Bought at the Know Church Fair on Saturday morning. One of 3 for $1.

Released on Tuesday, November 09, 2004 at about 2:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Controlled Release in Dunedin, Otago New Zealand.

RELEASE NOTES:

Posted this to FutureCat for her to take to Australia with her.

Arrived here safely, just in time to be packed in my suitcase for Sydney!

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Got this as a trade from rarsberry, via the lovely futurecat at the ABC in Sydney.
Thanks for the surprise book!

Back of book:
What if space shifted and time bent, and we could meet ourselves as we'll be twenty years from now? What if we could talk face to face with the people we were in the past, with the people we are in parallel lifetimes, in alternate worlds? What would we tell them, and what would we ask? How would we change if we knew what waits beyond space and time?
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Well, it's taken a long time to get around to reading this one... I got it as a trade (for Harry Potter, I think) so long ago, and I have oft looked at it for releasing in the wild, but thought, no, it was a trade - so I never let it go.
In the meantime I have read Jonathan Livingston Seagull and loved it, and only now looked anew at "One".
It is written like an autobiography, as if Richard and his wife Leslie had all of these alternate lifestyle visions happen to them personally.
It's a little wistful for me, but I enjoyed the concept of it.
Thanks, rarsberry!

Just have to add that all of the action takes place whilst Richard and Leslie are aboard their Martin Seabird seaplane named Growly. They experience 'something' after which they land into all their different realities over never ending water, watching all the patterns under the surface.

I will make this into a bookray as follows:
fleebo - Sydney
miss-jo - Sydney
lakelady2282 - Newcastle

and on.

Received from littlemave, in person. Thanks!

I admit that I was only ever half-hearted about joining this bookring, and with the Man Booker challenge and the Miles Franklin bookrings bearing down on me (a total of 16 bookrings!) I need to move this one along without reading it. I will pass it to miss-jo on Thursday.

I started this as soon as Fleebo passed it to me, but then got bogged down with barely a chapter to go and it's been sitting there staring at me accusingly for a month. Finally finished it this week so I'll pm lakelady2282 to move it on again.

I like the idea of 'trousers of time' books, which is what attracted me to One, but I didn't enjoy it much at all. Part of it was the style, which was preachy and irritating; part of it was probably that I had never read JLS, so a lot of the backstory meant nothing to me.

Thanks for sharing, littlemave.

The book has arrived safely. Thanks miss-jo and littlemave. Will read.

A very interesting and inventive read with, I thought, a strong ending. Just had problems with the Attila section. I mean realllyyyy! That was stretching it too far I thought. Otherwise I'm glad I read it. Did you want it back rarsberry or shall I release it at our January meeting?

I have wings!?
lakelady feel free to do with the book as you wish!

Thanks littlemave. I will release it at our January meeting.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

at the January meeting at 10.00 a.m.

Collected from The Source and re-released on the boardwalk at Honeysuckle.