"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it."
- J.D. Salinger

"People disagreeing everywhere you look, makes you wanna stop and read a book."
Bob Dylan

I love to read, and write too, when I have time between, family and work. Just as well I am a very fast reader. I have lots of kids and a wonderful husband who I enjoy spending time with. We camp, when we can. We do day trips, when we can.

I taught English for several years...I loved teaching Literature in particular. I made a move to primary a couple of years ago and love that too.

I love ANYTHING to do with books, whether it be bookmarks, pens, blank pages, stationary...you name it - even if the link is tentative, guaranteed I'll find it! I would rather read than watch tv, I read quickly and enthusiastically.....I need to read. My long term dream is to open a bookshop so I can just sit an read or write during quiet times and can have a perfect excuse to chat all day about books!

I am open to trade, swap or even just give away...just ask and chances are I will say yes if you would like something from my shelf...I happily share.

My Birthday Buddy is: Starflash whose birthday is on March 24th...

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."
Samuel Johnson


Books I have read in 2010:

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Larsson
Mr Rosenblum's List - Natasha Solomons
The Memory Thief - Rachel Keenan
A Fraction of The Whole - Steve Toltz
The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Snowflower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lilly Ponder -Rebecca Wells
Mystic River - Dennis Lehane
The Dressmaker - Rosalie Ham
The Time Travelers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Glass Bees - Junger
Kidnapped In Yemen - Mary Quin
Moominpappa's Memoirs - Tove Jansson
Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
Neverwhere - Neil Gaimann
I Am The Messenger - Marcus Zusak
Alice I Have Been - Melanie Benjamin
Montana 1948 - Larry Watson
The Wife of Martin Guerre - Janet Lewis
Johnathon Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
The Claiming Of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice/A.N. Roquelaure
Men Who STare at Goats - Jon Ronson
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Drowning Girl - Magaret Leroy
The Secret Of Lost Things - Sheridan Hay
How I Became A Nun - Cesare Aira
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows
Never Let Me Go - Kazoo Ishiguro
What I Loved - Siri Hustvedt
No Time For Goodbye - Lynwood Barclay
Chickenfeed - Minette Walters
Cloud Atlas
Krik Krak
The Life of Pi
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
A Room Swept White - Sophie Hannah