Books have been my vocation and avocation at various times of my life. Growing up in a family of readers; I started my slow descent into the hobby of reading. Reading is so addictive, I often use to read into the wee hours of the morning. The early birds were out there looking for worms and I had 50 pages left to finish my book. PLEASE NOTE: My bookshelf does not reflect my reading habits!
I am now the proud steward of LFL 10461!

My releases have traveled to the following places:

AL
Australia
AZ
Brazil
CA
CT
England
FL
France
GA
HI
Holland
IA
ID
KY
LA
MA
Malaysia
Mexico
MO
NE
NJ
NM
OR
PA
Portugal
SC
TN
TX
WA
WI
WV


As of 9/23/06

Canada
MI
OH
AK
IL
Slovenia
Italy


Books completed in 2009 54
Books completed in 2010 57
Books completed in 2011 86
Books completed in 2012 57
Books completed in 2013 43
Books completed in 2014 73
Books completed in 2015 82
Books completed in 2016 54
Books completed in 2017 61
Books completed in 2018 73
10 year average 64 books a year


Books completed in 2019 80
Books completed in 2020 61
Books completed in 2021 73
Books completed in 2022 82
Books completed in 2023 93











Books completed in 2024

1. Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown/John Lithgow (7 1/2)
2. Confessions of a Forty Something F**k Up/Alexandra Potter (8)
3. The Librarian of Burned Books/Brianna Labuskes (7 1/4)
4. Mozart's Starling/Lyanda Lynn Haupt (7 1/4)
5. Milkweed/Jerry Spinelli (8-)
6. CSftS Miracles and the Unexplainable/Amy Newmark (8)
7. The Colonary Arts/Grant Trotter (6)
8. The Black Swan of Paris/Karen Robards (6)
9. Kinsey and Me/Sue Grafton (7 1/4) FEBRUARY
10. A Time for Fathers/George Kirazian (8)
11. 21st Birthday/Patterson & Paetro (7)
12. Parnassus on wheels & haunted bookshop/Morley (7)
13. Hardcore Twenty-Four/Janet Evanovich (7 1/4)
14. The Book of Lost Names/Kristin Harmel (7 1/4)
15. Open Season/Linda Howard (7)
16. What the Cat Dragged In/Miranda James (7) MARCH
17. The Secret Circle/Lisa-Anne Woolridge (7)
18. Big Bucket List Book/Gin Sandler (10)
19. The Girl You Left Behind/JoJo Moyes (8)
20. One of Us Is Lying/Karen M. McManus
21. Holly/Stephen King (7 1/4) APRIL
22. The Stranger/Harlen Coben (7 3/4)
23. The Book Spy/Alan Hlad (7-)
24. Greenlights/Matthew McConaughey
25. The Housemaid/Freida McFadden (7)
26. A Drinking Life/Pete Hamill (8) MAY
27. CS4t Grieving Soul/Jack Canfield (9)
28. The Beginner's Bible/zonderkidz (10) MAY
29. Twisted/Jeffrey Deaver (9)
30. An Elephant in the Garden/Michael Morpurgo (8)
31. Tricky Twenty-Two/Janet Evanovich (7 3/4)
32. Daily Peace/National Geographic (10) JUNE
33. Night Passage/Robert B. Parker (7 1/4)
34. Strip City/Lily Burana (8)
35. Lisey's Story/Stephen King (6)
36. Look for Me/Lisa Gardner (7 3/4)
37. Eight Perfect Murders/Peter Swanson (7 3/4)
38. True Colors/Kristin Hannah (7 3/4)
39. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark/Alvin Schwartz (7-)
40. Shadows Reel/C.J. Box (7 1/2) JULY
41. Summer's Child/Diane Chamberlain (7 1/2)
42. Too Many Cooks/Rex Stout (6)
43. The Body in the Bookstore/Ellie Alexander (7-)
44. Treasury of Humor/Isaac Asimov (6)
45. Out of Circulation/Elizabeth Spann Craig (7-)
46. The Plot/Jean Hanff Korelitz (7 1/4)
47. Delicious and Suspicious/Riley Adams (6) AUGUST
48. Read, Laugh, Repeat/CS4tS/Amy Newmark (8)
49. Checked Out/Elizabeth Spann Craig (7-)
50. Naked Once More/Elizabeth Peters (6)
51. 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit/Andy Rooney (7 1/2)
52. Women & Children First/Gill Paul (7 1/2)
53. The Women/Kristin Hannah (7)
54. The Good Sister/Sally Hepworth (7 1/2)
55. Praying with Jane Eyre/Vanessa Zoltan (6) SEPTEMBER
56. Lulu Dean's Little Library of Banned Books/Kirsten Miller (7 1/2)
57. One of Us Is Next/Karen M. McManus (6)
58. I Know Where I'm Going/Charlotte Chandler (8)
59. An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good/Helene Tursten (8)
60. The Thursday Murder Club/Richard Osman (7-)
61. The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man/Paul Newman (8)
62. The Book on the Bookshelf/Henry Petroski (7)
63. The Proof Is in the Pudding/Melinda Well (7 1/4) OCTOBER
64. No One Will Know/Rose Carlyle (7)
65. An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed/Helene Tursten (8)
66. Killer Mousse/Melinda Wells (7 1/4)
67. A Pound of Paper/John Baxter (7 1/2) NOVEMBER
68. The Never Game/Jeffrey Deaver (7)
69. Tatae's Promise/Sherry Maysonave (7 1/2)
70. The Match/Harlan Coben (7)
71. The Christmas Spirit/Debbie MacComber (7 1/2)
72. Ten Days in a Mad-House/Nellie Bly (8)
73. A Stranger for Christmas/Carol Lynn Pearson (71/2)
74. Fairies/Skye Alexander (9)
75. The Shepherd, The Angel & wtcmd/Dave Barry (8) DECEMBER
76. A Good Dog's Guide to Murder/Krista Davis (6)
77. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade/Janet S. Charles (7 3/4)
78. The Courage of the Little Hummingbird/Henderson (10)
79. The Velveteen Rabbit/Margery Wilson (10)
80. The Crystal Heart/Katherine Deauxville (6)
81. Murder in the Mystery Suite/Ellery Adams (6)
82. Now or Never/Janet Evanovich (7 1/2)

Books completed in 2025

1. Secret Lives of Booksellers/James Patterson (10)
2. The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams/Mindy Thompson (8)
3. All the Dark Places/Terri Parlato (7 1/2)
4. The October Country/Ray Bradbury (7-)
5. Christmas Days/Jeanette Winterson (7 3/4)
6. The ABC Murders/Agatha Christie (7 1/2)
7. Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven/A. Newmark (10)
8. Small Mercies/Dennis Lehane (8)
9. The Cat Who Came for Christmas/Cleveland Amory (8)
10. The Redhead of Auschwitz/Nechama Birnbaum (9) FEBRUARY
11. Pie a la Murder/Melinda Wells (7 1/2)
12. She Persisted/Chelsea Clinton (8)
13. Envy/Sandra Brown (7 1/4)
14. The Serial Killers Guide to S.F./Michelle Chouinard (7 1/2)
15. The Neighbor from Bergen Belsen/Yaakov Barzilai (7-)
16. Buried in a Book/Lucy Arlington (7 1/2)
17. Eruption/Patterson & Crichton (7-) MARCH
18. The Town Beyond the Wall/Elie Wiesel (6)
19. Don't You Cry/Mary Kubica (7-)
20. Every Trick in the Book/Lucy Arlington (7-)
21. Homeland and other stories/Barbara Kingsolver (7-)
22. Caught/Harlan Coben (7 1/2)
23. Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop (8) APRIL
24. Wild Wisdom/Rae Ann Kumelos (10)
25. Death Takes the Cake/Melinda Wells (7)
26. How Jackrabbit Got His Very Long Ears/H. Irbinskas (10)
27. Double Booked for Death/Ali Brandon (7 1/4)