Journal Entry 1 by ApoloniaX from Bremen, Bremen Germany on Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Journal Entry 2 by ApoloniaX from Bremen, Bremen Germany on Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Journal Entry 3 by ApoloniaX at by mail, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, September 06, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (9/7/2009 UTC) at by mail, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases

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Journal Entry 4 by glitterbee from Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Got the book today, I can't wait to start reading. I will probably start tonight...

Vielen Dank, ApoloniaX =] 

Journal Entry 5 by glitterbee from Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on Saturday, September 12, 2009

What a lovely book! While reading the story there were several times where I thought what a perfect book this is for a site like bookcrossing, book to be shared with people who love to read. In the afterword (by Annie Barrows) I stumbled across this paragraph that just sums it up perfectly:

"This profusion of questions, exclamations, and tales is the new version of the Society. Its members are spread all over the world but they are joined by their love of books, of talking about books, and of their fellow readers. We are transformed -magically- into the literary society each time we pass a book along, each time we ask a question about it, each time we say, 'If you liked that, I bet you'd like this.' Whenever we are willing to be delighted and share our delight, as Mary Ann did, we are part of the ongoing story of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society." 

Journal Entry 6 by glitterbee at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Hamburg Germany on Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (9/15/2009 UTC) at -- Per Post geschickt/ Persönlich weitergegeben --, Hamburg Germany

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Auf dem Weg zu Urfin.

Viel Spaß beim Lesen! 

Journal Entry 7 by Urfin from Friedrichshain, Berlin Germany on Sunday, September 20, 2009

The book's here, thanks.
What an interesting bookmark :-O
I'm looking forward to soon finding out if this is a classic for me. 

Journal Entry 8 by Urfin from Friedrichshain, Berlin Germany on Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Got a very polite (and very justified if I may say so) reminder from ApoloniaX.
Started with the book today.

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There is no denying it, this is so lovely!
I have not read a book of letters for some time, and am really enjoying it. Ok, I needed till page 28 to realise that Dawsey is a man (also some other names are really unusual :) but now that I know it, I sincerely hope that they'll come together... And the letters are (in their writing style) probably not as diverse as the letters of so different people would be... but that doesn't matter at all! I'm rushing through this, what's next, what's next?

p.56: "Later, I came to see that Mr Dickens and Mr Wordsworth were thinking of men like me when they wrote their words."

p.102: "Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Reverend Simpless calls it grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and 'fruitfulness' is drawn in."

8.12. Starting with Part Two today.
p.205 "...a very big man in a dark coat with a fur collar..." see here e.g.

It is so very clever, I think, to tell the happy end not through a letter like the rest of the book but through Isolas observation notes.

9.12. I'm through,
and I'll now go directly to my amazon, and put several copies, in English and German into my shopping card. My friends need to be part of this Society!
 

Journal Entry 9 by Urfin at Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa Finland on Friday, December 11, 2009

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The book's all wrapped up and ready to travel to Finland now.
Enjoy reading, Chania! (Btw, is your screen name a name or has it a meaning in Finish? My screen name is from a character in a children's book.) 

Journal Entry 10 by Chania from Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa Finland on Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Thanks so much - I will read this soon! Urfin - actually my name is a Cretan town, when I joined Bookcrossing, I had just came back from holiday in Crete and it was first thing that came into my mind! :) 

Journal Entry 11 by Chania from Kokkola, Keski-Pohjanmaa Finland on Friday, December 25, 2009

Oh, such a lovely, touching book! I do like epistolary novels (Is that the right word for "letter novels"?) and this was was surely fluent one and kept me interested from the beginning 'till the end. It did remind me a bit of the "84 Charing Cross Road" probably because both were about correspondece and books, but not too much.
I loved the characters in this story, and even if it had some difficult, horrible things about war, all in all it made me feel good and warm. I too think that every book-lover should read this! :)

Sending this to U.K. next, on Monday when the post-office opens after the Christmas holidays. 

Journal Entry 12 by pingucb from Lower Kingswood, Surrey United Kingdom on Thursday, December 31, 2009

Received in the post this morning - thankyou!
I've just finished my last book and couldn't decide what to read next, so I think I'll read this and get it travelling again as soon as possible.
 

Journal Entry 13 by pingucb from Lower Kingswood, Surrey United Kingdom on Saturday, January 16, 2010

Very enjoyable read with lots of interesting characters. The only one I felt was a little two dimensional was Mark. It always surprises me how much you can get to know about characters through the way they write (and what content they include in) a letter.
Would definitely recommend anyone to try this book - a good start to my new year reading, thankyou!
I have the next reader's address so will get this in the post as early as I can next week. 

Journal Entry 14 by pingucb at BOOK RING, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Sunday, January 24, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (1/19/2010 UTC) at BOOK RING, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom

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Sorry totally forgot to release this - was posted off to Romania one day last week (I think it was Tuesday as my mother in law took it to the post office for me).
Hope it arrives safely with elviraro and you enjoy it :-) 

Journal Entry 15 by elviraro on Thursday, January 28, 2010

Received safely today. Thank you, pingucb for your promptness, for the postcard and for the neat bookmark. I simply love it. What a neat idea! I'll pass it along to the next reader though, no worries :). 

Journal Entry 16 by elviraro on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Mailing forward 

Journal Entry 17 by elviraro at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (3/10/2010 UTC) at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands

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Mailed to Totje2 in The Netherlands
 

Journal Entry 18 by Boekentrol from Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Monday, March 15, 2010

Thanks for mailing this book, elviraro. It arrived safely today. After I finish the one ringbook I have to read before this (just started it), I'll read this one.
Thanks, ApoloniaX for this bookray! 

Journal Entry 19 by Boekentrol from Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Sunday, March 28, 2010

My rating for this book tends to go to very little. For me not good enough to rate with 5 starts, but not bad enough for 1 either. It looks like I'm caught somewhere in the middle I guess.

Just like I was caught by the fact that I did not like this book. From the reviews I had quite high expectations. But it seems that I do not like novels written in letter form at all (had difficulty with Griffin and Sabine too).
Added to that is the fact that there's one central person who writes letters to many different people and receives answers from al lot of them too. It made me very confused. And since I do not like to have to go back again and again to find out who's who (when Juliet writes more than one letter to a person and receives letters too, the addresses in the letters disappear it) I decided not to continue reading.

The writing itself was okay but could not keep my attention at a level that the form (and for a minor part the contents) did not matter so much anymore 

Journal Entry 20 by Boekentrol at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Sunday, April 04, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (4/6/2010 UTC) at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands

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Finally sending it on its way to Kathmeista. Enjoy the read!! 

Journal Entry 21 by Kathmeista from Taoyuan, Taoyuan County Taiwan on Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Got this in the post when I got back from holiday 2 days ago. Started it on the train today and I'm hooked! This is one I've been hanging out for so very excited.

Thanks ApoloniaX for the ring :) and Totje2 for sending it my way :) 

Journal Entry 22 by Kathmeista at Taoyuan, Taoyuan County Taiwan on Saturday, August 07, 2010

Oh my goodness, I am so sorry! I thought I had read and sent this book on already!! Major oops!

First of all, I read this in nearly one gulp - loved every second of it and completely loved all of the characters. There's something about reading books about books that really does it for me. I guess I'm intensely nerdy like that ;) Also loved learning about the Channel Islands' role in the War - never knew anything about it so was very informative.

OK am messaging the next person in line ASAP and will send on post haste! Many many apologies once again!