Mt. TBR is taking over my house! I have decided to register and release some books I have no plans to read in the near future. Happy reading!

Will be released at the Boston Bookcrossing meeting this afternoon. Happy reading!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Welcome to BookCrossing!

Please make a journal entry to let me know that this book has been caught so I know that it has found a good home with you. If you are new to BookCrossing, when you join please indicate that you were referred by tobysrus. I hope that you enjoy the book. You can make another journal entry with your comments when you are done reading.

Then, whenever you are ready to send it on its way, make a journal entry if you are giving or sending this book to a known person, or a release note if you are leaving it “in the wild” again for anyone to catch. Then watch its journey. You’ll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. And it’s confidential (you are known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free.

I hope that you will enjoy the BookCrossing experience!

PS And if you find yourself liking BookCrossing, Boston has an active group of BookCrossers who meet monthly; the second Tuesday of the month at Panera Bread (1288 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge - Harvard Square, 2nd floor) 7 PM.

Caught at the Sat. Sept. 2017 meet up--took for my mum to read, she likes Nicholas Sparks

Well I need a fast read and I decided to do a bit of vetting before I turned it over to my mum. It turns out the themes in the book are not appropriate and will upset her/so not passing this one along. Some spoilers follow. Sparks has had many movies adapted into films, and Hollywood does a good job of editing the story and making the movies into commercial successes. The books on the positive have beautiful settings usually in the Carolinas and Sparks provides a lot of detail and ambiance. First read his books to get an idea/of what they were b/c he is so popular. There is a bit of a formula at work--I think in all his books after reading a few now it's getting a little rote, some of the narratives/plots/characters--personally I feel they are repetitive amongst other things, etc. This book I don't think was the strongest are best of his work--I'm not going to dwell but I think the plot had many holes, as well as narrative between the main characters, etc. It's an okay quick read, but I would say skip it and read one of his others: The Lucky One or A Walk to Remember--while adapted and tweaked by Hollywood into movies, were still better written books/formula, et al. Holding for now.

3/1/18 -- Released bookshare/community bookcase, cafeteria One Ashburton Place (lower level) Boston, MA 02108

Pulled this back awhile ago for my mum, due to the books/made to film she said she wanted to read more of Sparks' books but it has been awhile. My mum does not read as much as she used to and I think some of the story line/violence at the end will agitate her more as she is older. So I'm sending in a care package via Operation Paperback.org.