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Introduce Yourself
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Hello from sunny (pre-Songkran) Thailand
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hello from a fellow bookcrosser in Bangkok
Genevalove
14 yrs ago
Hello NovRain,
Welcome to bookcrossing! If you need books, please join the Bangkok Bookcrossers book exchange group. We meet the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm at Bert's, a cafe at Central World, to swap bo…
Genevalove
15 yrs ago
I've never done a release challenge before, but since I have an unread Stephen King novel on the top of my TBR pile, this might be the time to join in.
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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ISO: Boy Baby Names....RABCK to a random winner---give me some ideas!
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congratulations on number 6!
Genevalove
15 yrs ago
I just had my fourth and can only imagine how busy you must be! My three boys are James Declan, Joseph Garrett and (the latest addition) Owen William, but I've always loved the names Kieran and Kai (both vetoed by my hu…
Genevalove
16 yrs ago
The Bangkok Bookcrossers group meets at least once a month--we have about a dozen regulars and quite a few others signed up for email notifications. All the group members so far are expats.
Genevalove
16 yrs ago
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Anyone interested in a bookray for The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris? If so, please PM me with your location and shipping preferences. Thanks!
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
So far I have four participants lined up for this very small bookbox, which will include ten of my skinniest books. Titles include Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, Leaving Home by Anita Brookner, Sad Bastard by Hugo Hamil…
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
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Inspired by a very small box I got from Amazon, I'd like to send out a bookbox with around ten of my skinniest books. It will include The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark, Birthday Stories edited by Haruki Mura…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama -- U.S. bookring
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U.S. bookring--anyone outside the U.S. interested?
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
Just to clarify: I'm in Thailand, but I'll be sending the book out from my APO address, so it's a U.S. domestic address for postage purposes. Is anyone outside the U.S. interested? If so, I can probably send it on a se…
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
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This book was so interesting I thought it would make a great bookring, especially now that Senator Obama is considering a presidential bid in 2008. Here's the journal entry: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4589605. …
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
Any other takers for this bookbox? I hope to send it out in about a week.
Here's my previous post on the subject:
I plan to send out a bookbox full of books that are about my favorite thing: books. Titles will inc…
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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books about books bookbox (U.S. only)
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Re: books about books bookbox (U.S. only)
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
any other takers? should I adjust the rules so more people could participate?
Bookrings, Bookrays, and Bookboxes
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books about books bookbox (U.S. only)
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there are lots of books that fit!
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
you can be flexible about what you put in--anything about authors, books, anything set in bookstores or libraries--there really aren't any strict rules. Once I started looking I was surprised how easy it was to fill up …
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
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In about two weeks, I plan to send out a bookbox full of books that are about my favorite thing: books. Titles will include:
Bookends by Jane Green
Ex-Libris by Ross King
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowl…
Genevalove
17 yrs ago
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I have a box of eight trade paperbacks that I'd like to send out, a mix of fiction and nonfiction. Titles include:
Ciao, America! by Beppe Severgnini
In Her Shoes by Jennifer Weiner
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jo…
Genevalove
18 yrs ago
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I'm looking for about ten participants in a U.S. only bookring for a fantastic new book, The Mommy Wars by Leslie Morgan Steiner. Here's a blurb from the inside cover: "With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisio…
Book Talk
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What was the name of the characters in your 'learn to read' books?
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No else had Mary, Mike and Jeff?
Genevalove
18 yrs ago
My first readers were all about Mary, Mike and Jeff, their dog was named Bolo or something along those lines and their cat was Velvet. And they had a friend named Van. It's weird how easy it is to remember something li…
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
I had no idea LJ could be so controversial. I've been keeping a journal there for almost a year, and I really enjoy writing it, even if I don't update it as often as I'd like. My posts are friends only, but I'll add an…
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
Well, no one signed up for this one, so I'm calling it off. Maybe I'll try it again later.
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
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Hello
I'm starting a new international bookbox designed to travel from meetup to meetup. I organize a monthly bookcrossing meetup here in Shanghai, and thought it would be fun to pass books along to other meetups aro…
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
Oops, I was fixing something on my mom's bookshelf and logged in under her screenname when I posted--it was really me who had the baby at 30. (Mom sensibly stopped at 28--of course, she'd already had four kids at that po…
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
In Mandarin Chinese, it's "bukeqi" which translates literally into something like "don't have a guest mind," meaning "don't be so formal, it was nothing." Also, sometimes you hear "mei guanxi" which basically means "no …
Genevalove
19 yrs ago
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You never know who will find a book, no matter where you release it. This is my favorite journal entry ever, and I thought a tour bus of high school students or a businessperson on their lunch hour would find it.
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