Currently reading: (12/31/05)
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

Just finished:
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho

Bookrings I'm running:
To Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis

Bookrays I'm a member of:
Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
Shopaholic Ties the Knot - Sophie Kinsella
Catch Me If You Can - Stan Redding and Frank W. Abagnale

Three Junes - Julia Glass

Bookrings I'm a member of:
The Girl With the Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (finished and sent on)
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married - Marian Keyes (finished and sent on)

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I'm a 31 year old mother of one, and have been an avid reader since age 4, when I read my first novel, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. I'm willing to read just about anything, just put it in front of my face. :)

My favourite authors currently are: Anne Rice, Stephen King, Robert Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Michael Jenks, Sharon Kay Penman, Orson Scott Card, David Eddings... and that's just currently. :)

I also have a voracious appetite for history. I center a lot of my research on Romani Studies pre-1600, but I'm pretty much into anything that is not contemporary. Even some of the contemporary stuff catches my eye occasionally.

You can keep up with what's going on in my life by visiting gipsy's musings, my weblog, or gilded digital designs, my freelance webdesign site.

Pretty much everything that's in my bookshelf is up for grabs, so please PM or email me if you are interested in something that I have available! I'm also adding new books as I find something in my (overloaded) personal bookshelf, so if you don't see something right off, contact me and I'll see if I have it!

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Books Read in 2005:

I'm only counting non-work (and non-school) books... I'm not putting Design, PHP, Flash or Authorware books here. These are the ones I read for enjoyment. :)

On Writing - Stephen King
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
Working Wonders - Jenny Colgan
The Crusader - Michael Alexander Eisner
The Ugly Stepsister - Gregory McGuire
Mirror, Mirror - Gregory McGuire
I'm Not the New Me - Wendy McClure
Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Gods in Alabama - Joshilyn Jackson
I Am Charlotte Simmons - Tom Wolfe
The Serpent on the Crown - Elizabeth Peters
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Good Grief - Lolly Winston
Parasites Like Us - Adam Johnson
Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes
Bawdy Basket - Edward Marston
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott
This Boy's Life - Tobias Wolff
The Traveller - John Twelve Hawks
1776 - David McCullough
Victory at Yorktown - Richard M. Ketchum
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Mermaid Chair - Sue Monk Kidd
Ralph's Party - Lisa Jewell
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married - Marian Keyes
The Dante Club - Matthew Pearl
The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett
The Third Secret - Steve Berry
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
In Her Shoes - Jennifer Wiener
Hunting Fear - Kay Hooper
Dance Upon the Air - Nora Roberts
Heaven and Earth - Nora Roberts
Face the Fire - Nora Roberts
Unquiet Mind - Kay Redfield Jamison
Touched with Fire - Kay Redfield Jamison
Bookends - Jane Green
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
The Four Families of Rosewell - Caroline Baytop Sinclair
Stories of Old Gloucester - Caroline Baytop Sinclair
Hairstyles of the Damned - Joe Meno
The Truth Will Set You Free - Alice Miller
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson
Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho