Recent Book Activity
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
The Mists of Avalon
Girl With a Pearl Earring: A Novel
A God in Ruins: A Novel
Jesus Land: A Memoir
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel
Evidence of Things Unseen : A Novel
The Kite Runner
The Shadow of the Wind
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
American Fuji
All the light we cannot see
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books registered | 0 | 237 |
released in the wild | 0 | 188 |
controlled releases | 0 | 1 |
releases caught | 0 | 27 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 0 |
books found | 0 | 5 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 1 |
new member referrals | 0 | 7 |
forum posts | 0 | 83 |
Extended Profile
I am an instructor of biological anthropology at a local community college. For my PhD, I studied the evolution of locomotion in South and Central American monkeys--hence, "Monkey Girl". I joined bookcrossing when it was less than one year old, and I remember
sharing emails with founder Ron Hornbaker at that time about the logistics of the site (entering books, managing my profile, etc.). I loved how enthusiastic, friendly and helpful he was.
Before I had kids when I travelled more, I always purchased used books to take with me when traveling so I could just leave the books where I was when I finished them. This bookcrossing web site is great because now I can see what happened to these released books. Through bookcrossing, I have discovered books that I probably never would have looked at otherwise. I also ended up with a weird assortment of books on my bookcrossing bookshelf. Too bad it doesn't include all the books I have read through the library or through sharing books with my mother-in-law and other friends. (I keep track of those using Goodreads.com, a great website.)
Over the years, my use of bookcrossing has waxed and waned. When I had my kids, I didn’t have as much time to read or travel, and so I did a lot less bookcrossing. Now that my kids are a little older, I am able to read a bit more. On May 29, 2014, we put a Little Free Library in front of our house and after twelve years of bookcrossing, I finally have my own Official Bookcrossing Zone and I am back to bookcrossing with a vengeance. Yay!
Other hobbies besides reading: hanging out with my husband, son, daughter and friends, camping and hiking (when we get the chance), needlepoint, evolutionary biology, and putting up with my crazy old cat.
That is a howler monkey skull in the photo above.
Visitors since June 30, 2002:
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Before I had kids when I travelled more, I always purchased used books to take with me when traveling so I could just leave the books where I was when I finished them. This bookcrossing web site is great because now I can see what happened to these released books. Through bookcrossing, I have discovered books that I probably never would have looked at otherwise. I also ended up with a weird assortment of books on my bookcrossing bookshelf. Too bad it doesn't include all the books I have read through the library or through sharing books with my mother-in-law and other friends. (I keep track of those using Goodreads.com, a great website.)
Over the years, my use of bookcrossing has waxed and waned. When I had my kids, I didn’t have as much time to read or travel, and so I did a lot less bookcrossing. Now that my kids are a little older, I am able to read a bit more. On May 29, 2014, we put a Little Free Library in front of our house and after twelve years of bookcrossing, I finally have my own Official Bookcrossing Zone and I am back to bookcrossing with a vengeance. Yay!
Other hobbies besides reading: hanging out with my husband, son, daughter and friends, camping and hiking (when we get the chance), needlepoint, evolutionary biology, and putting up with my crazy old cat.
That is a howler monkey skull in the photo above.
Visitors since June 30, 2002:
Free counters provided by Andale.