istop4books
From Castle Rock, Colorado USA
Age 67
Joined Sunday, July 17, 2005
Home page istop4books.wordpress.com
Recent Book Activity
The Seamstress
6 Rainier Drive (Cedar Cove Series #6)
Holiday Blessings: Thanksgiving Prayer/The Risk of Loving/Home for the Holidays
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
The Sixteen Pleasures: A Novel
Rookery Blues
Don't Stop the Carnival: A Novel
Disobedience: A Novel
The Virgin's Lover
Peony in Love: A Novel (ARC)
The English Patient
All the Pretty Horses
Where or When?
Prodigal Summer
Voices of the Desert: A novel
The edible woman
A Soldier of the Great War
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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books registered | 0 | 664 |
released in the wild | 0 | 64 |
controlled releases | 0 | 137 |
releases caught | 0 | 3 |
controlled releases caught | 0 | 40 |
books found | 0 | 54 |
tell-a-friend referrals | 0 | 0 |
new member referrals | 0 | 6 |
forum posts | 0 | 2,838 |
Extended Profile
I don't see responses to any of my forum posts and quite frankly I've tired of the endless and obtrusive advertising to non-winged members. While I understand the need of the site to generate money, when I compare this site to other free sites like goodreads or Ravelry, it falls so far short that I find myself coming here with less and less frequency. Please be aware that this page is not up to date and neither are my bookshelves. It's a shame as at one time I just loved this site. The bickering and snide remarks that come from chit chat did not help either and I took my limited time for book socializing to a site with monitored forums where that sort of thing just isn't tolerated.
I'm open to any trades from my AVL or TBR if I can find something to trade for from your AVLs. I love sending and receiving RABCKs - RINGS and RAYS: feel free to contact me if you think I might be interested in one of your rings or rays.
You can take a look at my "books read" columns for an idea of what I like. Among the things I won't read -- horror, vampire-themes, true crime, scifi, christian lit, most chick lit, most thrillers (Nelson DeMille is my totally illogical exception!
GOALS 2011
1. 60 books off Mt. TBR, whether read or discarded: 8/60
2. 20,000+ pages: 1680 pgs
3. 12 non fiction: 2/12
4. Over 600 hours read: 47
5. To read 6 older authors (Pearl Buck, Steinbeck, etc): 1/6
6. 4 books in Spanish:
7. Read 10 books from the 1001 books to read list
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GOALS 2010
1. 46 books off Mt. TBR: 46/46 Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
2. 20,000+ pages:19981/20,221= 100+% of goal Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
3. 12 non fiction:12/12Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
4. to keep track of time spent reading: over 532 hours
5. To read 6 classics (or pre WW1 or written by a classic author)Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
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Bookrays/Bookrings I am Hosting
People of the Book OPEN
The Book Thief OPEN
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women OPEN AND REVIVED WITH A NEW COPY
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman OPEN
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The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad CLOSED
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III CLOSED
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith CLOSED
March by Geraldine Brooks CLOSED
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READING GOALS 2009
Read 45 books from Mt. TBR, Read 7 longer books (500+pgs), 20 non-fiction books, and 1 classic (out of the 6 I intended to read) Read well over 20,000 pages.
Books Read in 2009
Books Read in 2008
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Books Read in 2007
Books Read in 2006
THE TO-BE-READ ALPHA AUTHOR LIST
The idea is to read through my TBR list in ABC order by author, reading at least one book from each letter on my shelf. Of course I reserve the right to throw in other books in between other for book club, rays or pleasure!
A - Al Aswany, Yacoubian Building
..... Ali, Infidel
..... Austen, Pride and Prejudice
..... Aidoo, Changes
...... Atwood, The handmaid's Tale
B - Binchy, The Return Journey
..... Binchy, Whitethorn Woods
..... Benitez, Bitter Grounds
..... Berg, Open House
C - Chevalier - The Virgin Blue
.....Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
D - DeBlasi - A Thousand Days in Venice
..... Despres - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc
E - No E authors, all sent to the AVL list
F - Feiler, Abraham
,,,,,Fasman, The Geographer's Library
.....Faulks, The girl at the Lion D'Or
.....Follett, Pillars of the Earth
G - Golden-Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad
.....Grafton, P is for Peril
.....Gibbons, Divining Women - dropped
.....Gordimer, The House Gun
H....Hornby, About a Boy
.....Herriot, Cat Stories
.....Hamill, Snow in August
.....Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
.....Hicks, Widow of the South
I....
J....
K....Kane, Savages
L....Lansky, There's No Toilet Paper
M....Mukherjee, Jasmine
.....Mistry, Family Matters
.....Mar, Paper Daughter
N....Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
O....O'Shaughnessy, Writ of Execution
P....Pausch, The Last Lecture
Q....Quinlan, Blessings - not read
R....Richards, A year of Fog
.....Roberts, Shantaram
S....Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle
.....Smith, Alexander McCall, Morality for Beautiful Women
.....Szpilman,The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
T....Thornton, Lawrence, Imagining Argentina
.....Taylor, Peter, A Summons to Memphis
U....
V....Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven
W....Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
X....
Y....
Z....Zoya, Zoya's Story
RINGS AND RAYS
The 19th Wife<----book mailed out 8/17/2009
Foreign Correspondence
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Wild release notes:
Left at Scooter's Coffeehouse at 180th & Welch Plaza (1 block north of 180th & "Q"). Left on a round tabletop against the north wall, towards the back of the coffeehouse at 11:30 A.M. It has a bright Bookcrossing label on the cover with a Bookcrossing bookmark inside. If you find this book, please journal here so that previous readers can track the book's journey. You can remain anonymous if you wish or you can create your own Bookcrossing name & profile & join in the fun of releasing books "into the wild".
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1. 46 books off Mt. TBR: 46/46 Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
2. 20,000+ pages:19981/20,221= 100+% of goal Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
3. 12 non fiction:12/12Goal Accomplished on 11/11/10
4. to keep track of time spent reading: over 532 hours
5. To read 6 classics (or pre WW1 or written by a classic author)Goal Accomplished on 12/1/10
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People of the Book OPEN
The Book Thief OPEN
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women OPEN AND REVIVED WITH A NEW COPY
Tales of a Female Nomad by Rita Golden Gelman OPEN
bookcrossing.com/---/J_8672199 > The Sex Lives of Cannibals: adrift in Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost OPEN - STALLED BY KIRI
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad CLOSED
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III CLOSED
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith CLOSED
March by Geraldine Brooks CLOSED
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Read 45 books from Mt. TBR, Read 7 longer books (500+pgs), 20 non-fiction books, and 1 classic (out of the 6 I intended to read) Read well over 20,000 pages.
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>
The idea is to read through my TBR list in ABC order by author, reading at least one book from each letter on my shelf. Of course I reserve the right to throw in other books in between other for book club, rays or pleasure!
A - Al Aswany, Yacoubian Building
..... Ali, Infidel
..... Austen, Pride and Prejudice
..... Aidoo, Changes
...... Atwood, The handmaid's Tale
B - Binchy, The Return Journey
..... Binchy, Whitethorn Woods
..... Benitez, Bitter Grounds
..... Berg, Open House
C - Chevalier - The Virgin Blue
.....Coelho - Veronika Decides to Die
D - DeBlasi - A Thousand Days in Venice
..... Despres - The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc
E - No E authors, all sent to the AVL list
F - Feiler, Abraham
,,,,,Fasman, The Geographer's Library
.....Faulks, The girl at the Lion D'Or
.....Follett, Pillars of the Earth
G - Golden-Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad
.....Grafton, P is for Peril
.....Gibbons, Divining Women - dropped
.....Gordimer, The House Gun
H....Hornby, About a Boy
.....Herriot, Cat Stories
.....Hamill, Snow in August
.....Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange
.....Hicks, Widow of the South
I....
J....
K....Kane, Savages
L....Lansky, There's No Toilet Paper
M....Mukherjee, Jasmine
.....Mistry, Family Matters
.....Mar, Paper Daughter
N....Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
O....O'Shaughnessy, Writ of Execution
P....Pausch, The Last Lecture
Q....Quinlan, Blessings - not read
R....Richards, A year of Fog
.....Roberts, Shantaram
S....Smith, Dodie, I Capture the Castle
.....Smith, Alexander McCall, Morality for Beautiful Women
.....Szpilman,The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
T....Thornton, Lawrence, Imagining Argentina
.....Taylor, Peter, A Summons to Memphis
U....
V....Van Praagh, Talking to Heaven
W....Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld
X....
Y....
Z....Zoya, Zoya's Story
The 19th Wife<----book mailed out 8/17/2009
Foreign Correspondence
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Wild release notes:
Left at Scooter's Coffeehouse at 180th & Welch Plaza (1 block north of 180th & "Q"). Left on a round tabletop against the north wall, towards the back of the coffeehouse at 11:30 A.M. It has a bright Bookcrossing label on the cover with a Bookcrossing bookmark inside. If you find this book, please journal here so that previous readers can track the book's journey. You can remain anonymous if you wish or you can create your own Bookcrossing name & profile & join in the fun of releasing books "into the wild".