Journal Entry 1 by starflash from Crawley, West Sussex United Kingdom on Sunday, October 21, 2007

ON ITS WAY BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK (W/C 29/10)

Contains:

Ian Banks The Crow Road
David Guterson East of the Mountains
Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Martin Amis Money
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
Franz Kafka The Trial
Ian Banks A Song of Stone
Henry James Portrait of a Lady
Charles Dickens Hard Times
Graham Greene The Human Factor
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
Arthur C Clarke The Fountains of Paradise
Nadine Gordimer Selected Short Stories
JK Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Penguin Book of English Short Stories
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Participants:
Starflash shipped to Katrinat 30.10.07
katrinat
NICNIC2
raeliz64
madmadge
sharonrocks
wanderingstar8
Rivercassini<--its here
(need more!!)
BACK TO STARFLASH

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General "Rules" for the box

- Please replace the books you want with an equal number-as long as they will fit-or more if they will go in and you are feeling generous! No huge hardbacks please to keep shipping costs down. Books should be 'classics' or be written by a prizewinning or nominated author (Booker, Pulitzer, etc): the particular BOOK doesn't need to be nominated/winner, just the AUTHOR. Any genre.

- All books should be labeled with a BCID and books chosen should be registerd as yours when you remove your choice from the box.

- Please log your choices and input here. Ideally the turnround should be no longer than 2 weeks between participants. Please don't hold up the box for the next participant. Please journal when you receive and send the box.

-PM the next participant.............


 

Journal Entry 2 by starflash from Crawley, West Sussex United Kingdom on Monday, October 29, 2007

Shipping to katrinat on 30th Oct 07 

Journal Entry 3 by katrinat from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 07, 2007

I picked this up last night and looks like a great selection. I immediately pcked out 5 books that i thought i may be interested in, but only got to look briefly thorugh them as i was rushing out to a bookcrossing meeting. I am trying to read at the mo a book I want ti include and will have o look through the rest of my books for suitable swaps. 

Journal Entry 4 by katrinat from Leigh-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom on Saturday, November 17, 2007

After a disasterous morning I got into town with the shoebox 10 minutes after tthe post office closed. grrrr! So it will be sent out sometime in the next week depending on meetings at work.

I've taken out:
Ian Banks The Crow Road
David Guterson East of the Mountains
Robert Olen Butler A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Ian Banks A Song of Stone
Nadine Gordimer Selected Short Stories

Once read I will release these books, probably through a bookcrossing group.

I'm replacing them with:
Unless, Carol Shields
Boy, Roald Dahl
Angela's Ashes, McCourt
Animal Farm, Orwell
Snow Falling on Ceadars, Gutterson
Fireworks, Carter
 

Journal Entry 5 by NICNIC2 from St Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 01, 2007

Got here this morning. Will sort through it this weekend and send it out next week. Thanks for including me!

I'm afraid there isn't much in this box thats my sort of thing but I've tkaen out a couple that are on the 1001 list, as I'm plodding my way through that.
Have taken out:

The Trial by Franz Kafka
Unless by Carol Shields

Putting in:

Eve Green by Susan Fletcher
Persuasion by Jane Austen 

Journal Entry 6 by NICNIC2 at By mail in A bookray, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, December 15, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (12/15/2007 UTC) at By mail in A bookray, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Finally on its way again, sorry about the delay guys! 

Journal Entry 7 by raeliz64 from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Monday, December 24, 2007

This bookbox will be staying with me over the holidays and I'll get it on it's way early in the New Year. 

Journal Entry 8 by raeliz64 from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Thursday, January 03, 2008

I have taken:
Eve Green - Susan Fletcher

I have added:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 

Journal Entry 9 by raeliz64 from Leicester, Leicestershire United Kingdom on Saturday, January 05, 2008

Posted to madmadge today. 

Journal Entry 10 by madmadge from Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 09, 2008

How exciting! My first bookbox. There was a card through the door when I got home yesterday to say a parcel had arrived but it was too big to go through my letterbox so I went to collect it this morning. It's here at work with me and I've had a quick look through. Looks like there are quite a few interesting books in there so I will have to look out some replacements. Thank you starflash for including me and raeliz for posting it on to me. I'll try not to keep it too long. 

Journal Entry 11 by madmadge from Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 09, 2008

I arrived home and couldn't wait to have a good root around in this box. I've made my decision. This is what I've taken out:

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Boy - Roald Dahl
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories - Various
To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

This is what I'm putting in:

A Passage to India - E M Forster
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell - couldn't get it in! - see below

It will be interesting to see how the box ends up at the end of its journey. This is such fun! Will PM Sharonrocks for her details and send it on its way some time next week.

Edited because I couldn't get Gerald Durrell in no matter how hard I tried.

I've replaced him with Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 

Journal Entry 12 by madmadge at Kinson in Bournemouth, Dorset United Kingdom on Friday, January 18, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (1/18/2008 UTC) at Kinson in Bournemouth, Dorset United Kingdom

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In the post from Kinson Post Office. 

Journal Entry 13 by sharonrocks on Monday, January 21, 2008

Ooooh, it's arrived today. How exciting. I notice that the ratio of classics seems to be quite high compared to prizewinners, so I will be sure to add a couple of PWs once I've had a rummage through...


(later)
Right! Thanks to Starflash for starting this box - it's a brilliant idea (maybe we can do it again?) and also to Madmadge for sending it to me. Here's what I'm going to do:

Out:
Dickens - Hard Times
Austen - Persuasion
Greene - The Human Factor

In:
Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
James Kellman - How late it was, how late
Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Plus, I'm going to switch the copy of A Passage to India by Forster for a different one as mine is lighter and will save postage!

AND in my efforts to bump up the prizerwinneryness a bit further, I'm adding a bonus book: Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn.

I will get this on the move asap.
Sharon 

Journal Entry 14 by wanderingstar8 from London , Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, February 02, 2008

My first bookbox too! very exciting...

I've just had a quick look through it - quite a few books that I've already read, but there are some which look really interesting too. I'll journal again when I've decided what to take out and put in. 

Journal Entry 15 by wanderingstar8 from London , Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, February 10, 2008

OK, I've removed:

One Good Turn
The Fountains of Paradise
How Late It Was, How Late
Three Men In A Boat
Money
Fireworks

and replaced with:

The Ugliest House In The World
I'm Not Scared
A Crime In The Neighbourhood
Mary George of Allnorthover
The Englishman's Boy
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

just to up the contemporary/literary side of things a bit!

I'll be delivering the book to Rivercassini on Tuesday, at a local Bookcrossing meetup. 

Journal Entry 16 by Rivercassini from London , Greater London United Kingdom on Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Picked up from Wanderingstar8 earlier this evening at the London monthly bookcrossing meet (thank you for carrying it around all day for me).

This box is packed full of good things including some old (and new favourites). I would have grabbed Snow Falling on Cedars straight away if I hadn't just read it last week.

I think I know what I'm going to take out, but it might take me a few days to decide what to put in! 

Journal Entry 17 by Rivercassini from London , Greater London United Kingdom on Sunday, February 24, 2008

OK, so I've taken out

Animal Farm by George Orwell, for re-reading
Black Dogs by Ian McEwan
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
I'm Not Scared, and
A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne - which I've read since the box arrived so will probably put back in the box.

Going in the box:

A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (classic)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
Toast by Nigel Slater (winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year, the Andre Simon Award)=, Glennfiddich Book of the Year, WH Smith Reader's Choice for Biography, etc)
The Customs of Kingdoms of India by Marco Polo, trans. Ronald Latham (classic)
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (classic)

Box ready to go off to Staflash, but it might take me a few days to get to the Post Office.

Thanks to all who made this such a treasure trove. 

Journal Entry 18 by Rivercassini at Royal Mail in By Post, a postal release -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, March 01, 2008

Released 4 yrs ago (3/1/2008 UTC) at Royal Mail in By Post, a postal release -- Controlled Releases

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Off on the post on the last leg of its journey. 

Journal Entry 19 by starflash from Crawley, West Sussex United Kingdom on Monday, March 03, 2008

Its home!

Big thank you to everyone that took part.

Its contents:

The Customs of the Kingdoms of India-Marco Polo
The Ugliest House in the World-Peter Ho Davies
The Englishmans Boy-Guy Vanderhaeghe
A Crime in the Neighbourhood-Suzanne Berne
Mary George of Allnorthover-Lavinia Greenlaw
The Lovely Passion Of Judith Hearne-Brian Moore
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemmingway
Pride and Prejudice-Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austin
Angelas Ashes-Frank McCourt
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
A Passage to India-EM Forster
Snow Falling on Cedars-David Guterson
Tess of the Durbervilles-Thomas Hardy
The Prisoner of Azkzban-JK Rowling
Toast-Nigel Slater
Lark Rise to Candleford-Flora Thompson


If anyone who took part can now see a book that they would like to read, PM me, but bear in mind there may be a wait!

I will send out the box in another guise later in the year.