This is the "Flower Power" bookbox in celebration of Spring. The books will all contain a flower/flowers on the cover. I am hoping to get this out by May. I am going to try this as an invite only bookbox..inviting people that I have had good experiences with in the past.

*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 religious books, 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.

*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!!!

Books I'm including:

*Never change-Elizabeth Berg(X)
*Of love and other demons-Gabriel Garcia Marquez(X)
*Ruby-Francesca Lia Block(X)
*Digging to America-Anne Tyler(X)
*Pure-Rebbecca Ray
*Sister-A.Manette Ansay(X)
*Servants of the map-Andrea Barrett
*The Orchid thief-Susan Orlean
*The inheritance of loss-Kiran Desai
*Le mariage-Diane Johnson
*Thursdays at eight-Debbie Macomber(X)
*The red hat club-Haywood Smith
*small wonder-Barbara Kingsolver
*Terra Infirma-Rodger Kamenetz(X)
*Sula-Toni Morrison
*The holder of the world-Bharati Mukherjee(X)
*The center of everything-Laura Moriarty(X)
*Motherkind-Jayne Anne Phillips(X)
*Mission to America-Walter Kirn(X)
*Someone not really her mother-Harriet Scott Chessman(X)
*A little too much is enough-Kathleen Tyau(X)




Participants:(trekwoman has asked to be removed from list)

*lginder(CA)
*KimKerry(AZ)
*msjoanna(NY)
*time-traveler(NY)
*jenptcfan(AR)
*indygo88(IN)
*stagecrafty(WA)
*sweetsangria(back home)

Sent to lginder in today's mail! Enjoy everyone!!!

Whoo hoo it's here, it's here, it's here! LOVE being the first on the list as the selection is always guaranteed to be good! Rest assured those who follow I will replace with equal, if not better, ones!


PM'ing the next in line for their address and should be able to get it back out asap.

Taking:
The Holder of the World
Digging To America
Mother Kind
Someone Not Really Her Mother
The Center of Everything
Mission To America

Putting In:
If You Could See Me Now
The Village Bride Of Beverly Hills
The God Of Small Things
The Farming Of Bones
The Night Journal
The Hours

Mailed today to KimKerry.

Delivery confirmations #03071790000346845795

Thanks so much for including me!

Box arrived today. Thanks so much for including me. I'll go through it when I return from L.A. on Monday (I leave tomorrow morning) and will mail it on to the next in line sometime next week.

Think I will have to replace the box. I'll try to copy what was written on the flaps. (Was a perfect box, too, what with the flower on the outside!)

I had four books set aside for this box, but I was unable to finish one of them, Molokai by Alan Brennert. So, I took three books and put in three books.

I took:
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
The Night Journey by Elizabeth Crook
(I'll journal them as soon as I'm done here.)

I put in:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb
Sufficient Grace by Darnell Arnoult

I did not take or add to the bookmark/note card package, but I did put it in a larger ziplock bag.

I'll mail this off to msjoanna via media mail tomorrow. I'll add the DC# here once I receive it.
Edited to add:
Delivery Confirmation: 0307 0020 0003 4531 7034

Thank you so much for including me, sweetsangria!

This box has arrived in New York. Lots of great books here. I'll come back to let you know what I take.

Taking out:
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Sweetness in the Belly
Ruby

Putting in:
Tirra Lirra by the River
The Girls
The Ladies Auxiliary

Update July 13: I'm finishing my last book for this box and planning to mail out on Tuesday or Wednesday. (mailed 7/19 -- sorry for the slightly longer than two week stopover...the 4th of July holiday weekend screwed up all my mailing)

It's here and the box is filled with so many books...mostly trade paperbacks, my FAVORITE!

fun fun fun !!!

So - I finally made my choices. This bookbox was excellent. Also, thank you to the person who added the BC patch! I've removed it and added a couple BC pencils plus a bookmark. I really enjoyed looking through all these books. I actually had fun looking for the flowers pictured on the covers. Some were more obvious, others more subtle. Great idea to do these themed Bookboxes, sweetsangria. Keep them coming!

I removed:

The God of Small Things
The Village Bride of Beverly Hills
Tirra Lirra by the River
A Little Too Much is Enough
Thursdays at Eight

I added:

The Ruins
The Pirate's Daughter
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Samurai's Garden
Love In The Time of Cholera


I have jenptcfan's address, and I'll be mailing this in a few days. I'll journal again with the delivery confirmation #.

Okay, it's on its way! Mailed this evening, Delivery Confirmation # 0306 0320 0000 4389 9618.

Thanks again everyone!

Received today!

Taking:
The Girls (a book from my wish list!)
Terra Infirma
The Samurai's Garden
Sufficient Grace

Adding:
The Bean Trees
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber
The Reader
East of Eden

I'll PM Trekwoman and get this out next week.

Thanks for including me!

I put this in the mail to indygo88 at lunch today.

Box arrived safe & sound here today. Very nice variety of books! :') I'll give/take within the next day or two, but probably won't be able to get to the post office until Friday. Will add another journal entry then!

Removing:
The Farming of Bones
Sister
The Ruins

Putting in:
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
The Art of Mending
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Thanks for another great box, SweetSangria! Looking forward to the Tree box! (I have LOTS of those...!) This box will be going out to stagecrafty later today!

"Caught" this today

Removing:
The Pirate's Daughter
East of Eden
Love in the Time of Cholera
Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

Replacing with:
Sunrise on Kasatsu Harbor
The Last of Her Kind
Mind-Speakers' Call
A Gown of Spanish Lace

The box arrived safely back home today! It has 8 of the original books, 7 books that are going on mt.tbr, 5 books going up on my availables and 1 book from my wishlist! Thanks to everybody for participating and following the rules. Hope everyone found something interesting to read.