Journal Entry 1 by woosang from Picton, New South Wales Australia on Monday, September 18, 2006

Oh how can one resist sure a cute little book?

Waiting for Godot
ActI. 'It's hopeles.'
My boots don't fit. Where is God?'
Act II. The Same Thing 

Journal Entry 2 by woosang from Picton, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, September 23, 2006

Very cute and a delight to read. 

Journal Entry 3 by woosang at Convention in Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, October 05, 2006

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Releasing at the Adelaide convention 2006 

Journal Entry 4 by lmn60 from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Monday, October 23, 2006

This one was causing lots of snickers and the occasional guffaw as it circulated around me at the Adelaie convention. I only wrestled it from Sujie's hands with the promise that I'll turn it into a bookring soon.

Promise! 

Journal Entry 5 by servalan from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Little book about books
Many laughs contained therein
Travel well with mirth 

Journal Entry 6 by lmn60 from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Saturday, August 18, 2007

Mea culpa! Mea culpa! See what you can find when you decide to tidy up the study, Lynn??? Bad bookcrosser... ring coming soon!

And my favourite haiku? (So hard to choose from so many wonderful ones...)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Snowdrops hang like tears.
Shy, sweet, saintly Beth has died.
One down, three to go.


I nearly snorted my wine out of my nose! 

Journal Entry 7 by lmn60 from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Journal Entry 8 by lmn60 from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Sending off to leeny today! 

Journal Entry 9 by leeny37 from Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Thursday, September 13, 2007

It's here, it's here! Hopefully I get a few laughs from this after a very trying week! 

Journal Entry 10 by leeny37 from Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Sunday, September 16, 2007

Haha... this little book gave me a few chuckles indeed. I think I would have enjoyed them even more if I had read all of the books in question. Although, as David Bader has pointed out, I can now proudly proclaim that I've read the haiku! It was hard for me to pick my favourites too; there were several that I liked, including the ones on the back cover, but I guess my two would be:

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Abandon all hope!
Looks like everyone's down here.
Omigod - the Pope!

Hamlet by William Shakespeare
'His mother wed his
dead murdered father's brother!'
Next Jerry Springer.

Sending on to the next person for more snorting of wine (or other choices of liquid) through noses! Hee hee... :) 

Journal Entry 11 by leeny37 at Post office: Mailed to another bookcrosser in Australia, Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Monday, September 17, 2007

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Mailing to the next participant, crimson-tide. 

Journal Entry 12 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Friday, September 21, 2007

Arrived today - it looks like a real treat! A quick flick though already has me chuckling. I'm looking forward to sitting down over the weekend for a more complete read.
Thanks. 

Journal Entry 13 by crimson-tide from Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Fantastic! Now there's a heap more books I don't have to read.

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Let's be pragmatic.
Saints, monks, mystics - their faith works.
So what if they're nuts?


Off to FreePages 

Journal Entry 14 by FreePages from Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Little book is Here
This will work the laugh muscles
Oops got a smile cramp!

:-) 

Journal Entry 15 by FreePages at Controlled release in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia on Thursday, January 24, 2008

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Ah, the perfect meeting of East and West.
As said in the forward, Poetry that originally designed by possibly Zen monks with ADD giving keen insight to frogs and cherry blossoms applied to The Western Very long winded Greats.
Or even Western Science ie.

Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia
Mathematica
by Issac Newton

Cherry blossoms fall
with force equal to Mass times
Acceleration.

May I say Poetry in motion.
Omm
:-)

On to the next in line, apologies again for the delay.



 

Journal Entry 16 by Littlemave from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Whee! A book!
Picked up from the mail box today. Thanks freepages, hope your health continues to improve. 

Journal Entry 17 by Littlemave from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Um - found it under lots of school newsletters on the kitchen bench... *blush* it's such a diddy little book!

Finished it yesterday. I must say my classics reading is very underdone (I do know a *few* of the books!) although I found the style of haiku a little flippant sometimes.

Here's one I enjoyed:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Wild. Strange. A bit damp.
Heathcliff waits for Cathy's ghost.
Women. Always late.

and another:

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Single white lass seeks
landed gent for marriage, whist.
No parsons, thank you.

Will be going to GTM soon. Thanks lmn60. 

Journal Entry 18 by Littlemave at postal release in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, April 02, 2008

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Off to GTM! 

Journal Entry 19 by goodthinkingmax from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, April 03, 2008

Arrived a few minutes ago and I've already read 25 pages! I joined this ring because I picked the book up in a shop a few years ago and laughed myself silly at the Little Women haiku on the back cover. Right now, chuckling over The Wasteland and To The Lighthouse. 

Journal Entry 20 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Thank you Lynn for organising this and goodthinkingmax for posting it out. Will read soon. It looks like a lot of fun! 

Journal Entry 21 by cat207 from Gladstone, Queensland Australia on Friday, June 13, 2008

Sorry for the interruption, folks. I pinched this off Deb this morning - will have it back to her tomorrow. Now back to your usual program...

My favourite:-

IVANHOE
Sir Walter Scott

'Who dat fine knight be?'
asked the saucy Moorish wench.
'Dat be Ivan, ho.' 

Journal Entry 22 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, June 25, 2008

I began reading this at my favourite cafe and had trouble getting passed the first haiku, I was in such fits of laughter but the one that has stayed with me is Homer's Odyssey:

Aegean forecast-
storms, chance of one-eyed giants,
delays expected.

I would really love to meet the author. He must be a hoot and could someone please tell me the significance of egg-dipped cheese sandwiches in the Count of Monte Cristo. Pmming Rockdg9. Thanks everyone.
PS Did anyone actually read the notes on the Fall of the Roman Empire haiku. At first I thought they were real footnotes but no, they are too funny for that.
 

Journal Entry 23 by lakelady2282 at Bookring in by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, June 29, 2008

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Journal Entry 24 by RockDg9 from Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Monday, June 30, 2008

Arrived here today ... I love the first one in the book!

The Canterbury Tales
Pilgrimmes on spryng braecke -
roadde trippe! Whoe farrtted? Yiuw Didde.
Noe, naught meae. Yaes, yiuw.

-Chaucer would have loved that! 

Journal Entry 25 by RockDg9 from Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Monday, July 07, 2008

Long books told in short
Haiku approach poetry.
Makes reading them fun.

 

Journal Entry 26 by RockDg9 from Toowoomba, Queensland Australia on Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Sent to Canada
On this cold winter morning.
Happy travels book. 

Journal Entry 27 by red-dianthus from Surrey, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, July 22, 2008

This arrived in the mail and i am greatly enjoying reading bits of it to my husband. 

Journal Entry 28 by red-dianthus from Surrey, British Columbia Canada on Sunday, August 03, 2008

this book is just great
read it aloud to husband
he enjoyed it too.

put it in the mail
on this sunny afternoon
fairwell haiku book 

Journal Entry 29 by kobie03 from Lewins Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada on Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Book arrived today. Thanks red-dianthus for including the postcard. I collect them so it's an extra treat. 

Journal Entry 30 by kobie03 from Lewins Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada on Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Delightful. My favorite Walden or Life in the Woods
Morning: Pond-gazing
Afternoon: berry-picking
What a hectic day

Sounds like an ideal summer day.
thanks for sharing this wonderful little book. 

Journal Entry 31 by kobie03 at Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada on Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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In the mail to trojanpotato. Enjoy 

Journal Entry 32 by trojanpotato from Oceanside, California USA on Monday, September 01, 2008

thanks, kobie03!
i look forward to this one
anticipation....

 

Journal Entry 33 by trojanpotato at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, trades, California USA on Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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i couldn't get a hold of Llednyl, so i mailed it to anwyn today.

it should take about a week and a half. 

Journal Entry 34 by anwyn from Toddington, Bedfordshire United Kingdom on Sunday, November 16, 2008

sorry i got the book a while ago but find it hard to collect my post every week. I have it and it's a great book will try and pass on asap. 

Journal Entry 35 by lostbookisland on Sunday, January 17, 2010

This book has washed ashore at the Lost Book Island after not being heard from for many months. This new arrival will be shown to a room and be allowed a bit of rest before being introduced to the many fun things to do here at the island.



All around there are books sipping cool drinks under shady palms while other books participate in a wide variety of beach sports. There is plenty of sand, surf and sun here for all of the lost and wayward books to enjoy.



It is hoped that very soon a new journal entry will come to rescue this book from the island and send it back out into the BookCrossing world so that it may continue on its journey. It is hoped that the new journal entry will tell all the interested parties where this book has been this long time and where it will be traveling to next.