UPDATE 22 December, 2013

Originally from East Coast Australia, spent about 6 years in remote NT & now living in beautiful WA just south of Perth. Feel very lucky to have lived in such wonderful places. Love the sunshine, blue skies & lazy days (when I can get them). I've fallen off the bookcrossing wagon of late due to other commitments, but still a believer! xx

MY BIO: I'm currently reading




BOOKS READ (including audio) 2011

84] The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl (Currently reading)
83] Aesop's Fables 1001
82] The Old Man & the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1001
81] The Happiest Refugee by Ahn Do
80] Dark Alchemy by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois (ed.)
79] Paula by Isabel Allende
78] The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
77] The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
76] April Raintree by Beatrice Cullen
75] Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke (again)
74] Inkspell by Cornelia Funke (again)
73] Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (again)
72] Destination Saigon by Walter Mason
71] Inspiration Sandwich by SARK
70] Up a Tree in the Park at Night With a Hedgehog by P. Robert Smith
69] Quiver by Tobsha Learner
68] Mr Golightly's Holiday by Salley Vickers
67] The Lost Life by Steven Carroll
66] House Rules by Jodi Picoult
65] Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford 1001
64] Evening Class by Maeve Binchy
63] Girl With the Green Eyes By Edna O'Brien 1001
62] Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J K Rowling (again)
61] Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by J K Rowling (again)
60] Harry Potter & the Order of the Pheonix by J K Rowling (again)
59] Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire J K Rowling (again)
58] Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling (again)
57] Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling (again)
56] Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling (again)
55] Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland
54] ... Then Nothing Will Fail By Ted Kazmierski
53] The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal By Sean Dixon
52] Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
51] The Believers by Zoe Heller
50] Leaving Home by Anita Brookner
49] The Fern Tattoo By David Brooks
48] Nancy Wake By Peter Fitzsimmons
47] High Fidelity By Nick Hornby
46] If You're Reading This Book it is Already too Late by Pseudonym Bosch
(currently reading with Eliza)
45] The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco 1001
44] The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
43] Orpheous Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
42] Beloved by Toni Morrison 1001
41] Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
40] The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
39] The Floating Opera By John Barth 1001
38] Noah Barleywater Runs Away By John Boyne
37] Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 1001
36] If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things By Jon McGregor
35] Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
34] Heavy Water & other stories By Martin Amis
33] The Ghosts of Sleath By James Herbert
32] Confessions of a Shopaholic By Sophie Kinsella
31] In the Dark By Mark Billington
30] 10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year by Various Authors
29] The Passage to India By E. M. Forster 1001
28] The Name of this Book is Secret By Pseudonym Bosch (with Eliza)
27] The Hunger Games Mockingjay By Suzanne Collins
26] The Hunger Games Catching Fire By Suzanne Collins
25] The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
24] The Virgin Blue By Tracy Chevalier
23] The Almost Moon By Alice Sebold
22] The Thirteenth Tale By Diane Setterfield
21] The Lover By Marguerite Duras 1001
20] The Daredevil Book for Cats: What cats really think By Nick Griffiths (with Eliza)
19] The Book of Lost Things By John Connolly
18] 'Tis By Frank McCourt
17] Angela's Ashes By Frank McCourt
16] Where Rainbows End By Cecilia Ahern
15] Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer By Steven Millhauser
14] Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte 1001 - again
13] 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea By Jules Verne (currently listening)
12] Heir to Sevenwaters By Juliet Marillier
11] Alex's Adventures in Numberland By Alex Bellos
10] One Beastly Beast By Garth Nix
9] The Passage By Justin Cronin
8] I am Number Four By Pittacus Lore
7] Case Histories By Kate Atkinson
6] Eats, Shoots and Leaves By Lynn Truss
5] Wanting By Richard Flanigan (audio)
4] Torment By Lauren Kate
3] Fallen By Lauren Kate
2] Love in the Time of Cholera By Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1001
1] The Selected Works of T S Spivet By Reif Larrsen

Best Book Read 2011 - so far


"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

Read so far = 122/1001 or 12.19%
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
The Double - Jose Saramago
Everything is Illuminated By Jonathan Safran Foer
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Gabriel's Gift - Hanif Kureishi
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
The Information - Martin Amis
The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
The Stone Diaries - Carol Sheilds
The Virgin Suicides By Jeffrey Eugenides
The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
The Passion - Jeanette Winterson
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Lover - Marguerite Duras
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Name of The Rose - Umberto Eco
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The World Accordng to Garp - John Irving
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke
The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
Fear of Flying - Erica Jong
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Graduate - Charles Webb
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John le Carre
The Girls of Slender Means - Muriel Spark
The Collector - John Fowles
Girl With the Green Eyes - Edna O'Brien
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
Mrs 'arris Goes to Paris - Paul Gallico
The Bell - Iris Murdoch
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful O - James Thurber
The Floating Opera - John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
Bonjour Tristesse - Francoise Sagan
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Long Goodbye - Raymond Chandler
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The 13 Clocks - James Thuber
Love in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Brideshead Revisited - Everlyn Waugh
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Miss Lonelyhearts - Nathanael West
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Howard's End - E. M. Forster
A Room with a View - E. M. Forster
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Aesop's Fables

Best Book Read 2010


BOOKS READ (including audio) 2010

104] Seer of Sevenwaters By Juliet Marillier
103] On Foot to the Golden Horn By Jason Goodwin
102] The Go-Between By L. P. Hartley 1001
101] The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson 1001
100] The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger (again!!)
99] The Double By Jose Saramago 1001
98] The Rule of Four By Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason
97] Notes from a Big Country By Bill Bryson
96] First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria By Eve Brown-Waite (currently listening)
95] Hotel du Lac By Anita Brookner
94] This Charming Man By Marian Keyes
93] Gorillas in the Mist By Dian Fossey
92] Strange Places by Will Elliott
91] The Rebel Prince: Moorehawke Trilogy, Book 3 by Celine Kiernan
90] Her Fearful Symmetry By Audrey Niffenegger
89] The Pages by Murray Bail
88] Black Mischief By Evelyn Waugh
87] The Good Theif By Hannah Tinti
86] Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil By Derek Landy (currently reading w Sam & Eliza)
85] Clockwork Angel By Cassandra Clare
84] Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
83] Bellwether By Connie Willis
82] DIG: The Burke and Wills Saga By Frank Clune
81] The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle By Catherine Webb
80] The Broken Teaglass By Emily Arsenault (audio)
79] The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit By Sloan Wilson
78] 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke 1001
77] Robe of Skulls By Vivien French (w Sam & Eliza)
76] Pontoon By Garrison Keillor
75] Magic Study By Maria V Snyder
74] The Collector By John Fowles 1001
73] When You are Engulfed in Flames By David Sedaris
72] The Nanny Returns By Emma Mclaughlin & Nicola Kraus
71] Edgar & Ellen High Wire By Charles Odgers (w Sam & Eliza)
70] The Pact By Jodi Piccoult
69] Moral Disorder By Margaret Atwood
68] Lazlo Strangolov's Feather and Bone (w Sam & Eliza)
67] The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux
66] Olive Kitteridge By Elizabeth Strout
65] Here Comes Everybody By Clay Shirky (currently reading)
64] Navigator By Eion McNamee
63] Airman By Eoin Colfer
62] Revolutionary Road By Richard Yates
61] Alice in La-La Land By Sophie Lee
60] History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes
59] The Book of Fires By Jane Borodale (audiobook)
58] People of the Sparks By Jeanne DuPrau (w Sam & Eliza)
57] The Black Madonna By Louisa Ermelino
56] Making Minty Malone By Isabel Wolff
55] One Big Damn Puzzler By John Harding
54] A Cup of Light By Nicole Mones
53] Here to There By Bill Bryson
52] A Beautiful Mind By Sylvia Nasar
51] Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams 1001
50] Neverwhere By Neil Gaiman 49] The Death of Bunny Monro By Nick Cave
48] A Fine Balance By Rohinton Mistry 1001
47] City of Embers By Jeanne DePrau (w Sam & Eliza)
46] Nights in Rodanthe By Nicholas Sparks
45] Wedding Date By Elizabeth Young
44] Arabia Through the Looking Glass By Jonathan Raban
43] Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister By Gregory Maguire
42] The Other Hand By Chris Cleave
41] Edgar & Ellen Tourist Trap By Charles Odgers (w Sam & Eliza)
40] Moab is my Washpot By Stephen Fry
39] The Cellist of Sarajevo By Steven Galloway
38] Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs By Paul Carter
37] Queenpin By Megan Abbott
36] Romulus, My Father By Raimond Gaita
35] Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
34] Skulduggery Pleasant Dark Days By Derek Landy (w Sam & Eliza)
33] Lieutenant Hornblower By C. S. Forester
32] The Crowded Shadows: Moorehawke Trilogy, Book 2. by Celine Kiernan
31] The Poison Throne: Moorehawke Trilogy, Book 1 by Celine Kiernan
30] The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society By Mary Ann Shaffer
29] A Fraction of the Whole By Steve Toltz
28] Freaky Friday By Mary Rodgers (w Sam & Eliza)
27] Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie 1001
26] Gravel By Peter Goldsworthy
25] Frangipani By Celestine Vaite
24] The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton
23] The Sands of Time By Michael Hoeye (w Sam & Eliza)
22] Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens 1001 (audio)
21] The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel By Maureen Lindley
20] The Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry
19] Journey to the Centre of the Earth By Jules Verne 1001
18] Vampire Acadamy By Richelle Mead
17] A Spy in the House of Love By Anais Nin
16] The Graveyard Book By Neil Gaiman
15] Perfume By Patrick Suskind 1001
14] Rabbit-Proof Fence By Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara
13] Small Island By Andrea Levy
12] Time Stops for No Mouse By Michael Hoeye (w Sam & Eliza)
11] The Girls of Slender Means By Muriel Spark 1001
10] The Secret of Lost Things By Sheridan Hay
9] The Interview with a Vampire By Anne Rice
8] The Women in Black By Madeleine St John
7] The Leiutenant By Kate Grenville
6] Le Grand Meaulnes By Alain-Fournier
5] Fragrant Rice By Janet De Neefe
4] Shantaram By Gregory David Roberts
3] Death by Water By Kerry Greenwood
2] Gigi By Collette
1] Rachel's Holiday By Marian Keyes

BOOKS READ (including audio) 2009

96] The Getting of Wisdom By Henry Handel Richardson
95] Edgar & Ellen Pet's Revenge By Charles Odgen (w Sam & Eliza)
94] Edgar & Ellen Under Town By Charles Ogden (w Sam & Eliza)
93] Edgar & Ellen Rare Beasts By Charles Ogden (w Sam & Eliza)
92] The 13 Clocks By James Thuber 1001 (w Sam & Eliza)
91] The Wonder Spot By Melissa Bank
90] City of Bones By Cassandra Clare
89] City of Ashes By Cassandra Clare
88] City of Glass By Cassandra Clare
87] The Slap By Christos Tsiolkas
86] Catch 22 By Joseph Heller 1001
85] Children's Book By A.S. Byatt (currently listening)
84] The Feast of Love: a novel By Charles Baxter
83] Poison Study By Maria V. Snyder (audio book)
82] Skuldugery Pleasant: Faceless Ones By Derek Landy (w Sam & Eliza)
81] Memiors of a Geisha By Arthur Golden 1001
80] Gentlemen Prefer Blondes By Anita Loos
79] The Forgotten Garden By Kate Morton (audio book)
78] Valley of the Dolls By Jacqueline Susann
77] Croatian Tales of Fantasy Translated By Graham McMaster
76] Skuldugery Pleasant: Playing with Fire By Derek Landy (w Sam & Eliza)
75] The Story of Edgar Sawtell By David Wroblewski
74] The Good Mayor By Andrew Nicoll
73] The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai
72] Skuldugery Pleasant By Derek Landy (w Sam & Eliza)
71] A Fortunate Life By A B Facey
70] High Valley By Colin Thiele
69] The Host By Stephenie Meyer
68] Breaking Dawn By Stephenie Meyer
67] The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
66] To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
65] Here Be Monsters by Alan Snows
64] Eclipse By Stephenie Meyer
63] The Wonderful O by James Thurber {w Sam & Eliza}
62] The Book of Rapture By Nikki Gemmell
61] The Water Horse by Dick King-Smith {w Sam & Eliza}
60] The Starthorn Tree By Kate Forsythe
59] New Moon By Stephenie Meyer
58] Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
57] The Girl Who Played with Fire By Steig Larsson
56] Dark Places By Kate Grenville
55] The Book Borrower By Alice Mattison
54] Trick or Treat By Kerry Greenwood
53] Devil's Food By Kerry Greenwood
52] Marley and Me By John Grogan
51] The Chase By Louisa May Alcott
50] The Gathering By Anne Enright
49] The Chase By Louisa May Allcott
48] Gabriel's Gift By Hanif Kureishi
47] The Captive Wife By Fiona Kidman
46] Skulduggery Pleasant and the Faceless Ones By Derek Landy
45] Flyte by Angie Sage {w Sam & Eliza}
44] Inkdeath By Cornelia Funke
43] Peter Pan By J M Barrie
42] People of the Book By Geraldine Brooks
41] The Little Black Princess By Aeneas Gunn
40] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By JK Rowling
39] A Room with a View By E M Forster 1001
38] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo By Steig Larsson
37] The Long Goodbye By Raymond Chandler 1001
36] A Spot of Bother By Mark Haddon
35] Farewell, My Lovely By Raymond Chandler 1001
34] Aquamarine By Alice Hoffman
33] Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets By J.K. Rowling
32] The Big Sleep By Raymond Chandler 1001
31] Rosewater & Soad Bread By Marsha Mehran
30] The Talented Mr Ripley By Patricia Highsmith 1001
29] Earthly Delights By Kerry Greenwood
28] The Wind-up Bird Chronicle By Haruki Murakami 1001
27] Harry Potter & the philosopher's stone By J K Rowling {w Sam & Eliza}
26] Tipping the Velvet By Sarah Waters 1001]
25] The God of Small Things By Arundhati Roy 1001
24] The Piano By Jane Campion & Kate Pullinger
23] Skulduggery Pleasant Playing with Fire By Derek Landy
22] The City of Embers By Jeanne DuPrau
21] The Hobbit By JRR Tolkien 1001 {w Sam & Eliza}
20] Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson {w Eliza}
19] Crosstitch By Diana Gabaldon
18] Magyk Septimus Heap By Angie Sage {with Sam & Eliza}
17] Inkspell By Cornelia Funke
16] Goodbye, Mr Chips By James Hilton
15] The Russian Concubine By Kate Furnivall
14] Mulligan's Island By Mark Burton
13] One True Thing By Anna Quindlen
12] Pomegranate Soup By Marsha Mehran
11] Breath By Tim Winton
10] Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen
9] Twilight By Stephenie Meyer
8] Body Surfing By Anita Shreve
7] Mrs 'arris Goes to Paris By Paul Gallico 1001
6] The Red Tent By Anita Diamant
5] Story of O By Pauline Reage
4] Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami 1001
3] Cheaper By the Dozen By Frank B Gilbreth & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
2] Making History By Stephen Fry
1] Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert 1001 (currently listening)

Best Book Read 2009


BEST READ 2008
Fingersmith By Sarah Waters

BEST READ OF 2007
The Book Thief By Markus Zusak

May 08

I have just started my new job as a trainee Librarian at our local Hospital. The last 2 weeks have been very interesting and I am adjusting to working 20 hrs with a young family. It has been a bit hectic but I am sure that will settle down as soon as we all develop some routines (just in time for me to begin my new course - BA (M&I) Librarianship & Corporate Information Management). I'm not reading nearly as much as I was, so my bookshelf entries have slowed a little. Still lovin' books and bookcrossing!!!

BOOKS READ (including audio) 2008

114] Overworked, Underlaid By Nigel Marsh
113] Here, There Be Dragons By James A Owen
112] Strange Journey By Elizabeth Wallace
111] Kidnapped By Robert Louis Stevenson
110] The Black Book of Secrets By F.E. Higgins
109] Get Shorty By Elmore Leonard
108] Tracks By
107] White Horses By Alice Hoffman
106] The Notebook By Nicholas Sparks
105] The Robber Bride By Margaret Atwood
104] The Harp in the South By Ruth Park
103] The Graduate By Charles Webb
102] The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing By Melissa Bank
101] Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert (currently listening)
100] The Black Dahlia By James Ellroy
99] The Jane Austen Book Club By Karen Joy Fowler
98] Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
97] Like Water for Chocolate By Laura Esquivel
96] Three Tales of My Father's Dragon By Ruth Stiles Gannett
95] Eat, Pray, Love By Elizabeth Gilbert
94] No One Belongs Here More Than You By Miranda July
93] Naked By David Sedaris
92] Miss Lonelyhearts By Nathanael West
91] So Many Books, So Little Time By Sara Nelson
90] The Pilot's Wife By Anita Shreve
89] Howard's End By E. M. Forster
88] The Nanny Diaries By Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin
87] The Stone Diaries By Carol Sheilds
86] We of the Never, Never By Aeneas Gunn
85] E.T. By William Kotzwinkle
84] Cybele's secret By Juliet Marillier
83] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time By Mark Haddon
82] Silk By Alessandro Baricco
81] The Ginger Tree By Oswald Wynd
80] Castaway By Lucy Irvine
79] Evil Genius By Catherine Jinks
78] The Saint of Dragons By Jason Hightman
77] A Walk in the Woods By Bill Bryson
76] Lady Oracle By Margaret Atwood
75] Fear of Flying By Erica Jong
74] Stardust By Neil Gaiman
73] The Information By Martin Amis
72] Affinity By Sarah Waters
71] White Teeth By Zadie Smith
70] Brideshead Revisited By Everlyn Waugh
69] The Black Prince By Iris Murdoch
68] The Idea of Perfection By Kate Grenville
67] A Town Like Alica By Nevil Shute
66] Alias Grace By Margaret Atwood
65] Snowleg By Nicholas Shakespeare
64] The Evolution Man or How I Ate My Father By Roy Lewis
63] Year of Wonders By Geraldine Brooks
62] The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Milan Kundera
61] The Bean Trees By Barbara Kingsolver
60] The Reader By Bernhard Schlink
59] A House in Fez By Suzanna Clark
58] Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
57] The Rachel Papers By Martin Amis
56] Once Were Warriors By Alan Duff
55] Anybody Out There? By Marian Keyes
54] Nights of Rain & Stars By Maeve Binchy
53] Frankie & Stankie By Barbara Trapido
52] The Outsiders By S E Hinton
51] The Secret Garden By Francis Hodgsen Burnett
50] The Republic of Love By Carol Shields (not completed)
49] About a Boy By Nick Hornby
48] One Hundred Strokes of the Brush By Melissa P
47] The Spy Who Came in from the Cold By John le Carre
46] Rebecca By Daphne du Maurier
45] The Passion By Jeanette Winterson
44] The Underdog By Markus Zusak
43] The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger
42] A Family Romance By Anita Brookner
41] The Virgin Suicides By Jeffrey Eugenides
40] Delusions of Grandma By Carrie Fisher
39] Killing Me Softly By Nicci French
38] Fingersmith By Sarah Waters
37] Reading Lolita in Tehran By Azar Nafisi (not completed)
36] Bonjour Tristesse By Francoise Sagan
35] Getting the Girl By Markas Zusak
34] Fighting Ruben Wolfe By Markus Zusak
33] The Secret History by Donna Tartt
32] Second Nature By Alice Hoffman
31] Someday Angelie By Louis Sachar
30] Down Under By Bill Bryson
29] All He Ever Wanted By Anita Shreve
28] Gilead By Marilynne Robinson (not completed)
27] Catch Me If You Can By Frank W. Abagnale
26] Three Men in a Boat By Jerome K. Jerome (audio - currenly listening)
25] The Bell By Iris Murdoch
24] The Poisonwood Bible By Barbara Kingsolver
23] Brokeback Mountain By Annie Proux (audio)
22] The Birth of Venus By Sarah Dunant
21] The Handmaid's Tale By Margaret Atwood
20] Cloudstreet By Tim Winton
19] Seventh Heaven By Alice Hoffman
18] David Copperfield By Charles Dickens (audio)
17] Maigret and The Young Girl By Georges Simenon (audio)
16] The Sea, The Sea By Iris Murdoch
15] The Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens (audio)
14] The Secret River By Kate Grenville
13] Live and Let Die By Ian Fleming (audio)
12] The Accidental Tourist By Anne Tyler
11] The Hindi Bindi Club By Monica Pradhan
10] Casino Royale - Ian Fleming (audio)
9] Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
8] The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield (audio)
7] A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
6] Life at Blandings By PG Wodehouse
5] Here on Earth By Alice Hoffman
4] The Breif History of the Dead By Kevin Brockmeier
3] The Secret Life of Bees By Susan Monk Kidd
2] The Broken Book By Susan Johnson
1] The Cutting Room By Louise Welsh

Feb 08 - I work part time at the local library and participate in storytime each week for the preschoolers. I am studying Library and Information Services online.

Jan 08 - We are finally back home! What a huge holiday. We had so much fun!! We visited family in Frankfurt for a week and then flew to Zagreb to play in the snow with more family in Slavonski Brod, Croatia. We then flew down to the Adriatic coast & stayed at Cavtat, exploring all of the old buildings. We especially loved old town Dubrovnik. While staying at Cavtat, we drove across the boarder into Bosnia to visit Mostar, and crossed into Montenegro to visit Kotor. Then we flew back to Singapore, via Frankfurt, to have some fun at Sentosa Island & shop. But I must admit, it is REALLY nice to be home.

DEC 07 - We are just about to head off overseas...woo hoo. We are all so excited. I'll be taking the laptop, so I'll still get messages & check my mail, but will not be able to send any RABCK's out till mid January. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone out there. It's been a great year because it has been a bookcrossing year!!



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