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May Your Life Be Filled With Happiness
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May Your Life Be Filled With Happiness
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This journal arrived in the mail today and it is truly beautiful. The book is titled May Your Life Be Filled With Happiness because that inscription appears in it in several places.I just love the beautiful blue color of the journal cover and pages and the flower motif is wonderful. I will probably wait until the new year to begin writing in the book and I think that I want to give it a crochet theme. I might find some people in my charity crochet groups that would be willing to pass the journal around and talk about how crochet fits into their lives as well. I am not sure that any of them will journal the book through bookcrossing but I should be able to keep track of it by other means. Thank you for the wonderful gift. C PS Thank you for the Christmas Cards. I will be able to send these out through booksforsoldiers.com and they should be just in time for Christmas. Well just an update here. booksforsoldiers is in the midst of a change and so I didn't get to send out the cards this year .... maybe next year. About the picture .... this is a picture of the "crochet journal" and it's backdrop is my latest crochet project. This is going to be a blanket for my hubby. This blanket will most likely live on the back of the loveseat mostly as a decoration. The pattern is a free pattern from a yarn wrapper of Mainstay's yarn. The pattern is called Light & Lacy. The yarn color that is being used is Red Heart's Shaded Denim. |
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International Day of the Book Kensington, Maryland Welcome to Old Town Kensington's Celebration of the International Day of the Book. April 23 is a symbolic day in world literature. Declared as International Day of the Book by UNESCO in 1995, this celebration of books and literature draws it's inspiration from a Catalan tradition, the Festival of the Rose. Legend has it that Saint George, Patron Saint of Catalonia and international knight-errant, slew a dragon about to devour a beautiful Catalan princess. From the dragon's blood sprouted a rosebush, from which the hero plucked the prettiest rose for the princess. Hence the traditional Rose Festival celebrated in Barcelona since the Middle Ages to honor chivalry and love. In 1923, this lover's "festa" became even more poetic when it merged with "el dia del llibre", or The Day of the Book, to mark the nearly simultaneous deaths of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, the two giants of literary history, on April 23, 1616. On this day in Barcelona, bookstalls and street festivities run the length of the picturesque La Rambla, the old city's main boulevard and, according to the Spanish author Garcia Lorca, "the only street in the world which I wish would never end". The Town of Kensington, Kensington Literary Group, and the Pauli Bellet Foundation Catalan Library, invite you to celebrate this wonderful day on Howard Ave, our "La Rambla". It was in Kensington that I first met up with SqueakyChu and CreativeMGE. At our tent we piled books everywhere and encouraged passerbys to have a free book. We managed to give away somewhere in the range of 200-300 books. |
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This picture was taken at the Day of the Book festival in Kensington.Here you see crrcookie holding her son lilgrovers, then SqueakyChu and CreativeMGE. This event was great fun and I hope to do it again next year! |
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Panera Bread in Waldorf, Maryland I set up a meeting at the Panera Bread in Waldorf, MD and sent PMs to as many people as I could. I got the chance to meet up with nyannayon and she gave me several books to pass along to other BookCrossers at Saturday's meeting. |
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Panera Bread in Waldorf, Maryland I set up two meetings at the Panera Bread in Waldorf, MD because I wasn't sure if a weeknight or a weekend would be better. In terms of attendance, Saturday worked out better. Today I got to see SqueakyChu again but she got a little lost coming to Waldorf and she not only came in late but didn't get to stay long. ResQgeek and melydia came and we chatted for quite some time. We traded books and stories and had good food and fun. I set up a little crossing zone with a suitcase of books. The table was covered in a yellow tablecloth and had balloons to attract attention. On the table was bookmarks, fliers, brochures and other freebies. We were surprised to note that people would stop and look, and take books and bookmarks. One table of people took books and then sat near us and talked excitedly about them. It was a very neat experience. |
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Panera Bread in Alexandria, Virginia The following people attended the meeting: KateKintail authorauthor toni54 BooksnBeer zaraibelle melydia FURBALL Readinthetub florafloraflora ResQgeek crrcookie lilgrovers This meeting was set up by ResQgeek who managed to get a couple pictures. The picture with this entry shows (L to R) crrcookie, KateKintail, authorauthor, toni54, BooksnBeer and zaraibelle. |
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Panera Bread in Alexandria, Virginia Ths picture shows crrcookie's son, lilgrovers. At this meeting he is almost 10 months old. He enjoys coming to the meetings and making new friends. The group really enjoyed playing with him. He is happy as long as the food holds out and is becoming a big fan of Panera Bread. |
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Panera Bread in Alexandria, Virginia Some of the highlights of the meeting included trading books and talking about recent reads. I brought a copy of Hector Protector that I checked out from the library and we talked about the comments it had gotten int he forum. Some of the meeting attendees weren't reading the forums and got quite a shock at what was said about this poor little children's book. Another favorite thing to talk about is attending conventions. ResQgeek has some great stories from Charleston. It is a delight to hear real life stories about the people we only know on time. The Alexandria Panera Bread is a great place to meet with lots of table space and places to wild release books. |
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The 2007 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between 7th and 14th streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival is free and open to the public. I am going to this event and there is a planned meeting of BookCrossers at 2pm in front of the Museum of Natural History. I will be taking this journal so that the BookCrossers I meet will get the chance to sign it and write in it. I have little cards made up printed with the BCID so anyone who signs this book can take it home with them and make a journal entry so they may be able to track future entries on this book. |
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I took a total of 268 books to the festival and only returned with 9. That means I released 259 books!!! SqueakyChu has been keeping track of the stats in the forums and here is the totals as of 15 October 2007: Total books released- 313 --Wild catches- 9 --Caught by BookCrossing members- 7 Total books caught- 16 Total new members- 5 Percentage caught- 5% The MBCZ was a big success! Lilgrovers, comfortable in his booster seat and shaded with the umbrella, was riding in high style throughout the day. He attracted a lot of attention just because he is cute! (But maybe that is just Mommy being biased?) The wagon was decorated with a plastic yellow tablecloth stuck on with a ton of packing tape. The pockets near the handle are zippered pockets for three ring notebooks and held pamphlets, bookmarks, and other BookCrossing info. The drawer underneath the wagon held the contents of the diaper bag and other personal items so that the rest of the space could hold as many books as possible. On the back of the wagon is an OBCZ sign proclaiming free books! The whole event was wonderful even though the wagon was heavy and somewhat bulky. Getting on and off the train was interesting but not too difficult. I actually made two full trips from the car to the festival so that at lunchtime I could restock with a fresh load of books. I hope to take the MBCZ on more excursions and look forward to adding more pictures to the physical book and also to the journal entries here. |
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Washington, D.C. The National Mall Here is a transcript of what was signed in the journal today: SqueakyChu was here! gilroy (LibraryThing) was here! selkins (:ibraryThing) enjoyed meeting you! Still resisting! Melannen from [LT] melydia is having a blast! :) zaraibelle was here! KateKintail is hot but having fun here at the festival! :) Ladilee24 has been here (from Delaware)!! Tanneitha from LibraryThing was here! (Will try to remember to check out bookcrossing.com soon!) :) Scherizade of BookCrossing was here and she toally made off with a lot of books! I have a couple of pictures that I will try and upload as soon as I figure out how to get them off of the camera. |
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Had a great time with y'all at the book festival today. It was great meeting some of you for the first time and really wonderful seeing so many familiar faces again! *hugs*I brought 20 books (all but 5 were kids books) so you can add those to the running total released today! I've got a couple photos of the event up now if anyone's interested: http://kintailscape.com/BC/gallery7.html Oh, and is that this very journal pictured in the photo? :-) |
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1780 E Jefferson St. Rockville, Maryland 28 Oct 2007 Here are the signings from the book this meeting: crrcookie and lilgrovers are here! krin511 is glad to be at her first BookCrossing Meet-up! :) ResQgeek made it across the river! Its good to see everyone again. MARYZEE HERE! I love meeting active BookCrossers. They're my favorite people! :) Thanks to Jill (my GPS unit) KateKintail made the trip up to MD too! I brought some Halloween books ... and others I just need to get rid of! Thanks for helping organize this meeting. It was great seeing you all! creativeMGE here! It was wonderful meeing all of you - thanks for organizing this! :) melydia & her husband, theshaggyfreak, were here! Lots of fun, but my TBR pile keeps growing whenever I see you people! :) SqueakyChu forgot to sign the book but was our hostess with the mostess for this great day! (by crrcookie) This photo is the best group shot I got for today. It shows ResQgeek, MaryZee, lilgrovers, SqueakyChu, krin511, creativeMGE, melydia, and KateKintail. |
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In this picture SqueakyChu and Krin511 have their heads together chatting while looking at this very book!
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Today at the book fair at the Carroll County Community College, I took another look through the journal, and I noticed that crrcookie pasted a picture of a piece of chocolate cake in after the last Panera Bread meeting, with a note suggesting that people ask me to explain. So, here's an explanation.It seems that chocolate cake has become something of a ResQgeek trademark since the BookCrossing convention in Charleston, back in April. I ordered a piece of chocolate cake during the Trivia Night competition during the convention, and got more than I bargained on. The cake was three layers tall, and was almost a quarter of the cake! I took a lot of ribbing that night for my "little" snack, and now I seem to find myself getting a piece of chocolate cake almost anytime I get together with BookCrossers. The picture uploaded to this journal entry was taken by skyring right after I got my cake, and shows just how monstrous it was... |
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Carroll Community College Westminster, Maryland 10 November, 2007 This book made an appearance again today and was signed by BookCrossers that came to hand out books! lghtheart4This is a great fair! I already bought 2 books. Lots of people here! -E Another day with BookCrossers! What more could I ask for? I see my chocolate cake has made an appearance here, too. I'll post the story in the online journal. -ResQgeek [See above entry for the story and a picture.] I'm so happy to have more active BookCrossers visiting the book fair today (in Carroll County). Estimated # of books released today is 700+! - MaryZee My first BookCrossing meetup. Definitely not my last! - Mom-Oyster WOW! This is great fun. Wonderful crowd here today. I love the enthusiasm of the BookCrossers today and very much look forward to future events. -SqueakyChu |
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Carroll Community College Westminster, Maryland 10 November, 2007 I had more fun today than should be allowed. I really enjoyed wandering around the book fair and wild releasing with SqueakyChu! We left books on benches, ledges, shelves, and even in the elevators. We'd go back to the table and restock and we'd look at where we had left books and they would be gone! Too much fun!!! - crrcookie This picture is of one of the areas where there were several benches in a little square. Each bench would get a book and lots of books disappeared this way. |
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Carroll Community College Westminster, Maryland 10 November, 2007 Here is a group shot of the BookCrossers that came to the event today! L to R MaryZee, lghtheart4, SqueakyChu, ResQgeek, Mom-Oyster, and crrcookie I got several other pretty good pictures but you will have to get a hold of the physical journal in order to see them! I don't want to add a ton of journal entries here. If you ask nicely I might be able to email them to you! |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 20 December 2007 I set up this meeting during my holiday vacation in hopes that I would get to meet some BookCrossing friends. Aramena plans to be here but out of 150 other invites I only got 2 "maybe" RSVPs. I hope that some other people decide to show up. This book was something that I made sure I packed to bring with me. I hope that whoever shows up here enjoys looking through it and gets a kick out of seeing all of the things that we do in the DC area since I started using this as a BookCrossing meeting journal. I have the camera and if I get any good pictures I'll be sure and upload them into journal entries so everyone can see. I collected the following journal entry in this book from coolgurl24 who came by for a few minutes. coolgurl24 - Nice to meet you! I had no idea that BookCrossers was so extensive. |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 20 December 2007 Well, the restaurant is closed now and I was here from 2pm to 10pm and only one BookCrosser came to visit me. coolgurl24 showed up for just a few minutes. She said that she had other plans for tonight before getting my email but that she wanted to stop by and drop off a few books. I told her that I would help them to travel along. Aramena was planning to come but PM'd me and said that her car was acting up and she didn't want to chance drivng over here. I am so sad that more people couldn't attend but I know that with the holiday season that things are pretty tightly scheduled. I am just happy that the Mazzio's offers free Wi-Fi and that my hubby was kind enough to let me have his laptop ALL DAY today so that I could catch up on my emails, my journaling and all other things internet! The next time I make a trip to Oklahoma I will be sure and make another meeting attempt in hopes that others will get the chance to meet up then. I hope that my next trip will be one where I drive and I'll try and pick a time when i can bring the MBCZ wagon. Perhaps it can make an appearance at some sort of fun local event. |
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Fairfax, Virginia 13 January 2008 For some reason I forgot to journal this until now. Here are the comments that were recorded in the book at the meeting. Melydia has too many books! Crrcookie and lilgrovers came to try and unload books. In the past 7 days we have registered 900+ books and the avalanche is threatening. Authorauthor has too many books too. So I brought three today to release here - and stopped at Borders on the way and bought more. They just keep multiplying. Well, I stopped at Yesterday's Rose and bought two bags full of books to replace those 10 I'm releasing in this Panera today. :) SqueakyChu KateKintail made it too! :) I hit Yesterday's Rose earlier and managed to eascape with only one bag mostly for challenges. I've registered a few hundred this weekend, so this meeting is a nice way to end the weekend. Great to see y'all! I forgot to take pictures but I would like to add a little note about the "most exciting event" of the meeting. There was a woman and her children that came in and found our table to ask for Charlotte's Web. At first we didn't realize she was hunting a specific book and started to explain BookCrossing to her. As soon as we understood that she was hunting based on release notes, we suspected it was KateKintail (who wasn't there yet) that had the book she wanted. KateKintail showed up just in time! It was really neat to have a book hunted and our meeting visited by someone other than the regular group. Here is a link to the book: Charlotte's Web And a great big BookCrossing welcome to Traverz08! |
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15 March 2008 The Book Thing of Baltimore followed by Panera Bread - 6307 York Road - Baltimore, MD I brought this book so that the crew could sign here are the comments: Wow. A whole building full of free books! It was great seeing y'all and hitting the Book Thing with such a fun group. Definitely a fun trip and nummy Panera food to top it off. -KateKintail Thank you to our field trip organizers! I'd never heard of the Book Thing before you guys started talking about it. Thanks for another fun day! -CreativeMGE Sharing a Book Thing outing with my favorite book-nerds - huge fun! -florafloraflora I loved sharing the Book Thing with you all - too bad there weren't any Baltimore BookCrossers to represent. :( (But I do work in Hunt Valley now, so I guess I could of sort of represent Balto. County :) ) Loved visiting w/ my buddies from DC/NoVa again! -MaryZee Road Trip! The Book Thing is awesome, though Mt TBR isn't going to be happy. I can't believe we're thinking about a proposal for the 2010 convention. Go us! :) -ResQgeek This was my first trip to the Book Thing. Such temptation I have never known! -melydia One hour late as usual! However, I still made it to the Book Thing and found the Towson Panera (albeit with a little help). This is so much fun!! Best to all, -SqueakyChu Lilgrovers and I trekked up from Waldorf a little later than I would have liked but we scored some great books from our first visit to the Book Thing. The only ones that I am adding to Mt TBR/PC are the textbooks that I hope to use later for homeschooling. The rest of the books I picked up I plan to release at the Kensington Festival. Now I just need to register them all!!! The Baltimore Panera Bread was very friendly and one young man had a bit of trouble with the idea that if he wanted to give books away he could register them himself and be BookCrossers just like us. (He wanted to donate some books to us.) And then when he finally got it he said, "Oh you mean like join the collective!" We all got a chuckle out of that. I have so much fun with my BookCrossing friends! -crrcookie This photo is of lilgrovers, KateKintail, florafloraflora (hiding behind the book), MaryZee (wearing the black BC shirt), melydia (standing behind MaryZee). |
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This picture shows KateKintail, CreativeMGE, and florafloraflora.Notice all of the books piled around! |
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Potbelly Sandwich Works 401 John Carlyle Street Alexandria, VA 22314 Thursday, April 10, 2008 ResQgeek invited us all to meet him near his workplace for a lunchtime mini-meet since he would not be able to attend the Saturday meeting. I met one of his co-workers. Her screenname is dturnip1. I'll add her to my friends list now because that is where I keep track of all the wonderful BookCrossers I meet in real life. Since I got there late I didn't get a chance to sample the menu. The line was long and I wanted to chat more than I wanted to eat ... I didn't want to spend all of my time in line. Lilgrovers had plenty to snack on with juice and Cheerios always welcome on his tray. The main reason that I came (other than friendly conversation with friend BookCrossers) was so ResQgeek could give me the 500 (!) BookCrossing brochures that he printed for the Day of the Book Festival in Kensington. I'll be getting to the festival earlier than he will and this way we'll have them at the beginning of the event. After I get moved and get more familiar with the Metro we could get the chance to do more lunchtime meets. This would be especially helpful if our group needs to do some extensive planning. ;) |
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3201 Duke St. Alexandria, Virginia 12 Apr 2008 Here are the signings in the journal: Glad to be here! ~authorauthor it was great meeting all you BookCrossing people Thank you ~Bob (no screenname) We're on the ballot for 2010 and on the schedule for Day of the Book in Kensington. Yay for community outreach! Go BC_DC! ~melydia FURBALL was here. :) crrcookie finally brought GroverMOWB. Lilgrovers started the meeting napping in his stroller near daddy who is reading in a comfy chair. Nummy Panera food, great BookCrossers, book talk and fair organizing - what could be more fun? ~KateKintail :) I found the Panera in Alexandria & I was only 15 minutes late. It's so much fun to be here & see everone. Best, ~SqueakyChu It is good to find that fellow BookCrossers are out in force in Alexandria. I am glad to see others who enjoy getting lost in a good book. Best Regards, ~nat4lee Next stop for BC in DC - the Day of the Book Festival April 27th!!! |
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International Day of the Book Street Festival 27 April 2008 12-5pm Kensington, Maryland The actual physical journal has far more information and pictures than I can add here but I'll give an overview. Preparations for the event included making some posters. I made a poster for our goal to give away 1,000 books, posters that featured photos of past events (Kensington 2007, National Book Festival 2007, Carroll County Book Festival 2007, and local meetings), and posters that explained and promoted BookCrossing. The final tally included the following books brought to the festival: crrcookie 913 SqueakyChu 487 KateKintail 374 ResQgeek 212 melydia 80 CreativeMGE 57 Mom-Oyster 60 nat4lee 50 florafloraflora 31 kristamd 20 authorauthor 19 For a grand total of 2,348 available to give away. After a great redistribution the BookCrossers took home 1,122 books. We have various photos online at Flickr and several funny stories that are mostly summed up in the article posted by ResQgeek here. All in all it was a great day and we had a ton of fun surpassing our goal and making it a great event for BC in DC! |
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We were thrilled to have otakuu visiting the DC area on her BookCrossing World Tour to promote the 2009 Convention in New Zealand. It was a great good fortune that brought her to our area on the day of this extraordinary festival.I made sure to leave a space in the journal just for her to pen her thoughts. I have had a wonderful day at Kensington giving away more than 1000 books. Thanks to Zemarkable who drove me to meet MaryZee who brought me to the bookfair. It was so much fun to meet everyone especially the delightful lilgrovers, Purplypup and her sister. Their parents were pretty special too! Thanks to one and all for the hospitality and the fun. Keep up the good work. ~otakuu Mauriora - Be Well It was indeed a pleasure to have otakuu as our guest and we all had a great time! |
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Manassas, Virginia 28 April 2008 "The Great Kiwi Hand-off" Pictured are ResQgeek, Furturecat, otakuu, lilgrovers (in the stroller), and Buffra (seated in front). [crrcookie is behind the camera.] After otakuu's whirlwind time in the DC area it was time for her to head southward. ResQgeek planned to take her to meet up with Buffra and Futurecat. Lilgrovers and I went along for the ride and some conversation. It was loads of fun to meet more BookCrossers and I'll never forget the experience. ~crrcookie Here are the comments that were added to the book at lunch at Chili's in Manassas. Having the most enormous lunch in Manassas after visiting a battle site and collecting otakuu (the two are not necessarily related). America does BIG food! Great to meet you! ~Futurecat Hello! Wonderful to share the Kiwis with you ~ thanks for bringing [otakuu] to see us. ~buffra |
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I nearly forgot to make an online record of our bid for the 2010 Convention. BC in DC made a valiant effort to swing the Convention vote our way but sadly it was not to be.We wish the chosen location - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - much fun and Happy BookCrossing! A couple really great things came out of the convention bid though. One of them is the knowledge that xanderer can make great logos! And the group will now be known as "BC in DC"! |
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Washington, D.C. Corner Bakery (strangely across from the bookstore) May 31, 2008 The comments written in the journal: Rebaann - My first meet-up :) I came, I saw, I will probably end up with more books. - FURBALL Well, left the parking lot at Union Station with two bags of books, arrived on other end of station at the cafe with only one bag ... bookcrossers do the math! Union Station and its archetectural beauty always get to me, no matter how many times I come. - nat4lee Here in the pulsing heart of DC, midway between a pile of giant fudge brownies and a B. Dalton bookseller. Oh the temptation! Great to see everyone again at my second meetup. Kristamd Finally made it! Wasted time waiting for the darn yellow train that never came! But I made it and am looking forward to a nice stressless May meeting with you fun BCers! - KateKintail I braved major storms and broken metros but I made it! - melydia Very cool! It's storming outside. We're seated at Corner Bakery (directly across from a B. Dalton booksellers. Good coffee, good fellowship, good fun. Cheers! - SqueakyChu Pouring rain outside, but loits of book here, so it was worth braving the weather and traffic. Good to see everyone! - authorauthor Great fun as always, in a new venue for us, the Corner Bakery in Union Station. I hope I'll get a JE from the bakery employee who picked up my copy of What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day! - florafloraflora Today lilgrovers and I took the bus from base to the train station. Now that it is raining I am wondering the wisdom of trying this out today. I guess we'll get wet from the bus stop to the gate and out car. It has been great to see all the BookCrossers and this turned out to be a good location and quite convenient. I look forward to using the Metro more and doing more releases in the heart of D.C. - crrcookie |
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7238 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22203 (Ballston Metro Stop) Saturday, June 14th, 2008 Here are the comments that were written in the journal: melydia and theshaggyfreak arrived with suprisingly few books to share. This is melydia's third weekend in a row going to a BC meet! Anybody up for a gathering next weekend? :) (just kidding ...maybe) Brought only 4 books this time, but they are big ones. Does that count? - FURBALL Released book ... was picked up in less than a minute by a most intrigued(?) employee. Will wait and see, but it was a tense moment as he stood over the trash can reading the cover. - nat4lee I saw 2 Books ... One was by Roald Dahl the name of the book is Going Solo and the other was is Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory. - purplypup Two BookCrossing events in two weeks! I must be over my quota. Always great to see everyone. - ResQgeek And for me it's 3 BC events in as many weeks! I'm starting to be addicted. Wait - starting? I'm excited to be here, knee-deep in books, at another Panera. Afterwards I'm TOTALLY going on a trip up to the top floor to see the Capitals' Ice Plex for the first time! Squee! - KateKintail Better late than never! But I figured people would still be there, even after an hour and a half. - authorauthor Navigating the DC Metro system is getting easier. I love that I have an easy acces Panera Bread! This location is a little small and crowded but that makes for more conversation! Lilgrovers is doing great on the Metro with me and we were even able to wild release a few books on the way to the meeting. crrcookie There were some notations that there were three meetings in three weeks. Only two are formally mentioned in this journal because I (and the journal) did not make it to the meeting at the Pour House in Westminster, Maryland the weekend between the Union Station Meeting and this meeting. MaryZee was a wonderful hostess from what I have been told and I would have loved to go to that meeting and I am really sorry that I missed it because I was in the midst of a move. |
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13 July 2008 Audubon, Pennsylvania Panera Bread Three members of BC in DC (nat4lee, crrcookie and KateKintail) were able to make the trip to Audubon, PA to meet up with the Audubon BookCrossers Club (ABXC) for a very special "Two-Groups-In-One" Meeting. Nat4lee drove himself since he wanted to get up early and make a day of seeing the historical sites (Valley Forge) in the area. Crrcookie and KateKintail carpooled together a little later in the day. We were assisted in getting to PA by "Jill" the fabulous GPS unit that got quite exasperated with us when we jumped off the highway to release a book in Delaware just because we had never released books in DE before. Meeting the group was fabulous. There were veteran BCers H2Omelons and PrettyPoodle (the hostess who invited us) and 3 new BCers. New BCer ivypoison had only joined BookCrossing the night before even though she had a BC book for some time prior. SherriSue76 and JudyJoy are a family pair that also recently joined and were at their first meeting. Here is the transcription of what was written in the journal this time around: [M]- The "Dad half" of H2Omelons [J] - [M's] wife - the bookcrossing poodle - PrettyPoodle Came back from Audubon after 5 hours at Valley Forge, and the smiling happy faces of the ABXC group! - nat4lee JudyJoy loves reading books. SherriSue76 loves reading popular fiction. ivypoison - first timer! (joined last night) Whoohoo! Made it to PA! WE took a small side trip to DE so I could get my first wild release in that state! We ran into a little traffic but made it in good time in the end. Great to meet new bookcrossers ... and take home good books. :) Thanks for driving cookie! Thanks for the fun time all! - KateKintail (writing too much as usual) I made it to PA! I picked up KateKintail (and Jill the GPS) at the Branch Ave Metro Station and drove and drove. The moment we crossed into Delaware we stopped to release a book. We followed signs to the Iron Hill museum and found a charming place perfect for a couple of wild release. We've now met 5 members of ABXC and hope to see others in the future. - crrcookie |
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I'm one of the new members who signed the journal and enjoyed reading it at the Audubon, PA Panera on July 13, 2008. Although I had just joined the night before, I got right into the act and took some candid shots of the group. I was sitting next to KateKintail and crrcookie so I was able to get this closeup. You can check out the rest of the group at my Photobucket album. HERE Glad to have met everyone. |
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La Madeleine Bethesda, Maryland 19 July 2008 I spent some of the morning updating the online portion of the journal so that it would be ready for the meeting today. So anyone that wants to go check the edited JEs please feel free. Here are the comments from the book today: I'm riding the metro on my way to the meeting and dropping books along the way. I keep getting "caught" wild releasing with people asing me "Is that your book?" I'll try to be sneakier in the future because I like metro releases now that I have had one caught. - crrcookie melydia and theshaggyfreak love the food here - and you can't beat the company! :) This is SqueakyChu who is so sad she missed the Pennsylvania trip but is so happy to be back in BookCrossing company again today! Best to all!!! Great to be back amongst friends, good to see everyone in good health and good spirits! -Best from nat4lee Hello! Untangling myself from the cheesy strings of my French Onion Soup long enough to check in. Enjoying the cozy, cool environment of a sweltering midsummer day. - Kristamd [crrcookie], it's such a pleasure to finally attend another BookCrossing group's meeting! Thanks so much for the warm welcome. When can I reciprocate in San Fransisco? - suetu That's right my friends that last message was from suetu who came here to visit some family and got to visit some BookCrossers as well. It is almost like a BookCrossers exchange program since our very own ResQgeek is headed to San Fransisco in a few weeks and plans to make a meetup there as well. I got the camera out this morning but forgot to take it with me. I know SqueakyChu got a couple of photos and I will put one of them into this JE when we both get the chance to go online and do that sort of thing. SqueakyChu posted her pictures and gave me permission to use them. ;) I can't see it right now but it is a group shot that shows suetu telling us about a book that she brought. Suetu is the nice looking blonde at the end of the table to the right of the picture ... it's hard to see the rest of the members of BCinDC in this picture but we all pretty much know what we all look like by now. |
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Journal Entry 62 by
Field trip to The Book Thing in Baltimore, Maryland Here's a count of the books that we took home: crrcookie (and lilgrovers) - 408 books!!! SqueakyChu - 38 books! MaryZee - only 31 today! florafloraflora - 12 books (7 plus the ones for other people) Kristamd - 49 books (some for the classroom) KateKintail - only 162 :) (donated about 30 to the Book Thing) melydia - 87 books (mostly for others and TBR. Dang!) 764 books total About the photo - lilgrovers rides in the wagon and is assisted by kristamd as he nearly gets buried in books. Lilgrovers is nearly buried under a book avalanche as I try to get all of my wonderful school book finds loaded in the back of the van. By this point the back of the van is starting to look a little full but surely I can get a few more in. -crrcookie |
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Lunch at Panera Bread after The Book Thing Here are some of the comments posted from the journal: Overheard at Book Thing: Boy: Papa, I think we have enough books now! Dad: We can never have enough books. as recounted by kristamd So hot inside the Book Thing but so much fun to search with y'all! Great trip! Overheard at the Book Thing: Girl: A Hello Kitty book? You're the best mother in the whole world! -katekintail My husband is going to kill me. -melydia The scavenger list was fun - and helpful too. It made a good fan for inside the Book Thing. Thanks, crrcookie! -SqueakyChu I took home more books than all the other BCers put together. The good news is that I got a ton of homeschool books would cost a fortune to buy! The van is full ... gas mileage home is going to suck though! -crrcookie This photo shows a group of us that have descended upon the Panera Bread in Baltimore so that we can sit and chat and register a few books before trading them around and heading home. |
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3 September 2008 (Wednesday) 6:30 pm Dinner with CaptMom When I saw CaptMom releasing a book at the Navy Yard Mariott I sent a PM to see if she was in the DC area and when she replied that she was going to be here a few days we arranged a dinner meeting. Woo-hoo. In DC for Navy Reserve drill and was contacted by crrcookie. So I want to meet up with a BCer? Of course! Just love the BC community. Now you can come down to Florida and meet with me. -CAPTMOM I chose the Olive Garden because they were having the Never Ending Pasta Bowl special and it was easily accessible via Metro straight up the Green Line for both me starting at Anacostia and CaptMom starting at Navy Yard one stop later. Depsite the very short notice nat4lee was able to join us for dinner and he left a comment in the journal as well. BC in DC offers a little bit of surprise and joy in the middle of the work week. Nothing like a little preview before our scheduled meet this weekend. Best to all. -nat4lee And in the photo is CaptMom signing in this very journal with lilgrovers watching and trying his best to get the pen. |
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King Street Alexandria, VA 3pm - 5pm on 7 Sept. 2008 Today's meeting of BC in DC has been called not only as a monthly get together to plan for upcoming events but to welcome stinalyn as a visitor to the DC area. The weather has cleared and its a beautiful day for a BookCrossing gathering! It's always great to meet another BookCrosser. Welcome to DC, stinalyn. -ResQgeek Yummy foodstuffs and tons of great books - what more could a bunch of BookCrossers want? Familiar faces and one cheerful new one. Great meetup, all. -KateKintail Good meeting you, stinalyn! Here's hoping I come home with fewer books than I came with. (Yeah right!) -melydia Tearing myself away (temporarily) from my mini-tiramisu to say hello. Welcome to stinalyn! -kristamd Came all the way to Alexandria today to meet stinalyn (over 2.5 hours). Nice place for lunch and lots of books, as usual!! -MaryZee I'm having a wonderful time in Alexandria and Washington, and it's a delight to meet so many BookCrossers. Thank you for coming out to visit with me this afternoon! -stinalyn from New Mexico It's Paxton! (husband of stinalyn) And two other members arrived as well a little late since they had a nearby book club meeting that they were attending but we welcomed them with open arms. K.G. arrived and C.H. came with me too! We hope to be more active in the future! -kattubato C.H. came to her first BC_DC meeting at La Madeleine in Old Town! Glad to be here! -jhankie And not to be left out SqueakyChu got in a few words at the end. Hey everyone! I got here on time today! Maybe because I was hungary? Welcome to our fun group, stinalyn. Hope you have a chance to come back and see us again. I've got to get back to my blueberry muffin now ... and release some more books! Best, SqueakyChu I'll post with this journal entry a picture of stinalyn and Paxton! (Paxton is the one that is making faces at lilgrovers that is off camera and giggling like a little fool!) |
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A tour with stinalyn September 8, 2008 One of stinalyn's goals for this trip to D.C. was to take a tour of the Library of Congress. The opportunity was a good one for me so we decided to meet and tour together. Much of the tour is looking at the art and architecture of the grand building. We bought some souvenirs and I got a coin for the un-convention gift raffle. It has a quote from Thomas Jefferson, "I cannot live without books." What could be more perfect for a BookCrosser? -crrcookie |
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releasing at the National Zoo Washington, D.C. Although not a Bc in DC event lilgrovers and I headed to the National Zoo for some wild releasing. Many were themed releases for the "You're Such An Animal" Release Challenge. -crrcookie |
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George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia Thursday, September 25, 2008 Nat4lee organized getting BookCrossers a table at this event. The event started outside but as I arived at noon the event was being moved inside Dewberry Hall in the Johnson Center. My arrival was perfectly timed to start the decoration process as we set up the table in a new location. The BookCrossers present at this event were nat4lee, crrcookie, authorauthor, KateKintail and lilgrovers. This event was quiet and relaxed as people browsed the books and learned about BookCrossing. We wild released many books around campus as well despite the rain and many of them were caught and we are just waiting for the journal entries to roll in. I took 120 books and 105 of them were left behind and didn't come home with me. Overall, the estimated books released is around 400 but we didn't keep too good of a count. -crrcookie It looks like KateKintail added the following note after reviewing the book at a later time... I brought exactly 222 books! Do far a total of 0 real catches! :( |
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National Mall Washington, D.C. 27 September 2008 Here are some comments as written in the journal: melydia smuggled food out of the American Indian Museum! Oh Noes! ^ and I helped (yay for ziplock bag book rainjeckets). Having a great time at the Book Festival this year! ~KateKintail I came, I saw, I conquered, what more could I ask for but an endless sea of books, and all sorts of book lovers to give away our books to. They came to us in droves, it was invigorating! ~nat4lee on the steps of the Museum of Natural History at 2pm. Long hot day! But fun to faces to screen names! ~Gilroy (from LibraryThing) Yay for the NBF! Hope it's still here in 2009! ~stellar_dust (from LibraryThing) Books! Books books books books books. Books books books. Books? ~Melannen (from LibraryThing) Had a blast at the National Book festival with my BookCrossing buddies. :) ~peacebabies This isn't my first meeting wtih the BC in DC group, but my 1st time with them at the National Book Festival. I LOVE the yellow BookCrossing wagon! ~wyldanthem It took me one hour to get here by subway, but I'm here and having a great time. This is my favorite event of the year. It's great to see everyone. ~SqueakyChu This was an amazing event with the wagon loaded down with 304 books that did not come home with me. I had a ton of fun and lilgrovers had a phenomenal day too charming all those that came by to browse the books. I am writing this about 2 weeks after the event and I have a 5% catch rate so far so I think that it is more than sucessful! ~crrcookie |
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Duke Street Alexandria, VA 9 October 2008 WELCOME SKYRING! BC in DC gathered to welcome Skyring to the area. It is already Thursday and bright and early in the morning we are going to hop in the van for the road trip to the RE-doing the Charleston UnCon. Here are some entries from the book: Had to come all the way to Alexandria today to meet Skyring. I can see my BC in DC buddies anytime. :) (Well, almost.) Lots of good food at Quattro Formaggi and lots of books as usual. ~MaryZee My life is filled with happiness. And books. Never ask why I travel to the other side of the world. It's to meet people who share the passion. People who make me happy! Glad to be here in the heart of the nation. ~Skyring Its been a long day of wandering around DC with Skyring. Its always fun to see Washington through fresh eyes. I'm glad we had so many people here to welcome him to our city. ~ResQgeek The BCinDC group always seems to provide a little joy and inspiration in the middle of the week. Good to meet Skyring before he and the DC bookcrossers head off to Charleston for the unconvention. ~nat4lee Arrived to two more copies of Cold Sassy Tree to replace the ones caught in DC. That BC in DC always looking out for me. Great meeting you Skyring. ~melydia (with a reluctant theshaggyfreak in tow) I managed to drag out GroverMOWB to this event but I think maybe he just wanted to meet the men I'd be on a weekend roadtrip with. It's hard to believe its really happening. ~crrcookie |
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October 10-13, 2008 Charleston, SC On Friday morning we loaded up the newly christened "Bally Van" with ResQgeek at the wheel, Skyring riding shotgun, and crrcookie and lilgrovers chilling in the back with the DVD player. It was a long drive but we made good time and it wasn't too long before Skyring was snapping a picture of RingBear on the dash crossing the bridge into Charleston. Friday evening's activity of a meet and greet at the coffee shop put faces to screennames (and real names) as we mixed and mingled. It was a nice gathering that caused lots of laughter more than once. There were BookCrossers from near and from far! Saturday morning we awoke to the threat of rain but that didn't stop us from heading to the Farmer's Market in Marion Square to release some books. I brought out the MBCZ wagon and we got raincoats (baggies) on most all of the books before the rain came pouring down. It was great fun to leave books all over the Farmer's Market and the location was great for a little shopping as well. The Saturday night event was TRIVIA! We formed up teams and competed to see who knew the most useless information. Lilgrovers had a delightful time and was caught "cheating" by "reading" us answers from a large hardcover book he insisted on looking at. We had Birthday cake for Joan and Bruce and ResQgeek was given a nice large piece ... just ask him about the chocolate cake. ;) Sunday allowed some of us the opportunity to attend services and listen to the Czuk's sing in the church choir. It was absolutely beautiful and caused many a chill. We met for some brunch and then things started to wind down as we shopped a little and tried to decide what we were going to have for dinner. By Monday morning the crowd was dwindling and we had to start saying good-bye. Skyring left from the Charleston airport to begin another strange itinerary of many cities and many airports. Solittletime hitched a ride in the BallyVan rather than taking the train to D.C. She is going to visit a friend in VA before continuing on to her home in Maine. It was great to have her along for some conversation ... she could have read a book on the train I suppose but loads more fun to talk to BookCrossers me thinks. The UnConvention was over far too soon but a great time was had by all. I look forward to future conventions and all the fun that they will entail. The picture is from Marion Square - before the rain started! |
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Bolling Air Force Base Washington, D.C. 13 December 2008 LibraryThing member Melannen donated a few hundred books to BC in DC. I picked them up in Severn, MD on 3 Dec 2008 to store in the garage until time for the party. We're going to have good food and good fun! ~crrcookie The idea was that everyone would bring a laptop if they have it and we would all get on the wireless network and register some books! With the desktops we had just enough computers to keep everyone busy. We had a great spread of food with everyone bringing a little tidbit and I served pasta and breadsticks for dinner. The planned game of the evening was to bring a few books that you had wrapped up on the outside of the wrapping paper would be written the first line of the book. It is really hard to choose a book you might want to read based only on the first line. It's also a lot of fun to find out that books aren't always what they seem by first impression. We got most of the books organized, registered, and put away during the party. I'll still have some to register on my own but lots of work did get done in the midst of all the fun and laughter. And some last words from the journal: The gift exchange was so much fun! We have to do this again! ~melydia Merry Chistmas everyone! ~florafloraflora crrcookie had a brilliant idea for a book gift exchange based on good first lines. My submission, "he never should have taken that shortcut." It was all great fun, food, and friends (and tons of books as always)! ~nat4lee Wonderful release party! Loved the food everyone brought and the wrapped books were fun! Happy holidays BC in DC! And happy registering! :) ~KateKintail Happy Holidays everyone! Now that I've eaten and drunk and picked books to take home I guess I'll go help register some more. Cheers! ~SqueakyChu The photo is of melydia reading one of the first lines off of the wrapping paper. We are all wondering what book is inside and who is going to be brave enough to give it a try! |
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The end of this book was conveniently timed with the end of 2008. It's been an interesting ride with BookCrossing and lots of new friends. The journal is a requested item for "BC in DC" functions and events so we are set to continue in 2009 with a new journal, The "BC in DC" Meeting Journal. The photo with this entry is of crrcookie holding this journal and doing a bit of reminiscing at the Holiday Party as we filled the journal. You may recognize the page as having the picture from Journal Entry #10 the Kensington Day of the Book 2007 event. This book will always be a treasured part of BC in DC history and I hope that newcomers and visitors will enjoy looking through it. The only future journal entries will be from people who have read the journal and wish to journal it after reading it. This book will be a part of crrcookie's Permanent Collection even if there are additional journal entries. |
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