Journal Entry 1 by hyphen8 from Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Thursday, April 09, 2009

I'm really enjoying the Elemental Masters series: new twists on old stories. This one is loosely based on Cinderella, but set in England during World War I. There are a couple of good reviews here.

Excellent stuff; I'm only giving up this copy because it's an extra. 

Journal Entry 2 by hyphen8 from Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Wednesday, May 06, 2009

This bookray has now started!

Here are the instructions:

1. Make a quick journal entry when you receive the book.

2. Let's see if anyone reads this part! ;) PM hyphen8 for an address and send me a postcard with some interesting stamps on it for my mom the stamp collector. (I tried doing a ring with an envelope for the used stamps at the back, but it stalled and I never got any of them, so I thought postcards sent to me might work better.)

3. Read and send on within 1 month - or make a journal entry to let us know how it's going if you need to keep the book longer.

4. Make a journal entry when you've finished.

5. Use whatever shipping method works best for you.

Reading order:

1. Lottiotta (UK) - prefers UK/EU, but can do international surface mail if necessary
2. UlrikeW (Germany) - international surface mail ok
3. Dreamer-kitty (Canada) - prefers North America passed book on without reading it
4. Crossing-Guard (Canada) - prefers Canada/US
5. darkpunkangel (Canada)
6. Dancesports (Australia)
7. Tsjara (Netherlands) - book was here, then the ray continued! Thanks Tsjara!

Original forum thread here.

if you'd like to join, check out Tsjara's thread 

Journal Entry 3 by hyphen8 at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Sunday, June 21, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (6/20/2009 UTC) at Honolulu, Hawaii USA

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Mailed to Lottiotta to start the ring. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 4 by Lottiotta from Swansea, Wales United Kingdom on Thursday, June 25, 2009

Yay! Thank you so much, I'm really looking forward to this one. :) I have another bookring ahead of this one, but it should be a quick one, so I'll get to this one ASAP.

Thanks again!

2nd July 2009
This is the second book I've read by Mercedes Lackey, and I have to say, she's kind of growing on me. :) In this particular book, I like how there were plots for each character, all very much intertwined. I also liked the attention to detail, and the effort she'd made to really capture the atmosphere of the country at the time. I liked the character interaction, and I really liked how dastardly Alison was!

I'm about to PM the next on the list for an address. :) 

Journal Entry 5 by UlrikeW from Leipzig, Sachsen Germany on Wednesday, July 15, 2009

The book has arrived and will be my next read.

24/8/09
I enjoyed reading this part of the Elemental Masters series, but I think that I actually liked the Fire Rose better.

Now it's travelling again - and I'm sorry to have kept it longer (I'm living in a place where the post office has impossible opening times at the moment...). 

Journal Entry 6 by Crossing-Guard from Langdon, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Dreamer-kitty passed me this book as she has no time to read it at the moment. I have one book a head of this and then I can't wait to read it, I just finished "The Serpents Shadow" and it was awesome so no doubt this one will also be great! If you haven't read "The Serpents Shadow" and are interested please let me know as I am happy to send it along if there is interest. 

Journal Entry 7 by Crossing-Guard from Langdon, Alberta Canada on Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What a great book, thank you so much for sharing this with me! I really enjoyed this new telling of Cinderella and all the characters.

As I am the last one on the ring I guess I will be mailing it back to hyphen8.

-Updated Feb 1. Book is now going to be sent to Quebec. 

Journal Entry 8 by Crossing-Guard at by post, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, February 18, 2010

Released 3 yrs ago (2/18/2010 UTC) at by post, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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I will send this off tonight on my way home. Thank you so much for sharing this with me.

Please be kind to the enviroment and try to reuse the envelope.

"Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book."
Walter Sickers

 

Journal Entry 9 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Saturday, March 06, 2010

The book has arrived safe and sound, thanks Crossing-Guard for passing this on. I'll get to the book as soon as I can. 

Journal Entry 10 by Dancesports from Petcheys Bay, Tasmania Australia on Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Book has arrived safely, I have a few bookrings with me at the moment, so I will get to this one as quickly as I can. 

Journal Entry 11 by Dancesports at Petcheys Bay, Tasmania Australia on Monday, August 16, 2010

Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed reading this one and will send on to the next person. 

Journal Entry 12 by Dancesports at a fellow bookcrosser, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, September 16, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (9/16/2010 UTC) at a fellow bookcrosser, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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I hope you enjoy this bookring. 

Journal Entry 13 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, September 24, 2010

Arrived here yesterday, it was too fat to fit through the mailbox, so had to pick it up at the post office :p Thanks for sending Dancesports and for the lovely postcard! Looking forward to reading it, I like fairy tale retellings. And thanks for sharing hyphen8! (oh and PM is coming :p) 

Journal Entry 14 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, November 19, 2010

Sorry for taking so long, I thought it would be okay since I was the last on the list.

I just finished reading this today and enjoyed it a lot. I was actually reading something else, and had this as my carry-around book, but then I couldn't put it down.. so I finished this one first :p There doesn't seem to happen much actually.. but somehow you keep reading. And the characters were great :) Will keep an eye open for the other parts of the series.

Will look for new readers sometime soon :)
(ps. hyphen, did my card/stamps arrive?)

 

Journal Entry 15 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Sunday, December 19, 2010

Continuing this bookray :)
(will go to the post office tomorrow)

Forum post: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/446781

Participants so far:

- Lemon-crisis, UK (EU shipping)
- ArabellaFigg, UK (int'l shipping)
- carelaisa, Canada (Can/USA shipping)
- 4thEstate, USA (int'l shipping)
- madpocky, Philippines (int'l shipping)
 

Journal Entry 16 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (12/21/2010 UTC) at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands

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Continuing the bookray, first stop will be with Lemon-Crisis :)

Happy reading! 

Journal Entry 17 by Lemon-Crisis at Birchington, Kent United Kingdom on Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Arrived this morning.
Looking forward to reading it, thanks! :) 

Journal Entry 18 by Lemon-Crisis at Birchington, Kent United Kingdom on Saturday, January 15, 2011

After picking this book up a couple of days ago I couldn't really put it down. I ended up reading it in two evenings. Eleanor's stepmother is so nasty you just want to see her get her 'just deserts'. I've got to say though, when she does finally get smushed it was a bit quick and anti-climactic. But maybe thats just me :P

I'll definitely be looking up the others in this series. I've read a couple of Lackey's Valdemar novels (two or three years back), and reading this has made me want to go hunt those down, too.

I PMed ArabellaFigg for her address yesterday, so will post it on when I get it. Thanks for sharing! :) 

Journal Entry 19 by Lemon-Crisis at Birchington, Kent United Kingdom on Sunday, March 06, 2011

Released 2 yrs ago (2/4/2011 UTC) at Birchington, Kent United Kingdom

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Posted to ArabellaFigg on the 4th of February (and then forgot to make a release note as usual ><). She obviously hasn't journaled it yet, so I will PM her. She has one of my books I sent out on a ray that she needs to pass on too.

In case anyone was wondering, I do have proof of postage ^^ 

Journal Entry 20 by ArabellaFigg at Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, March 20, 2011

I am so sorry that I haven't put a journal entry for this book sooner. I have been very busy and things just sort of got on top of me. Unforetunately, I haven't been able to read the book, but thank you for posting it lemon-crisis. I will post it on asap. Sorry again.  

Journal Entry 21 by carelaisa at Québec, Québec Canada on Thursday, April 28, 2011

I have rec'd the book yesterday. I have a book that I'm currently reading then I'll move on this one. Shouldn't take me too long before I pass it along to the next reader! 

Journal Entry 22 by carelaisa at Québec, Québec Canada on Monday, May 16, 2011

Finally read it!

It’s a nice story but way too long in my opinion; there are way too many details that make it heavy as a story. Also, there are a few too many secondary characters making harder to understand the intrigue. When I started to read the story, it had seemed familiar and it’s due to the fact that the author used the character of Cinderella to create the one of Eleanor. I don’t know if I’ll read other books by this author has I found the reading long and dragging at moments, the writing wasn’t always fluid. Still, it was an okay read.

I have the address of the next bcer in line to read it, 4thEstate. The book will be mailed monday the 16th, after work.  

Journal Entry 23 by 4thEstate at Montclair, New Jersey USA on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Book came in to land here today. I'll get to it ASAP - thank you! 

Journal Entry 24 by 4thEstate at Montclair, New Jersey USA on Sunday, June 26, 2011

Finished this one a few days ago. Not bad - it's an interesting re-telling of the Cinderella story, set against World War I. Sometimes, though, it seemed like the book tended to repeat itself - and there were long stretches of the book where we didn't see Eleanor. Still, not bad.  

Journal Entry 25 by 4thEstate at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, New Jersey USA on Saturday, July 09, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (7/9/2011 UTC) at -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, New Jersey USA

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Now in the mail and on its way to madpocky. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 26 by madpocky at Manila, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Philippines on Friday, July 15, 2011