Chania
From Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa / Mellersta Österbotten Finland
Age 57
Joined Sunday, September 17, 2006
Recent Book Activity
Pyörre
The Lacuna
The Midwife
Puffs And Gasps. Peepholes into Finnish Humour
Sä kasvoit neito kaunoinen
Eniten vituttaa elämä
Haku päällä
Lapinkylä
Rautapääsky
Toivo Pesän muistelmat
Himangan sataman historia
Murharovio
Hiidenhyrrä
Tähtien antaja
Kissani Jugoslavia
Yhdeksäs aalto
Hyppy tuntemattomaan
Lohduttaja
Syntipukki
Oikukas planeetta
Statistics |
4 weeks | all time |
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books registered | 1 | 1,754 |
released in the wild | 2 | 1,055 |
controlled releases | 26 | 770 |
releases caught | 0 | 301 |
controlled releases caught | 19 | 699 |
books found | 2 | 1,395 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 77 |
new member referrals | 0 | 4 |
forum posts | 20 | 6,828 |
Extended Profile
Hi!
I am middle-aged psychiatric nurse, married, and two grown-up kids already away from home, a grandmother to two girls, born 5/21 and 3/23, and I love books!
I love cozy mysteries, travel stories and books about food (especially food-related memoirs and such) and modern writers like Anne Tyler, Paul Auster, Julia Glass etc, but I also love a good classic!
I read both in Finnish and English.
If you look at my BC-bookshelves, they don't tell you the whole truth, I have plenty of books that are not registered in BC. Like books from my favourite authors that I like to keep.
Most of the books in my wishlist are in English, but I would be as happy to get the same book in Finnish :) I update my wishlist very often.
I am trying to declutter my house, so it is pretty hard to think about other wishes, but here's some:
* my biggest wish is wishlist-books!
* CHOCOLATE , especially unusual taste or chocolates with filling (rather than plain) like chocolate with pineapple or Irish cream truffle ,Fry's Turkish Delight or Kalev's Tommu! And I like more milk chocolate than dark, but anything is good! And hot chocolate!
* Notebooks, nice good pens and pencils, decorative tapes, bujo stickers. I have a bit sarcastic, dark sense of humor, so stickers suitable for it are great!
* woollen or cotton socks, size 40 / 6 uk/8,5 us (especially thin wool socks for nightsocks! )
* bookplates in English or Finnish
* candles, scented or not, doesn't matter!
* I don't usually wear make-up, but I love nail-polishes!
* wings for a month, if I've been without for a while
* a magazine in English (can be used) about cooking, decorating, generally women/home-kind of themes. Not gossip-, music-,movies- or fashion (they are not my cup of tea).
* I love to do 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles too!
* got my ears re-pierced, so I really like hanging ear-rings too, any shape and colour!
* Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 Cards for Discovering the Unexpected, Wherever Your Journey Leads (can be used!)
* Recycled and second-hand items are defenitively big YES!
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" Book A Day Keeps Housework Away! "
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BOOKS I'VE READ 2024
JANUARY:
1. Only Child / Rhiannon Navin
2. Backpackerit Kaakkois-Aasiassa - Retkiä ja ruokaa / Merituulia Lehtinen
3. Devil's Food Cake Murder / Joanne Fluke
4. Päiväkirjan uudet sivut / Tellervo Koivisto
5. The Diary of a Bookseller / Shaun Bythell
6. Sairas tyttö tanssii / Aila Meriluoto
7. Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops / Shaun Bythell
8. Delphine Jonesin tuhat pientä unelmaa / Beth Morrey
9. Rottien pyhimys / Anneli Kanto
10. Punainen pata / Kati Tervo
11. Sydämenmurskajaiset / Markus Ahonen
12. Lumimaa / Nura Farah
FEBRUARY:
13. Korvapuustikesä / Maija Kajanto
14. Viestejä Saigonista / Danielle Steel
15. Without Reservations / Alice Steinbach
16. Varastettujen rukousten vuori / Jennifer Clement
17. Mitäs nyt tehdään? / Doris Dörrie
18. Tummanhopeinen meri / Susan Fletcher
19. Kuninkaan aamiainen / A. A. Milne
20. Khao Lakin sydämet / Marja-Leena Tiainen
21. Taatelitalvi / Maija Kajanto
22. The Various Flavours of Coffee / Anthony Capella
MARCH:
23. Myrskylasi / Anna-Kaisa Linna-Aho
24. Cover the Butter / Carrie Kabak
25. Enigma of China / Qiu Xiaolong
26. Jos joku ei just kohta nipistä mua pepusta, mä lähden kotiin / Anna-Karin Elde
27. Niinkuin kaikki muutkin / Margit Ravn
28. Kutsuvieraat / Lucy Foley
29. Lapinkylä / Annica Wennström
30. Mind Over Murder / Allison Kingsley
31. Kimppakämppä / Beth O'Leary
32. Pakumatkalla / Aino Huilaja
33. Piin elämä / Yann Martel
34. Death Is Like A Box Of Chocolates / Kathy Aarons
APRIL:
35. The Lacuna / Barbara Kingsolver
36. Vie De France: Sharing Food, Friendship, and a Kitchen in the Loire Valley / James Haller
37. Pyörre / Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
38. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close / Jonathan Safran Foer
39. Syyllisyys / Karin Alvtegen
40. Nora & Alicia / Cecilia Samartin
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