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***EU-ONLY***

Description: A small bookbox with 9 historical romance paperback books:

Georgette Heyer, Lady Of Quality
Georgette Heyer, False Colours
Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis
Mary Balogh, The Secret Pearl
Susan Kinkaid, The Forest Lord
Jude Deveraux, The Heiress
Susan Grant, Once a Pirate
Eloisa James, When the Duke Returns
Theresa Medeiros, Fairest of them All

(edited to add: I initially offered 8 books, but added one more to help offset shipping costs since weight exceeds 1 kg but is still under 2kgs).

Rules:

* You can participate if you live in Europe and are willing to ship EU-wide.

* PLEASE journal here when you 1. receive the bookbox 2. when you are ready to mail to the next person on the list.

* You may take as many of the books as you like and replace with the same number of books (historical romances only).

* Please NO Harlequins, Silhouettes, Mills & Boon etc!

* Do not forget to make journal entries on the books you choose!

* Please DO NOT stall the box and don't keep longer than 2 weeks!!!

* If the box looks like it is falling apart or wearing out, please replace it.

* If you are the last person on the list, return the box to me and contact me for my address.

Happy Reading! :-D

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PARTICIPANTS:

1.nikel27 (Germany)
2.penelopewanders (Switzerland)
3.TracyW (UK)
4.nediamnori87 (UK) (skipping)
5.meg72 (Portugal)
6.Myrzen (Greece)
7.blueblack (UK)

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CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

The bookbox is on its way to the first participant, Nikel27!! I hope you find lots of interesting books in there for you. Have fun, and enjoy rummaging through the box!! :-D

Box arrived safe at my house, also thank's for the chocolate.

Update:
taking out.....
The Secret Pearl by Mary Balogh,
False Colours by Georgette Heyer,
Lady of Quality by Georgette Heyer,
The Forest Lord by Susan Krinard

and puts in the following books....
The Diamond Slipper by Jane Feather
A Knight's Vow by Lynn Kurland et al
Bride Enchanted by Edith Layton
Beloved Protector by Linda O'Brien
The Warfield Bride by Bronwyn Williams

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Okay the BookBox is ready to move on, I am now able to go to the post office.
Thanks again for letting me take part in your bookbox

This arrived here today, I'll need some time to make my selection and find replacements - thanks so much for sending!

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

I'm going out of town very early tomorrow and before leaving I doubt I'll have time to list the books I've taken and the ones I've put in, but at least I finally managed to get the box put together and on its way to the UK. The person next in line said she wouldn't be back until next week anyway, so I hope you won't mind that I've kept this a day over two weeks. I've tried to put in a good variety of books while keeping to the genre, and have put in a few which were near keepers for me, so hopefully others will appreciate them as much as I did. I took the liberty of reading a few in the box which I knew I wouldn't want to keep, although now I'm keen to read more by Bronwyn Williams because I really enjoyed that one. When I get back from my meeting I'll list the books I took and which I put in. Thanks so much for organizing this box!

Ok, back from my trip I can now take the time to journal which books I took out and which I put in...
I took out:
Julia Quinn, How to Marry a Marquis
Jude Deveraux, The Heiress
Eloisa James, When the Duke Returns
Theresa Medeiros, Fairest of them All
The Diamond Slipper by Jane Feather
Bride Enchanted by Edith Layton

and replaced them with:
Brave the Wild Wind, by Johanna Lindsey
Captive of My Desires, by Johanna Lindsey
Threads of Destiny, by Arnette Lamb
Touched by Moonlight, by Carole Howey
Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career, by Carla Kelly
The Leopard Prince, by Elizabeth Hoyt

Thanks for organizing this!

Arrived today - thanks penelope!
And now decisions, decisions, how many books can I read in two weeks?

Okay, I'm taking out:
Threads of Destiny by Arnette Lamb
A Knight's Vow by Lynn Kurland et al

And replacing with
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Conquest by Elizabeth Chadwick

Sorry about delay - work has been crazy. I sent the books off today in two cases to save on postage. I hope that's okay, they do all fit in one box, it was just over 2 kg even when I swapped some lighter books in.

The bookBox has arrived!
It was a hard choice, but I´ve decided I´m going to take:

"Captive of My Desires", by Johanna Lindsey
"The Conquest", by Elizabeth Chatwick

And put in the box:

So Worthy My Love, by Kathleen E. Woodiwis
Duchess By Night, by Eloisa James

The Box arrived today.
I am very excited ! So many decisions to make .
All books seem very readable.
So what to take and read and what to put in.
I will try to decide asap.

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

It was a hard selection. But in the end I had to make a choice so that the bookbox could continue its route.

So finally

I took out

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7393220
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5293186
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7778081
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7347091

I put in

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848680
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848632
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848635
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848622

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The box has been posted today.
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Καλό κατευώδιο και καλή ανάγνωση τυχερέ αγαπημένε αναγνώστη!!!!
Bon Voyage and I hope you enjoy reading my dear reader!

The box has arrived! I was very excited to receive it. Looks like I'm the last on the list, so I'll try and get the box on its journey home some time next week.

I'm really sorry that I haven't been able to post this out sooner! Been doing long hours at work, and my local Post Office is still closed when I leave in the morning -_-

Took out Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career and Once A Pirate

Put in An Affair Before Christmas and The Borgia Bride

Swapped http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7890314 for http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8034156 ;)

Is it because of the new website that I can't tell what books have gone in and which have come out?? I'd love to see the titles... I suppose I could copy and paste each individual bcid but it seems rather complicated! Am I the only one with this problem?

It's not the website, penelopewanders. Anyway I know what you mean. So I'm copy-pasting the titles and BCIDs of the last two participants here again:

Myrzen took out

The Warfield Bride by Bronwyn Williams- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7393220
The Leopard Prince by Hoyt - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5293186
So Worthy My Love by Woodiwiss- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7778081
Duchess by Night – by Eloisia James-http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7347091

And put in

The Prince and the Pilgrim by Mary Stewart- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848680
Forever my Love by Linda Ladd -http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848632
Dance of the Peacocks by Elizabeth de Guise - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848635
Roselynde by Roberta Gellis - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7848622

Blue Black took out:
Once a pirate by Grant - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7745771
Miss Grimsley’s Oxford career by Kelly- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7221902

And put in:
An affair before Christmas by Eloisia James - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8034170
The Borgia Bride . by Kalorgidis - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8034166
(cool, I haven’t read either of these two yet and have been meaning to) ;-D

The bookbox made it safely home!!! Except for one book, I haven't read any of them yet. I got some excellent stuff for reading while at the pool .... THANK YOU all for participating!

Alice