continuing)
Books 2012

31 Dream Street--Lisa Jewell
Pleasure Exchange-- Cathryn Fox
Betrayal--Fern Michaels
Unexpected Complication--Amy Knupp
Untamed--Nora Roberts
Wicked: Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West--Gregory Maguire
Kentucky Rich--Fern Michaels
Mission Road--Rick Riordan
First to Die--James Patterson
The Lost Hero--Rick Riordan
Secrets of a Summer Night--Lisa Kleypas
A Change in Altitude--Anita Shreve
Trick or Treat Murder--Leslie Meier
The Red Pyramid--Rick Riordan
Hell's Corner--David Baldacci
The Best of Me--Nicholas Sparks
On the Steamy Side--Louisa Edwards
House of Sand and Fog--Andre Dubus III
Reluctant Witness--Kathleen Long
Shadows in Flight--Orson Scott Card
Is Everyone Hanging Out without Me?--Mindy Kaling
The Midnight Club--James Patterson
Kentucky Heat--Fern Michaels
Lolita--Vladimir Nabokov
Skipping Christmas--John Grisham
Rebel Island--Rick Riordan
The Bell--Iris Murdoch
The Son of Neptune --Rick Riordan
The Case of the Elevator Duck--Polly Berrien Berends
It Happened One Autumn--Lisa Kleypas
The Dressmaker--Kate Alcott
The Throne of Fire--Rick Riordan
The Peach Keeper--Sarah Addison Allen
Keeping Faith--Jodi Picoult
Twilight--Stephenie Meyer
The Russian Affair--Michael Wallner
Eat, Pray, Love--Elizabeth Gilbert
Black and Blue--Anna Quindlen
Gettysburg--Newt Gingrich/William R.Fortschen
Dating Can Be Deadly--Wendy Roberts
A Darker Domain--Val McDermid
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly--Jean-Dominque Bauby
The Expats--Chris Pavone
The Devil in Winter--Lisa Kleypas
At the King's Command--Susan Wiggs
Calico Joe--John Grisham
Brain Rules--John Medina
Clara and Mr. Tiffany --Susan Vreeland
The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins
Scandal in Spring--Lisa Kleypas
A Stolen Life--Jaycee Dugard
Trick of the Dark--Val McDermid
On A Pale Horse--Piers Anthony
Life As We Knew It--Susan Beth Pfeffer
Barefoot Season--Susan Mallery
Halfway to Heaven--Susan Wiggs
Warm Bodies--Isaac Marion
Room--Emma Donoghue
New Moon--Stephenie Meyer
Fifty Shades of Grey --E.L. James
Fifty Shades Darker--E.L. James
Guardian--John Saul
Catching Fire--Suzanne Collins
Fifty Shades Freed-- E.L. James
Eclipse--Stephenie Meyer
Sarah's Key--Tatiana de Rosnay
The Maiden's Hand--Susan Wiggs
Along Came a Spider--James Patterson
Some Like It Hawk--Donna Andrews
Chasing Perfect--Susan Mallery
Submit to Desire--Tiffany Reisz
Cordina's Crown Jewel--Nora Roberts
Mockingjay--Suzanne Collins
Harry Potter and Philosophy (Hogwarts for Muggles)--William Irwin
The Grapes of Wrath--John Steinbeck
Breaking Dawn--Stephenie Meyer
Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood--Kathryn Leigh Scott
That Old Cape Magic--Richard Russo
HHhH--Laurent Binet
The Confessions of Nat Turner--William Styron
Exclusive (Godmothers #2)--Fern Michaels
The Siren--Tiffany Reisz
Second Chance--James Patterson
The Last Romanov--Dora Levy Mossanen
Mean Season--Heather Cochran
The Family Corleone --Ed Falco
At the Queen's Summons--Susan Wiggs
A Time of Gifts--Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Paris Wife--Paula McLain
Seven Years to Sin--Sylvia Day
Passing On--Tom LeClair
The Corruption of Zachary R.--Douglas Richardson
Loving Frank--Nancy Horan
Ordinary Life--Elizabeth Berg
A Secret in Her Kiss--Anna Randol
True Believers--Kurt Andersen
Unbroken--Lauren Hillenbrand
Report for Murder--Val McDermid
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress--Dai Sijie
Willard and His Bowling Trophies--Richard Brautigan
Careful What You Kiss For--Jane Lynne Daniels
Alluring Tales: Awaken the Fantasy--various authors including Fox,Day, Devlin, etc.
Slammerkin--Emma Donoghue
A Blackbird Sings:Small Poems Anthology--Fiona Robyn/Kaspa
Mimosa Grove--Dinah McCall
Ellen Takes Troy--May Williams
Fifty Shames of Earl Grey: a parody--Andrew Shaffer
The Children's Blizzard--David Laskin
The Casual Vacancy--J.K. Rowling
Baroque and Desperate--Tamar Myers
Heavenly Hugs:Comfort, Support, and Hope from Beyond--Carla Wills-Brandon
Family--Karen Kingsbury
Home for Christmas--Andrew M. Greeley
Opal on Dry Ground--Sandra Scofield
Bared to You--Sylvia Day
The Serpent's Shadow--Rick Riordan
Hiding in the Shadows--Kay Hooper
Making It Up As I Go Along--Maria T. Lennon
Use All the Crayons: A Simple Guide to Happiness--Chris Rodell
Harvesting the Heart--Jodi Picoult
The Mark of Athena--Rick Riordan
The Sixth Man--David Baldacci (an audio book)

also read/edited the following books:
Shrader Marks: Keelhouse--Rob Smith
The Immigrant's House--Rob Smith
Behind the Curtain: A Career in EEO--Charles E. Duffy
McGowan's Pass--Rob Smith


Love chocolate especially M&M peanuts, postcards, and bookmarks. Preferred genres to read: Mysteries, Suspense/Thrillers, Romances, but still a very eclectic reader.