About me...I live out in the country in a small town that's actually considered a ghost town. I love reading (of course), working on scrapbooks, crocheting, collecting vintage photographs, & playing with my 2 nieces & 3 nephews.

I read just about anything. I like reading new authors & won't put down a book just because I don't like it. Curiosity gets the best of me & I have to see how every book ends. Right now, my favorite authors are Mary Higgins Clark, Megan Crane, John Saul, & J.K. Rowling (like I said, I'll read anything!).

I do have an updated profile on RABCK.com.

My birthday: September 16th
My birthday buddy: Marilina85 (Sept 7th)


What I've Read in 2013:

January:
1. The Third Gate--Lincoln Child
2. Miss Zukas & the Stroke of Death--Jo Dereske
3. Enclave--Ann Aguirre
4. Are You There God? It's Me Margaret--Judy Blume

February:
1. The Inquisitor's Key--Jefferson Bass
2. The Doll in the Garden--Mary Downing Hahn

March:
1. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone--J.K. Rowling
2. My Life in Pink & Green--Lisa Greenwald

April:
1. Divergent--Veronica Roth
2. Insurgent--Veronica Roth

May:
1. Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone--J.K. Rowling
2. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets--J.K. Rowling
3. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban--J.K. Rowling

June:
1. Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason--Seth Andrews
2. The Duck Commander Family--Willie & Korie Robertson w/Mark Schlabach
3. Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life & Legacy as the Duck Commander--Phil Robertson & Mark Schlabach



What I've Read in 2012:

January:
1. Undeniable--Gayle Eden
2. Sliding into Home--Kendra Wilkinson
3. Unicorn Bait--S.A. Hunter
4. Sorcha's Heart--Debbie Mumford

February:
1. Catching Fire--Sizanne Collins
2. The Mating--Nicky Charles
3. Moving to Hawaii: 2011--Mike Fook
4. Mockingjay--Suzanne Collins
5. Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman--Dorothy Sterling
6. The City of Ember--Jeanne DuPrau

March:
1. The People of Sparks--Jeanne DuPrau
2. The Prophet of Yonwood--Jeanne DuPrau
3. The Diamond of Darkhold--Jeanne DuPrau
4. Dear George--George Burns

April:
1. Heart of a Cowboy--Reeyce Smythe Wilder
2. Daughter of Time--Sarah Woodbury
3. Glass Slippers Give You Blisters--Mary Jane Auch
4. Prisoner of My Desire--Johanna Lindsey
5. The Grimm Legacy--Polly Shulman

May:
1. Fifty Shade of Grey--E.L. James
2. Lost on Route 66: Tales From the Mother Road--edited by Katelyn Bohl & Eric Wilder
3. Nim's Island--Wendy Orr

June:
1. Fifty Shades Darker--E.L. James
2. Tiger Eye--Marjorie M. Liu

July:
1. The Ghost at Dawn's House--Ann M. Martin
2. Bubba the Cowboy Prince: A Fractured Texas Tale--Helen Ketteman
3. The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life--Jennifer Worick
4. Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters--John Steptol

August:
1. Boys, Bears, & A Serious Pair of Hiking Boots--Abby McDonald
2. Tulsa's Haunted Memories--Teri French

September:
1. Miracle--Katherine Sutcliffe
2. Intentions of the Earl--Rose Gordon
3. Confessions of a Prairie Bitch--Alison Arngrim
4. Lady Deception--Rizzo Rosko

October:
1. Little House in the Big Woods--Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. Farmer Boy--Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. The Private World of Tasha Tudor--Tasha Tudor & Richard Brown
4. Little House on the Prairie--Laura Ingalls Wilder

November:
1. The Little Pink Book of Etiquette--Ruth Cullen
2. Lady of Devices--Shelley Adina

December:
1. Fifty Shades Freed--EL James
2. The Bride & the Brute--Laurel O'Donnell




BBC's The Big Read "Top 200" books I've read (so far)

READ: 33
HAVE NOT READ: 167

1. The Lord of the Rings--JRR Tolkien
2. Pride & Prejudice--Jane Austen
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy--Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire--JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird---Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh--AA Milne
10. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
15. The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
17. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
18. Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
21. Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone--JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets--JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban--JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit--JRR Tolkien
32. One Hunderd Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38. Persuasion--Jane Austen
40. Emma--Jane Austen
43. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgeral
47. A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens
51. The Secret Garden--Frances Hodgson Burnett
63. A Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens
70. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
99. The Princess Diaries--Meg Cabot
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
136. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
170. Charlotte's Web--E.B. White
171. Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
173. The Old Man & the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
188. Goosebumps--R.L. Stine
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
194. The War of the Worlds--H.G. Wells
199. The Very Hungry Caterpiller--Eric Carle




"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" (2012 edition) books I've read (so far), in no particular order:

1. A Modest Proposal--Jonathan Swift
2. Candide--Voltaire
3. Sense & Sensibility--Jane Austen
4. Pride & Prejudice--Jane Austen
5. Emma--Jane Austen
6. Frankenstein--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
7. Last of the Mohicans--James Fenimore Cooper
8. The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe
9. The Pit & the Pendulum--Edgar Allan Poe
10. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
11. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
12. Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
14. The War of the Worlds--H.G. Wells
15. The Call of the Wild--Jack London
16. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell
18. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
19. The Power & the Glory--Graham Greene
20. The End of the Affair--Graham Greene
21. The Cather in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
22. The Old Man & the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
23. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
24. The Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkien
25. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
26. A Clockwork Orange--Anthony Burgess
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28. The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
29. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
30. The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
31. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink

And only 970 more to go!!