Journal Entry 1 by sweetsangria from Forest Grove, Oregon USA on Monday, October 15, 2007

This is the "Covergirl" bookbox. It will contain books that have a woman or girl(s) on the cover. It can be a face/hands/body...as long as it is female. I will try to get this started by the end of the year.

*Please make a journal entry saying that you've received the box and one when you mail it to the next person.Please list what books you are taking and what you are putting into the box.

*Please make journal entries for the individual books that you take out of the box also.

*This box is US ONLY, NO romance novels,NO children's books,NO series(unless it's the 1st in a series), NO cookbooks, NO self help books & NO westerns. Please don't use this bookbox as a place to release your books that are badly damaged or really old and worn.Please put in books that you think other people will enjoy. I also added a bag of bookmarks,stickers,and postcards. Please take a few and add a few of your own if you'd like.

*Replace the same amount of books that you take.

*Please do not keep the box longer than 2 weeks.

IF YOU CAN'T FOLLOW THE RULES....DON'T JOIN!!!

*participants:

-lginder(CA)
-anabanana(CA))
-indygo88(Indiana)
-shausha(PA)
-donduckandy(PA)
-time-traveler(NY)
-downtime(TN)
-mrsjones(OH)
-stagecrafty(WA)
-heresdeb(IL)
-bookaholic2(NJ)(box is here)
-sweetsangria(back home to me)


Original books in box:

*Hilda and Pearl-Alice Mattison(taken)
*Lost in the forest-Sue Miller(taken)
*Prozac nation-Elizabeth Wurtzel(taken)
*Earthly possessions-Anne Tyler(taken)
*When the rainbow goddess wept-Cecilia Manguerra Brainard(taken)
*What looks like crazy on an ordinary day-Pearl Cleage
*Ambulance girl-Jane Stern(taken)
*The gilded chamber-Rebecca Kohn(taken)
*Unless-Carol Shields(taken)
*Small ceremonies-Carol Shields(taken)
*Breath,eyes,memory-Edwidge Danticat(taken)
*Lightning song-Lewis Nordan(taken)
*Orlando-Virginia Woolf(taken)
*The nanny diaries-Emma Mclaughlin,Nicola Kraus(taken)
*The perfectly true tales of a perfect size 12-Robin Gold(taken)
*A wedding in December-Anita Shreve(taken)
*Sister noon- Karen Joy Fowler(taken)
*Jane Eyre-Charlotte Bronte(taken)
*Cat's Eye-Margaret Atwood
*Every inch of her-Peter Sheridan(taken)
*World of pies-Karen Stolz(taken)
*Shooters-Terrill Lankford(taken)
*The art of kissing-William Cane(taken)
*Slouching towards Bethleham-Joan Didion 

Journal Entry 2 by sweetsangria from Forest Grove, Oregon USA on Monday, November 19, 2007

Journal Entry 3 by LGinder on Monday, November 26, 2007

Box came safely in todays mail. I'll pm the next in line and will have it back out as soon as I hear back with an address. Great selection of books too!

Putting in:
Eye Contact (Really, really good!)
The Birth of Venus
Once Upon A Day (another great one)
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Sometimes I Dream In Italian
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows (love this author too!)

Taking:
Ambulance Girl
The Perfectly True Tales of a perfect size 12
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept
The Gilded Chamber, Story of Queen Esther
Breath, Eyes, Memory - this one's at the top of my TBR stack!
Hilda and Pearl
Every Inch of Her

Just waiting on address for next participant! 

Journal Entry 4 by LGinder at Mailed to next particpant in by mail, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (11/28/2007 UTC) at Mailed to next particpant in by mail, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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Sending box off to anabanana, enjoy!

****Box was mailed on Thursday, November 29 USPS delivery confirmation #0306 0320 0003 6653 9338

With luck it'll only take a few days as the next participant is only about 100 miles north of where I'm at.

****11/30 USPS confirmed delivery - ONE DAY WITH MEDIA MAIL! 

Journal Entry 5 by anabanana from Pasadena, California USA on Friday, November 30, 2007

Received today from LGinder. This really is a good selection of books!
Putting in:
Tar Baby - Toni Morrison
Our Lady of the Forest - David Guterson
I'll Take You There - Joyce Carol Oates
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields

Taking out:
Eye Contact - Cammie McGovern
Sister Noon - Karen Joy Fowler
A Wedding in December - Anita Shreve
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows - Kris Radish

I'll send a PM to the next person in line and keep the box moving! Thanks sweetsangria! 

Journal Entry 6 by anabanana from Pasadena, California USA on Friday, December 07, 2007

I mailed this box today to indygo88. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 7 by indygo88 from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Thursday, December 20, 2007

I've been anxiously awaiting this box & it finally arrived on my doorstep today! And what a great box it is! I've only peeked in very briefly & then dashed here to the computer to journal that I'd received it (because I've got company arriving any minute now), but I can already tell I'm going to have a hard time not taking too many! Looking forward to sifting through! 

Journal Entry 8 by indygo88 from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Friday, December 21, 2007

Removing:
Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller
Small Ceremonies - Carol Shields
Prozac Nation - Elizabeth Wurtzel
Once Upon a Day - Lisa Tucker
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Putting in:
Leonardo's Swans - Karen Essex
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Drop City - T.C. Boyle
Veil of Roses - Laura Fitzgerald
Wideacre - Philippa Gregory

I have shausha's address, but I think I need to find a replacement box, & with the holidays, I realistically probably won't get to the post office until after Christmas. I'll update when the box goes back out. Great variety of books. Thanks, sweetsangria! :') 

Journal Entry 9 by indygo88 from Lafayette, Indiana USA on Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Bookbox went back out in the mail today, heading to Shausha! 

Journal Entry 10 by Shausha from Kersey, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Hi: Shausha here. Got the box today. Lots of great books. I have found 5 that I really like. How fun this is. I will get it out within the week. I am going to have my daughter and Mom look at it too. thank you. 

Journal Entry 11 by Shausha from Kersey, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, January 14, 2008

I have looked through the box as have my Mom and daughter.

We are taking the following books:
The Art of Kissing
Veil of Roses
Our Lady of the Forest
World of Pies
The Birth of Venus
Sometimes I Dream In Italian
Leonardo's Swans
Putting in
Carolina Isle
Flirting with Pete
Out of Nowhere
Share No Secrets
Private Eyes
Slayer the totally cool unofficial guide to Buffy
Norah

My Mom and I especially enjoyed this bookbox. My Dad was fascinated about the whole bookcrossing and bookbox concept. He likes Westerns, religious books and Indian books. I said that someday he should start his own bookbox. He is 75-years old and loves the computer and books. He should join bookcrossing!
I am going to PM the next person in line and the box will go out as soon as I get their address

Note: In preparing the box today to go to the next person, I discovered that Dawn was already reserved for someone and that The Christmas Angel was a series and it was not the 1st in the series. I have replaced these two books. they are included in my list above.
 

Journal Entry 12 by Shausha from Kersey, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Just send my husband to the post office to mail cover girl book box to donduckandy. Mailed from Kersey, PA. 

Journal Entry 13 by Donduckandy from Hazleton, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, January 19, 2008

Bookbox arrived today 1/19/08. Oh so many goodies. I've been looking and I think I will be taking eight. Will journal when I do. Thanks loads!


 

Journal Entry 14 by Donduckandy from Hazleton, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, January 21, 2008

Found a lot of goodies here. I'm taking:
Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lightning Song by Lewis Nordan
Out of Nowhere by Doris Mortman
Flirting with Pete by Barbara Delinsky
The Secret History of The Pink Carnation by Lauren willig
Shooters by Terrill Lankford
Share No Secrets by Charlene Thompson

Replacing with:
Red Palms by Cara Haycak
Mama by Terry McMillan
Perfect Order by Kate Coscarelli
Games by Vera Cowie
Fairytales by Cynthia Freeman
A Lady Follows by Holly Newman
Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
The Van Alens by Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. 

Journal Entry 15 by Donduckandy from Hazleton, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, January 22, 2008

I've shared this bookbox with blackadder75 today. She's taken from the bookbox:Carolina Isle by Jude Deveraux
Wideacre by Phillipa Gregory

replaced with Temptress by Lisa Jackson
Woman From the Sea by Elizabeth Renier 

Journal Entry 16 by Donduckandy at A Controlled Release in A Controlled Release, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, January 24, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (1/24/2008 UTC) at A Controlled Release in A Controlled Release, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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Mailed the bookbox today. Delivery confirmation
#03071790000375636319. also added a RABCK for MrsJones. Enjoy!
 

Journal Entry 17 by time-traveler from Westchester, New York USA on Monday, January 28, 2008

It's here!!! I'll go through the books tonight. Can't wait!

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I've chosen:
Spying in High Heels by Gemma Halliday
Orlando:A Biography by Virginia Woolf
Red Palms by Cara Haycak

and I've added
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
The Mercy of Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue
Soulmate: A Novel of Eternal Love by Deepak Chopra

I also added several Jane Austen bookmarks to sweetsangria's bag of goodies. 

Journal Entry 18 by time-traveler from Westchester, New York USA on Thursday, January 31, 2008

I mailed this to downtime in TN today. Thanks for including me, sweetsangria!

Confirmation #0306 2400 0000 5976 0130 

Journal Entry 19 by downtime from Fort Collins, Colorado USA on Tuesday, February 05, 2008

just received! Thanks
have pmed next in line for address: mrsjones
heresdeb requested to be moved to the end 

Journal Entry 20 by mrsjones from Hamilton, Ohio USA on Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Received the box in the mail today. I immediately spied some good ones: some I've read and some I haven't. I look forward to sitting down with the box and making my choices in the next few days. 

Journal Entry 21 by mrsjones from Hamilton, Ohio USA on Saturday, March 08, 2008

We're having a little bit of a blizzard here today in Cincinnati, Ohio. But as soon as the roads clear, I am taking this to the post office to send on to stagecrafty.

I took:
Mama
Tar Baby
Unless
Courting Trouble
The Little Lady Agency

And added:
Tree by Leaf
We Thought You Would Be Prettier
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Ripped at the Seams
A Girl Named Zippy 

Journal Entry 22 by stagecrafty from Lynnwood, Washington USA on Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Just came home to find this waiting for me! I'll pass it along shortly.

Removing:
Tree By Leaf
Autobiography of a Fat Bride
We Thought You Would Be Prettier
Soulmate
I'll Take You There

Adding:
Wifey
Walking on Water
Still Waters
The Stepford Wives
Madame Bovary
The Nanny Diaries

 

Journal Entry 23 by stagecrafty from Lynnwood, Washington USA on Thursday, March 27, 2008

Tried to ship it today and was REJECTED! They wouldn't ship the box because it said Vodka on the side. I thought that this was strange seeing how it arrived in the same box a few days ago with no problem. The snotty post office worker said that they would never accept such a box and acted like I was lying! I'll try again tomorrow if I have time to drive down there again. If not I may have to wait until Monday. 

Journal Entry 24 by HeresDeb from Grayslake, Illinois USA on Thursday, April 10, 2008

Got it today! Liquor box and all... Stagecrafty must have found a friendlier postal clerk ;-) Oh wait, now I can barely see that the word 'Vodka' has been ripped off. How funny!!

I'm taking out:
-Ripped at the Seams
-Still Waters
-The Nanny Diaries

I'm putting in:
-She Said Yes
-Girlfriends
-The Jewels of Tessa Kent

Thanks for all the effort it took to pass this on!

 

Journal Entry 25 by HeresDeb at Mailed to next particpant in by mail, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Friday, April 18, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (4/18/2008 UTC) at Mailed to next particpant in by mail, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

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Sent via media mail w/delivery confirmation to bookaholic, next on the list.

**I had the same trouble at the post office with trying to mail a box that used to contain alcohol. Apparently there was still a V showing (for vodka) and the postal worked refused it. I finished tearing the rest of the V off right then and there and he took it. However, the next person on the bookbox list may want to replace the box just in case the next postal worker doesn't like the cute little vodka-drinking elephant on the side of the box. 

Journal Entry 26 by bookaholic2 from Wildwood, New Jersey USA on Friday, April 25, 2008

Box arrived,I'l look though and mail out monday!Thanks 

Journal Entry 27 by bookaholic2 from Wildwood, New Jersey USA on Sunday, April 27, 2008

DC#
03071790000094975614

Took out of Bookbox
Walking on Water:Gemma O'Connor

Released to Covergirl-Bookbox:sweetsangria
3rd Degree(Woman's Murder Club):James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Good Girls Gone Bad:Jillian Medoff
Firestorm:Iris Johansen
The Art of Undressing:Stephanie Lehmann
Turning on the Girls:Cheryl Benard
Also added BookCrossing patch and BookCrossing window sticker for you to enjoy!
 

Journal Entry 28 by bookaholic2 at controlled release to fellow BookCrosser in Wildwood, New Jersey USA on Monday, April 28, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (4/28/2008 UTC) at controlled release to fellow BookCrosser in Wildwood, New Jersey USA

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Returning home!
DC#
0307179000094975614 

Journal Entry 29 by sweetsangria from Forest Grove, Oregon USA on Tuesday, May 06, 2008

The bookbox has returned safely home. Thank all of you for making it a success! It went out with 24 books and came back with 28. Only 3 of my own books returned back to me, and there were about 6 that went onto my tbr pile. I was a little disappointed that 3 people put in romances when the rules clearly said "NO ROMANCES". One person put in 5. I still feel like it was successful...not being stalled. Thanks again...happy reading!!