hyphen8
Age 57
Joined Saturday, November 5, 2005
Recent Book Activity
She Who Loves a Garden
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Midnight Pearls
Matarese Countdown, The
Virals (Virals, Book 1)
Killer Angels, The
Micro
Instrumentality of Mankind, The
Over Europe- Spectacular Aerial Photographs of the New Europe
Māhealani and the King of Hawaiʻi
Spread Your Wings and Fly: An Origami Fold-And-Tell
Shiva Option, The
Strange Highways
Messenger
Mr. Mick Visits Our School
Childrens Zoo, The
BABAR THE KING
Canterbury Tales, The
Three at Sea
Death in Zanzibar & Death in Kenya
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| controlled releases | 2 | 3,607 |
| releases caught | 1 | 444 |
| controlled releases caught | 0 | 2,698 |
| books found | 5 | 1,764 |
| tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 42 |
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| forum posts | 31 | 18,683 |
Extended Profile
| My profile is always a work in progress. Profile pic created using Harold Lohner's Snowflake Monograms. Go to my Newbery List Please join my release challenges!
I try to honor my BC commitments within a reasonable timeframe, but if you're expecting something from me and haven't gotten it yet, it never hurts to send me a friendly reminder PM! (Please keep in mind that media mail to - and sometimes from - the US mainland can take 3 weeks or more; when sending books via media mail, I generally try to include the USPS tracking information in the book's journal entry.) Please note: most of the cat books on my shelf belonged to purple58 before they passed through my hands. While I am not immune to occasional feline cuteness, I have no actual cats in my life and probably don't need any more cat books. Thanks to all the wonderful Bookcrossers out there! You're the best. Really. If you've send me a RABCK, of a book or anything else, please be assured that I do appreciate it, very much. About my wishlist: if you'd like to send me a book from my wishlist I won't object(!), but that's not the main reason I keep a list. I try to keep it current so I can use it to help me keep track of what I'm interested in and/or looking for. Thanks to cliff1976 for his pioneering work on the original wishlist site. Also: not all of the wishes on my list are for me. A few are for my mother & brother.
This list may not be entirely up to date, but if you'd like to join any of the ones marked with an asterisk (*), send me a PM and I'll see what I can do. ----------------- finished, lost, stalled, on hold, etc.------------------- The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson - seems to have stayed with Vampberry The Radium Girls by Kate Moore - ended with book_drunkard I am Nujood... by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui - will be released by bargainqueen Zeitoun by Dave Eggers - ekgv414 will send it traveling I am Nujood... by Nujood Ali & Delphine Minoui - cheli-garza will pass it on All My Friends are Dead by Avery Monsen & Jory John - exploring Calgary (graphic) Stephen King's The Stand (6-part series) - ended up with jare Kindred by Octavia Butler - returned and released Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart - released by Abi-Gibby Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - back with Firegirl Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman - most recently with safrolistics Lamb by Christopher Moore - finished up with Ossiefry Moloka'i by Alan Brennert - ray ended with hostile17 Cake Wrecks by Jen Yates - still with MyBookCafe (currently AFK) Kindred by Octavia Butler (international ray) - Dancesports kindly replaced this! Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey - ray being continued by Tsjara (audio) Mostly Cassette Audio Bookbox II - back home Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore (replacement copy) - finished and sent out as a RABCK Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear - may be available from 2012 (Newbery) M.C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton - returned to me and released (Newbery) Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen - returned to me and released Stiff by Mary Roach (replacement copy) - released by cafekat Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore - most recently with molekilby Stiff by Mary Roach - TBR by princess1984..eventually? Kindred by Octavia Butler (US only ray) - released in the wild by UAQ-729447 (formerly booklover87) Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat - released by wendyv (audio) Mostly Cassette Audio Box - sadly stopped with wamstreet; replacement box here (Newbery) A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck - stalled with yokaye; sent to the Lost Book Island 5/13/09 (Newbery) Up A Road Slowly by Irene Hunt - stalled with yokaye; sent to the Lost Book Island 5/13/09 Why *do* they arrive in bunches?
Biographies of Things - 2023 edition
Indigenous Peoples Crossing Paths --------- books below this line not expected anytime soon...if ever ----------- From a Crooked Rib - stalled? HobbitGlen's (Older) Children's Bookbox - didn't happen? Station Eleven - wild released Letters of a Woman Homesteader - staying in Utah? Swamplandia! Snow - stuck in Ireland? MaryZee memorial bookish/cozy box - postponed indefinitely pippis's Bookcrossing Cookbook - hasn't made it to Belgium bookstogive's I Hate SF box (round 2) - lost by the USPS? Stones Into Schools - somewhere in South Africa OphEliaGirl's Teen/Y.A Bookbox - Round 1 - either lost in the mail or not actually mailed Un Lun Dun - last seen in Canada cat02886's ABC-bookray game - faded away? The Good Soldier Svjek - never got off the ground? OphEliaGirl's Wreck This Journal - bypassed me but finally made it home Cooking with Wholefoods - somewhere in limbo cat02886's Letter Game Bookring - died out? (Newbery) Catherine, Called Birdy - stuck Flat Stanley from Kansas - AWOL? (Newbery) Hope Was Here - stalled
booklady331's
Non-Fiction VBB - rounds 1-15
----------------- no longer running / not participating ------------------- JennyC1230's Young Adult/Teens VBB - rounds 1-4 Audiobook VBB by iwillrejoice - rounds 13-23 tabby-cat-owner's Holocaust VBB - round 1 JudySlump612's NPR SF VBB (Superluminal) - rounds 1-2 flewry's 1001 Library VBB - rounds 1-2 collectorkerri's 1st Sentences VBB - rounds 2-3 or already passed on to the next reader:
* kizmiaz's bookray for
The Man in the High Castle ended with me
----------------- books below this line already sent back out ------------------- erishkigal's Indigenous Peoples box nimrodiel's Manga/Graphic Novel box 6of8 and MaryZee's Biographies of Things box Bookworm-lady's bookray for Victorian Murderesses Spatial's bookray for The Hate U Give AlterEgoZoe's Far East Bookbox - Rounds 1-3 emmejo's LGBTQ+ Bookbox - Round 2 Biographies of Things box - 2017 edition (audio) imawinn2's CASSETTES Are Still Alive Bookbox Ray (audio) BigJohnLefty's Another CD-only Audiobookbox, 2015-16 version Deogratias MaryZee's Biographies of Things box, 2015-2016 version k00kaburra's Manga Bookbox The Atheist's Mass KateKintail's LGBTQIA Bookbox Stolen quietorchid's Medicine Chest Box V Cereus Blooms at Night MyssCyn's Bookmark & Labels ring Project X emmejo's LGBTQ+ box The Casual Vacancy KateKintail's YA Bookbox Bremer Augenblicke (the book with the eyes) A Long Way Home How the States Got Their Shapes Orphan Train Cassette audiobox from imawinn2 booklady331's CD only audio book box Queen of the Air - released at the end of the ray Waist-High in the World (graphic)Urasawa's Pluto (manga series) JennyC1230's Shrinking Teens bookbox (graphic) Dolls (manga series) quietorchid's Medicine Chest IV The House of the Scorpion (audio) BigJohnLefty's CD-Only AudioBookBox (round 4?) (graphic) GoryDetails's Graphic Novel box (shrinking) Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker (graphic) I Shall Never Return (manga series) Picnic at Hanging Rock with DVD (audio) BigJohnLefty's Another Audiobookbox (round 3) Erishkigal's Native American bookbox The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas I Hate Myself and Want to Die Erishkigal's SF bookbox, round 2 chefcrossing's books about books box Killer Show Medicine Chest Bookbox III by quietorchid chefcrossing's rescue-themed bookbox The Wooden Sea Un Lun Dun (replacement) Down the Plughole GoryDetails's LGBT-themed shrinking bookbox - replacement The Day the World Came to Town The Long Earth Surviving Galeras chefcrossing's Serial Killer bookbox ray GoryDetails's Based on the Book bookbox GoryDetails's LGBT-themed shrinking bookbox - LOST! The Bitter Glass Rampaging F***ers... spacedog's children's bookbox (audio) LittleWhiteBird's Shrinking Audio Bookbox AKSarah's Bookbox of the Living Dead Greyflank's Towering Inferno bookring The White Horse of Zennor MaryZee's Biographies of Things box Farm Boy (audio) KateKintail's Audiocassette box ray chefcrossing's Space Bookbox laevina's Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror box - 3rd round (1001 Library) Willard and His Bowling Trophies (1001 Library) A Confederacy of Dunces (audio) BigJohnLefty's CD-Only AudioBookBox (graphic) Creatures of the Night (1001 Library) The Moonstone bookstogive's I Hate Science Fiction/Fantasy (you don't have to!) box The Cannibals of Candyland (graphic) Isle of 100,000 Graves JudySlump612's Medicine Chest Bookbox II Blood Music Samurai Shortstop (1001 Library) Pippi Longstocking Packing for Mars (audio) indygo88's CD Audio Bookbox (graphic) Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror (3 books) Foreign Correspondence Erishkigal's SF bookbox (audio) KateKintail's Earreading Audiobooks on Cassette Bookbox #1 (round 2) KiaraNala29's YA bookbox She The Stars My Destination laevina's U.S. BookBox Sci-Fi, Fantasy, & Horror time-traveler's Bizarre Fiction Bookbox Rhyme Stew z3CarGaragez's Young Adult Bookbox Crossover part I Musicophilia I Am the Messenger The Poison That Fascinates The 27th Day The Help jenptcfan's Banned/Challenged Book Box Water for Elephants (1001 Library) Watchmen (audio) sp4home's Cassette Audio Bookbox How To Train Your Dragon (audio) MyssCyn's US Audio 27 Tapes Bookbox JudySlump612's Medicine Chest Bookbox Death on the Ice (Newbery) Dear Mr. Henshaw The 19th Wife Stupid Science imawinn2's "A" is for Author...Bookray game (Newbery) Ella Enchanted (Newbery) Out of the Dust (Newbery) Shen of the Sea (Newbery) Caddie Woolawn The Last Town on Earth Bad Science Listening Is an Act of Love The G hret=e/bf=raveyard Book Erishkigal's Mystery with A Twistery Bookbox (audio) carlissa's Cassette Audio Bookbox Q & A SqueakyChu's bookray for Asleep The Lost World (audio) KateKintail's Earreading Audiobooks on Cassette Bookbox #1 (round 1) Flat Stanley from California (Newbery) Tales from Silver Lands The Lost World (Newbery) Hope Was Here (Newbery) Catherine, Called Birdy NatGirl101's bookmark ring Lottiotta's Postage Stamp Crossing Zone Bonk (Newbery) Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth... (1001 Library) The Golden Ass (Newbery) The Wanderer (Newbery) Princess Academy I Am Legend/ (Newbery) Charlotte's Web Duma Key Moody-Blue's Every Color of the Rainbow bookbox (1001 Library) The Wonderful O Fluke A couple of wonderful book-related videos that I can watch over and over: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore - Oscar-winning short film The Joy of Books - magic in a bookstore Listening to a podcast of "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" (7/15/06) and the woman says the phone company wanted to charge $5 a month for a hyphenated name (that would be the charge for a double listing) so she & her husband just combined their surnames instead. She figures the phone book people just didn't know what a hyphen was! I wrote the following bits down, but I forgot to write down which book they came from...suggestions welcome! (I was reading a bunch of Melanie Rawn at the time but I'm not sure if they're from her books or not.) Tentative identification: By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille "Survival is often a mixture of stupidity, hypocrisy, and compromise." "I'll rant and rave about The Law, and you rant and rave about military expediency. People will take sides. Internal strife is not always bad. It works to make people forget what a hopeless position they're in when they're arguing about trifles. So you and I will argue over trifles. Privately, we'll compromise." I have 87 (of 100) Newbery Medal Winners on my bookshelf..so far! (I've read 86 of the winning books.) (°°° means I haven't read it yet.)
2021: When You Trap a Tiger
2017: The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016: Last Stop on Market Street 2015: The Crossover 2014: Flora & Ulysses 2012: °°°Dead End in Norvelt 2011: Moon Over Manifest 2010: When You Reach Me 2009: The Graveyard Book 2008: Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! 2007: The Higher Power of Lucky 2005: Kira-Kira 2004: The Tale of Despereaux 2002: A Single Shard 2001: A Year Down Yonder 2000: Bud, Not Buddy 1999: Holes 1998: Out of the Dust 1997: The View from Saturday 1996: The Midwife's Apprentice 1995: Walk Two Moons 1994: The Giver 1993: Missing May 1992: Shiloh 1991: Maniac Magee 1990: Number the Stars 1989: Joyful Noise 1988: Lincoln: A Photobiography 1987: The Whipping Boy 1986: Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985: The Hero and the Crown 1984: Dear Mr. Henshaw 1983: °°°Dicey's Song 1982: A Visit to William Blake's Inn 1981: Jacob Have I Loved 1980: A Gathering of Days 1979: The Westing Game 1978: Bridge to Terabithia 1977: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1976: The Grey King 1975: M.C. Higgins, the Great 1974: The Slave Dancer 1973: Julie of the Wolves 1972: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1971: The Summer of the Swans 1970: Sounder 1969: The High King 1968: From the Mixed-Up Files... 1967: Up a Road Slowly 1966: I, Juan de Pareja 1965: Shadow of a Bull 1964: It's Like This, Cat 1963: A Wrinkle in Time 1962: The Bronze Bow 1961: Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960: Onion John 1959: The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958: Rifles for Watie 1957: Miracles on Maple Hill 1955: The Wheel on the School 1954: ...And Now Miguel 1953: Secret of the Andes 1952: Ginger Pye 1951: Amos Fortune: Free Man 1950: The Door in the Wall 1949: King of the Wind 1948: The Twenty-One Balloons 1947: Miss Hickory 1946: Strawberry Girl 1945: Rabbit Hill 1944: Johnny Tremain 1943: Adam of the Road 1941: Call it Courage 1939: Thimble Summer 1938: The White Stag 1937: Roller Skates 1936: Caddie Woodlawn 1934: Invincible Louisa 1933: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze 1931: The Cat Who Went to Heaven 1929: The Trumpeter of Krakow 1928: Gay-Neck 1927: Smoky the Cow Horse 1926: Shen of the Sea 1925: Tales from Silver Lands 1924: The Dark Frigate 1923: The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle (°°° means I haven't read it yet.)
2020: The Wild Robot
2019: The Terrible Two 2018: El Deafo 2014: The Strange Case of Origami Yoda 2012: (Tie) The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2012: (Tie) The Lemonade War 2011: NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society 2010: Found 2009: Inkheart 2008: °°°The Lightning Thief 2007: A Boy at War 2005: Because of Winn-Dixie 2003: The Bad Beginning 2002: Bud, Not Buddy 2001: Holes 2000: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 1999: °°°The Best School Year Ever 1998: Under the Blood-Red Sun 1996: Maniac Magee 1995: My Teacher is an Alien 1994: Shiloh 1992: The Whipping Boy 1991: There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom 1989: Dear Mr. Henshaw 1983: Bunnicula 1982: Superfudge 1980: °°°The Cat Ate My Gymsuit 1979: Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator 1977: Ramona and Her Father 1976: How to Eat Fried Worms 1975: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret 1974: Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973: Sounder 1971: Ramona the Pest 1969: The Mouse and the Motorcycle 1967 (no award given) 1966: Old Yeller 1965: Mary Poppins 1964: Island of the Blue Dolphins 2017: Authors A-Z 2017: Titles A-Z 2016: Unite the Kingdoms 2016: 666 challenge = 38 locations 2016: States Reading Challenge = 50 states + DC 2015: States Reading Challenge = 50 states + DC 2015: 666 challenge = 39 locations 2013-2014: States Reading Challenge = 50 states + 9 districts/territories/dependencies 2013-2014: Canadian Reading Challenge = 10 provinces + 3 territories 2009: 50 States Reading Challenge = 50 states + DC 2009: 6 books, 6 countries, 6 continents Reading Challenge = 38 countries + Antarctica 2008: A to Z Reading Challenge = surnames, titles & given names Just gotta squeeze in a little note about some really terrific book-related NON-wrecks from Cake Wrecks because they're, well, amazing. (Yes, it's called Cake Wrecks, but on Sundays they feature wonderful Sunday Sweets instead of the hilarious/disastrous wrecks they highlight during the rest of the week. Sunday Sweets: Reading Rocks Sunday Reading Sweets Sunday Sweets: Story Time! Sunday Sweets: Classic Kids' Books Sunday Sweets for Book Lovers Books I've registered have visited 45 US states plus Washington, D.C. (missing LA, MS, MT, ND, VT): 6 Canadian provinces/territories (missing MB, NB, NT, NU, PE, SK, YT): and 45 other countries! I'm not actually *asking* for these things, but as requested, for the birthday group: Things I'm always happy to receive: new or used postage stamps (for Mom's collection), BC supplies, colored staples (standard size), dried peaches, origami-related things, the occasional bar of well-wrapped dark chocolate (melting may be an issue)... Oh, and while not dark chocolate, the seasonal Ritter Sport Kaffee + Nuss chocolate that linguistkris sent me was very delicious - my favorite candy from the birthday group so far! I like bright colors, sparkly things, silly toys...and will choose purple, red, or blue over pink almost every time. There are some non-book items in my wishlist - the "author" is "(for wishlist tag)". One of those items is small amounts of colored A4-sized paper - it's not easy to get in the US and the silver rectangle proportions make for interesting origami folding. ;) Things I'm not terribly interested in: very "girly" things (hearts & such), chick lit & romance books, strongly scented items (not good for my sinuses/allergies), tea & coffee (my caffeine mostly comes from Coca-Cola & chocolate). More info above in my profile (see "Things I'm looking for that aren't on my wishlist").  |
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