Journal Entry 1 by NICNIC2 from St Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, September 06, 2007

Journal Entry 2 by NICNIC2 at By mail in A bookray, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, November 10, 2007

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On its way at last!!! 

Journal Entry 3 by Bright-Spark from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 08, 2007

Quite excited when the box arrived, and it was full of goodies!

I took out two, one being Michael Ondajtee's The English Patient, the other Ha Jin's Waiting. My two replacements are:
Haruki Murakami - Dance, Dance, Dance
Peter Carey - Theft

Hope these will be enjoyed by someone!

Box finally sent on it's way to Plum-crazy last week. 

Journal Entry 4 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 08, 2007

Finally got to the Post Office this morning to collect this....& I'll try to get it moving again asap.

There seems to be an interesting selection of books to choose from but Bright-Spark,I can't see any BCID's on your 2 - if you want to PM me I'll write them in :-) 

Journal Entry 5 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, December 10, 2007

I'm taking out...
1...Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
2...The Harmony Silk Factory
3...The Electric Michelangelo

...they all sound so different to my usual type of reading but that what I love about Bookcrossing it opens up whole new reading worlds!

And to replace them I'm putting in...
1... Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (shortlisted for the Man Booker & the Orange Prize)
2...Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge (shortlisted for the 1998 Booker Prize)
3...The Kiln - William McIlvanney (winner of the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award)

Now I have a confession to make about The Kiln...it is an ex-library book but is excellent condition -if it wasn't for the withdrawn stamp you would never know!

If Cross-Patch gets back to me in time I can get it on it's way tomorrow, if not I'm not sure when it will be travelling again.

*UPDATE*...posted Thursday 13th December. 

Journal Entry 6 by Cross-patch from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 02, 2008

This book box arrived in the run-up to Christmas and was put under a pile of Christmas wrappings and forgotten about. Apologies for this mishap. It has such lovely books in it too. Thank you, Plum-crazy and NICNIC2 and sorry for being disorganised lately. I'll try to get it sorted and sent on at the weekend. 

Journal Entry 7 by Cross-patch from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Monday, January 14, 2008

I'm taking the book over to arturogrande one afternoon this week so it will be on its way soon. 

Journal Entry 8 by Cross-patch from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 17, 2008

Swap Over Day today. So, it is time to make decisions - it was so hard because this is truly a fabulous selection. But, I am taking out:-
Theft - Peter Carey
The Kiln - William McIlvanney
Dance, Dance, Dance - Haruki Murakami
Hotel World - Ali Smith

to be replaced with
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
Regeneration - Pat Barker 

Journal Entry 9 by arturogrande from Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 17, 2008

Small but perfectly formed - the ideal bookbox!

I'm taking out:

Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
I'm the King of the Castle - Susan Hill
Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson

I'll journal again when I've decided what to replace them with. Thanks to everyone for another good bookbox. 

Journal Entry 10 by arturogrande from Coalville, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, February 09, 2008

Sorry I've had this box for so long - I've been completely bogged down with work.

I'm replacing the books I've taken with:

Spies - Michael Frayn
Property - Valerie Martin
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison

The box is now on its way to lellie. Apologies again for holding it up. 

Journal Entry 11 by lellie from Trimley St Mary, Suffolk United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Arrived safely this morning.
This was an easy one! I took out the only two books I hadn't either already read or have sitting on Mount Toobie.


Staying with me are

Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge
Property by Valerie |Martin

Travelling on

The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido (shortlisted for Whitbread Novel Of The Year 1998)
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai (Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize)

This is a really sooperdooper box and more than makes up for some of the boxes full of other peoples junk that I've had in recent months ;(
If I hadn't already read them I'd have kept the lot :)

Will be in the post as soon as I get amber-moons address.

Thanks vereyone. 

Journal Entry 12 by Amber-moon on Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Delivered by my postman yesterday.Ooooh what a fabulous bookbox,i`m completely spoilt for choice.I`ll have a proper look through when i`m off these night duties at the weekend. 

Journal Entry 13 by Amber-moon on Saturday, March 15, 2008

Sorry its took so long folks.
I have chosen Spies by Michael Frayn and i`m putting in Wild Swans by Jung Chang.I`d like to choose some of the others but haven`t go any more prize winners ready to release to replace them with!
Jazz-ee2 is coming over for a knit and natter this aftenoon so i`ll be passing the box over to her. 

Journal Entry 14 by Amber-moon at passed to a friend in Mansfield, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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Passed to Jazz-ee2. 

Journal Entry 15 by jazz-ee2 from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Thursday, March 20, 2008

Passed on to me by the lovely Amber-moon, I must say this is a fabulous book box - I love the idea of a boxful of prize-winning reads to choose from, whether I'm picking them out to read or remembering what a good read they were!

I have taken out:
Small Island - Andrea Levy
Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
The travelling hornplayer - Barbara Trapido

I will be putting in:
A thousand Acres - Jane Smiley (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Still here - Linda Grant (Man Booker Prize longlist)
Frankie and Stankie - Barbara Trapido (Whitbread Novel Award shortlist)

If the box comes around again, be sure to add me to the list! 

Journal Entry 16 by kitten99 from Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear United Kingdom on Saturday, April 05, 2008

Received this yesterday - finally was able to collect it from the Royal Mail depot. I was really excited about this as it's my first bookbox! I'll journal again once I've made a decision of what I'm taking out and putting in, & I'll try to get it moving fairly soon.

Thanks to everyone who's taken aprt so far for a great selection of books! 

Journal Entry 17 by kitten99 at Post Office in Newcastle upon Tyne, Mail -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

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Released to the mercy of the post office to travel on to Rudifun23.

Sorry I've had this box for so long - I found it really hard to choose what I wanted to keep! 

Journal Entry 18 by Rudifun23 from Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thanks for this, hope to have it back in the post this weekend once I get GMadden's address.
Have replaced Thousand Acres with The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco. 

Journal Entry 19 by GMadden on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Hi! Just to let you know I've received the bookbox today, with thanks! I've taken Fingersmith and The Name of the Rose and replaced those with:

Restless by William Boyd - shortlisted for the Costa Novel award 2006

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow - nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, and the Arts and Letters Award.

Will get the box on its way to Nicnic asap!

Thanks again, it was fun to receive.

 

Journal Entry 20 by NICNIC2 from St Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom on Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Woo! The box has made it home safely :) This is what I found inside:
Shipping News by Annie Proulx
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Restless by William Boyd
Ragtime by E.l. Doctorow
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

An interesting mix! I've read a one of these and a couple aren't my sort of thing but it was exciting to see such a varied box come back. Thanks to all who took part. If anyone is intersted in a second round let me know :)