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

1. little bitty lies/mary kay andrews (7 1/2)
2. the wheel of darkness/Preston/Child (7 1/2)
3. They Called Us Enemy/George Takei (7 3/4)
4. What You Did/Claire McGowan (7 3/4)
5. Nearer Than the Sky/T. Greenwood (8)
6. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Mindy Kaling (7 1/2)
7. Created in Darkness/McSweeney (6) February
8. Case Histories/Kate Atkinson (8)
9. The Power of Attitude/Mac Anderson (8)
10. The Blue Zones/Dan Buettner (7 1/2)
11. Lady Clementine/Marie Benedict (7 1/2)
12. If it Bleeds/Stephen King (8)
13. The Book of Success/Richard Shea (7 3/4) March
14. Find Her/Lisa Gardner (7 1/2)
15. Maus/art spiegelman (8)
16. Stormy Weather/Carl Hiaasen (7 1/2)
17. Over the Years/K.B. Kreysler (8)
18. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang/C. Handler (7 1/2)
19. Run Rose Run/Patterson and Dolly Parton (7)
20. The Stranger in the Lifeboat/Mitch Albom (9) APRIL
21. Malice/Danielle Steel (7-)
22. The Blessing of Christmas CS4tS/Amy Newmark (9)
23. South and West/Joan Didion (6)
24. The Girl From the Channel Islands/Jenny Lecoat (8)
25. Blindsided/Karin Slaughter (7 3/4)
26. Bicycle Diaries/David Byrne (6)
27. Obsession/Jonathan Kellerman (7 1/2)
28. Because of You/Dan Zadra (9)
29. Olive, Mabel & Me/Andrew Cotter (8)
30. The Midwife's Confession/Diane Chamberlain (7) MAY
31. Born a Crime/Trevor Noah (9)
32. the power/Rhonda Byrne (8)
33. When You Look Like Your Passport Photo/Erma Bombeck (7 1/2) JUNE
34. The Dutch House/Ann Patchett (8)
35. Hoot/Carl Hiaasen (7 1/2)
36. The Magic of Dogs/Chicken Soup for the Soul (10)
37. The Midnight Library/Matt Haig (7 1/4)
38. Awesome Good Clean Jokes for Kids/Bob Phillips (8)
39. Belly Laughing/Jenny McCarthy (7 1/2)
40. The Last Bookshop in London/Madeline Martin (8 1/2)
41. Scat/Carl Hiaasen (7)
42. The Boy From the Woods/Harlan Coben (7) JULY
43. American Dirt/Jeanine Cummins (8)
44. Welcome to the Great Mysterious (Lorna Landvik) 8
45. The Rightful Owner (Emily Thomas) 7-
46. Thunderhead/Preston/Child (8-)
47. Skull Session/Daniel Hecht (7-) AUGUST
48. Pawverbs/Jennifer Marshall Bleakley (8)
49. Uncommon Type/Tom Hanks (70
50. Witches' Bane/Susan Wittig Albert (7-)
51. Night of the Crash-Test Dummies/Gary Larson (8)
52. Kindness Matters/CS4tS/Amy Newmark (10)
53. Finding Freedom/Erin French (8)
54. In a Sunburned Country/Bill Bryson (8)
55. The Littlest Library/Poppy Alexander (7 1/2)
56. The Forgotten Garden/Kate Morton (7 3/4) SEPTEMBER
57. Delusion in Death/J.D. Robb (7)
58. Naked Addiction/Caitlin Rother (7)
59. the little library/Margaret McNamara (8-)
60. Diary of a Dog-Walker/Edward Stourton (7)
61. Mother/Judy Olausen (9)
62. The Bell Jar/Sylvia Plath (8)
63. The Traveling Book/Charissa Bates (8)
64. Emeralds Included/Betsy Woodman (7)
65. Mexico/James Michener (7) OCTOBER
66. The House Across the Lake/Riley Sager (7)
67. Ckn soup 4 t Dog Lover's soul/jack canfield (9)
68. Ckn soup for the Golden Soul/Jack Canfield (8)
69. Midnight At the Bright Ideas Bookstore/Matthew Sullivan (7-)
70. Valley of the Far Side/Gary Larson (7 3/4)
71. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten/Robert Fulghum (7)
72. The Snow Goose/Paul Gallico (7)
73. At Bertram's Hotel/Agatha Christie (7) NOVEMBER
74. The Sanatorium/Sarah Pearse (7-)
75. Triptych/Karin Slaughter (8) DECEMBER
76. Best to Laugh/Lorna Landvik (7)
77. The Twelve Topsy-Turvy Days of Christmas/Patterson & Safran (8)
78. The Girl in the Mirror/Rose Carlyle (8 1/2)
79. Rescuing Penny Jane/Amy Sutherland (8)
80. The Arlington Inheritance/Patricia Wentworth (7-)
81. My Gal Sunday/Mary Higgins Clark (7-)
82. The Velveteen Rabbit/Margery Williams (10)

Books completed in 2023


1. The Bitter Season/Tami Hoag (7 1/2)
2. The Persian Room/Patty Farmer (7 1/2)
3. Two Graves/Preston&Child (7)
4. Anxious People/Fredrik Backman (7 1/2)
5. Lending a Paw/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
6. The Last Good Kiss/James Crumley (7 1/2) FEBRUARY
7. The Christmas Train/David Baldacci (8)
8. A New Song/Psalms of Lament (7)
9. Nihancan's Feast of Beaver/Edward Lavitt (9)
10. Tailing a Tabby/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
11. Music for Chameleons/Truman Capote (8)
12. the Personal Librarian/Marie Benedict/V.C. Murray (8-)
13. The Twelve Dogs of Christmas/David Rosenfelt (7 1/2)
14. we were liars/e. lockhart (7-)
15. Please Look After Mom/Kyung-sook Shin (8-)
16. Practical Magic/Alice Hoffman (8) MARCH
17. The Cornwalls Are Gone/Patterson & DuBois (7)
18. Borrowed Crime/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
19. The Light Over London/Julia Kelly (7)
20. CSftS Your 10 Keys to Happiness/Newmark (8)
21. The Lost and Found Bookshop/Susan Wiggs (7 1/2)
22. At Risk/Patricia Cornwell (7-) APRIL
23. Two Nights in Lisbon/Chris Pavone (7-)
24. Pouncing on Murder/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
25. The Midwife Murders/J. Patterson & who cares (7-)
26. Decision Points/George W. Bush (8-)
27. Truth & Beauty/Ann Patchett (8) MAY
28. The Wilderness World of John Muir/Edwin Way Teale (7 1/2)
29. The Last Thing He Told Me/Laura Dave (7 1/2)
30. The Berlin Girl/Mandy Rbotham (7 1/2)
31. Glaciers/Alexis M. Smith (7 1/2)
32. Remarkably Bright Creatures/Shelby Van Pelt (9)
33. Cat with a Clue/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
34. Lost Hills/Lee Goldberg (7 1/4)
35. Going Rogue/Janet Evanovich (7 1/2) JUNE
36. Daily Kindness/National Geographic (10)
37. Arsenic and Old Books/Miranda James (7)
38. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh/Robert C. O'Brien (7)
39. Over What Hill/Effie Leland Wilder (7 1/4)
40. A Slow Fire Burning/Paula Hawkins (7)
41. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit/Jeanette Winterson (7)
42. At Home in the Dark/Lawrence Block (7 1/2)
43. Cookoff/Amy Sutherland (8) JULY
44. Wrong Side of the Paw/Laurie Cass (7 1/4)
45. Summer Island/Kristin Hannan (7)
46. Full Throttle/Joe Hill (7 1/4)
47. The Girl who Remember Snow/Charles Mathes (7 3/4)
48. Cilka's Journey/Heather Morris (8)
49. Booking the Crook/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
50. The Girl with the Phony Name/Charles Mathes (8-)
51. Survival in Auschwitz/Primo Levi (7-)
52. 14th Deadly Sin/Patterson & Paetro (7-)
53. His Mysterious Ways/Guideposts (8)
54. The Passion/Jeanette Winterson (7-) AUGUST
55. Shooting Kabul/N.H. Senzai (7 1/2)
56. My Wonderful, Wacky Family (9) CS4tS series
57. Trivia for the Toilet/Gavin Webster (9)
58. Dance of Death/Preston & Child (7)
59. Finding Solace at the Kensington Cafe/Tim Scheidt (8)
60. Lily and the Octopus/Steven Rowley (7 1/2)
61. To the Hilt/Dick Francis (7)
62. Gone with the Whisker/Laurie Cass (7 1/2)
63. The Warning/Patterson & Wells (6) SEPTEMBER
64. The King of Late Night/Greg Gutfeld (7-)
65. The Lost Library/Stead & Mass (8 1/2)
66. Angel in the Rubble/Genelle Guzman McMillan (7 3/4)
67. Skinny Dip/Carl Hiaasen (8)