I have a spiritual connection with books. They just find me sometimes.
When I was 16 I found a book in the backseat of the driver's ed car. I didn't know if it was left there intentionally or not, but I knew I should take it and read it. It was Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. What a book to start with. Every once in a while I will happen upon a book either in a similar circumstance, or maybe just in a used bookstore. They might end up sitting on the shelf for a few years, but then something always happens to draw them out. These books that make their way into my life end up being the ones that transform me. This is why I so love the idea of bookcrossing.

About Me: I'm a stay-at-home mom, an animal-loving vegetarian, a neo-hippie-wannabee, and still figuring out the rest. I live with my husband (MrX) and son (Cub), and we share our lives with 3 rabbits and miss our 4th, Bartie. We've recently opened our home to a mama dog (who lost her home in the hurricane last year) and her tiny puppy - what an adventure this will be! I'm constantly picking up new hobbies - being at home is great and allows me to do this. I am happiest when I am busy but have to be careful about becoming too busy, and of course bookcrossing is not helping with that!

The books on my bookshelf don't all reflect my taste. To get a general idea of what books I like you can take a look at my PC & TBR shelves. I'm slowly working on getting all my books registered. It's hard to say what my taste really is, but right now my two favorite are "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (along with his other books) and "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger. It's even harder to explain exactly why these are my favorites.

16 of my wild releases have been caught as of 7/24/06.
2 double-jumpers

My Wish List

The Books:

Ishmael ~ Daniel Quinn
My Ishmael ~ Daniel Quinn
The Story of B ~ Daniel Quinn
Beyond Civilization ~ Daniel Quinn
Providence ~ Daniel Quinn
The Time Traveler's Wife ~ Audrey Niffenegger
The Center of Everything ~ Laura Moriarty
Separation Anxiety ~ Karen Brichoux
Beautiful Girls (short stories) ~ Beth Ann Bauman
Until the Real Thing Comes Along ~ Elizabeth Berg
Ordinary Life (short stories) ~ Elizabeth Berg
The Secret Life of Bees ~ Sue Monk Kidd
In the Shadow of Man ~ Jane Goodall
Through a Window ~ Jane Goodall
The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy ~ Nick Bantock
The Continuum Concept ~ Jean Liedloff
Our Babies, Ourselves ~ Meredith F. Small
The Natural Child ~ Jan Hunt
Blessings ~ Anna Qunidlen
The Rule of Four ~ Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
The DaVinci Code ~ Dan Brown
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents ~ Julia Alvarez
Into Thin Air ~ Jon Krakauer
The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time ~ Mark Haddon
Mother & Child: Visions of Parenting From Indigenous Cultures ~ Jan Reynolds
Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ~ Ann Brashares
Jewel ~ Bret Lott
Cat's Cradle ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim ~ David Sedaris
The Mermaid Chair ~ Sue Monk Kidd
Breakfast of Champions ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A Tongue In the Sink ~ Dennis Fried, Ph. D.
Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers ~ Cynthia Voigt
The Sirens of Titan ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sister of My Heart ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Calm Surrender ~ Kent Nerburn
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood ~ Ann Brashares
A Long Way From Chicago ~ Richard Peck
Girls In Pants ~ Ann Brashares
Naked ~ David Sedaris
Trust me (short stories) ~ John Updike
Me Talk Pretty One Day ~ David Sedaris
Galapagos ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Barrel Fever: Short Stories & Essays ~ David Sedaris
Holidays On Ice ~ David Sedaris
Wifey ~ Judy Blume
Time Machines: The Best Time Travel Stories Ever Written ~ Bill Adler Jr.
A Man Without a Country ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Ya-Yas In Bloom ~ Rebecca Wells
Second Nature ~ Alice Hoffman
The Poisonwood Bible ~ Barbara Kingsolver
The Flanders Panel ~ Arturo Perez-Reverte
Waiting For Birdie ~ Catherine Newman
The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ~ Dave Eggers
My Invented Country ~ Isabel Allende
The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini
Is Your Child Psychic: A Guide for Creative Parents and Teachers ~ Alex Tanous and Katherine Fair Donnelly
The Mammy ~ Brendan O'Carroll
The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
At First Sight ~ Nicholas Sparks
Possession ~ A.S. Byatt
The Price of Motherhood ~ Ann Crittenden
Flowers For Algernon ~ Daniel Keyes
Freakonomics ~ Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Blink ~ Malcolm Gladwell
Little Earthquakes ~ Jennifer Weiner


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