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wingNakipawing

Age 38
Joined Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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A note for senders/receivers of books of various sweeps/tags:

I am never in a hurry to receive a book, please take your time, whether that is a week or a year. You can send me updates, or not, at your leisure.
If you're supposed to receive something from me and you're not sure if I forgot about you, please PM me, at any time you feel necessary, I'll do my best to reply in a timely fashion.


Now Reading:

- The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste
- Thirst for Love - Yukio Mishima

Just read:

- O Apelo da Selva - Jack London

2023
- Case of the General's Thumb
Book - Andrey Kurkov
- A Horse Walks Into a Bar - David Grossman
- The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

2022
- Abóboras Em Flor - Dragoslav Mihailovic
- The Finishing School - Muriel Sparks
- Conta-me uma Adivinha - Tillie Olsen
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
- The Buddha in the Attic - Julie Otsuka
- Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
- A Reliquia - Eça de Queiroz
- Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Lisa See
- The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa
- O Quépi e Outros Contos - Colette
- A Senhora Koula - Ménis Koumandaréas
- The Girl in The Song: The Real Stories Behind 50 Classic Pop Songs - Michael Heatley & Frank Hopkinson
- Amesterdão - Ian McEwan
- The Princess Bride - William Goldman
- O Livro dos Camaleões - José Eduardo Agualusa
- O Naufrágio do Titanic - Joseph Conrad
- O Ano Do Pensamento Mágico - Joan Didion
- O Japão É Um Lugar Estranho - Peter Carey
- O Tio Vânia - Anton Tchékhov
- The Daydreamer - Ian MacEwan

2021
- The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
- A Backward Place - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
- Uma Desolação - Yasmina Reza
- A Livraria dos Dias Passados - Amy Meyerson
- The Lonely Polygamist - Brady Udall
- O Jogador - Fyodor Dostoevsky
- O Velho Que Lia Romances de Amor - Luís de Sepúlveda
- O Velho Pescador de Guanabara - Ribeiro Maçarico
- A Estalagem das Duas Bruxas - Joseph Conrad
- Longa Pétala de Mar - Isabel Allende
- The Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma
- The Book of Imaginary Beings - Jorge Luis Borges
- The Heart of a Dog - Mikhail B ul gakov
- Butcher's Crossing - John Williams
- Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Vegetariana - Han Kang
- Seda - Alessandro Baricco
- The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Uma Cana de Pesca para o Meu Avô - Gao Xingjian
2020
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
- Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey
- The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscas Wilde
- The Hodgeheg - Dick King-Smith
- How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common Or Garden Butcher's Dog - Johann Peter Hebel
- The Garden Of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges
- O Mistério Da Estrada de Sinta - Eça de Queiroz
- Food of Ghosts - Marianne Wheelaghan
- We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
- The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories - Tom Hanks
- The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
- When Nietzsche Wept - Irvin D. Yalom
- A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
- The Road - Cormac McCarthy
- A Sombra do Vento - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Sparks
- Suite Française - Irene Nemirovsky
- Eva - Peter Dickinson
- Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
- Mother's Milk - Edward St. Aubyn
- O Caso Morel - Rubem Fonseca
- Carta à Minha Filha - Maya Angelou
- The World According to Garp - John Irving
- Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
- Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
- Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
- The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
- Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn
- I'm Not Scared - Niccolo Ammaniti
- Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
- Nas Montanhas da Loucura - H.P. Lovecraft
- The Library of Shadows - Mikkel Birkegaard
- The Keepsake - Kirsty Gunn
- The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly - Jean-Dominique Bauby
- The Painted Veil - W. Sumerset Maugham
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
- A Month in The Country - J.L. Carr
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammed Hanif
- What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
- The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
- Carrie - Stephen King
- O Segredo - Charlotte Bronte
- Queria Ter Alguém à Minha Espera Num Sítio Qualquer - Anna Gavalda
- Redhill Rococo - Shena Mackay
- The Inheritance of Loss - Hiran Desai
- Seven Yorkshire Tales - James Herriot
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- It's Not An All Night Fair - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- The House in Paris - Elizabeth Bowen
- A Contadora de Filmes - Hernán Rivera Letelier
- Bad Karma - David Safier
- Se Isto É Um Homem - Primo Levi
- Solar - Ian McEwan
- The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
- The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon
- The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
- The Paperchase - Marcel Theroux
- The Light of Day - Graham Swift
- Wild Harbour - Ian Macpherson
- On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
- Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
- The Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
- The Island - Gary Paulsen
- Brick Lane - Monica Ali
- Room - Emma Donoghue
- Freedom - Jonathan Frazen
- The Film Club - David Gilmour
- O Homem que Comeu o 747 - Ben Sherwood
- The Colour out of Space - H.P. Lovecraft
- Do Lado de Cá do Mar - Philip Graham
- Um Toque de Perversão - Jennifer Haymore
- O Fundamentalista Relutante - Mohsin Hamid
- A Pale View of Hills - Kazuo Ishiguro
- Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri (BookRay started by SqueakyChu)
- Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd (sent by Ossiefry)
- Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen (sent by Ossiefry)
- The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave (BookRay started by imuzak12)
- Fly Me To The Moon - Alyson Noel (sent by bargainqueen)
- The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind (BookRay started by katrinat)
- Dawn - Elie Wiesel (Bookring started by imawinn2)
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir - Jeannette Walls (BookRing started by ruzena)
- Sushi For Begginers - Marian Keyes (Bookray Started by lauraloo29)
- 31 Songs - Nick Hornby
- Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov (sent by marsala)
- Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie (sent by yorkshire-lass)
- Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (sent by Soozreader)
- One Day - David Nicholls
- Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
- Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut (sent by shovelmonkey1)
- Small Island - Andrea Levi (sent by elstaplador)
- Swan Thieves - Elisabeth Kostova
- The Accidental - Ali Smith (sent by pippis)
- The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith
- The Pilot's Wife - Anita Shreve (Sent by wibba)
. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (sent by UnwrittenLibra)
- A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron (BookRing started by Jackie700)
- Nada - Carmen Laforet
- The Chosen One - Carol Lynch Williams
- No and Me - Delphine de Vigan
- Sula - Toni Morrison (Bookray started by oppem)
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows
(BookRay started by FeistyPom2Love)
- Rant: the Oral History of Buster Casey - Chuck Palahniuk (RABCK sent by
chucklesthescot)
- Wickham's Diary - Amanda Grange (BookRing started by NMReader)
- The Stillest Heart - Josephine Hart (BookRay started by Originalmulli)
- The Man in the Picture - A Ghost Story by Susan Hill ( BookRing started by footymadgill)
- Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster (Bookray started by shovelmonkey1)
- Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (Bookray started by tohweiee)
- Breakfast With Scot - Michael Downing (BookRing started by cinnamon-quill)
- The Shipping News - Annie Proulx (RABCK sent by Flambard)
- Tuesdays With Morrie - Mitch Albom (sent by ababaigalit)
- Briar Rose - Jane Yolen (Bookray started by klaradyn)
- Baa Baa Black Sheep - Rudyard Kipling (BookRay travelling the world)
- Juliet - Anne Fortier (BookRing started by Kiki66)
- Austenland - Shannon Hale (BookRay started by flewry)
- The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Legacy of Luna - Julia Butterfly Hill (BookRing started by FeistyPom2Love)
- Animal Farm - G. Orwell (sent to me from Austria by Ghanescha)



I've become addicted when I was just a kid. And now I collect them: Harry Potter Books from all over the world. :D

Already have Harry Potter Books from:

* Arabic Edition (sent by 2 wonderful bookcrossers, saarahoo and Kirjakko)
* Argentina (Given by marilina85)
* France (Kindly offered by VictoriaWagtail)
* Finland (Offered by Soozreader - Thank you!)
* Germany
* Hungary (Sent from Hakkalina)
* Japan
* The Netherlands
* Poland
* Portugal
* Russia
* Spain
* UK
* USA
* Wales (so nicely offered by sarahoo)
* Latin
* Chinese (unexpected gift from BaiLong)
* Greek (Nicely offered by aigliz)
* Swedish (a Valentine's gift from Pikkis)


I am also reading through the 1001 books list and these are the ones I read so far or on my TBR Pile (sorted by Author)

- Ackroyd, Peter - The Lambs of London (READ)
- Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi - Half of a Yellow Sun (READ)
- Alcott, Louisa May - Little Women (READ)
- Allende, Isabel - The House of the Spirits (TBR)
- Ammaniti, Niccolo - I'm not Scared (TBR)
- Austen, Jane - Emma (TBR)
- Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey (TBR)
- Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility (TBR)
- Austen, Jane - Pride And Prejudice (TBR)
- Austen, Jane - Persuasion (TBR)
- Auster, Paul - Mr. Vertigo (READ)
- Balzac, Honoré de - Le Pére Goriot (TBR)
- Brönte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (TBR)
- Brönte, Emily - Wuthering Heights (TBR)
- Bulgakov, Mikhail - The Master and Margarita (READ)
- Camus, Albert - The Plague (READ)
- Capote, Truman - Breakfast at Tiffany's (READ)
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (READ)
- Carroll, Lewis - Through The Looking Glass (READ)
- Cervantes, Miguel - Don Quixote (TBR)
- Cleland, John - Fanny Hill (TBR)
- Coelho, Paulo - The Devil and Miss Pym (READ)
- Coelho, Paulo - Veronika Decides to Die (READ)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot (TBR)
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (READ)
- Eco, Umberto - The Name of the Rose (READ)
- Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate (READ)
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby (TBR)
- Golding, William - Lord of the Flies (TBR)
- Jelinek, Elfriede - The Piano Teacher (TBR)
- Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (TBR)
- Kafka, Franz - The Trial (READ)
- Kafka, Franz - The Castle (TBR)
- Lawrence, D.H. - Women in Love (TBR)
- Lovecraft, H.P. - At the Mountains of Madness (TBR)
- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia - One Hundred Years of Solitude (READ)
- McEwan, Ian - Atonement (TBR)
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Capricorn (TBR)
- Miller, Henry - Tropic of Cancer (TBR)
- Morrison, Toni - Sula (READ)
- Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore (READ)
- Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart (TBR)
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita (TBR)
- Nin, Anaïs - Delta of Venus (TBR)
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm (READ)
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and The Pendulum (READ)
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The fall of the House of Usher (READ)
- Proulx, Annie - The Shipping News (READ)
- Reage, Pauline - The Story of O (TBR)
- Rhys, Jean - Wide Sargasso Sea (TBR)
- Rice, Anne - Interview With the Vampire (READ)
- Roth, Philip - American Pastoral (TBR)
- Rushdie, Salman - The God of Small Things (TBR)
- Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses (TBR)
- Sade, Marquis de - Justine (TBR)
- Saint-Exupery, Antoine de - The Little Prince (TBR)
- Self, Will - Great Apes (TBR)
- Shikibu, Murasaki - The Tale of Genji (TBR)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TBR)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Treasure Island (TBR)
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula (READ)
- Suskind, Partick - The Perfume (READ)
- Thompson, Hunter - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (READ)
- Tolstoy, Leo - The Death of IvanIlyich (TBR)
- Verne, Julius - Around the World in 80 Days (READ)
- Voltaire - Candid (TBR)
- Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5 (READ)
- Welsh, Irvine - Trainspotting (TBR)
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence (TBR)
- Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray (READ)

For the Holidays, Secret Santas and other arrangements feel free to send me things you'd like to receive yourself. I'm always happy with:

- unused postcards
- written letters
- bookcrossing labels and stickers (official and un-official)
- tea
- anything stationary related
- I collect Harry potter's books from different countries (see above the ones I have already)

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