I am a keen reader with an interest in human interest writings particularly as they impact on women and families in society. I love to chew through crime stories, I like to feel the edgy feeling of unexplained fear and problem solving.




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BOOKS READ in 2006

January
S is for Silence - Sue Grafton
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve
The Bronze Horseman -Paullina Simons
White Thorn - Bryce Courtenay
Surrogate Mother (One Woman's Story) - Kirsty Stevens
Tully - Paullina Simons (loaned to me by a workmate)
Plain Truth - Jodi Picoult (bookring organised by pinkozcat)
Ono - Dorota Terakowska (written in Polish loaned to me by a friend)
Tears of the Giraffe - No 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith
(This was a RABCK from Ihatetoast - Thanks)

February
The First Casualty - Ben Elton
Undead and Unwed - Mary Jane Davidson (Bookring started by leeny37)
Food Sex and Money - Liz Byrski (bookring organised by pinkozcat)

March
Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult (bookring organuised bt pinkozcat)
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Magical Thinking - Augusten Burroughs

April
Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan

May
The ExWife's Survival Guide - Debby Holt
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - Ayelet Waldman
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller
The Tenth Circle - Jodi Picoult
Blue Shoes and Happiness - Alexander McCall Smith

June
The Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albon
There, Where The Pepper Tree Grows - Bem Le Hunte (Bookring by pinkozcat)
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Knitting - Anne Bartlett

July / August
Not Happy John
Anybody Out There? - Marian Keyes
Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes

September


Bookring instructions:

1. SIGN UP for this bookring by sending me a Private Message. Order of participants will be juggled between geography and date of request. Late additions may be added to the end of the list.

2. When the person before you on the list finishes reading the book, they will send you a Private Message for your postal address. If you are experiencing an RBC (Reading Backlog Crisis) or no longer wish to read it, let them (and me!) know and I will move/remove you down/off the list.

3. WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE BOOK please make a journal entry so everyone knows it has safely arrived.

4. WHEN YOU FINISH THE BOOK, make another journal entry telling us what you thought - did you like it? Did you think it was well-written?

5. CONTINUE THE BOOKRING by sending a Private Message to the person after you on the bookring list and request their postal address. Please check back here for the latest distribution list. If the person doesn't respond within 7-10 days (use your judgement), please PM the next person, and then me, so I can update the bookring list.

Please keep your journal entries up-to-date so we know who the book is currently with, or whether it is still in the postal system. Thank you and happy reading!

Bookrings Available

Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller

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crimson-tide (prefers to be further in the list)
All Completed now sent on to my daughter in Melbourne