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wingMelydiawing

From Herndon, Virginia USA
Age 46
Joined Tuesday, September 9, 2003
Recent Book Activity
Statistics:
4 weeks all time
books registered 0 4,143
released in the wild 0 4,037
controlled releases 0 349
releases caught 0 997
controlled releases caught 0 249
books found 4 2,441
tell-a-friend referrals 0 576
new member referrals 0 40
forum posts 0 2,929
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Are you in the Washington, DC, metro area? Please join BC in DC, the Groups.io group for BookCrossers in DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland. We meet monthly(ish) at various locations around the area.
My username is the name of the villain in Castle Perilous by John DeChancie. The book itself is pretty mediocre, but I got an online handle out of it which I've been using since around 1993. It's all one word: muh-LID-ee-uh. My name is not Lydia. :)
As of 4 April 2025...

Longest time between release and catch: 16 years, 3 months

Check out my wild catches.

Currently Reading:
* The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman (unabridged audiobook)
* How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

The ever-growing TBR pile.

Books Read in 2025:
1. Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
2. Journal by Joyce Atkinson and Kristine Atkinson
3. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
4. Breasts by Florence Williams
5. The Explainer by Slate Magazine
6. So You Wanna Run a Country? by Kevin Holohan

Audiobooks Listened to in 2025:
1. System Failure by Joe Zeija
2. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
3. Tricked by Kevin Hearne
4. What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
5. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
6. Trapped by Kevin Hearne
7. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
8. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
9. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
10. Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
11. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
12. The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

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