Have you ever picked up a book and wondered where it had been before, well welcome to the world of bookcrossing!

Bookcrossing is a wonderful place to share your love of reading with people all over the world and follow a book as it continues on its travels.

Please journal this book, describing where you found it, and then if you want to, what you thought of it. You can remain anonymous if you want to, though if you create a screen name you will be able to get notification each time someone else journals this book in the future.

When you have finished with it please pass on the book to a friend or release it by leaving it somewhere where it will be found (please make a journal entry stating where you left it), and let it continue its journey.

Help keep its journey alive!

Following this books travels can be very fun.

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her. The struggles that have made Burma, India, and Malaya the places they are today are illuminated in this wonderful novel by the writer Chitra Divakaruni calls “a master storyteller.”

A little slow to get started, I soon became hooked. As this novel is set across, Burma, India and Malaya during the first half of the 20th century there was much political and military unrest in the story...it was like a history lesson (a very enjoyable one). I did find myself during further research and reading about the events described in the book. The characters were just a tool to tell the history, and sometimes years of their lives were covered in just a few pages, but this was sufficient as I wa salways keen to know what happened next I liked that the story was multigenerational.

If you were lucky enough to find this book please journal it to say where you found it, and then what you thought of it.

When you have finished please release it. Keep its journey alive!

Came across The Glass Palace at Sitting on City Walls in Beijing.
Released it into the wild in San Francisco. May the journey continue.