Journal Entry 1 by KateKintail from Burke, Virginia USA on Friday, January 27, 2012

Picked this up from the Book Thing of Baltimore, Inc. a few weeks back.

I saw the movie, but haven't read the book. 

Journal Entry 2 by KateKintail at Ballston Common Mall - Food Court in Arlington, Virginia USA on Friday, January 27, 2012

Released 3 mos ago (1/28/2012 UTC) at Ballston Common Mall - Food Court in Arlington, Virginia USA

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Releasing this at a BCinDC meetup.

Journal Entry 3 by melydia at Centreville, Virginia USA on Sunday, January 29, 2012

Picked this up at yesterday's BCinDC meetup at Ballston Common Mall in Arlington, Virginia. Though I chose it entirely based on its size (I prefer mass market paperbacks for wild releasing), I have another copy on my TBR pile. Maybe having two copies will encourage me to actually read it! 

Journal Entry 4 by melydia at Centreville, Virginia USA on Tuesday, February 28, 2012

I wanted, so desperately, to like this novel. But the fact of the matter is that I found it tremendously tedious. Though the back cover blurb talks of young Briony’s mistaken accusation regarding her cousin’s sexual assault and its horrible consequences, this event does not actually happen until about halfway through the book. The plot is buried in page after page of literary navel-gazing, and the “twist” ending put me off so much that I wondered why I’d wasted all that time getting there. I suspect the movie is tidier, assuming it leaves out such thrilling passages as Briony pondering the possibility of her not being the star of everyone else’s life story while watching her finger bend back and forth. The writing itself was fine - the description quite vivid, the language very, er, literary - but I found the whole thing tiresome and I frankly can’t understand why so many rave about this lengthy piece of rambling blather. 

Journal Entry 5 by melydia at Day of the Book (street festival) on Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA on Saturday, April 21, 2012

Released 1 mo ago (4/22/2012 UTC) at Day of the Book (street festival) on Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing this at the International Day of the Book festival in Kensington, Maryland, where BCinDC will be giving away free books. 

Journal Entry 6 by ResQgeek at Alexandria, Virginia USA on Thursday, April 26, 2012

I brought home several boxes of books that were leftover after a soggy (and less than ideally successful) Day of the Book Festival in Kensington, Maryland. I'm setting this one aside to wild release. 

Journal Entry 7 by ResQgeek at Starbucks (Ballenger Ave.) in Alexandria, Virginia USA on Friday, April 27, 2012

Released 4 wks ago (4/27/2012 UTC) at Starbucks (Ballenger Ave.) in Alexandria, Virginia USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left on one of the tables outside the shop.

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