Hi!
I am middle-aged psychiatric nurse, married, and two grown-up kids already away from home, a grandmother to two girls, born 5/21 and 3/23, 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.
If you look at my BC-bookshelves, they don't tell you the whole truth, I have plenty of books that are not registered in BC. Like books from my favourite authors, that I like to keep.

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 other wishes, but here's some:
* my biggest wish is wishlist-book, and also books about food (especially food-related memoirs, 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 Fry's Turkish Delight! And I like more milk chocolate 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! And hot chocolate!
* Notebooks, nice good pens and pencils, decorative tapes, bujo stickers. I have a bit sarcastic, dark sense of humor, so stickers suitable for it are great!
* woollen or cotton socks, size 40 / 6 uk/8,5 us (especially thin wool socks for nightsocks! )
* bookplates in English or Finnish
* candles, scented or not, doesn't matter!
* I don't usually wear make-up, but I love nail-polishes!
* wings for a month, if I've been without for a while
* 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).
* I love to do 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles too!
* got my ears re-pierced, so I really like hanging ear-rings too, any shape and colour!
* Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 Cards for Discovering the Unexpected, Wherever Your Journey Leads (can be used!)

* Recycled and second-hand items are defenitively big YES!


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" Book A Day Keeps Housework Away! "
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BOOKS I'VE READ 2023

JANUARY:
1. Here I Am / Jonathan Safran Foer
2. Death of a Sunday Writer / Eric Wright
3. Paperijoutsen / Anna-Kaisa Linna-Aho
4. Unien järvi / Kim Edwards
5. Knit One, Kill Two / Maggie Sefton
6. Frugal Living - When Less Means More / Fhilcar Faunillan
7. Where Old Bones Lie / Ann Granger
8. Lumen uhrit / Viveca Sten
9. Pillerinpyörittäjä / Katariina Souri
10. Seitsemän talvista päivää / Maeve Binchy
11. Bookcrossing Through Middle Earth / Skyring

FEBRUARY:
12. Ruska / Christian Rönnbacka
13. The Importance of Being Ernestine / Dorothy Cannell
14. Transient Desires / Donna Leon
15. Hope Nicely's Lessons for Life / Caroline Day
16. Pahanneuvon vuori / Amos Oz
17. The Winter Guest / Pam Jenoff
18. Joustava mieli /Arto Pietikäinen

MARCH:
19. Putoamistemppu / Craig Ferguson
20. Did You See Melody? / Sophie Hannah
21. Cutwork / Monica Ferris
22. Crewel Yule / Monica Ferris
23. Sinisten ympyröiden mies / Fred Vargas
24. Somewhere, Home / Nada A. Jarrar

APRIL:
25. Yökirja / Inka Nousiainen ja Satu Kettunen
26. Sins and Needles / Monica Ferris
27. Tulenpunainen kabaree / Milja Kaunisto
28. Tšaikovski / David Mountfield
29. Nousi järvestä hauki. Mutta he söivät sen. Makujen mukana Tuusulanjärven taiteilijakoteihin / Jouko Tuomas-Kettunen
30. My Animals and Other Family / Clare Balding
31. Kahvilan pöydässä / Satu Jaatinen
32. Antti Tapani / Antti Tuisku
33. A Dark and Stormy Murder / Julia Buckley
34. Kohti / Juha Itkonen
35. Kirja lastenkamarista, Hallituksesta ja meistä / Kyllikki Mäntylä
36. The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend / Katarina Bivald
37. Valomerkki / Anna-Leena Härkönen

MAY:
38. A Fine Place for Death / Ann Granger
39. Jere Kostamus ja Big joki / Esa Holopainen
40. The Most Fun We Ever Had / Claire Lombardo
41. Tulen aika / Christian Rönnbacka
42. Ruokamysteerit / Leena Putkonen, Mari Koistinen
43. The History of Bees / Maja Lunde X
44. 66° pohjoista leveyttä / Michael Ridpath
45. Testamentit / Margaret Atwood X

JUNE:
46. Juokse tai kuole / Maria Adolfsson
47. Syöksyvirtaus / Maria Adolfsson
48. Avain / Lucy Foley
49. Virginie! / Anna Kortelainen
50. Missy Carmichaelin rakkaustarina / Beth Morrey
51. The Probable Future / Alice Hoffman X
52. Katseelta kätketty / Anna Jansson
53. Meredith, alone / Claire Alexander X
54. Siniviittainen nainen / Elly Griffiths
55. A Death in Devon / Shéa MacLeod
56. The Salt Path / Raynor Winn
57. Kostajan merkki / Christian Rönnbacka
58. The Cosy Teashop in the Castle / Caroline Roberts

JULY:
59. On hieno paikka haudan povi / Alan Bradley
60. Passi pyhiinvaeltajalle (in Finnish)/ James Leasor
61. The Traveling Tea Shop / Belinda Jones
62. Leinikkimekko / Eppu Nuotio
63. Paikka hyvässä perheessä / Helena Steen
64. Koska vasta syödään / Kaarina Helakisa & Reijo Käkelä
65. Pojista miehiä / Tony Parsons
66. Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka / Tuula-Liina Varis
67. Except the Dying / Maureen Jennings
68. Abu Ghraib – Varissuo / Marko Juntunen ja Riadh Muthana
69. Perimä / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
70. A Line in the Sand : The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence : Gonzales, Texas, 1836 / Sherry Garland
71. The Family Frying Pan / Bryce Courtenay
72. Jakarandapuun lapset / Sahar Delijani
73. Karhukirjeitä kaamoksesta / Jukka Parkkinen
74. Niiden kirjojen mukaan teidät on tuomittava / Kai Ekholm
75. Tuomitut / Vera Vala
76. A Family Recipe / Veronica Henry

AUGUST:
77. Huonesiivooja / Nita Prose
78. Murder on Marble Row / Victoria Thompson
79. Majakanvaloa ja tuoreen leivän tuoksua / Jenny Colgan
80. The Chalk Pit / Elly Griffiths
81. The Collaborator / Mirza Waheed
82. Murder on Lenox Hill / Victoria Thompson
83. Kello 4.17 / Hannu Aho
84. Murder in Little Italy / Victoria Thompson
85. Ask Again, Yes / Mary Beth Keane
86. Näkymätön sukupuoli. Ei-binäärisiä ihmisiä / Jenni Holma, Veera Järvenpää, Kaisu Tervonen, Pii Anttonen, Kimmo Lust, Apila Pepita Miettinen
87. Sydämeni reseptit / Jacky Durand
88. The Testament of Mary / Colm Tóibín
89. Buffalo West Wing / Julie Hyzy

SEPTEMBER:
90. Viimeinen mies / Aravind Adiga
91. Kadonneet jäljet / Tim Weaver
92. Auringonsäteitä ja vuoroveden vaiheita / Jenny Colgan
93. Keskustelua kuolleiden kanssa / Helen Dunmore
94. Syntipukki / Sofie Sarenbrant
95. Milanon nukkemestari / Vera Vala
96. Suden hetki / Vera Vala
97. Assault and Pepper / Leslie Budewitz
98. Guilty as Cinnamon / Leslie Budewitz
99. Yön kantaja / Katja Kallio X

OCTOBER:
100. Bougainville / F. Springer
101. Maggie ja minä / Eppu Nuotio
102. The Next Best Thing / Jennifer Weiner
103. Noidan rippi / Susan Fletcher X
104. Not the Killing Type / Lorna Barrett
105. Kasvun paikka / Katariina Vuori
106. Edwin of the Iron Shoes / Marcia Muller
107. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept / Elizabeth Smart
108. Aprikoosiyöt / Vera Vala
109. Karkulahti / Tiina Laitila Kälvemark
110. Hyvän mielen vaatekaappi / Rinna Saramäki

NOVEMBER:
111. Alkuvoimat / Jonathan Franzen
112. The Food Detective / Judith Cutler
113. 24 pientä ihmettä / Jenny Fagerlund
114. Pimeitten vetten paholainen / Stuart Turton
115. Sä kasvoit neito kaunoinen / Anders Roslund
116. Levon hetki nyt lyö / Anders Roslund
117. The Christmas Invitation / Trisha Ashley
118.