Bookcrossing Goals for 2007:
Read 25,000 pages this year (see below for progress)
Continue to budget $150/year to support Bookcrossing by winging the wingless
Release 1000 books
Begin the 2nd Annual Chef's Challenge earlier this year
Learn how to make this profile more attractive

My Wish List



Books Read in 2007:

January 2007 ---
1. S is for Silence - Sue Grafton (350 pages)
2. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (319 pages)
3. Turning Angel - Greg Iles (645 pages)
4. Hunt Club - John Lescroart(512 pages)
5. The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult (385 pages)

Month total : 2211 pages Cumulative Total : 2211 pages

February 2007 ---
6. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See (253 pages)
7. Judge and Jury - James Patterson (416 pages)
8. Maximum Bob - Elmore Leonard (275 pages)
9. 2 Minute Rule - Robert Crais (431 pages)

Month Total : 1375 pages Cumulative Total: 3586 pages

March 2007 ---
10. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult (423 pages)
11. Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey (479 pages)
12. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls (288 pages)
13. Vanishing Acts - Jodi Picoult (418 pages)

Month Total: 1608 pages Cumulative Total: 5194 pages

April 2007 ---
14. Light a Penny Candle - Maeve Binchy (592 pages)
15. Ghost Country - Sara Paretsky (400 pages)
16. Gone - Johnathan Kellerman ( 456 pages)
17. Promise Me - Harlan Coben (487 pages)
18. Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler ( 274 pages)
19. The Color of Water - James McBride (300 pages)
20. Tart, With a Silken Finish - Peter Barthelme (199 pages)
21. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (371 pages)

Month Total: 3079 pages Cumulative Total: 8273 pages

May 2007 ---
22. Tara Road - Maeve Binchy (648 pages)
23. Teacher Man - Frank McCourt (258 pages)
24. Dead Watch - John Sandford (406 pages)
25. Suite Francaise - Nemirovsky (448 pages)
26. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk (260 pages)
27. Southern Ghost - Carolyn G. Hart (288 pages)

Month Total: 2308 pages Cumulative Total: 10,581 pages

June 2007 ---
28. Songs in Ordinary Time - Mary McGarry Morris (740 pages)
29. The Risk Pool - Richard Russo (479 Pages)
30. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (291 pages)
31. The Hanged Man's Song - John Sandford (340 pages)
32. The Cold Moon - Jeffrey Deaver (630 pages)
33. Baby Proof - Emily Giffen (340 pages)
34. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (529 Pages)
35. The Night Journal - Elizabeth Crook ( 451 pages)

Month Total: 3800 pages Cumulative Total: 14,381 pages

July 2007 ---
36. Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes (456 pages)
37. The Last Of Her Kind - Sigrid Nunez (391 pages)
38. Bee Season - Myla Goldberg (274 pages)
39. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini (367 pages)
40. LA Confidential - James Elroy (496 pages)
41. What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day - Pearl Cleage (244 pages)
42. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) - J.K. Rowling (870 pages)
43. Harry Potter and the half Blood Prince - J K Rowling (652 pages)
44. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling (759 pages)
45. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry (603 pages)
46. Cellophane - Marie Arana (464 pages)
47. Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris (368 pages)

Month Total: 5944 pages Cumulative Total: 20,325 pages

August 2007 ---
48. Michael Tolliver Lives - Armistad Maupin (274 pages)
49. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (331 pages)
50. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (287 pages)
51. Saving the World - Julia Alvarez (363 pages)
52. Simply to Die For - Joyce Christmas (202 pages)
53. A Pint of Murder - Alisa Craig (186 pages)
54. Riding Lessons - Sara Gruen (387 pages)
55. Firefly Summer - Maeve Binchy (645 pages)
56. Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg (359 pages)

Month Total: 3034 pages Cumulative Total: 23,359 pages

September 2007 ---
57. Empire Falls - Richard Russo (483 pages)
58. Puppet for a Corpse - Dorothy Simpson (214 pages)
59. The Saffron Kitchen - Yasmin Crowther (257 pages)
60. A Question of Inheritance - Josephine Bell (187 pages)
61. The Terrible Tide - Alisa Craig (182 pages)
62. Women of Silk - Gail Tsukiyama (278 pages)
63. The Language of Threads - Gail Tsukiyama (276 pages)
64. The Evil - Greg Iles (640 pages)

Month Total: 2517 pages Cumulative Total : 25,876 pages

October 2007 ---
65. A Place of Hiding - Elizabeth George (779 pages)
66. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (328 pages)
67. Cross - James Patterson (377 pages)
68. Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum (479 pages)
69. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (318 pages)
70. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson (30 pages)
71. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson (418 pages)
72. The Magician's Assistant - Ann Patchett (357 pages)

Month Total: 3366 pages Cumulative Total: 29,242 pages

November 2007 ---
73. Mohawk - Richard Russo (418 pages)
74. The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukuyama (211 pages)
75. The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (406 pages)
76. The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards (401 pages)
77. No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (309 pages)
78. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (348 pages)
79. Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs (315 pages)
80. With No One as Witness - Elizabaeth George (772 pages)

Month Total: 3180 pages Cumulative Total: 32,422 pages

December 2007 ---
81. Back to the Bedroom - Janet Evanovich (234 pages)
82. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson (390 pages)
83. Everything Must Go - Elizabeth Flock (374 pages)
84. The Innocent Man - John Grisham (385 pages)

Month Total: 1383 pages Cumulative Total: 33,805 pages










October, 2005:

I've recently rediscovered that people are more important than things, even including books. I was reminded of this yet again when my son was in a debilitating car accident on July 4, 2005. After a significant period of time during which he had no heartbeat or respiration, he was returned to us through the heroic efforts of paramedics. Although he spent 12 days in a coma, several weeks in ICU, and a total of three months in various hospitals and rehabilitation facilities, he is now home. Significantly diminished, profoundly disabled, but home. My tribute to him, to his self-professed role in life as a helper and giver, and to his strength and courage, is the registration and release of 1000 books.

In his honor, I have also started a Release Challenge. You can find details about this in the Forum; look for the Chef's Challenge.

Other Challenges:
Race to 3 Million (Registered 1650 books for this challenge)





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