From a box of books Cathietay gave me after clearing out her bookshelves.

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WILD RELEASE NOTES:

On the sheep.

Happy bookcrossing to the finder!

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P.S. If you live in the Christchurch area, you might like to join us at our monthly bookcrossing meetups. For details, see the BCNZ Yahoo Group.

Did you know that in April 2009, the World Bookcrossing Convention will be held in Christchurch? Check out the convention website for more details.

This book is a part of the BookCrossing The Reader Challenge: to find and release books that somehow relate to the award winning book The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. The movie based on the book opens January, 2009 (in the U.S.). Be sure to check your local theatres for listings.

As an added bonus, if you have found this book before February 22 and join BookCrossing, you can enter our The Reader movie contest. Simply attend a screening of The Reader and save your ticket stub. Print your screen name on the back of the stub and send it to BookCrossing: The Reader Contest at 323 Pine Street, Sandpoint, ID 83864, USA. We will hold a drawing shortly after February 22, 2009 to determine the winners and you will be notified by email if you have won. One more reason to sign up for BookCrossing today! (Full details available online at www.bookcrossing.com.)

Found this book at the base of a sheep statue in the tiny town of Waikari on our 3rd day of holidays in New Zealand in Feb 09. Charlotte Gray (the book) is now here in Perth, Western Australia.

My husband and I were adventure holidaying in NZ for 3 weeks and were so busy making the most of the delights in NZ that I had no time to read a book, until `mother nature' stepped in.............. We had 4 days left of our holiday when we left the town of Dunedin in the pouring rain. When we arrived at our camp spot for the night, little did we realise that we would become trapped by unprecedented sudden flood-waters for 3 days & 3 nights in the non-stop rain with 8 other overseas tourists. We could not communicate with the outside world and could not get out, therefore were forced to `stop', which of course became the perfect time for me to start reading my new `bookcrossing' pickup. Anyway....... eventually we were all rescued and actually ended up on the front page of the Otago Daily newspaper.

With even more centainty, now I know that there is no better companion on a raining day (and night) than that of a good book; and Charlotte Gray shall always hold some very `unique' holiday memories for me.

As all recreational reading came to an abrupt halt when it was back to the reality of work and study, I have not quite finished the book but I am enjoying it as it has an easy storytelling style and it's content of a World War II English heroin is a complete change in subject matter for me.

I was really surprised and delighted to find the book and I marvel at the whole `bookcrossing' concept. I look forward to following the travels & adventures of Charlotte Gray when I one day release her back into the world.

Thank you FutureCat for your release and may you enjoy many future bookcrossing adventures.

Kind regards
2eyesWA, Australia ;-)

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Climbed to the top of the 75 metre Bicentennial Lookout Tree - wow what a view! Thought this would be a unique location to release this book.

Congratulations on finding the book and on the climb!

Cheers! 2eyesWA

caught the book at the top of the bicentenial tree .What a great idea ,I will be reading and realing as soon as I have read the book