In the picture Õnneseen, our very new dog:) Well, now he has grown and is not quite that cute anymore - but very lovable still.

I like Finnish, English and American contemporary fiction. Some of my favourites include Bo Carpelan, Kjell Westö, Tove Jansson (I know, that's only authors writing in Swedish), Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Nick Hornby, Carol Joyce Oates, Carol Shields. I try to keep reading in French too, but there I am a bit at a loss, I haven't really found contemporary authors I'd really like. Guy de Maupassant is a great favourite though, and now that Milan Kundera writes in French I read him too. In Swedish I mainly read authors from Finland, but my absolute Nordic favourite is Peter Hoeg.

As I live in Helsinki, I use the public library quite a lot, so books labelled PC might mean Public Collection (and alas, not mine to give forward). I also borrow a lot from my parents, especially my mother keeps me busy with English novels, so PC might mean Parents' Collection as well:) Those that are actually in my personal collection I might consider lending, so it doesn't hurt to ask.

Besides of reading I love my boyfriend (I didn't quite succeed in trying to make him a bookcrosser too:), my dog, travelling and sailing. A lot of my time is taken up by volunteering in an association organising humanist coming of age camps for young people in the summer (here's the webpage to know more - also in English www.protu.fi)

I read a lot for my studies and work, but it doesn't count for me as "proper" reading; here I'm going to list the books I've read for pleasure (or released or found) since discovering bookcrossing in November 2003.

Bookrings / rays I'm in (and I'm learning HTML! Thank you yvi-1 for the article):

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (YowlYY)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Carax)sent forward 23/2/05
Allah n'est pas obligé par Ahmadou Kourouma (michmaarufa)renvoyé le 03/01/05
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (GlasgowGal)sent forward 21/10/04
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi (newk)sent forward
La vie mode d'emploie par Georges Perec (scruinize)sent forward 19/04/04
Sans feu ni lieu par Fred Vargas (lesezeichen)
La joueuse de go par Shan Sa (lesezeichen)
The Greatest Gift by Danny Leigh (robert-walker)sent forward 03/01/05
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (GlasgowGal)sent forward 15/10/04
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells (Blithe10)sent forward 21/06/04
Le Vent des Khazars par Marek Halter (raphink)
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (Fofum) passed forward 27/04/04
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (thesilentsidhe)
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith (jawin) sent forward 7/5/04
The Lives of Animals by J.M.Coetzee (Plinius)sent forward 15/10/04
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas (kristamd)sent forward 05/07/04
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (Mrrr)recieved 01/02/06
Persepolis 4 par Marjane Satrapi (boucli)sent forward 01/06/04
14,99e par Frédéric Beigdeber (anamela)recu le 2/09/05
The No1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (arturogrande)
The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler (Leighspeak)
Oracle Night by Paul Auster (bookmaniac70)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (stardustedangel)
Madame Bâ par Erik Orsenna (scruinize)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (eucalia)sent forward
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan (erbie)sent forward
Bird song by Sebastien Faulks (goatgrrl)sent forward
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang by Joyce Carol Oates (goatgrrl)passed forward 11/02/05
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (tho)sent forward 16/08/04
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (jenvince)
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (Kernow8) sent forward 25/11/04
African Journals of Petros Amm by Michael J Hunt (YokoSpungeon) sent forward 18/04/05
Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran by Terrence Ward (kristamd)

My Wish List
Thank you Cliff1976, it was really easy:)