What a fantastic book. An incredibly simple yet original idea, brilliantly crafted, amazingly funny (all the different words they came up with to replace November)and so so clever.

I found myself both trying to construct sentences without using the illegal letters and trying to come up with a pangram myself.

2nd copy bought for BC purposes.

This is going out on a bookray. I've kept it quite short, cos that's how I like 'em.

Order is:-

discomicky IA (Read)
notbob NE (Read?)
lyssrose TX (Read)
mrsordonez MO (Read)
Sherria CT (read)
gwendy NY (read)

It's quite a short book and a quick read as it's in the format of letters sent, so shouldn't take too long to read. I don't like putting time stipulations on things but if any of you should find yourselves in a position where you will not be able to read for a while, I would be grateful if you please make journal entry to that effect so that I know what is happening, try to bear in mind that there are others waiting for the book after you (except gwendy of course) but don't get too worried if it takes awhile, this is supposed to be fun! The most important thing is that you enjoy it.

Please PM the person who is after you on the list for their mailing address.

Gwendy:- When it gets to you, you have the choice, you can do whatever you see fit. Sendit out on another ray (if it's still in any condition to travel), RABCK, wild release or even keep as PC. I really don't mind.

I will post out to discomicky this week, I may even push the boat out and send airmail.

Enjoy!

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On it's way to discomickey

I received this book in the mail on Saturday (but I was out of town until last night). I can't wait to read it! I'll make sure to pass it along quickly.Thanks for thinking of me, ShadowPi.

What a fun book! It was a great read for a word-nerd such as myself. :] It was just enough of a brain teaser without being frustrating. Towards the end, it reminded me a little bit of another book I have, The Anguish Languish, by Howard Chace. I tried to write a couple of paragraphs once using "hear-twin graphemes" (homophones), and it's tough.

It would be worth reading this book 2 or 3 times, just to catch all of the creative ways the characters try to rephrase things to avoid using any "illicabeticals." Sub-terra movement, pullet soup, piscimonger, cephalo-straits... all because of the famous "vulpine-canine" sentence.

Thank you for sharing this with me, ShadowPi!

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Sent this out to notbob today.

Imagine my shock when I found the package containing this book hidden under a pile of stuff on my desk - I have no idea when it actually showed up! *sheepish* I've started it today, and thankfully, it looks to be a quick read. I'll get it back on its way soon...

As I was reading this book, I found it interesting to see just how little the language appeared to change, as they lost one letter after another. The first few letters were easy to excise....it wasn't until about halfway through the novel (and when letters started falling in rapid succession) that there was an obvious change in writing. The best part though, in my opinion, comes on the last page, when the computer confirms what Ella had already figured out; when I read that, I just had to smile at the fact that Ella did it on her own.

I've got the next person's address, so this will go out tomorrow morning!

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Dropped in the mail - on its way to mrsordonez!

Yay! I've been waiting to read this for quite some time. :) It's next on my list.

Oh, I really enjoyed this book, and read it all in one day. :) It reminds me of when I was in 5th grade. Why? Because myself and two other students had finished all of the readers by the first month of school, and our teacher didn't have anything else for us to do, so he gave us "projects". One was to write lipograms (although we didn't know that was the name of them). He put us to the task of writing a set of stories, each missing a vowel. We wrote stories without an O, without an I, and without a U. I don't think we dared A or E. (Soooo hard). I remember having to use a thesaurus quite a bit. Still have the (very stupid) stories if anyone is interested, I'll post them... shouldn't take up too much space.

I had so much fun looking for the "forbidden" letters as the time in the book passed. It also really stretched my vocabulary, and I had to rely on my Spanish (for the Latin roots) to define some of the words.... No dictionary for me this time. At any rate, very very very fun!

I wish I could give a copy of this to my old reading teacher, I think he would adore it. He is very old now, however, and I don't know if he can read anything in regular-sized print. (Retired just last year). He is a very dear man who took good care of my brother and provided a masculine role model when my dad left us, so he has a special place in my heart.

Ok. enough rambling, this is going on to Sherria pronto.

This arrived in yesterday's mail and I read it cover to cover today. What a wonderful little book! The creative use of language was so good that I found myself just reading through "made up" words without any hesitation or question as to their meaning in most cases. It didn't get difficult until the "hear-twin graphemes", and I was amazed at how well the author managed that part.

Besides the wonderful use of language, this book also made me stop and think about "edicts from on high", power in our society and how it's used, and the consequences of not thinking things through to conclusion (like banning a letter, without realizing that almost all books will have to be destroyed, as well as official documents, etc, in a society that supposedly values literature more than most). I like when a book can slip those kinds of messages in without making it seem like I'm being preached to.

Thanks so much for sharing this book ShadowPi! I really enjoyed reading both the book and the other participants reactions to it. I'll send it on to the next person as soon as I get an address.

this was a cute book, but somehow it just couldn't keep my attention.. i read about half and decided it was time to move on.

this book is headed off to JenLuvsBooks next as part of a reverse wishlist BookRelay.

I received this former bookray in the mail today. I'm not quite sure what to expect. It sounds very unusual.

Very creative book. I'm very thankful not to live in Nollopville!

I'm mailing this out to Needmorezoloft as part of a wishlist relay.

Thank you so much. I've been wanting to read this for so long. I've already started it. Wonder how they can make it without the Z.

Loved it! I couldn't put it down. It was a fast read.

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sending on

received from NMZ from an als I think. Looks interesting and has been many places. Can't wait to read it!

Wow, this one has been around, still in pretty good shape. I have to confess I had no idea what this book was about when I asked fantasy for it but I've heard the title mentioned so much I had to check it out. Looks different, I will journal again once I've read it and passed it on.
Thanks Fantasy!!