Journal Entry 1 by KateKintail from Burke, Virginia USA on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

A bookbox containing audiobooks on cassette tape. Abridged & Unabridged welcome.

Current contents include:
Anything Considered by Peter Mayle
Atlantis Found by Clive Custer
Barrel Fever and Other Stories by David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris
The Codex by Douglas Preston (Abridged)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (Abridged)
The Courage to Be Rich: The Financial and Emotional Pathways to Material and Spiritual Abundance by Suze Orman (Abridged)
Don't Know Much about Geography by Kenneth C. Davis
Fawlty Towers 2 BBC Radio Presents
Fawlty Towers 3 BBC Radio Presents
Graveyard Shift: And Other Stories From Night Shift by Stephen King
Gray Matter: And Other Stories From Night Shift by Stephen King
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The Jester by James Patterson, Andrew Gross
Kicking Over Sacred Cows by Charles Capps
Lost Laysen Cassette by Margaret Mitchell
The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Abridged)
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles: The Golden One by Deborah Chester
The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder, Brian Jennings
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
Naked by David Sedaris
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (Abridged)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (Abridged)
The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Abridged)
Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross) by James Patterson (Abridged)
Watchers by Dean Koontz 

Journal Entry 2 by KateKintail from Burke, Virginia USA on Tuesday, January 13, 2009

This box will be a Cassette-only Audiobook Bookbox Ray! PM me to join!

Rules:
1. Make a journal entry here with the Box's BCID when you receive it
2. Take out whatever books you want
3. Put in close to as many books back in
4. PM the next participant for an address
5. Make Controlled Release notes and send the box out
6. Try to keep the box moving in a timely, responsible manner
NOTE: this is a bookbox RAY. The last person on the list will get to decide what to do with the books at the end. It's suggested you start over again with the existing participants and ask on the forum if anyone else wants to join in. But it's up to you at that point.

Participants:
KateKintail (VA)
Mikavr (NC)
NMReader (NM)
bsliv1219 (OH)
sp4home (KS)
MyssCyn (TX)
hyphen8 (HI)
batty14 (NY)
booklady331 (FL)
gnissorckoob (FL)
jcm (IL)
Done! 

Journal Entry 3 by KateKintail at Fairfax Station, Virginia USA on Friday, January 23, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (1/23/2009 UTC) at Fairfax Station, Virginia USA

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Sent out to the first participant! I hope you can find something you like! :-)

Delivery Confirmation #: 0308 0660 0000 6183 5158 

Journal Entry 4 by Mikavr from Asheville, North Carolina USA on Monday, January 26, 2009

Received today! YAY! Lots of good stuff in here! I think I'll take out around 11-13 books and replace with as many. So far i'm looking at removing: Paddy clarke Ha Ha Ha, Fawlty Towers 2, Fawlty Towers 3, Stephen King Gray Matter, Stephen King Graveyard Shift, Cold Mountain, Suze Orman, Mystic River, Don't ZKnow Much About Geography, Barrel Fever, Naked, and Practical Magic. Will edit this list if itchanges before mailing.

In their place I will add: Other People's Dirt, Unabomber: On the Trail Of America's Most Wanted Srial Killer, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Damaaged Goods, Anatomy of an Illness, Of Dogs and Men (Daniel Pinkwater), Beyond Survival: The Next Chapter, The Wench is Dead, The Daughters of Cain, Mitigating Circumstances.

PS, I do NOT see Thinner in there! Else I would have taken that too! Great box, thank you!

 

Journal Entry 5 by NMReader from Herndon, Virginia USA on Thursday, February 05, 2009

It has arrived. I will make selctions and try to get the box traveling again soon
 

Journal Entry 6 by NMReader at by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Monday, February 23, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (2/22/2009 UTC) at by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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I mailed with Delivery Confirmation. The number is 0308 0070 0000 7646 7590.


Label/Receipt Number: 0308 0070 0000 7646 7590
Status: Delivered

Your item was delivered at 11:08 AM on February 27, 2009 in FREMONT, OH 43420.
 

Journal Entry 7 by bsliv1219 from Fremont, Ohio USA on Wednesday, March 04, 2009

I received the box yesterday. I'll PM for the next address and get it on its way pretty quick. Thanks for including me.

Taking out all 3 The Zero Hour radio broadcasts, The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and Mitigating Circumstances by Nancy Rosenberg Taylor.

I'm putting in The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, A God in Ruins by Leon Uris (abridged), A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters, Miracle's Boys by Jacqueline Woodson, Star Trek Faces of Fire by Michael Jan Friedman, and Homer The Illiad. 

Journal Entry 8 by bsliv1219 at Fremont, Ohio USA on Thursday, March 05, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (3/5/2009 UTC) at Fremont, Ohio USA

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The box is on its way to sp4home. The delivery confirmation number is 03080070000030135305 

Journal Entry 9 by sp4home from Valley Center, Kansas USA on Thursday, March 12, 2009

The box arrived safe and sound on 10Mar09. I'll be looking at it today. I will edit this post before I send the box along. I have sent a PM to the next participant, for the shipping info... and I have the address.

Edited on 13Mar09: I will take out three audiobooks and put in three audiobooks. I will be packing this box for shipping.

Thank you KateKintail for organizing this bookbox.

2009 Valley Center, Kansas, USA. 

Journal Entry 10 by sp4home at Valley Center, Kansas USA on Saturday, March 14, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (3/14/2009 UTC) at Valley Center, Kansas USA

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The bookbox was mailed this morning to MyssCyn in TX. USPS media mail confirmation# 03041560000660906633
Delivered 20Mar09.

Thank you KateKintail for organizing this bookbox. I enjoyed participating.

2009 Valley Center, Kansas, USA. 

Journal Entry 11 by MyssCyn from San Antonio, Texas USA on Monday, March 23, 2009

I received this box along with another while I was away last week.
I am taking out Beyond Uhura, Faces of Fire, Anatomy of an Illness, The Hours, Miracle's Boys and The Men of Brewster Place.

Replacing with Hundred Dollar Baby, The Professor and the Madman, The Seekers, Absolute Rage, Jim the Boy, The Poetry of Walt Whitman, If It's Going To Be It's Up To Me and Executive Power

I will PM hyphen8 for her/his address 

Journal Entry 12 by MyssCyn at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Friday, March 27, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (3/27/2009 UTC) at Honolulu, Hawaii USA

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Mailed to hyphen8
Delivery confirmation # 03061070000352837474 

Journal Entry 13 by hyphen8 from Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Saturday, April 11, 2009

Received today - interesting that this time media mail took only 2 weeks rather than the usual 3 weeks. Thanks to MyssCyn for the pretty labels!

This is a very full box, with 29 audiobooks in it. It looks like these are still here from the original list:

Anything Considered by Peter Mayle
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
Kicking Over Sacred Cows by Charles Capps
Lost Laysen Cassette by Margaret Mitchell
The Lost World by Michael Crichton (Abridged)
Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles: The Golden One by Deborah Chester
Violets Are Blue (Alex Cross) by James Patterson (Abridged)
Watchers by Dean Koontz

Contributed by others before me in the ray:

Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tannebaum
Beyond Survival: The Next Chapter by Gerald Coffee
The Cloud Sketcher by Richard Rayner
Damaged Goods by Stephen Solomita
The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Father's Day by John Calvin Batchelor
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A God in Ruins by Leon Uris (abridged)
Hundred Dollar Baby by Robert B. Parker
If It's Going To Be It's Up To Me by Robert Schuller
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
The Language of Cannibals by George C. Chesbro
A Morbid Taste For Bones by Ellis Peters
The Poetry of Walt Whitman
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The Sculptress by Minette Walters
Suspense (radio dramas)
The Seekers by Daniel J. Boorstin

Haven't decided yet what I'm taking out - it will depend in part on what fits in the box! I'd take Watchers if I didn't already have a copy (and it's the Brilliance version as well).

I will be putting in:

Beyond Survival by Gerald Coffee
Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
Blood and Smoke by Stephen King
Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Main Corpse by Diane Mott Davidson
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor
Stories from The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov

I'll make my decisions in the next few days and get this box moving again next week. I've PM'd batty14 for a mailing address.

4/15/09: received an address for the next person and *finally* got some more mailing tape, so I've sealed up the box and it will go out in the next couple of days.

Taking out:

Absolute Rage by Robert K. Tannebaum
Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If It's Going To Be It's Up To Me by Robert Schuller
The Lost World by Michael Crichton
The Sculptress by Minette Walters

Also listened to Suspense (radio dramas) but put it back in the box for the next person. There were lots of good ones in the box so it was hard to choose! :) 

Journal Entry 14 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Friday, April 17, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (4/16/2009 UTC) at Honolulu, Hawaii USA

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Journal Entry 15 by batty14 from Ballston Spa, New York USA on Monday, May 11, 2009

It has arrived. I have looked through the box a bit and will make my choices and get this on the road once again. 

Journal Entry 16 by booklady331 from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Saturday, June 06, 2009

Arrived today. I'll make my picks soon and send the box off. I just sent a box of CDs to gnissorckoob yesterday. Funny how it worked out. 

Journal Entry 17 by booklady331 from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Saturday, June 06, 2009

My husband is mowing the lawn, then he will take his shower and we will check on one of his jobs and out to eat; so, I made my choices.

Taking out:
1. Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul
2. The Language of Cannibals by George Chesbro
3. Father's Day by John Calvin Batchelor
4. Beyond Survival by Gerald Coffee
5. Beyond Survival The Next Chapter by Gerald Coffee
6. The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Put In:

1. Redemption by Leon Uris
2. To The White Sea by James Dickey
3. Digger by Joseph Flynn
4. The Great Santini by Pat Conroy
5. Pearl Cove by Elizabeth Lowell
6. Joy of Exercise

Also added They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie because it fit in the box.

There is an equal amount of tapes in and out. Trust these books find new homes. I trust to mail the box on Monday or Tuesday. 

Journal Entry 18 by booklady331 at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (6/12/2009 UTC) at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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Enjoy! I forgot to make release notes, then went on vacation. 

Journal Entry 19 by gnissorckoob from Miami, Florida USA on Monday, July 13, 2009

Journal Entry 20 by gnissorckoob from Miami, Florida USA on Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Alas and Alack. Since I signed up for this box, I no longer have a car that plays cassettes. I have no trades because I have given all my cassette audios away. So I am simply passing it on to jcm.

DC# 0308 2690 0001 1606 0554 

Journal Entry 21 by jcm from Arlington Heights, Illinois USA on Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Arrived yesterday. Will post to forums early next week but if any previous recipients would like it to make a return trip, just pm me with your address.

Thanks! 

Journal Entry 22 by jcm at Controlled Release, --by post or by hand (ie ring, ray, RABCK, trade) -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (8/4/2009 UTC) at Controlled Release, --by post or by hand (ie ring, ray, RABCK, trade) -- Controlled Releases

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Mailed off to Wisconsin. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 23 by imawinn2 from Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Wow! What a box! It arrived in today's mail and I am sooo looking forward to diving into it and checking out the contents. At first glance, I saw some goodies. I saw the Great Santini by Pat Conroy in there. That will be a definite listen. Thank you so much, jcm, for sending this audio box off to me. I hope that my jeep's cassette deck holds out as I listen to these stories. I will make sure I ray the box forward when I'm finished. Well, off to dig through my treasure. ;-) 

Journal Entry 24 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Thursday, October 14, 2010

I took out a bunch of audio cassettes out of this box and have been slowly replacing them. I tried to replace many of them with never before bookcrossed audiobooks, to add new blood to the pool. I am ready to move the box along and have already contacted a few responsible BCers to see if they are interested in participating. If any of you past participants of this great audiobook bookbox would like to scrounge through this again, just PM me and I will get your name on the list. Hope to have this traveling in about 2 weeks. Thanks Katekintail for a fun audio adventure! 

Journal Entry 25 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Sunday, October 24, 2010

I'm moving this cassette audiobook box along on it's journey. The last person to receive the box is expected to "RAY IT FORWARD". Please try to keep this box moving by not holding on to it for more than 30 days. Enjoy!

Participant Order:
DameEdna – New Jersey
Mikavr – North Carolina
sp4home – Kansas
Tostle – Utah
Jcm – Illinois
hyphen8 - Hawaii
LittleWhiteBird – Virginia
NMReader – Virginia
Jsmeltser – Iowa --- the book is here
*Ray it Forward*

 

Journal Entry 26 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Friday, October 29, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (10/28/2010 UTC) at Neenah, Wisconsin USA

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The box chuck full of cassette audio books is now out of my hot little hands and heading to DameEdna. Happy journey and maybe I'll see it again some day. :-)

 

Journal Entry 27 by DameEdna at Monroe Township (Middlesex County), New Jersey USA on Thursday, November 04, 2010

The box has landed! Will get it back on the road by Monday, November 8. 

Journal Entry 28 by DameEdna at -- By post or by hand-ie ring, trade, RABCK, meet in Monroe Township (Middlesex County), New Jersey USA on Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (11/17/2010 UTC) at -- By post or by hand-ie ring, trade, RABCK, meet in Monroe Township (Middlesex County), New Jersey USA

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Going along to the next participant. 

Journal Entry 29 by Mikavr at Asheville, North Carolina USA on Sunday, November 28, 2010

Box received. I'll try and get it on the road soon. 

Journal Entry 30 by sp4home at Valley Center, Kansas USA on Saturday, January 22, 2011

The bookbox has arrived. I have tostle address. Now I'm looking for a bigger box! I'll update this post in a few days. :o)

31Jan2011: I took out zero books, and added about 40 books. :o) Thank you for including me in the bookbox.

2011 Valley Center, Kansas, USA.  

Journal Entry 31 by sp4home at Valley Center, Kansas USA on Monday, January 31, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (1/31/2011 UTC) at Valley Center, Kansas USA

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This audiobook bookbox will be mailed out today. Thank you for including me in the bookbox. :o)
USPS tracking/confirmation number: 03090330000010237072 Delivered 07Feb2011.

2011 Valley Center, Kansas, USA.

Journal Entry 32 by tostle at Salt Lake City, Utah USA on Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I received this box! Thank you for sending it and thank you for the surprise books!
 

Journal Entry 33 by jcm at Arlington Heights, Illinois USA on Saturday, March 19, 2011

The box is here! 

Journal Entry 34 by jcm at Audio Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Saturday, April 23, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (4/22/2011 UTC) at Audio Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA

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Finally mailed this to HI. Sorry it took me so long. 

Journal Entry 35 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Monday, May 16, 2011

This gigantic box arrived yesterday, literally as I was walking out the door on the way to our mass release (400+ books!) at the Hawaii Book and Music Festival..and when I got home I was exhausted. Today was church and my cousin's bridal shower.

So I'm only journaling the box now, but it *is* here and I'll get it moving again as quickly as I can. 

Journal Entry 36 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Sunday, May 22, 2011

Pm'd LittleWhiteBird for an address.

The box hasn't been sealed yet, but this is probably the list; the number of cassettes is approximately equal.

Putting into the box (wanted to get some "new blood", so I think these are all newly registered)

Babyhood
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever
Blue Gold
A Book About Your Skeleton
The Da Vinci Code
First Contact
The Godfather
L.A. Confidential
Madeline and Other Bemelmans
A Maiden's Grave
Matilda
Mexico
The Midwife's Apprentice
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore
The Poisonwood Bible
Raven
Rob Roy
Serpent
Silent Night
Simple Pictures Are Best
Song of Solomon
The Wheel on the School
The Witches

Taking out

The Big Bad City (this one is actually CDs, not cassettes)
Congo
Darkness
Enchantment
A Fine and Bitter Snow
The Greatest Generation
The Greatest Generation Speaks
The Innocent Man
Just So Stories
The Language of Cannibals
Mayday
McNally's Luck
Les Miserables
Naked
On Wings of Eagles
The Sculptress
Stories from the Complete Robot
Superconsciousness: Joy of Exercise
Suspense
Voice of the Word: Kicking Over Sacred Cows 

Journal Entry 37 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Monday, May 23, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (5/23/2011 UTC) at Honolulu, Hawaii USA

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This box will be mailed to Little White Bird tomorrow.
Delivery Confirmation # 0310 0480 0000 6914 3959.

Note: media mail to & from Hawaii often takes about 3 weeks, so LWB may be away and not able to journal the box as soon as it arrives. 

Journal Entry 38 by LittleWhiteBird at Arlington, Virginia USA on Monday, June 20, 2011

The box was next to my desk when I came home from a trip yesterday. My husband had carried it home from the post office!

I'll make my selections soon. 

Journal Entry 39 by LittleWhiteBird at Arlington, Virginia USA on Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Taking out of the box:
Star Trek First Contact: by J.M. Dillard
The Wheel on the School
When the Women come out to Dance: Stories
The Midwife's Apprentice
The Best American Travel Writing 2000
Sudden Exposure
Rebound
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
Madeline
The Witches
Rob Roy
Matilda

Putting in:
A Thief of Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
Life of Pi
Vengeance in Death
Killjoy
Thinner
Cold Mountain
Ticktock
The Body Farm
Prayers for Rain
Just One Look
Prey

I think I'll be more in the mood to listen to some children's books than to thrillers, so I took some children's books out of the box and put some of the thrillers I had inside.

I recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Although I didn't listen to the audio version, I loved reading the printed book.

I sent the box out to nmreader on July 1 with delivery confirmation. Expected delivery date is July 5. 

Journal Entry 40 by NMReader at Herndon, Virginia USA on Sunday, July 31, 2011

Sorry for not journalling sooner.

I have picked out one book, The Burning Man, and I am putting in Term Linits.

Ready to mail once i have the next person's address.  

Journal Entry 41 by NMReader at Herndon, Virginia USA on Monday, August 08, 2011

Released 9 mos ago (8/8/2011 UTC) at Herndon, Virginia USA

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I'm off to mail this book to the next participant 

Journal Entry 42 by jsmeltser at Fort Madison, Iowa USA on Sunday, August 14, 2011

I found this box on my doorstep this afternoon. What a treat! We are leaving for a vacation tomorrow, but I'll post in the Rings, Rays, Bookboxes forum before we leave to start a new list of readers. 

Journal Entry 43 by jsmeltser at Fort Madison, Iowa USA on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

I've definitely delayed this box for far too long. I'm mailing it out to imawinn2 tomorrow. 

Journal Entry 44 by jsmeltser at Fort Madison, Iowa USA on Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Mailed Monday. DC: 0311 2550 0001 9108 6866 

Journal Entry 45 by imawinn2 at Neenah, Wisconsin USA on Friday, April 27, 2012

The Cassette Audio Bookbox arrived today. It contained 78 audiobooks and weighed a whopping 30 lbs. I think, once I've switched out what I want to listen to and what I want to put back in, I will split this up into two or three more manageable sized book boxes. Then I will send them all on a continued journey. Thanks for sending the Earreading box my way, jsmeltser!