Journal Entry 1 by BethanieKay from Fort Worth, Texas USA on Wednesday, March 31, 2010

I enjoyed "Firefly Lane" by this same author, so thought I'd give this one a go.

Amazon.com Review:

What do you do when everything you hold dear, everything you believe yourself to be, proves not to be true? Like Scarlett O'Hara, you go home, if not to Tara, then to the last place that you felt like you. Award-winning author Kristin Hannah makes her hardcover debut by taking readers to just such a place in On Mystic Lake.

As her only child leaves to study abroad and her husband admits his love for a younger woman, Annie Colwater feels invisible. Having devoted herself to being the best wife and mother she could be for the last 20 years, Annie no longer knows who she is. She heads home to her father and to Mystic, Washington--where she grew up, where the dreams she barely remembers first blossomed, and where her first love, Nick Delacroix, still lives. Back in Mystic, Annie receives a healthy dose of perspective: Nick's wife has recently committed suicide, leaving Nick to find solace in the bottom of a Scotch bottle while his 6-year-old daughter, Izzie--who hasn't spoken since her mother's death--is doing her best to "disappear" just like Mommy. Annie volunteers to care for Izzie, since Nick cannot understand what his grieving daughter needs. And in the process, Annie recovers herself, the woman she thought gone forever, while Nick realizes that his future lies with Annie and Izzie. Just when the future starts to look bright for the three, Annie is faced with a devastating choice between the life she thought had left her behind, and a new beginning with Nick and Izzie, who helped to unearth her forgotten dreams.

Kristin Hannah has produced a treasure of a book, one that will make you cry and will strike a chord in anyone who has ever had to pick up the pieces and start over. 

Journal Entry 2 by BethanieKay from Fort Worth, Texas USA on Thursday, May 13, 2010

Pretty predictable, and although I thought the story had possibility of being interesting, it mostly centered on topics that are of no interest to me - like marriage, children, and being pregnant. The only part that interested me was the storyline about reigniting an old flame, and that bit was okay.

I don't really want to pack this book in my bags for my trip from Australia back to the US, so think I'll just release it somewhere in Melbourne over the next couple days. 

Journal Entry 3 by BethanieKay from Fort Worth, Texas USA on Thursday, May 13, 2010

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I read this book while I was on a vacation in Australia, and although I'm planning to release it somewhere in Melbourne, I'm not sure exactly where. I'll try to get to the internet as soon as I can after I release the book to make release notes. I hope someone catches it!

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To the finder of this book:

Hello and congratulations!

You have not only found yourself a good book, but a whole community of booklovers dedicated to sharing books with each other and the world at large.

I hope that you will write a journal entry letting me know that the book has been found, and that you'll stick around a bit and get to know Bookcrossing. Feel free to read and keep this book, or to pass it on to a friend or even set it out "in the wild" for someone else to find like you did.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single release!!

Happy Reading! 

Journal Entry 4 by BethanieKay at Acland Street in St Kilda, Victoria Australia on Sunday, May 16, 2010

Released 2 yrs ago (5/14/2010 UTC) at Acland Street in St Kilda, Victoria Australia

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left this book on a table on the sidewalk in front of the Le Bon Cake Shop (next to a placard about not feeding the pesky pigeons!)

Hope someone catches the book! 

Journal Entry 5 by bethanyjewell1 on Sunday, May 16, 2010

I found this book yesterday while i was sitting having a coffee on Acland street, something I do most weekends. I was so excited to find it, espically as the person who registered it has the same name as me. Im yet to start reading it, but i will let you all no how it goes.
bethany jewell x

CAUGHT IN MELBOURNE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA