My bookring guidelines

Bookrings have a nasty habit of getting stalled or dead-ended, so I have a few simple rules to increase the liklihood of my rings' survival. Please read these rules before asking to join any of my rings, and make sure you are willing and able to abide by them:

• If you want to join a bookring, PM me and tell me where you are, and what your shipping preferences are. I will PM you to let you know when you've been added to the ring.
  
• For books sent within the US, please pay for a delivery confirmation number, and post it in your journal entry for the book. I can send you a media rate address label with a delivery confirmation barcode, then all you have to do is slap it on the package and pay an extra $.14. If this is a problem for you, please don't join.
  
• If you don't think you'll be able to read and resend a book within ONE MONTH of receiving it, please do not join the ring. I like my rings to keep moving.
  
• I do forum checks on everyone who asks to join my rings, to avoid known 'dead-enders', and I reserve the right to accept or deny anyone into my rings. Sorry it has to be this way, but I want my rings to survive.
  
• Once you have joined a bookring, you can check the book's journal entry (linked on my profile page) to see where you are on the list, and to find out to whom you should send the book once you've read it. This list can change, so be sure to check it before sending the book on its way.
  

• "Cross Bones" by Kathy Reichs is with ShilpaM.
  
  
• "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is with its 29th reader, ValerieF.
  
  
• "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is stuck with Luintaurian
  
  
• "Talk to the Hand" by Lynne Truss is stuck with Luintaurian.
  

• "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman
  
• "The Dogs of Babel" by Carolyn Parkhurst
  "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"
  
• Floating in my Mother's Palm
  
• Love in the Time of Cholera
  
• Girl in Hyacinth Blue
  
• I Don't Know How She Does It
  
• Me Talk Pretty One Day
  
• Love in the Time of Cholera
  
• Reading Lolita in Tehran
  
• Running with Scissors (ring 1)
  
• Running With Scissors (ring 2)
  
• Skipping Christmas
  
• Skipping Christmas
  
• Stupid White Men
  
• "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" North American ring
  
• A Handmaid's Tale
  
• The Lovely Bones
  
• The Lovely Bones
  
• The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
  
• "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" (first three books)
  
• "The Red Tent"
  
• The Virgin Blue
  
• The Vision of Emma Blau
  
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  

• "Reading Lolita in Tehran" North America/Europe ring is with DebDebTig (received March 2, 2006).
  
• "The Historian" is STALLED with MWade78
  
• "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" by Christopher Moore is with BrynnSC.
  
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (sent to Stensler February 2005, but never journalled)
  
• Tuesdays With Morrie (with DivaMommy since July 2004)