The 1st Professions Bookbox went missing for a while and was assumed to be lost, so several generous bookcrossers (taaza, waterfalling, & hypen8) all offered books to start this box back up. Just when I got ready to send it out, the 1st box showed back up. For this reason, I am splitting the Professions Bookbox into 2 boxes. The first box can be found here.

This bookbox will be for U.S. members only due to shipping costs.

Here is how it will work:
1. You can put in any book that has a profession in the title, but the book does not have to be about that profession. You can also be creative and put in books that have professions embedded in other words in the title.
2. Please journal the box when it arrives and again when you send it back out. Don't forget to journal each individual book that you remove from the box.
3. Please let me know if you see any known stallers on the list to receive this box. I will not tell who told me if you wish to remain anonymous.
4. Please replace the box if it becomes damaged or worn.
5. Take out as many books as you wish, but please put in the same number of books that you remove (or more.)
6. No children's books, romances (such as Harlequin or Silhouette), Westerns, or text/reference books.
7. No more than 3 books by the same author are allowed in the box at any one time.

Please send a PM to me if you have any questions!

The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
Sex With Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman
The Intelligencer by Leslie Silbert
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
The Cigarette Girl by Carol Wolper
The Cotton Queen by Pamela Morsi
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
My Life As Emperor by Su Tong
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Mailing order:
taaza, WI
mrsjones, OH
nuttyreader, TX
angeeaustin, TX
mssaver, IL
indygo88, IN
Bibliocrates, AL<<------box is here
Home to me -- ladybug74, AL

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

mailed to taaza

It's here! :) Wow, there are so many nice choices in here, but I am going to try to limit myself! I'll post my selections and adds shortly.

Here's what I have decided on:

Taking out...

Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman

Putting in...

The Doctor's Wife by Elizabeth Brundage
The Russian Concubine by Kate Furnivall
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi

I'm now obtaining mrs jones' address and will be posting the bookbox by mid-next week.

Sent off to mrsjones today: Del. Conf. # 0309 0330 0000 9816 5519.

Hope you organize more bookboxes, ladybug74...I'll definitely join again! :)

Bookbox arrived in the mail. Looks like a great variety! I'll have to start hunting around to see what books I can add.

I took:
The Russian Concubine
My Life as Emperor
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Kommandant's Girl

I added:
Cooking for Harry
The Headmaster's Wife
The Master Sniper
Wife of the Chef

Box is now on its way to nuttyreader. Enjoy!

This nice box was waving from the locked hot space when I showed up at the mail area today! It had a smile on it's face!

As soon as I have an address it will move on.
I found a lot of great books and thanks for doing the box.
In
King Arthur and His Knights based on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur
The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr
Executive Power by Vince Flynn
Company Man by Joseph Finder
The Second Chair by John Lescroart
Partner in Crime by J A Jance
Spy Catcher by Peter Wright
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Robert Skinner
The Old Contemptibles by Martha Grimes

In case you wonder what an Old Contemptible was it is on the book journal so take a look.

Out
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Salt Dancers
The Kitchen Boy
The Columnisst
The Woman Warrior
The Cigarette Girl
The Intelligencer

It took a few days to get the address and then to get my daughter to pick it up to mail. It is on the way to the PO. Thanks for letting me be on the box.

What an awesome day! It was Friday, it was payday, I only had to work half a day at the office, and I came home to find TWO bookboxes waiting for me! Yip! I will go through the box this weekend & will hopefully have it back in the mail on Monday. I will journal again when I make my selections, and one last time to let everyone know when the box is back on its way.

Ok- I am taking out:

The Doctor's Wife
Midwives
The Angel of Darkness


I am adding:
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Good Omens the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris

I have PM'd the next in line, and will journal again when it goes in the mail.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

This will be going out in tomorrow's mail. DC # 0308 0730 0001 6420 8383.

Thanks so much for including me in your bookbox!

Oh, boy! It's here! It will probably take me a few days to make my choices (there are so many!), but I hope to get it on the way again by the end of next week.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Taking out:
Partner in Crime
Wife of the Chef
The Cotton Queen
Shakespeare's Landlord

Adding:
The Prince and the Prosecutor by Peter Heck
The Grouchy Grammarian by Thomas Parrish
Demolition Angel by Robert Crais
Catcher in the Wry by Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago by Mike Royko

I forgot this was coming! Always great to receive a box in the mail....even better when it's a box full of books!!! I'll peruse & should be ready to mail it back out later this week....

Removing:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Grouchy Grammarian
The Headmaster's Wife
The Prince and the Prosecutor

Putting In:
The Fireman's Wife by Jack Riggs
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg

I'm trying to track down Bibliocrates...I've tried several different routes of communication & am still waiting to hear back. I'll give it a few more days & update accordingly.

The box is on the move again. Mailed to bibliocrates earlier today.
DC#: 0308 0660 0001 3741 5826

It's here, arrived safely in Trinity, Alabama yesterday. Thanks indygo88, sorry I was so hard to track down, real busy these days.

I added:
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Broker by John Grisham
The King of Torts by John Grisham
The Tailor of Panama by John le Carre
The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
Lifeguard by James Patterson & Andrew Gross

The box is packed up, going back to ladybug74 today!

I apologize to all who had books in this box, but it looks like it won't be returning home to me. It arrived with the last bookbox participant, Bibliocrates, on September 1, 2009, over 7 months ago, and still has not made it back. I was called impatient when I asked about it back in January, after 4 months had already passed. Maybe your books will all be journaled again some day. In the mean time, I am counting this one as a loss. Seven months.