Kindred

by Octavia E. Butler | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0807083054 Global Overview for this book
Registered by time-traveler of Peekskill, New York USA on 4/24/2006
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6 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Monday, April 24, 2006
Dana, a modern black woman married to a white man, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again to the plantation to protect Rufus (why?) Each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end before it has even begun.

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This is a fantastic time-travel story, and one of my all-time favorite books. In my opinion it is Octavia Butler's best. It is not heavy duty sci-fi like her other books are. I read a library copy on another Bookcrosser's recommendation...I was thrilled to find this brand-new looking trade paperback at the used bookstore so I could add it to my bookshelf! I plan to start a bookring with it.



Journal Entry 2 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Sunday, May 7, 2006
Here's the order of participants:

1. Cinnamon-Girl in NC - received, mailed
2. TheBowieFollies in NY - received, mailed
3. KansasKiwi in KS - received, mailed
4. LyekkaMarengo in PA - received, mailed
5. FortyToo in NJ - received, mailed
6. back to me, time-traveler in NY, unless others join - RECEIVED!

~Please journal the book when you receive it
~Try not to hold on to the book for more than 30 days. If possible, get the next person's address before you are finished reading it
~Please make a new journal entry when you've mailed it to the next person

That's it, I hope you all enjoy this book!

Journal Entry 3 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Mailed to Cinnamon-Girl in NC on Monday, May 08.

Journal Entry 4 by Bibliochick! from Wilmington, Delaware USA on Thursday, May 11, 2006
Received this today and will move to the top of my teetering TBR pile - thanks for including me in the ring!

Journal Entry 5 by Bibliochick! from Wilmington, Delaware USA on Sunday, May 21, 2006
I finished this book last night and really enjoyed it - in fact, I stayed up til 2:30 am reading the last half of it, unable to put it down. Loved the complex relationships and the intimate look at the lives of slaves. You can read more of my thoughts on this book here.

I'll be sending this in the mail tomorrow to TheBowieFollies - enjoy!

Journal Entry 6 by TheBowieFollies from Brooklyn, New York USA on Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Oh yearse its here, all hail my favourite time travelling willbury, the lordess of the book ring, queen of her reich, I met her in 1910, and then 2187, she has the answer to the universe, its her brownie recipe, sought after by legions of prophets ever so dubiously. ANother book here I know will be transfixed with, oh me time droogie yae are the best! And cinammon girl thanks for making my french toast extra spesh!
Will be back soon on my next trip to 2006 to deconstruct...
love and sprockets.

Journal Entry 7 by TheBowieFollies from Brooklyn, New York USA on Friday, June 9, 2006
Oh the spirit of Kindred!
This book has voo doo qualities, it is a legend in its own right, It is written with such a verve, you really believe the author has been in the 1800's. This book will haunt you with the tenacity of Emily Rose's incubus. The late Miss Butler is a credit to her people and to the literary world, this book is something I would recommend to a myriad of folk, feminists, black panthers, hippies, yippies, trekkies, trekkers, malchicks, droogies, the EST graduates, reformed Jim Jones supporters, yep there is something in this for us all..and then some. I actually read this twice because I was so enthralled!
cheers my transducer of time! wicked wicked read :)
and will be posted during the week to no place like Kansas!

Journal Entry 8 by TheBowieFollies from Brooklyn, New York USA on Friday, June 16, 2006
updating that this book was sent off on wednesday the 14th, to kansas in hopes of finding Dorothy. I know many friends of dorothy, hey im in musical theatre !
enjoy enjoy

Journal Entry 9 by KansasKiwi on Sunday, June 18, 2006
Yesterday I was enjoying a quiet stroll down the Yellow Brick Road, when who should I come upon but Dorothy sitting under a tree engrossed in a book.

"Hey, Dorothy, that Octavia Butler yarn, it's mine! May I have it, please?"

"Not a chance," said she. "Be nice and wait for me to finish."

So I'll wait. But not for long. She's a fast reader.

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June 19: Received mailing address from LyekkaMarengo, the next recipient.

Journal Entry 10 by KansasKiwi on Thursday, June 29, 2006
Oh, my goodness, this side trip off the Yellow Brick Road was quite an adventure. Made my hair stand on end at times.

I'm not a big fan of time travel stories but I really did want to see what manner of yarn Octavia Butler spun. Tangled. Rough to the touch. But cleverly crafted.

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Thank you, time-traveler, for the opportunity to read this enjoyable book.

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Kindred, packaged and ready to go, will continue its journey **tomorrow. LyekkaMarengo is the next lucky recipient.

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**6/30/06
USPS Media Mail.
Delivery Confirmation number: 0305 2200 0000 8090 4865

Journal Entry 11 by LyekkaMarengo from Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Arrived safe and sound in Central PA today. I've got 3 ahead of this bur I'm also on vacation next week while they put carpet in the house so I figure on getting pretty well caught up.

Thanks for sending it on, looks like a good one.

Journal Entry 12 by LyekkaMarengo from Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, August 7, 2006
This was a wonderfully constucted story and very haunting, in that it will tend to stay with you a long time. It is science fiction only in the aspect that it involves time travel. Most of the rest of the story is, unfortunately, much less fiction than is comfortable. Dana, a 1970's black woman is the one traveling into the past, apparently to keep her distant white relative, who lives on a southern slave holding plantation, from dying. She is often subjected to the treatment that too many slaves were of somewhat arbitrary beatings and abuse. Her white husband is caught in the travel with her at one point which both complicates and changes the attitudes she encounters. While Dana is modern in her opinions she does find herself very changed by each trip and her reactions to the conditions. Ms. Butler based much of her description on slave journals of the time and much of the book reads like a diary of a time. While the stories in the past were sometimes very brutal it was also very interesting to read of Dana's thoughts when she returns to her time and very thought provoking to imagine what might have been my own reactions.

I have the next person's address and will ship this off as soon as I get to the post office.

Mailed to FortyToo in Westfield NJ on 08/14/2006

Journal Entry 13 by FortyToo from Westfield, New Jersey USA on Thursday, August 24, 2006
Arrived safe and sound..I have "American Gods" (another ring) to finish first, but it shouldn't take too long. I'm looking forward to this, since I've heard good things about it.

Journal Entry 14 by FortyToo from Westfield, New Jersey USA on Sunday, September 17, 2006
Fascinating book. Thought provoking. I'm not sure quite what I expected...More hard *science* fiction, I suppose...

Haunting is a word that others have used to describe it...which seems about right.

This was the first book by Octavia Butler that I've read--I'm looking forward to reading more.




Journal Entry 15 by time-traveler from Peekskill, New York USA on Saturday, September 30, 2006
This book is back with me now. You all took such good care of it - it hardly looks like it travelled at all! Thanks again for joining this ring...I plan to wild release it sometime.

Journal Entry 16 by time-traveler at Downtown in Peekskill, New York USA on Saturday, December 2, 2006

Released 17 yrs ago (12/2/2006 UTC) at Downtown in Peekskill, New York USA

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In front of Ford Piano.

Released for Danesnboxers' Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge, week 48 (hair on the cover) & for too-little-time's Rainbow Connection Challenge (red).

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