Journal Entry 1 by gussy916 from Singapore, Singapore Singapore on Saturday, June 13, 2009

Review from Amazon and Booklist

"What could be better than dropping all of life's mundane day-to-day activities and setting course for the adventure of a lifetime? In the mid-1990s, Steve and Ann Vanderhoof did just that when they packed up their belongings, put their careers on hold, rented out their home, and set sail for a two-year tour of the Caribbean. At the helm of a 42-foot sailboat, Ann and Steve travel more than 7,000 nautical miles and visit 16 countries, taking readers on a lively tour of the flavors, sights, and sounds of the Caribbean. Whether it's enjoying a meal with the locals, participating in festivities, or discovering the secrets of the islands, Ann writes of the rewards of living an uncharted life under the stars. Beautifully written passages transport readers to pristine beaches under azure skies. A detailed travelogue and an intimate portrait of self-discovery, this is a refreshing, soulful journey about rediscovering the things that really matter. Elsa Gaztambide"

And its a RING!

SIGN UP for this bookring by sending me a Private Message. Order of participants will be juggled between geography, date of request and shipping limitations. Late additions may be added to the end of the list.
2. When the person before you on the list finishes reading the book, they will send you a Private Message for your postal address. If you no longer wish to read it or want your place in the list moved, let them (and me!) know and I will move you down/off the list.
3. WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE BOOK please make a journal entry so everyone knows it has safely arrived.
4. WHEN YOU FINISH THE BOOK, make another journal entry telling us what you thought - did you like it? Did you think it was well-written?
5. CONTINUE THE BOOKRING by sending a Private Message to the person after you on the bookring list and request their postal address. Please check back here for the latest distribution list. If the person doesn't respond within 7-10 days (use your judgement), please PM the next person, and then me, so I can update the bookray list.
6. END OF THE RING, Back to me, gussy916


Tentative Ring list:

Madmadge (UK)
Auweia (Germany)
Hakkalina (Hungary)
Allthesepieces (USA)
Nancynova (USA - Intl)
Bananabrianna (Canada - Intl)
Darkpunkangel (Canada - Intl)
Chich (France - Intl) 

Journal Entry 2 by gussy916 at Singapore, Singapore Singapore on Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (7/29/2009 UTC) at Singapore, Singapore Singapore

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Sorry for mailing this out so late!~
Safe travels book and hope you enjoy it madmadge 

Journal Entry 3 by madmadge from Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Saturday, September 19, 2009

Found this book waiting for me when I got back from holiday today. It will join my little pile on the bedside table and I'll read it ASAP. Thank you gussy916 for sending it to me all the way from Singapore and for including me in the ring. x x 

Journal Entry 4 by madmadge from Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Friday, October 09, 2009

An account of what many people would love to do - take two years off and go on an adventure. Actually, I don't think I'd be brave enough to travel as far as Ann Vanderhoof and her husband did in a small sailing boat but it made a gripping read and was peppered with recipes gathered on their travels using the local produce. On the way they met many interesting people and had an exciting time dodging hurricanes. It was almost as good as taking the trip myself.

Thank you gussy916 for including me in the ring and making me first in line! Will PM Auweia for her address and send the book off ASAP. 

Journal Entry 5 by madmadge at Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom on Monday, October 12, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (10/12/2009 UTC) at Christchurch, Dorset United Kingdom

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Posting this book off to auweia today - safe journey! 

Journal Entry 6 by auweia from Friedberg, Hessen Germany on Friday, October 16, 2009

the book arrived today and I´m very curious about reading it!
Thank you for sending it from singapore over good old UK to Germany. Its an amazing feeling to get a book from so far away ! I hope the story will inspire me for starting a new second half of my life :-)
Thank you madmadge for this nice postcard. I love it :-) 

Journal Entry 7 by auweia from Friedberg, Hessen Germany on Sunday, November 08, 2009

It was great to read what can be realized if you are powered enough to do this!
May be it was a little bit to much sailing knowledge, but nice lecture for daydreaming on sofa :-) 

Journal Entry 8 by auweia at Bookring, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, November 08, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (11/8/2009 UTC) at Bookring, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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up to hungary, hope you will enjoy it! 

Journal Entry 9 by hakkalina from Budapest, Pest Hungary on Thursday, November 12, 2009

It arrived safely! :) Thanks auweia! to send me the book.

Update: 2009.12.01.
I stopped reading after a while. I couldn't be absorbed in reading.
But I love its cover, that is beautiful! :) This blue color is amazing. I think I looked the cover more than reading the novel. I would need this around me, peace, calmness, harmony. Well, I have allthesepieces's addy I am going to send this book on today.
 

Journal Entry 10 by hakkalina at Budapest, Pest Hungary on Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (12/1/2009 UTC) at Budapest, Pest Hungary

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The book is flying to USA. 

Journal Entry 11 by allthesepieces from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, December 11, 2009

I've been a little busy with work, but this one came in a few days ago (Wednesday, I believe). I've got two books ahead of this one, though I'm hoping to get started with it soon. Meanwhile, I'm going to send a PM along to the next participant for shipping information.

Thanks for the chance to read this! 

Journal Entry 12 by allthesepieces from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania USA on Sunday, January 10, 2010

Is she really going to attempt to describe every little moment in her newly discovered way of life? Yes, she is, and she's going to do it with such banality that every word is going to throb and ache like an oncoming migraine.

Is that how she eventually manages to use up almost 400 pages to tell her story? I'm not sure, because on page 24, she tries to describe the taste and smell of mango salsa. "It's a dead ringer for cilantro, or coriander, a close relative," she writes. Holy Botanical Blasphemy, Batman! They're one and the same plant! And if she's spent any time at all cooking in the Caribbean, she'd know that! It was at that moment I slammed the book shut and decided that I just couldn't go on with it.

Aside from that outrage, I realized it's not the most opportune time for me to read this kind of book. On one hand, I'd just finished reading what might be one of the best books I've ever read. (It was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, if you must know.) On the other hand, and like many other people living in these difficult times, I'm struggling just to pay my mortgage and have food on the table each night.

I'm afraid that right now, I don't think it's a good time to be reading about how people who could afford a yacht made what they felt was a bold and daring escape to a cakewalk life in the Caribbean. It's especially not a good time to read something that makes me feel as though I'm about to critique a classmate's semester diary from English Composition 101. ("Too descriptive. Too wordy. Leave something to the imagination. Show, don't tell. ETC. ETC. ETC.") I'm sorry, but I just need something a little (read: very) different right now.

It is with some regret that I'll be passing this along to the next participant unfinished. Thank you for the chance to read it. I'm sorry it reached me at the wrong time. I hope it'll find the next reader in better times.

Happy Bookcrossing! 

Journal Entry 13 by allthesepieces at an einen bookcrosser, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Monday, January 11, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (1/11/2010 UTC) at an einen bookcrosser, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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On its way to the next participant! Happy reading! 

Journal Entry 14 by NancyNova from Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, January 16, 2010

Got this in the mail today - and taking the previous j/e's to heart. Maybe this is a skim, not read, book? And I'll keep the j/e's in mind when I do pick it up - I won't try it if I''m in the mood for an action book!

Will find out soon - 2 1/2 ahead of it. 

Journal Entry 15 by NancyNova from Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Starting today. Corelli's Mandolin is getting dark, so I'm hoping this will be a nice foil for that. 

Journal Entry 16 by NancyNova from Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on Saturday, February 20, 2010

Now this is getting my full attention (previous j/e's duly noted!) and PM'g next in line, so will have the mailing ready, since I'm a bit deliquent in getting this one read in a timely fashion. 

Journal Entry 17 by NancyNova from Lansdale, Pennsylvania USA on Friday, February 26, 2010

Wonderful book about a Canadian couple, who ditch everything at home including jobs, and sail away to the Carribean Islands and back again. Very descriptive of the islands and they describe their adventures - good and bad - with a lot of recipes, cooking and adventures with rum! Gave me wanderlust reading the book.

Off to the next reader...as soon as the post office is accessible...we have SNOW (again.....) 

Journal Entry 18 by NancyNova at Trenton, Ontario Canada on Sunday, February 28, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/1/2010 UTC) at Trenton, Ontario Canada

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Snow is done, so this will get mailed from downtown Philly tomorrow. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 19 by bananabrianna from Trenton, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, March 09, 2010

PERFECT timing, just finished my previous bookring book yesterday! Will start reading it tonight! 

Journal Entry 20 by bananabrianna from Trenton, Ontario Canada on Friday, March 26, 2010

I liked the idea of this book....I did find it too long with a little TOO much description. But an enjoyable book, I am very jealous! Oh to be able to just sail the seas and experience another side of life would be amazing.
I'll just keep dreaming ;-) 

Journal Entry 21 by bananabrianna at -- wild released somewhere in Province, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (4/20/2010 UTC) at -- wild released somewhere in Province, Ontario Canada

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Mailed to Darkpunkangel 

Journal Entry 22 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Thursday, April 22, 2010

Arrived safe and sound today. Thanks bananabrianna for passing this on and gussy916 from starting this ring. I can't wait to start reading this! 

Journal Entry 23 by darkpunkangel from Barrie, Ontario Canada on Friday, May 07, 2010

This an amazing read and has made my already itchy feet even more itchy.

Chich asked to be skipped so PMed gussy916 to send this book home. 

Journal Entry 24 by darkpunkangel at Montréal, Québec Canada on Friday, July 02, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (7/2/2010 UTC) at Montréal, Québec Canada

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This book is now on it's way home. Thanks gussy916 for setting up this ring. 

Journal Entry 25 by gussy916 at Singapore, Singapore Singapore on Wednesday, April 25, 2012

I'm so sorry darkpunkangel..I received this ages ago and I don't know how I completely forgot to journal! It's here and its safe and sound. :-) Thank you for sending it along.
Reserving this as a wild release.