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I just reread my little bio paragraph and was not impressed. At the moment though I'm not feeling especially eloquent so you'll have to settle for the basics. I am currently a sophmore at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, and I LOVE it. Any high school seniors looking for colleges should definitely consider Macalester. I am originally from Minnnesota, however I spent the last 5 years of my life in Warsaw, Poland. My family moved back last June, and I am STILL unpacking. Aside from that I guess it will suffice to simply say that I think the idea of BookCrossing is magical. Fate, karma, whatever you want to call it, the idea of finding a book with a story within it as well as about it is just cool. I haven't had the chance to find one yet, living in Poland was not conducive to the finding of books in English, but I hope that having returned to the States I will have the opportunity to be a part of one of those lovely coincidences. As for me, well, I am a self-proclaimed sap and will cry at just about anything including the happy endings of which I am so fond. Oddly I enjoy things with sad endings as well. I gave my brother a terrible fright when I began sobbing towards the end of the 5th Harry Potter book. That said, I'm not an emotional basketcase personally, just when it comes to fictional characters. :-D

As to my books, most are marked To Be Read, and I do intend to read them all...eventually. However, if you would like the chance to read them first I am more than happy to lend books out as long as I am assured of their well-being and safe return. Please feel free to PM me if you would like to borrow something. :-D

By the way the picture is by Amy Brown (her stuff is amazing!) and she's got tons more like it on these sites: The Faery Shop and Amy Brown - Fantasy Art

My Wish List - thanks Cliff1976!

just finished: Interpreter of Maladies

currently reading: Don Quixote

next in line: Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen

Bookrings/rays I'm a part of:

Letters from Pemberley the First Year -Cairbre- *STALLED*
The Diary of Henry Fitzwilliam Darcy -Cairbre- *STALLED*
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister -weeblet- *STALLED*
The Fairy Godmother -Tyressia-
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Journal -WritinReader- *STALLED*
Wanderlust: A Novel of Sex and Sensibility -kayters- *STALLED*
A Suitable Boy -PrairieFirefly-<----------I'm next!
Changer -midwinter-
Blackberry Wine -redhouse- *STALLED*
The Eyre Affair -Scrawler
The Birth of Venus -Leighspeak-
Daughter of Fortune -Czersk-<----------I'm next!
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl -starbytes-
The Marigold Field -redhouse- *STALLED*
Nectar -redhouse- *STALLED*<----------I'm next!
Maia -lauraloo29-<----------I'm next!
A Greek God at the Ladies' Club -tattsky26-<----------I'm next!
The Crimson Petal and the White -kernow8-
The Soprano Sorceress -appaloosatb-
Psychoville -daemonwolf-
Abhorsen -IACBY-<----------Arrived
The Spellsong War -appaloosatb-
Mary, Queen of France -Czersk-
Atonement -Czersk-
Lost in a Good Book -Czersk-
The City of Ember -Czersk-

Bookrings that have been and gone: The Man Who Folded Himself -GoryDetails- Breakfast at Tiffany's -felicia-fairy- The Perilous Gard -Czersk- Favorite Things Journal -Scrawler- The Tiger By The River -tangledthreads- Chocolat -GlasgowGal- Enemy Women -Czersk- The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn -MarciNYC- La Cucina -redhouse- Happiness -anderal- The Edible Woman -allbookedup- Arranged Marriage -lauraloo29- Eva -Deerskin- Goodnight Mister Tom -Deerskin- Gathering Blue -katayoun- A Window In Time -CML- The Canterbury Tales -jenvince- Slightly Single -jenvince- Mr. Maybe -jenvince- A Hero of Our Time -lucybrown- Spring Torrents -lucybrown- Express Travel Journal -Charmelie- The Color Purple -karendawn- A Treasury of Royal Scandals -Czersk- In The Lake of the Woods -goatgrrl- The China Garden -Czersk- The Portrait of a Lady -karendawn- The Education of Little Tree -boreal- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress -illinicheme- Girl in Hyacinth Blue -jamesmum- Spinners -lauraloo29- The Truth Teller -goatgrrl- Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman -Penny-n-Chaos- Sunshine -viOlet- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -jamieh2003- Amelie Photo Album -amelieangy- Knowledge of Angels -Koalabare- Possession -goatgrrl- A Thousand Days in Venice -EMA375- Zel -lauraloo29- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius -karendawn- Die For Love -shaunesay- The Notebook -lauraloo29- Beauty -rhythmbiscuit- Sister of my Heart -Readinator- The Catswold Portal -GoryDetails- Pillow Talk -minx2012- Practical Magic -JeepACV- Dracula -bookgal23- Written on the Body -daemonwolf- Interpreter of Maladies -JesseBC- Boy Meets Girl -opheliadrowned- Hotel Transylvania -MaryZee- Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend -Cyberkedi- Ross Poldark -drommie1810-

RABCK's I've received (Thank you!): Where the Heart Is -stim- Lord Raven's Widow -casseytara- Miss Hamilton's Hero -puppymummy- The God of Small Things -duza-kaluza- How Stella Got Her Groove Back -lemondrop622- Armageddon Summer -karendawn- Enchantment -karendawn- Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears -karendawn- The Flight from the Enchanter -karendawn- Thursdays at Eight -ellymae58-

Bookrings I've started:
Low Country *SENT*
Great Expectations (abridged) *SENT*
Flowers for Algernon *SENT*
An Acquaintance With Darkness *SENT*
Bookends: A Novel *SENT*
Franny and Zooey *SENT*
Heaven Eyes *SENT*
A Day in the Life of a BookCrosser Journal *SENT*
A Painted House *SENT*
I Was a Teenage Fairy *SENT*
Joy School *SENT*
Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad *SENT*
White Horses *SENT*
The Copper Beech *finished*
Homecoming *SENT*
Of Love and Shadows *SENT*
Sutton Place *finished*
The Client
Lisa, Bright and Dark *finished*
The Chocolate War *finished*
Z for Zachariah *SENT*
Literature/Romance/General Feel Good Romancy Novels BookBox *SENT*

Note - if you want to join one of these that has been sent out PM me and I'll see what I can do :-D