Journal Entry 1 by flambard from Horsham, West Sussex United Kingdom on Sunday, August 21, 2011

Unregistered World Book Night book, found in a charity shop in Reigate, Surrey

Six interlinked narratives, told in mirror fashion leading from the nineteenth century through to a post-apocalyptic future, and back again, by degrees, to where you started. Each narrative connects with the others in different ways – with characters who are mentioned in several places, sometimes with a recurring motif of a distinctive birthmark (which I'm not sure works very well). Each of these stories – virtually novellas of their own – are different kinds of writing. We have a historical travel journal, a collection of letters from the 1930s, a conspiracy thriller set in the 1970s, a roughly contemporary memoir, an archived interview set in the reasonably near future, and a kind of oral testimony from a much-altered Earth yet to come. And each narrative is set in a different place too: the South Pacific, Belgium, the fictional US city of Buenas Yerbas, the UK, the country formerly known as South Korea, and post-apocalyptic Hawaii.Pretty ambitious, but Mitchell pulls it off! Each narrative is totally engaging and worth reading in its own right, but the fracturing of the stories, and the subtleties of the threads between them, make a whole which is definitely more than the sum of its parts.  

Journal Entry 2 by flambard at by Post, RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, August 27, 2011

Released 9 mos ago (8/27/2011 UTC) at by Post, RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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To Newcastle 

Journal Entry 3 by Diane-Fraser at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Thursday, September 01, 2011

Received from flambard. Thank you very much. :) 

Journal Entry 4 by Diane-Fraser at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Monday, March 26, 2012

Released 1 mo ago (3/29/2012 UTC) at Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom

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This took me a few pages to really get in to. An interesting book showing how people can be interlinked by the past and the future.

Tried to start a ray off but it has turned in to a RABCK - off to okyrhoe 

Journal Entry 5 by okyrhoe at Athens, Attica Greece on Thursday, April 12, 2012

Arrived in Athens. Thanks so much Diane-Fraser for the RACBK!

After I read it hopefully it can become a ray-it-forward :-)