I found this book in the building where I live. Thanks for the person who left it there! It was a book I wanted to read, so it made me very glad.

I was quite impressed with the story. A few terrible things happen in the book, but I was never really shocked. It is told in playful way, trough the eyes of a kid. Really in the way the main character, Francie, perceives everything, which is one the one side a bit down-to-earth, and on the other side, not very realistic. Like he's in some sort of world of his own.
This might be a bit vague, but I don't want to tell too much and spoil the story.

This book is travelling to whitehorsy, she was the winner of Gahan's Birthday Sweepstake. I hope you enjoy it!

Bedankt voor dit 'wishlist' boek Marsala en voor het leuke kaartje! Toch heerlijk om bedolven te worden onder de boeken. :-) Eens gelezen gaat dit boekje naar een andere bookcrosser, daar mag je zeker van zijn! :-)

I found this book kind of strange, I guess that has something to do with the way the story is written. Sometimes it was hard to follow, confusing and I found it hard to get into the story. I'm glad I read it, although it was different than I expected. :-)

Thanks for sharing Marsala! This book will be traveling further as a RABCK next week. I'll try to find a new candidate via the wishlists. :-)

(reserved for safrolistics in the UK)

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Sent as a RABCK, to safrolistics in the UK who has this book on her wishlist. Happy reading! :-)

Wow, thankyou.
This is definatly karma in action, as I posted a surprise RABCK this morning, and then when I returned from work, I'd received this RABCK.

This took me a little while to get into it, and at some points I was wishing it moved a little faster, but on the whole, I would recommend.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

To be released in The Windmill pub on Tuesday 5 Jan, at the bookcrossing meetup.

Will be released at our first meet up at the Central Methodist Hall Coventry city centre. If not picked up from there it will be left in the city centre.

It was picked up ... although it has taken me a week to journal it. Thanks for this - and the coffee - deckchair.

I'm not quite sure how to rate this. It is not an easy book - not one for the squeamish, those who like unambiguous punctuation, or anyone who finds stream of consciousness hard to cope with. Normally I'd fall into at least one of those categories, so I did find it took me a while to get into and I did avoid picking it up to finish once or twice. However there is a bleak humour: Francie's madness, his warped perspective on the world, includes a sharp eye for the absurd. Although many of his actions are literally disgusting, and his narration is matter-of-fact - insouciant - it is hard not to feel sympathy for a lost little boy unwilling to grow up and become part of a lonely world.

Onto the table of temptation at the Bookcrossing Convention. If you have picked it up from there, you know the drill. If this book made it to the end and has since been wild-released elsewhere in Dublin, then, dear finder, please make a journal entry below, either now or/and when you finish it. Better still, when you have read it, send it on its way once more, and join us so you can follow its travels.