Journal Entry 1 by sage from Brighton, Colorado USA on Sunday, January 05, 2003

I did not like this book! Ick! I am sending it on to another bookcrosser who I hope will appreciate it more than I did! 

Journal Entry 2 by lucycat from Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, March 04, 2003

Woo-hoo! The post-man woke me up knocking to deliver this first thing this morning, thanks so much for passing it on to me, Sage.

I've managed to pique my sister's interest in this book since I first heard about it, so I'll pass it along to her first as soon as I've read it...she's a BC'er without any books registered yet (she succumbed to a little light sibling-pressure and signed up), so I'm hoping the fact that this book has come so far will finally spur her into action!

Thanks again, I will of course journal again when I've read it. :O)

Update 26/6/03

It took me a while to get around to reading this one, mainly because I was prepared for a dark, gritty book...and I had been warned that the first chapter in particular made for very difficult and distressing reading. In the meantime I read Alice Sebold's autobiography, 'Lucky'.

This book bares very little resemblance to 'Lucky', an extremely harrowing account of Alice Sebold's life after rape, and concentrates far more on echoing the fall-out of the central character Susie's family and friends as she watches over them from 'the Inbetween', her personally constructed Heaven.

It's more a story about coping than anything else, and I'm sorry I put off reading it for so long...Susie's thoughts and feelings as she watches over her family and friends from the Inbetween, her sadness as her younger brother and sister grow older than she was when she was murdered, and the vicarious delight she takes at experiencing life through them are enlightening, sympathetic and calming, rather than the upsetting hard-to-read story I had pre-judged it to be.

Highly recommended. 

Journal Entry 3 by lucycat at == by post or by hand == in London , Greater London United Kingdom on Thursday, July 03, 2003

Released on Thursday, July 03, 2003 at http://yowlyy.bookcrossing.com in London, England United Kingdom.

On it's way now to my girl Gabriella in London...I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. 

Journal Entry 4 by YowlYY from Nottingham, not specified not specified on Monday, July 07, 2003

Received today - thank you so much Lucycat :-)
I hope to read it really soon - despite the size of my TBR book pile ....I'll add a comment afterwards. 

Journal Entry 5 by YowlYY from Nottingham, not specified not specified on Monday, July 07, 2003

LOL...too funny not to mention it here... PenelopePitstop PMed me only minutes after I wrote my journal entry ... she saw the book on my bookshelf and asked to read it, so it will be a pleasure for me to send it over to Italy - it's such a good quality book, hardback and all. It will take only a few days... I hope!! 

Journal Entry 6 by YowlYY from Nottingham, not specified not specified on Thursday, September 25, 2003

Journal Entry 7 by YowlYY at on Friday, September 26, 2003

Released on Friday, September 26, 2003 at http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/PenelopePi in Bookshelf of a fellow BookCrosser :-), England United Kingdom.

In the mail today...may the gods of mail transport be benign and deliver this parcel in pristine conditions! 

Journal Entry 8 by PenelopePitstop from Melzo, Lombardia Italy on Wednesday, October 01, 2003

Arrived today!!!
I'm really happy, as soon as I finish all my bookrings I will start to read it ...
Many many thanks YowlYY

(ma che segnalibri inquietanti...) :D 

Journal Entry 9 by PenelopePitstop from Melzo, Lombardia Italy on Thursday, October 16, 2003

The book will travel around Italy (and Europe later perhaps) with a bookring...

PP
1. legs-weaver
2. vesna
3. simietta
4. campalla
5. Theut
6. Nuela
PP
7. Giuditta
 

Journal Entry 10 by legs-weaver from Milano, Lombardia Italy on Tuesday, October 28, 2003

I just found it in the mail :o), thanks to Penelope. It's conditions are more than pristine conditions, if you consider the journey it has faced.
I will start reading....right now!

see you soon

p.s. i segnalibri sono veramente un pò inquietanti ma belli :oO 

Journal Entry 11 by legs-weaver from Milano, Lombardia Italy on Saturday, November 08, 2003

Very beautiful (sigh), really moving (sigh), expecially in the final chapters (sigh) and in its final words (double sigh).
Its beginning is quite gruesome, with the description on how the child dies, then the story goes on telling how her family and friends cope with it.
Those who expect a thriller won't be disappointed. Neither will those who like good books well written (though I admit I sometimes found it difficult to read on).
Thanks to whoever didn't like it and left it for us to find and to those who passed it along to us.

ciao

Legs

I'll pass it along to Vesna next monday :o) 

Journal Entry 12 by vesna from Torino, Piemonte Italy on Wednesday, November 26, 2003

it's at Pulp House from last friday...i'm already reading it and I like it...the bad thing is that i dont sleep at night, not because of nigtmares but becouse i read too much, uff!
i have no words to describe of how i feel now ...i've finished it and i'm sorry of it...I want more!!!! 

Journal Entry 13 by simietta from Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy on Thursday, December 11, 2003

arrivato stamattina 

Journal Entry 14 by simietta from Pordenone, Friuli Venezia Giulia Italy on Tuesday, March 09, 2004

I expected more from this book. I am not really sure abt what I am going to get from it, but I just finished it last night and I might
need to ponder a bit more on the story and its message.
Easy to read, a good mix of thriller, romance, sadness, a bit of everything.
I'll pass it along to Campalla as soon as I get her address.

***Edit 15.03.04
Sent on Saturday via priority mail 

Journal Entry 15 by campalla from Genova, Liguria Italy on Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Ricevuto ieri sera! 

Journal Entry 16 by campalla from Genova, Liguria Italy on Friday, April 02, 2004

I expected a thriller, with a bit of supernatural...

Instead, I found a good novel, full of deep feelings, quite sad.

I'll pass it to Theut as soon as possible. 

Journal Entry 17 by Theut from Milano, Lombardia Italy on Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Passatomi da Campalla : ) 

Journal Entry 18 by Theut from Milano, Lombardia Italy on Tuesday, May 04, 2004

What did I like about this book?
First of all, Susie has a true and believable omniscient point of view. Because she cares, all of the characters are explored equally and their motivations, reactions and actions are clearly and evenly relayed. She is not sad, angry, or bitter. Instead she is a mix of curiosity and hope about the people still on Earth. Her real regret is not for herself; it is for the members of her family and friends who are left to sort out her death.
Susie narrates by mixing in events about things that happened before she died so that we can see how the family was when she was still there; and at the same time, she keeps the day to day, year to year events moving along, so that we can see the progress the family makes in accepting her death.
What else? In my opinion it's a really sad book (I cried) but I liked it so much!

I'll pass it to nuela tomorrow : )
 

Journal Entry 19 by Nuela from Milano, Lombardia Italy on Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Diectly from Theuth's own hands
PS.I cried too reading the novel!

19 ottobre 2004

to PPitstop
Sono molto contenta che il ring sia tornato a casa.Stavo aspettando una tua journal entry (infatti è arrivata qui sotto=), avevo molta paura che spedendo come piego di libri si sarebbe perso.
L'addetta delle poste è un'impicciona al 100% visto il nome straniero della destinataria e il libro in inglese a insistito per scrivere sulla busta "BOOK" invece che "piego di libri", mi ha chiesto di tutto mi ha chiamato anche cara e tesoro(!).Ho temuto seriamente per la sorte del libro. 

Journal Entry 20 by PenelopePitstop from Melzo, Lombardia Italy on Tuesday, October 19, 2004

I'm quite amazed that this bookring came back and didn't get lost like so many others...:-D
Now it will leave again and travel to Amsterdam to a very special friend and her lovely family.