Recent Book Activity

About me: I'm an assistant attorney general in Missouri. I enjoy reading nonfiction, occasional science fiction, and general fiction/literature. I rarely read mysteries or thrillers, though occasionally pick one up. I almost never read romances. My available books are available for trades here -- please feel free to send me a PM. I mostly don't trade TBRs except through swaps or relays because I don't know when I'll get to something and I don't want to have a long list of books that I owe to others. I can most often be found haunting the forums over at Book Obsessed where I run the Everybook VBB and participate in various swaps, exchanges, relays, and Virtual Book Boxes (VBBs).

I've really cut down on participation in rings/rays because my reading time is rather limited right now, but I'm still interested in joining a couple of non-virtual bookboxes for the thrill of handling and flipping through a stack of books.

Bookrings/rays I've joined:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog --> fifth [receive from valpete, then return to JDT]
Asleep --> fifth [receive from Jubby (Australia), then send to tashe] STALLED???
The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic [CDs][ray] --> second [receive from microsquid, then send to rannie] STALLED???
What the Dead Know --> tenth [receive from blackteiwaz, then send to llama-mama205]STALLED???
Gossip of the Starlings --> next [receive from rachelsmdai, then send to waitmantwillie] STALLED???
Thinking in Pictures --> nineth [receive from rebeccaljames, then send to GateGypsy (Canada)] LOST IN THE MAIL???
Broken Verses --> second [receive from buffra, then send home to Erishkigal] LOST IN THE MAIL???
100 Strokes of the Brush [ray] --> on its way here! [receive from hshah, then send to ???] LOST IN THE MAIL???
The Price of Honor --> fifth [receive from susanmrz, then send home to mrsordonez] LOST IN THE MAIL???

Some nifty Goodreads gizmos -- my wishlist, what I'm reading now, and what I've read lately:


Recently Completed rings/rays:
Purple Hibiscus --> mailed to ealasaidmae 10/12/09 (received)
Remember Me? --> mailed to krl112 6/23/09 (received)
The Ballad of Typhoid Mary --> mailed to spoiled rotten 5/27/09 (received)
Disgrace --> mailed to Isabel-Batteria (PR) 3/9/09 (received)
Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor [ray] --> mailed to tranq1 (through VBB) 1/17/09 (received)
I Am the Messenger --> mailed to SarahKathryn 1/15/09 (received)
Half a Yellow Sun [ray] --> mailed to pammykn 12/30/08 (received)
The Book of Lost Things [CDs] --> mailed to ButtrcupHarmony 12/16/08 (received)
Breath [ray] --> mailed to fairy-whispers (Australia) 12/15/08 (received)
Icarus Girl --> mailed to Chantie (Canada) 12/9/08 (received)
Twilight [ray] [Take two] --> mailed to innae 11/21/08 (received)
New Moon [ray] --> mailed to pitluv4 11/18/08
Me Talk Pretty One Day --> mailed home to pixalu 11/21/07
Between, Georgia --> mailed to starbrightxx 9/17/07

Other Completed rings/rays:
The Bells of Nagasaki [ray] --> mailed to Laevina 10/19/08 Tea with Jane Austen --> returned to CharmedKim (in person) Practical Demonkeeping [ray] --> mailed to innae 10/6/08 Eat Me --> mailed to penelopewanders (Switzerland) 10/3/08 I Killed June Cleaver --> mailed to dnsvm 8/5/08 Heat --> mailed to bookpatch 7/19/08 The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted [CDs] [ray] --> mailed to gnissorckoob 7/19/08 Lifetime Burning [ray] --> mailed to aine-eireann (Canada) 7/8/08 Fool Moon (Dresden #2) --> mailed to NMReader 6/16/08 Tweak --> mailed to GateGypsy (Canada) 6/16/08 When We Were Orphans [ray] --> mailed to UnwrittenLibra 5/27/08 Beautiful Boy --> mailed to GateGypsy (Canada) 5/19/08 The Girl Who Stopped Swimming --> mailed to Breeze144 (Canada) 5/13/08 Don't Get Too Comfortable --> mailed to Scoobs-buddy 4/15/08 True Tales of American Life [ray] --> released into bookbox (selected by time-traveller) Storm Front (Dresden Book 1) --> mailed to laevina 3/12/08 Notes from a Small Island [ray] --> put into Firegirl's bio/memoir VBB (selected by gomboggit, mailed 7/10/08) The Sky's the Limit [ray] --> Released into MaryZee's Books About Things bookbox (received by MaryZee) Giving [CDs] (take 2) --> mailed to keno-mom 2/14/08 Heart-Shaped Box [ray] --> mailed to cheesygiraffe 2/7/08 Homegrown Democrat --> mailed to Llednyl 12/21/07 Assault on Reason [CDs] --> mailed to azuki 12/4/07 Birdwing [ray] --> mailed to colebear 11/28/07 On Chesil Beach --> mailed to classicfox 11/21/07 March --> mailed to Isabel-Batteria 11/5/07 Black Swan Green --> mailed to sunnybrook301 10/24/07 Audacity of Hope [CDs] --> mailed 10/20/07 Short History of Tractors in Ukranian --> mailed 10/9/07 A Thousand Splendid Suns --> mailed 10/9/07 The Dream of Scipio --> mailed 10/2/07 Belle du Jour --> mailed 9/17/07 Dreams of My Father [CDs] --> mailed 9/10/07 The Swallows of Kabul --> mailed 8/20/07 Water for Elephants --> mailed 8/10/07 Gods in Alabama --> mailed 7/28/07 Lullaby --> mailed 7/26/07 Anansi Boys --> back home 7/26/07 His Dark Materials (Book 2) --> mailed 7/13/07 You on a Diet --> mailed 6/11/07 His Dark Materials (Book 1) --> mailed 6/11/07 My Sister's Keeper --> mailed 6/4/07 So Many Books, So Little Time --> mailed 5/31/07 Private Papers (Diaries of Am. Women) --> mailed 5/1/07 Forever in Blue - The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood --> mailed 4/23/07 Crescent --> mailed 4/4/07 Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood --> mailed 3/28/07 Second Summer of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants --> mailed 3/12/07 The Glass Castle [ray] mailed 3/7/07 The Memory Keeper's Daughter --> mailed 3/5/07 How I paid for college --> mailed 2/26/07 Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Book 1) --> mailed 2/21/07