Journal Entry 1 by perryfran from North Ogden, Utah USA on Sunday, November 08, 2009

Journal Entry 2 by perryfran from North Ogden, Utah USA on Thursday, December 31, 2009

Bookray

Starting a bookray for this book. Please PM me if interested. Bookray will remain open until last person has the book.

Participants so far:

. spoiledrotten from New Jersey, USA (US only)
. MmeClinton from Maine, USA (US/Canada only)
. collectorkerri from Illinois, USA (US/Canada only)
. ladybug74 from Alabama, USA (US only)
. Stacers1973 from Oregon, USA (US/Canada only)<----Asked to be skipped
. guinaveve (Ohio, USA - US only)
. Moeshell from Texas, USA (US preferred, International if needed)
. daniellechonody from Texas, USA (International)<----Asked to be skipped
. valpete from California, USA (International - near end)

. karen07814 from UK (UK/EU preferred)<----Asked to be skipped
. Tsjara from the Netherlands (EU preferred)
. Jonniboi from UK (UK only)<----Book is here
. K1nS from UK (International)<----Skipped
. eloisamos from Brazil (Latin America/US preferred)<----Skip

Note: Order is subject to change based on shipping preferences and others joining the bookray.

How the bookray works:
* Someone will PM you for your address, PM them back and provide your address
* When you receive the book, please make a journal entry letting everyone know that you received it
* Put the book at the top of your TBR pile (under other rings/rays that arrived first)
* Read the book (take your time and enjoy the book, don't feel rushed to finish it but try to pass it on within a couple of months - others are waiting!)
* When the end is in sight, check the book's journal and PM the next person to get their address
* Finish the book, make another journal entry and let everyone know what you thought of the book
* Send the book to the next person on the list (please use the cheapest shipping method available), make release notes (Controlled Release) or journal entry to let everyone know that it's in the mail
* END OF THE RAY, The last person on the ray could try and continue the ray or just give/mail the book to someone else who might like to read it, perhaps a RABCK.

Please feel free to PM me at any time with questions

Bookray is now complete. Thanks everyone for participating!

Journal Entry 3 by perryfran from North Ogden, Utah USA on Thursday, December 31, 2009

This was a quick read that really kept my interest. Even though I didn't really like any of the characters in the story, I was constantly finding out something new about each complex character as the story progressed. Their lives and often deceptive actions kept me totally engrossed. All of the characters had sordid secrets to hide and during the novel you weren't always sure what was truth and what was fiction. Very fascinating read that kept you guessing on the outcome up until the very end. Would recommend this one! Great read to finish up 2009. 

Journal Entry 4 by perryfran at Bookray, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, December 31, 2009

Released 2 yrs ago (12/31/2009 UTC) at Bookray, A Bookray -- Controlled Releases

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On its way to spoiledrotten in Fair Lawn, NJ to start this bookray. Enjoy!

USPS DC# 0308 0660 0000 7783 5838 

Journal Entry 5 by spoiledrotten from Waldwick, New Jersey USA on Thursday, January 07, 2010

Received in the mail. Thanks for including me and sending it on. I have two books in front of this & will read as fast as I can. 

Journal Entry 6 by spoiledrotten from Waldwick, New Jersey USA on Wednesday, January 27, 2010

This was a very interesting read. The story takes place in Wisconsin around 1907 during a bitter cold and snowy winter. It tells the story of three people who have made choices for what they thought was love. It is suspensful and disturbing. Thanks so much for including me. I will journal again when I have mailed it off. 

Journal Entry 7 by spoiledrotten at South Berwick, Maine USA on Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (1/27/2010 UTC) at South Berwick, Maine USA

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Sent out to MmeClinton today to continue on its journey. 

Journal Entry 8 by MmeClinton from South Berwick, Maine USA on Saturday, January 30, 2010

This book has arrived safe and sound in Maine, another snowy and at the moment bitter cold place! Interestingly, I mailed a book today, another ring, off to Spoiledrotten who sent this one to me. Ah, the close knit world of bookcrossers! I have two books to read now before I reach this one but should finish it in mid February! 

Journal Entry 9 by MmeClinton from South Berwick, Maine USA on Saturday, February 27, 2010

I enjoyed this book more and more as it went along. It is quite different from any novels I have read in the past couple of years, and it strikes me as very well balanced and believable (other than the big coincidence....no spoiler here). Towards the end of the book is this paragraph that might serve as the heart of the story: "It was just a story of how bitter cold gets into your bones and never leaves you, of how the memories get into your heart and never leave you alone, of the pain and the bitterness of what happens to you when you're small and have no defenses but still know evil when it happens, of secrets about evil you have no one to tell, of the life you live in secret, knowing your own pain and the pain of others but helpless to do anything other than the things you do, and the end it all comes to." And yet it is a tender book that leaves hope at the end. I am very happy to have been part of this bookring, and this morning I will send it along to collectorkerri, next on the list! 

Journal Entry 10 by MmeClinton at South Berwick, Maine USA on Saturday, February 27, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (2/27/2010 UTC) at South Berwick, Maine USA

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Mailing this out to Illinois this morning to continue its journey! 

Journal Entry 11 by collectorkerri from Springfield, Illinois USA on Monday, March 08, 2010

Received today. Will read ASAP. 

Journal Entry 12 by collectorkerri from Springfield, Illinois USA on Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Harrowing is the most appropriate word I could come up with to describe this story. At first you think Catherine is, at worst, a liar, but then it gets so much more sinister. A gripping story that burrowed into my brain and will be there for a long time to come.

Sent on to ladybug74 this afternoon. 

Journal Entry 13 by ladybug74 from Dothan, Alabama USA on Sunday, April 11, 2010

I received this in the mail earlier this week. Sorry it took me a few days to get it journaled. I have been packing and rushing things at work getting ready for a trip out of town. The good news is that I will be taking this book with me and should have it read by the time I return home at the end of the week. 

Journal Entry 14 by ladybug74 from Dothan, Alabama USA on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I really enjoyed this book and would definitely try others by the same author. We know from the beginning that Catherine had a secret past, but when her "big" secret was revealed, I was totally not expecting it. All of the characters had secrets and very little of it was predictable. This book kept me interested from beginning to end. I did not start it right away like I had planned to, but could not put it down once I finally started reading it. I'm sending a PM to the next reader now to request a mailing address. Thanks for including me! 

Journal Entry 15 by ladybug74 from Dothan, Alabama USA on Saturday, May 01, 2010

Stacers1973 asked to be skipped, so I have sent a PM to the next person on the list to request a mailing address. 

Journal Entry 16 by ladybug74 at Book Ring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Monday, May 03, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (5/3/2010 UTC) at Book Ring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases

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mailed to guinaveve
 

Journal Entry 17 by guinaveve at Mason, Ohio USA on Thursday, June 03, 2010

I received this in the mail today. Great timing! I just finished another book this afternoon and will start this immediately. I am going to PM the next participant for an address so I can send this off as soon as I am finished.  

Journal Entry 18 by guinaveve at Book Ring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 16, 2010

This was a great book full of interesting but believable plot twists. I will send it off to the next participant this week. 

Journal Entry 19 by guinaveve at Book Ring, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 16, 2010

I am sending this on to the next participant. 

Journal Entry 20 by guinaveve at by postal services in Sent by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (6/16/2010 UTC) at by postal services in Sent by mail, a fellow bookcrosser -- Controlled Releases

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Thanks 

Journal Entry 21 by Moeshell at Richardson, Texas USA on Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Hit my mailbox yesterday. Have a couple of rings ahead of this one but I'll put it in its ordered place on Mt. Toobie. 

Journal Entry 22 by Moeshell at Richardson, Texas USA on Monday, August 02, 2010

An Update to say that I started this one yesterday. Hope to get through it within a week or two and send it on its merry way.  

Journal Entry 23 by Moeshell at Richardson, Texas USA on Thursday, August 12, 2010

I finished this one up last night. Once I got the hang of prose used, the reading became easier. Not something I usually read, but enjoyable none the less. It was full of believable twist, although I had the last few paragraphs figured out about halfway through the book. We'll send off this week. Thanks for sharing and sorry it took me so long to get to this one.  

Journal Entry 24 by Moeshell at Richardson, Texas USA on Friday, August 13, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (8/13/2010 UTC) at Richardson, Texas USA

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daniellechonody asked to be skipped, she has already read and started a ray of her own. so off to the next reader valpete. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 25 by valpete at Walnut Creek, California USA on Tuesday, August 17, 2010

I received this today. I'm behind on my reading so this may take a while. I'll read as soon as I can, I promise. 

Journal Entry 26 by valpete at Walnut Creek, California USA on Friday, November 05, 2010

Although this book received many bad reviews on Amazon, I thought this was a great read and suspenseful to the very end. The characters and their development were great. There is something both dark and likeable about all of them. Very well written. It is a facinating story about the choices people make.

The book was very dark, twisty and disturbing, but I was completely unable to put it down.

Karen07814 asked to be skipped, so it'll be traveling to The Netherlands in the next few days. 

Journal Entry 27 by valpete at Walnut Creek, California USA on Friday, November 05, 2010

Released 1 yr ago (11/8/2010 UTC) at Walnut Creek, California USA

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It's off to Tsjara. Enjoy! 

Journal Entry 28 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Finally got here safely today (don't know what went wrong the first time..) I was quite surprised to receive a package, since the postmen were having a strike (again). And it also contained a wishlist book, thank you so much valpete!! This sounds like an interesting read, looking forward to it :) (I do have a couple rings/rays in front though). Thanks for sharing the book perryfran! 

Journal Entry 29 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Monday, January 10, 2011

I actually finished reading this some days ago.. the setting was quite fitting because we had a lot of snow here too :). I didn't like any of the characters, but it was an interesting read, and darker than I had expected.. some of the twists I saw coming, and some I didn't. It was one of those books that when you pick it up, you just keep reading. But if you put it down (for a while), you don't really have the urge to pick it up again.. (or maybe that's just me :p)

I had already contacted Jonniboi, so the book will travel on sometime soon. 

Journal Entry 30 by Tsjara at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Released 1 yr ago (1/17/2011 UTC) at Assendelft, Noord-Holland Netherlands

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The book is now on its way to Jonniboi in the UK.

Happy reading! ^_^ 

Journal Entry 31 by Jonniboi at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, January 21, 2011

just got this through the post :D Can't wait to get around to reading it, although there is a few books infront of this one!

Will pm next person in line now! 

Journal Entry 32 by Jonniboi at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 09, 2011

I'm soooo sorry, but I haven't been able to get into this book, I don't know why, maybe it was because I have finished a really good book, and was looking for something similar, but after reading a few chapters I realsied this isn't the book for me, thank you anyway for including me!

K1nS has not replied to my PM I sent back in January, I shall try again, if I get no reply by next week I'll try the next person in line! 

Journal Entry 33 by Jonniboi at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, February 21, 2011

Can't get a hold of Kn1S So have decided to contact next person in line!