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Dove-i-Libri

From Cape Coral, Florida USA

Age 61

Joined Friday, November 14, 2003

Home page www.crown-of-bounty.blogspot.com/

Friends of Dove-i-Libri (100)

Dove-i-Libri's Books:

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Gone with the Windsors

Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney

The Dress lodger

the longest trip home

The Drowning Tree

To Die For

The Things We Do For Love

Stoner's Crossing (Lone Star Legacy Book 2)

Little Miss Giggles

Little Miss Bossy

Mr. Tickle

Little Miss Sunshine

Reader's Digest Young Families CINDERELLA

The Bubble Factory

Percy The Perfectly Imperfect Chicken

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

The happy day

Chrysanthemum

I Sat Beside an Elephant

There's a Hole in My Pocket

Statistics	4 weeks	all time
books registered	71	2,468
released in the wild	86	2,001
controlled releases	14	924
releases caught	0	488
controlled releases caught	9	646
books found	7	956
tell-a-friend referrals	0	622
new member referrals	0	17
forum posts	12	10,090

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"She is too fond of books and it has addled her brain."
In the novel Work: A Story of Experience
by Louisa May Alcott
This just describes me to a T! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Every time I see my pink ribbons, I am thankful to the BookCrosser who surprised me! Thank you for supporting BookCrossing in this way!
July 15, 2018: Wow! Someone has extended my RIBBONS! THANK YOU!
Sept 4, 2021: I just noticed that someone extended my ribbons until December 13, 2021! THANK YOU!
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Except for controlled releases, we never really get any captures with
journal entries. But July 12, 2017, I got an e-mail telling me about a book I released in 2008!
Irresistible Forces by Danielle Steele
Never thought we'd hear from that book again! LOL!

And? Another one. Ten years later, but here it is!
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small,
come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards,
The Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter,
"Look, these need no reward. We have nothing else to give them.
They have loved reading." ~~ Virginia Woolf
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WE DID IT!
WE REGISTERED 1,000 BOOKS
ON NOVEMBER 29, 2008 . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ COMBINATION BOOK RING AND RECIPE JOURNAL!
Started November 2013!
Sadly, Terminally Stalled by STEPHARIO
The School of Essential Ingredients (Link)

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It's Home! It's Home! What a fun Book Ring!
A Puzzling Journey BookRing (Link)
... A pretty little word search puzzle book that started its journey in February 2013!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ International Recipe Journals
December 2007: ~~Sadly, these journals have *ALL* gone missing. That is especially upsetting, though, because so many people poured a lot of energy and creativity into them.~~
February 2008: ~~Well, one of the journals has started traveling again! That's great! But I still feel bad for the participants in the other journals who made really nice pages.~~
June 2011: Oh, well ... lost again. This time, I am not holding out hope for it. So sad, so much time, effort and work.
~~Book 1 (Click Here!)~~ (Lost)
~~Book 2 (Click Here!)~~ (Lost)
~~Book 3 (Click Here!)~~ (Lost)
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And? ANOTHER Project Lost in Cyberspace!
Mom i Libri read ~WOMEN WHO LOVE BOOKS TOO MUCH~ and thought that other women BookCrossers might like it, too, so I formed a Book Ring/RABCK Chain! Addicted to books? Who, Us? ☺ ~~Women Who Love Books Too Much (Book 1) Click Here!~~ (Lost)
~~Women Who Love Books Too Much (Book 2) Click Here!~~ (Lost)
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All right, NOW ... Whittling away at that "To Be Read" Mountain! You may ask, "How's it going?" Well, Let's see! (I'll update as often as I can.)
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OFFERED FOR RABCK AT Dove-i-Libri's 2023 RABCK THREAD (Link), AND WAITING TO BE CLAIMED:
David Copperfield (Link)
The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy (Link)
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CURRENTLY READING:
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman on Audiobook. I've already sent the actual book off as a RABCK.
White Christmas Pie by Wanda E Brunstetter (Link)
Ford County Stories by John Grisham (Link)
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TO BE READ NEXT ("SHORT LIST")
Zorro by Isabel Allende (Link) TBR since 2010! KTM)
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (Link) TBR since March 2021 (KTM)
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While I'm trying to reduce "Mount To Be Read," I'm going to be seriously attacking my saved-up series, one of which is Kathy Reichs' "Temperance Brennen" series. It's the forensic anthropologist/author whose books the TV series Bones is based on! Since I LOVED the first few seasons of that show, I read the first novel. And now I'm hooked!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Who is Dové-i-Libri?
Since my mom started me on a lifelong love affair with books by reading out loud to my sister and me at bedtime, I have never looked back! The first book I remember her reading to us was Bambi.

I enjoy reading anything I can get my hands on. Love historical fiction, contemporary fiction, mysteries and thrillers; authors like Joanne Harris, Barbara Kingsolver, Anita Shreve, Carol Shields, Adriana Trigiani, Anne Tyler, Susan Vreeland, Tracey Chevalier, PD James, Faye Kellerman, Sue Grafton, Janet Evanovich, Nikki French, SO many others!

We are participating in BookCrossing as a family activity and hope to track some of our books to far-away places! That's why you will see adult books AND children's books here. My husband and I are sharing the same "bookshelf" with the boys, and up until recently (Feb. 2008!) even my sister in NYC - TiTi i Libri, who FINALLY started her own bookshelf as BookCrosser "Capricorn0103"

Oh, No!!! THE HULK has stolen our books! Help us, Help us, Please!
Added Dec. 26, 2003: I KNOW that our books are being "caught," we have even excitedly watched people pick them up and take them, but it seems that no one is actually logging on to journal them. Oh, well. We will be doing more controlled releases from now on.

Can you see the "Secretly Released" book in this photo taken July 29, 2007?
Hee Hee Hee!
Added February 18, 2004: We have relocated from Brooklyn, NY to Fort Myers in S.W. Florida. Hoping that our releases will be caught and journaled!

Added March 13, 2004: I have a HUGE Wish List and I'm willing to pay postage, trade, start book rings, make up book boxes, whatever you want. The only thing is that I release the books I've already read, so I don't usually have a lot "Available" at any given time if you want to trade. I am always open to trades for postage or for a book marked TBR, though. I'll read it and send it along!

Added February 27, 2010: Well SEVEN years or so have come and gone, the Librettos are now practically men on their own, and what had started out as a family activity has become sort of "Mom's Pet Project." Which, I guess, is fine. So, you'll be seeing LESS children's books and YA books, and the bookshelf will reflect more of my own reading tastes, give or take the books I happen to "pick up" just for sharing through BookCrossing!
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What kind of bookcrosser are you Your Result: Playfull RBACKer Sent it as a gift, that's what you say. You are a daily visitor of the rback site. Releasing might be fun, but now I know for sure my book finds someone who actually wants it. Just admit it, you just love to giftwrap.
ring in bundles
Talk of the toy
Obsessive releaser
Thematic dropper
Love to meet
lucky lurker
strange looking bystander
What kind of bookcrosser are you Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

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Which Classic Novel Do YOU Belong In?
From an old quiz at Quizilla.com (Remember Quizilla?)

Darling, it seems that you belong in Gone with the Wind, the proper place for a true romantic. You belong in a tumultuous world of changes and opportunity where your independence paves the road for your survival. It is difficult being both a cynic and a dreamer, no?

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Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence

You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.

An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.

You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view.

A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.

You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.

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