Hi!
I am middle-aged psychiatric nurse, married, and two grown-up kids already away from home, a grandmother to a girl born 5/21 ... and I love books!

I love cozy mysteries, travel stories and books about food (especially food-related memoirs and such) and modern writers like Anne Tyler, Paul Auster, Julia Glass etc, but I also love a good classic!
I read both in Finnish and English.

Most of the books in my wishlist are in English, but I would be as happy to get the same book in Finnish :) I update my wishlist very often.

I am trying to declutter my house, so it is pretty hard to think about wishes, but here's some:
* my biggest wish is wishlist-book, and also books about food (especially food-related memoirs and such, not so much cookbooks as such) I read both in Finnish and English.
* CHOCOLATE , especially unusual taste or chocolates with filling (rather than plain) like chocolate with pineapple or Irish cream truffle or Frys Turkish Delight! And I like more milkchocolate than dark, but anything is good!
* I love the combination of sweet and savory, like chocolate covered prezels or something like that.
* I also love to try new food, cookies, drinks, spices etc. I love stuff with wasabi, watermelon or ginger!
* Notebooks, nice good pens and pencils, decorative tapes etc
* woollen or cotton socks, size 40 / 6 uk/8,5 us
* bookplates in English or Finnish
* candles, scented or not, doesn't matter!
* some tiny things for the dollhouse I'm decorating - never had one as a child, so I'm re-living my childhood now :D
* a magazine in English (can be used) about cooking, decorating, generally women/home-kind of themes. Not gossip-, music-,movies- or fashion (they are not my cup of tea).
* Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 Cards for Discovering the Unexpected, Wherever Your Journey Leads (can be used!)


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" Book A Day Keeps Housework Away! "
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BOOKS I'VE READ 2021

JANUARY:
1. Alone Time / Stephanie Rosenbloom
2. Normal People / Sally Rooney
3. Matkaystävä / Suvi Ratinen
4. Hanging by a Thread / Monica Ferris
5. Barack and Michelle: The Love Story / Christopher Andersen
6. Basilikan tuoksu - ruokamuistoja Italiasta / Raffaela Delmonte
7. One Fat Englishman/ Kingsley Amis
8. Tuntematon uhka / Anne Holt
9. Vuorilla ei ole herroja / Anna-Lena Lauren
10. Pastries / Bharti Kirchner
11. Elämänrakentajat / Anne B. Ragde
12. Bolla / Pajtim Statovci

FEBRUARY:
13. The Mystery of Mercy Close / Marian Keyes
14. Tess Gerritsen / Vaarallinen suojelija
15. Punainen puutarha / Alice Hoffman
16. Naparetki. Minun rakkaustarinani / Bea Uusma
17. Jääkaksoset / S.K. Tremayne
18. Kuolema sypressin varjossa / Vera Vala
19. The Kitchen Witch / Annette Blair
20. Water Music / Melanie Kershaw
21. Ihon alla / Marianne Peltomaa
22. Tomussa ja tuhkassa / Anne Holt
23. The Stars Are Falling / Michelle Birbeck
24. In the Shadow of Blackbirds / Cat Winters
25. Playthings / Michelle Birbeck
26. Oonko ihan normaali? / Holly Bourne

MARCH:
27. Kaikki taivaan linnut / Harper Lee
28. Kenkäparin arvoitus / Ellery Queen
29. Wild Fire / Ann Cleeves
30. NW / Zadie Smith
31. Roolit vaihtoon / Jane Green
32. Huone numero 3 / Colin Dexter
33. Kettu / D. H. Lawrence
34. Nainen joka sukelsi maailman sydämeen / Sabina Berman
35. Vieras / Riikka Pulkkinen
36. Käärmeen kirous / Elly Griffiths
37. Mrs. Miniver / Jan Struther
38. The Year of Living Danishly / Helen Russell
39. Whip Hand / Dick Frances
40. Vuoden lyhyimpänä ja pisimpänä päivänä / Saku Heinänen
41. Äläkä sure, Sakari / Eila Jaatinen
42. Suudelma hämärässä / Susan Marsh
43. Pieni sydän jaksaa rakastaa / Claire Castillon

APRIL:
44. Mies joka ei ollut murhaaja / Hjorth & Rosenfeldt
45. Tulitanssi / Helene Tursten
46. A Thousand Acres / Jane Smiley
47. Suuri lammasseikkailu / Haruki Murakami
48. The Bookshop on the Shore / Jenny Colgan
49. Pieni kirjapuoti Pariisissa / Nina George
50. Kustantajan kuolema / Eija Jansson
51. Come to Grief / Dick Francis
52. Nöpö: kuvaus pienen tytön psykoanalyyttisesta hoidosta / D. W. Winnicott
53. Valintojen vuosi / Cecilia Ahern
54. One Night Stands / Rosa Liksom
55. Likaiset legendat / Maria Vaara
56. Erakot / Milla Peltonen
57. Unsheltered / Barbara Kingsolver
58. Dear Me - More letters To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self / Joseph Galliano
59. Hulluna kirjoihin / Annie Austen
60. Nimi jolla kutsutaan öisin / Emma Kantanen
61. Many Rivers To Cross / Peter Robinson

MAY:
62. Not Dark Yet / Peter Robinson
63. Käärme paratiisissa / Ernest Hemingway
64. Karita Mattila - korkealta ja kovaa / Raila Kinnunen
65. Apteekkari Melchior ja Pilatuksen evankeliumi / Indrik Hargla
66. Iloinen innokokki / Eero Valanko
67. Pihka / Ane Riel
68. Bonecrack / Dick Francis
69. Nokikätkön ritarit ja kuuhiisi / Riikka Jäntti
70. Suuri rakkaus / Sarah Dunn
71. The Long Call / Ann Cleeves
72. Sattuman soittoa / Paul Auster
73. A Killer Plot / Ellery Adams

JUNE:
74. Enkeliyöt / Riitta Jalonen
75. Kosto ikuisessa kaupungissa / Vera Vala
76. Seikkailuja yksinäisille sydämille: Määränpää Intia / Katy Colins
77. Valo valtameren yllä / M. L. Stedman
78. Detour /James Segal
79. Kuinka lähestyä leskimiestä / Jonathan Tropper
80. Shattered / Dick Francis
81. Lasikellon alla / Sylvia Plath
82. Dying In The Wool / Frances Brody
83. No Cure For Love / Peter Robinson
84.