Bought today at used book sale. Have been waiting for this one!!!!

I loved another book (The Girls) by this author and was looking forward to this with great anticipation. I did like the story and the main character, Mary Gooch, but just not quite as much as the last read. Nevertheless, a good story about a morbidly obese woman - her hungers, fears and desires - and her evenutal metamorphosis after some sudden changes in her life.

If you enjoyed The Memory of Running (Ron McLarty), this is a similar kind of story. And, it's great because there is a surprise mention of a favorite book swapping phenomenon...but I won't say more...

Sending to another BCer who had this on her wishlist. Sorry for the delay. Enjoy!

Received safely in Maryland today. Thanks for sending this to me, Wildflower! I haven't read anything by this author, but I wanted to read about BC (like I don't know anything about it ;)

I'm going to try to read this sooner rather than later.

I don't often read what is typically called "women's fiction" but I do tend to read a large variety of books. When I heard about the BC connection in this book, of course I wanted to read it. I wasn't sure how far into the story the BC bit was (and I won't tell for other readers), but before I knew it I was involved in Mary Gooch's life. She has a very believable voice, and this is certainly a very quick read. I liked the story from the beginning, as we learn about Mary's life, and her growing-up years, but I thought the story really picked up when she began her journey and began to shake up her routine. I can't decide if I liked the ending or not; I want to know what happened to Mary in the rest of her life.

I loved the BC bit so much; I want to remember it forever, so here it is:
"...Her attention was caught by the bookcase, where she spied, miraculously, the bestseller she had begun to read on the plane and had lost along with the purse. Uncertain as to whether, as in a library, she was required to sign the book out, she approached the counter to ask, "Can I read this?"
"Uh-huh," the woman responded without looking up from her computer screen.
"Do I have to pay? Do I have to sign it out?"
"They're for guests. Most of them are from bookcrossing. This location's a favorite drop-off."
"Bookcrossing?" Mary asked blankly.
The young woman looked up, smiling through her irritation. "People leave books for other people. They do it all around the world. Bookcrossing." She might have added the teenaged refrain - duh.
"Why?"
"To share books." Again - duh.
As she found a spacious leather chair near the bookcase where she could comfortably read while she waited, Mary enjoyed the idea that a complete stranger had left the book for another complete stranger's edification, and thought of the volumes communicated in the exchange."

Many thanks to Wildflower37 for sharing this excellent book with me. I'll now be keeping my eyes open for Lansens' other books. I have a couple of people at work I want to lend this to, but then I'm not sure where it'll be going for its next home.

This book is off visiting a couple of my work friends for a few weeks. Hope they enjoy the book as much as I did!

This is back with me now, and is looking for its next reader.

This is being taken to the BC meet today. It might be picked up by a BC member, or a newbie (we're holding a BC intro session today, come join us!), or if it's left over after the meet, it'll be on the bookshelf in the back room.

Welcome to BookCrossing!

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 you'll stick around a bit and get to know BookCrossing -- maybe even make a journal entry on this book. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (it's free!) 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. If you do choose to join and journal, then you can watch the book as it travels - You'll be alerted by email each time someone makes another journal entry. It's all confidential (you're known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free. Happy reading!

I grabbed this book when I saw it because I really enjoyed reading a previous book (The Girls) by the same author. Thanks for releasing this book at the Westminster Bookcrossing meet-up, MaryZee.

This is a book I've had too long without reading. It's time to release it!

Sadly, MaryZee is no longer alive. Rest in peace, dear friend.

I'm releasing this book at BookCrossing (BCinDC) meetup very near my own home!

This is a great book to release at a BookCrossing meetup because this book once belonged to our dear, late BCinDC member MaryZee whom we remember with fondness. Rest in peace, dear friend.

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Hello and welcome to BookCrossing ... where we make the
whole world a library!

Now that you've "caught" this book, it is yours to do with as you like. Read it, keep it, or give it away. It's your choice!

I'd love if you'd enter a note here on BookCrossing about this book -- where you found it, how you like it, and/or where you release it. If you join BookCrossing (free and fun), kindly list me, SqueakyChu, or any other journaler on this thread as your referring person. Thank you so much.

Enjoy the book!

One of the stack of books I brought home from today's meet-up. I should have journaled it sooner but Mom Oyster brought me fabric and I got caught up in playing with it.

Taking the opportunity to share this book at the August meet-up. Hoping it goes home with someone since it originally came from MaryZee.

Any future reader or recipient of this book is encouraged to leave a journal entry here on the BookCrossing site to let prior readers know the fate of the book. You can make an anonymous entry without joining the BookCrossing movement, but if you are interested in joining, it is a free and spam-free community where your contact information is not shared with others. Best of all, members receive private messages via e-mail from books like this one when those books are journaled, allowing for long-term relationships between books and readers.