Recent Book Activity

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Ideas for my holiday exchange partners:
I love bookmarks, Christmas decorations, cats, all sweets (*Except licorice/Lakritz/liquorice/réglisse), anything to do with Christmas in Scandinavia, Germany, or France; stickers; used stamps of Christmas, animals, or art. I like anything about little Greyfriars Bobby or Scottish or Skye terriers. I love miniature books, soy candles, anything sparkly, hand creams (or any travel size items). I also collect pretty paper napkins, a single one is fine. Really, any surprise will be appreciated. I hope this helps!

I have varied reading interests, especially love cozy mysteries. The books on my shelf don’t accurately reflect my tastes, as most are acquired at library sales…I go at the end when you can “fill a bag for [$3, $5, $8…]”. And believe me, you can cram a lot of books into one paper shopping bag if you set your mind to it. Nor do I usually stop at one bag…(bit of a hoarding problem, perhaps? [smile]). So I always have lots of books to release as well as to swap on PaperbackSwap and BookMooch. I love wild releasing, and have had most luck so far with books left at ATMs and Trader Joe's.

My other interests include languages (read several, but speak none fluently – except English, of course and that may be open for debate [smile], cross-stitch (little spurts of activity now and then), tutoring ESL, travel, thrift store shopping, aka retail therapy…

The Russian Reading group that I belonged to for over 15 years disbanded in 2011 due to illness of a member. Tom lost his struggle with cancer on October 10, 2012. RIP Tom - we'll miss your hospitality and quick wit.

On June 27, 2011 my beloved kitty Muffet passed away after a short illness. She was 18. After nearly 6 months without one, in December I adopted another all black kitty whom I call "Puff" (short for Little Black Puff, as shelter staff named her). She's 4 years old, and, although I never raised children, I think I now know what it's like to have a toddler in the house - she's into EVERYTHING - no more candles or cups of tea carelessly placed on end tables! She provides so much amusement that it more than compensates for these little inconveniences :-).

My dream is to live in Europe for a year, ideally in a border town in order to practice two languages at once…and possibly gain fluency in at least one of them!


Books read in 2016:
1. Borrower of the Night
2. I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
3. The Food Detective
4. Someone is Hiding Something: What Happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370? (library book)
5. Death in Cyprus
6. Printmen (quick read)
7. Killed at the Whim of a Hat
8. The Tale of the Unknown Island (quick read)
9. Howards End is on the Landing
10. The Skeleton Takes a Bow
11. The Painted Girls
12. A Deadly Cliché
13. Caught Dead in Philadelphia
14. Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'Easter
15. Manna from Hades
16. Quickstep to Murder
17. The St. Patrick's Day Murder
18. A Killer Read
19. The Lost King of France
20. Cocoanut Grove
21. Calling Invisible Women
22. The Titanic Murders
23. Blooming Murder
24. The Four Courts Murder
25. Yarn to Go
26. A Skeleton in the Family
27. Milk Eggs Vodka
28. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
29. The History of the Snowman
30. The World in a Phrase: A History of Aphorisms
31. Jello: A Biography
32. Rat: How the World's Most Notorious Rodent Clawed its Way to the Top
33. A Brief History of Tea
34. Seven Year Switch
35. Spring Fever
36. Summer Rental
37. Wishful Drinking
38. Limestone Cowboy
39. Ambulance Girl
40. Agatha Raisin and the Potted Gardener
41. Wave
42. A Break With Charity (YA)
43. Pompeii
44. Seizure
45. The Skeleton Haunts a House
46. Death on the Aegean Queen
48. Wicked Autumn
49. Dead Cat Bounce
50. Last Seen Wearing
51. Pies and Prejudice
52. A Highland Christmas
53. There Goes Santa Claus





Rings & rays I'm hosting:

The Dead Fathers Club www.bookcrossing.com/---/530366/ Ring COMPLETED 7/24/17
The Watery Part of the World (ARC) www.bookcrossing.com/---/12509370/ Ring
The Mystic Masseur www.bookcrossing.com/---/12510691/ Ring COMPLETED

The Buddha in the Attic www.bookcrossing.com/---/530606/ RAY IN PROGRESS
The Year of the Hare www.bookcrossing.com/---/9989110/ completed ray
City of Thieves www.bookcrossing.com/---/10239711/ completed ray
The Forgotten Garden www.bookcrossing.com/---/9699878/ completed ray

Books Read in 2015

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