This book was purchased at the Friends of the Library book store in Rockville, Maryland and will be gifted to someone at our annual Bookcrossing holiday party.

This book is being released to a fellow BookCrosser during our annual holiday party at the Old Country Buffet in Alexandria, Virginia.

I selected this from the wrap-it-up book game at the holiday part based on the first line. My understanding of the rules is that I need to at least try to read it by the time of the next holiday party. Mt. TBR is huge, but I should be able to accomplish that goal.

This was just sitting on the huge pile that is Mt. TBR and I saw that ravencat was looking to restart a bookring that she had done with this book after the original copy disappeared. I figured I would donate to the cause, get my name put on the mailing list, and keep this poor little book from being bored.

Popped it in the mail this morning to lunatum in Finland, who was next on the list to read it. At some point it will come back here for me to read before continuing on its bookcrossing journey.

The book arrived this week while I was on my holiday. I have many ring/ray books ahead of this.

Here is a list of the remaining participants from the original bookring that was lost/stalled starting with lunatum (#8). Thanks again 6of 8 for offering this replacement book so this ring can continue on.

8. lunatum - (Finland) Intl ship
9. Scarlett07 - (Colorado,US) US ship
10. imawinn - (Wisconsin,US) Intl ship
11.biisbsw (NY) US ship
12.Erishkigal (Utah) US ship
13. 6of8 - (Maryland,US) Back Home January 2013

I've been so busy lately, that I sent the book forward without reading it.

I received this book day before yesterday. Sorry I didn't post it sooner but life got in the way and I couldn't get to my computer. I'm anxious to get started and since I just finished the book I was reading today, I will start this one tonight.

Thanks for sending Lunatum and sorry you didn't have a chance to read it.

Just finished this book and enjoyed it as much as I did "Glass Castle". I loved Lily and Big Jim, they were quite the characters and such hard workers.

I'll pass this on to the next person as soon as I get an address. Thanks SqueakyChu for providing this book.

The book is on it's way to Wisconsin. Enjoy!

Half-Broke Horses has arrived in Wisconsin. I have a bookray book that I'm reading right now but it is a huge tome! So, I'm going to do the double book read thing so that I won't fall behind in either book. I started reading this book last night and can already tell that I'm going to love this tale. Thanks so much for passing this along. :-)

Absolutely loved this book! I finished it up yesterday and came away wishing I could have met Jeannette Walls grandma, Lily Casey. She, as Ms Walls describes, "was a character". I loved the stories of her life and admired her spirit. I think if Lily Casey would have gotten thrown into the eye of a cyclone, she would have found a way to survive it or beat it. Thanks so much for sharing this book 6of8 and ravencat.

I have contacted Erishkigal but it looks like she is backed up, for the moment, with other bookrings/rays and would like to be moved down the list. Let me know if you want me to send the book on to biisbsw instead.

Half Broke Horses is now en route to biisbsw. I tucked a little something inside the front cover for you. Hope you have a special book to put it in. Enjoy this story!

This arrived today. I have a couple books ahead of it but I should hope to start this shortly. Thanks to everyone and to imawinn2 for th lovely book label.

This was a fun book to read. What an interesting life Lily had.

On another note I wanted to apoligize for holding this book up. It was quite a busy summer for me, all positive things, but busy none the less. I thought I had kept things on track but it does looks like this one slipped through the cracks. I have finished it and have the next reader's address already so it should be in the mail by Saturday.

Mailed off to the next reader today. Sorry for the delay.

Geez! I am truly, truly sorry. I absolutely thought I had journalled this, and 'talked' to 6of8, and needn't hurry, as life just gets crazier..... I have the book, and have just finally started it.

I LOVED this book!!!!! What an amazing woman, what a life~~what ovaries!!! I would love to have known Lily in the flesh, and am thankful to know her by way of her granddaughter.

I'm not sure when I finished this, but it was before the Anniversary sale at my local independent bookstore (Nov)~~this I know as I ask if someone could recommend another book in the same vein. (nope. what was suggested didn't even come close!

I know I put off journalling as I knew I could~~was going to return to 6 in person when she came to visit the area for the holidays. And that will be today :) I'll be meeting her at Caputo's this afternoon. I've gotten so bad about journalling (apart from laziness) let me copy and paste what I wrote from another release today . As I keep trying to find all the jumps, even a few sentences takes forever...

copied and pasted:
Oh, hell; I just get worse and worse about journalling :( There is a huge stack of books here, read but not yet journalled. Some of it is busy-ness, much of it is sheer procrastination, and a lot of it is that this computer makes typing exceedingly ype and mpeove and retydifficult.....as the curser jumps around and I have to move and ret....<--there's an example I just left as it ended up. My brother-in-law-keeps promising to come fix, but who knows when.....in the meantime, it's one more reason for me not to get around to journalling.



Thanks all for sharing this and passing along!

Had a great chance to meet and spend some time with Erishkigal yesterday and she passed this book back to me. I had heard quite a few good tings and everyone here seemed to love it, so I figured it would be good reading on the plane back to Maryland this afternoon.

I opened it just to take a peek last night as I was lying in bed. Finished it this morning and had a grand time. Lily was quite a gal and she did well in the husband she chose. The hard-scrabble existence they led was fascinating and their ability to keep on moving, getting up every time they were thrown, was quite inspiring. Made it hard to put down -- plus the little tiny snippets in which it is reading make it go that much faster.

About 3/4 of the way in, I decided I had to finish this before I head home today, because I want to pass it along to my mother. She grew up on a dry farm in Southern Alberta, miles away from anywhere, so I think she will enjoy this book very much.

Handed this one off to my mother to read, since she is both a former teacher and a farmer's daughter. I thought she would really enjoy it. She will likely return it to me at some future date.

Welcome to Book Crossing -- this book is now yours to read, retain, release, or any combination thereof which suits your fancy. Books registered with Book Crossing are tracked by those who have read them before to see where they will go and who they will meet on their journeys. People who participate in the Book Crossing community often establish friendships and trade books or comments on books and just relish a relationship with other readers across the globe.

You are welcome (and encouraged) to create a journal entry on the book, particularly when passing it on to a specific someone or releasing in the wild. You don't have to read the book to create a journal entry nor do you have to feel obligated to write only positive things. All those who have had their hands on the book before you would be excited to read any journal entry you choose to make.

You can remain anonymous or join Book Crossing, where you are known to others by the screen name of your choice and no personal information is revealed. If you join, you can receive e-mail updates about all the places this book travels to in the future. (I would love it if you listed me, 6of8, as your referring member).

Sharing books in this fashion is just another way of spreading good karma across the world. Whatever you choose to do, enjoy the book!

Got this back from my mother who read it months ago and has only been able to recall that she thought it was "good."

Now to determine what to do with this copy.

Should have done that last one as a "Catch" instead of a journal entry so it would show up on my "in hands" shelf.

"A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen. All kinds of mischief can be caused, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it. For better or worse, it's completely out of your control." -- Paul Auster

This one got passed along to a friend who was interested in reading it.