Round 22 - starting 8th January

OZ VBB
The Australian Virtual Bookbox

Guidelines:

• everyone who wants to participate volunteers two books. these need to be books you believe others would like to read, not rubbish you want to get rid of.
• List of books are available at VBBOZ Books and books owed here In Transit
• If you would like to join, just let us know and you will be added to the next round
• You have 24 hours to respond and have your turn, if we haven’t heard from you, you will be bumped to the end. If you are bumped you will be given 48 hours at the end of the round to place your turn along with others on the bumped list. If you find yourself on the bumped list you may post a request to be added to the end of the main list and take your turn as usual.
• Once a book of yours is removed from the box, please send it as soon as possible
• if a book stays on the available list for more than two rounds it will be moved to the books to be replaced collection, please keep track of these and replace them during your turn.
• mid-series or end-of-series books are allowed in the VBB, but please limit yourself to offering only one such book at any time.
• I will update books in the VBBOZ Library

to join in you will need to have been a bookcrossing member for at least three months, and to have "wild released" at least ten books. this condition may be waived at my discretion.

On Your Turn:

1. Select the books that you want to take out of the box and list them in your post. (please keep all posts in the relevant thread)
2. Replace with the same number of books (or more) and link to the BookCrossing journal pages for each book(s).
3. Check the “Books to be replaced” collection and replace if needed.
4. If you want to skip your turn, you have the option to be placed at the bottom of the list for another try this round.
5. PM the owners of your selected books to notify them of your selection and address.
6. Please PM the next person to let them know they're up.

Round 22 has finished

Hello. Are we off? Let's hope it's going to be a good year for all of us.

We're moving house currently and I don't think I'll have internet access for the next week. If I miss my go, just skip me this round.

Thank you,
Jubby

Happy New Year everyone!! .... I'm ready to go, now ..... I will remove March from round 20 and replace it with The Alchemist's Secret http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7061921/. I would like to take out Love in a Blue time and replace it with The Mozart Conspiracy http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8300198/ Thanks very much! :)
(I've pm'ed sanga71 to let her know that it's now her turn.)

I just need to make a change, I'm removing The Trouble with Christmas and replacing it with Dead Famous by Ben Elton http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7622280/

Happy New Year all! :-)

I have no books to replace, but would like to request
The Spare Room by Helen Garner (wookiebender) and The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo (L1nda).

In return I offer:

Dexter: An Omibus (Jeff Lindsay) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8475455

and

The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie) http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7195808

I'll PM jennimidget to tell her it's her turn now

Cheers,
K

Thanks lolkathryn!

I'm replacing Charlemagne's Champion

I'm selecting lolkathryn's Dexter: an omnibus (it didn't even touch the sides of the VBB!) and pat-the-rat's Deeper Than the Dead

I'm offering Archangel by Michael Connor - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8417172/ - Primal Needs by Susan Sizemore - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8395415/ - and Necroscope III: The Source by Brian Lumley - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8417123/

PM'ing L1nda for her go, and lolkathryn/pat-the-rat for the books

I'll remove The Queen of the Big Time: A Novel and After the Fall and offer up the following:

House Rules by Jodi Picoult http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7899723/

and

How Proust can change your Life http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4831687/

I'll pm norfolk

I will replace

Echo Burning
Herotica 4
God of Small Things
A Stroke of Midnight

take out

Storm Peak (bekoh)
When I was 5 I killed myself (tristia)
Days Without Number (crimson-tide)

and put in

Broken by Kelley Armstrong http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4419417
Bad Love by Jonathan Kellerman http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5645445
Kissing Sin by Keri Arthur http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7139684
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7792232
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8279752
The Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2759508
All Wrapped Up by Angela Knight etc. http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4854792

Off to PM all those I need to.

The books I had been thinking about have already been snaffled. There's nothing in the box at the moment that I either haven't read, or that I feel I need to read.
I'll pm the next person.
If it's ok I'd like to be dropped right down the list – or is that double-dipping, and not allowed? I was at the end of the list because of my own slackness last time, and there's not really been a huge turnover of books as yet. I'm happy whatever your decision is: I have plenty to be going on with.

just for you livrecache, I'll move you to the end :-)

G'day,

We are cut off by the floods at the moment and mail isn't coming or going. So can you please skip me for this round.

fairy-whispers :-)

Sure can, stay safe and see you next round.

Moving Jubby to the end of the round as I forgot she may not have internet access this week.

pming luckaye now

no word from luckaye.... so jeniwren's turn

I would like to select

The Moors Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie_thankyou lolkathryn
and
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill_ thankyou amberc

and I will replace with

Not To Disturb by Muriel Spark http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8545628

and

The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5433668/

I will now contact briz-cowgirl.

Thanks everyone and thinking of you all affected by the floods.

I have to reclaim Around the World in Eighty Days.

And I would like to take out:

How Proust Can Change Your Life, http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4831687/

Thanks L1nda! I'll pop you a PM with my address asap.

In exchange, I'll put in:

An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5879083/
The Lost Dog, Michelle de Kretser.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6585547

ETA: I just sent felicia-fairy a PM through bookcrossing to let her know it's her go.

After a few bumped, I've now pm'd pat-the-rat

I am replacing:

No Second Chance by Harlan Coben

From Potters Field By Patricia Cornwell

See Jane Die by Erica Spindler

Replacements are:

Brown Eyed Girl by Mariah Stewart
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4621317/

Dark Horse by Tami Hoag
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6662418/

Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5126317/

My selecion is Tell me no Secrets by Joy Fielding

I am replacing this one with:

Black Market by James Patterson
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8568896/

I have pm'd sally906.

ok I have to replace If you could see me now from round 20 so taking it back and in its place I am putting in
The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardner
http://www.bookcrossing.com/255-7481722

I would like to select The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer from livrecache.

In it's place I am offering up Say you're one of them by Uwem Akpan.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8569272

Please not I haven't read this one yet but will read it as soon as chosen - if not before :)

Have messaged RockDg9 through librarything and bookcrossing - she is from Toowoomba though so not sure if affected by the flood

Hey all.

I have three books to replace and am selecting
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2759508 Secrets of Jin-Shei from amberc

And replacing with:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6662113 Mind Speakers' Call by Gayle Greeno
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3229140 The Ten O'Clock Horses by Laurie Graham
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4362737 The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
Http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6276185 The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

PMing amberc and catsalive. :)

Sorry to be a pest, but we'll be away until the end of the month, so please remove me from this round. Thanks anyway.

Helen

I will replace my 3 and also take

from Carole888, The Mozart Conspiracy http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8300198
from jeniwren, Not to Disturb http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8545628

These are to go in the box:

I Had a Black Dog by Matthew Johnstone http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3573446
Bubbles in Trouble by Sarah Strohmeyer http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4979335
The Light Bearer by Donna Gillespie http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5650596
Carnivores of Light and Darkness by Alan Dean Foster http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5412079
Lucky for Me by Frank Robson http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8393254.

Will PM HeatherA.

I would like The Other Daughter by Lisa Gardener from sally906.

I will replace this with Recue by Anita Shreve http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8529697

I will PM bekoh.

I have 3 books to replace from previous rounds.

I will offer up instead:

The Trap by Sarah Wray http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7321613
Cold Fire by Dean Koontz http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8449506
Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8450618

No selections for me this round.

cheers,
bec

Hi guys

I have four books to replace this round:
Wild Swans by Jung Chang
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Spycatcher by Peter Wright
Saturday by Ian McEwan

And I wish to select one book:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8450618 Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham (bekoh)

So shall add the following five:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4467783 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8446123 Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7317691 Eva Cassidy - Songbird: Her Story By Those Who Knew Her by Rob Burley & Jonathan Maitland
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5048231 The Bug Wars by Robert Aspirin
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2173627 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

Sending a PM to bekoh for the book, and to freelunch for his turn.

I'd like to select one book:
The Trap by Sarah Wray http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7321613 (bekoh)

and in its place I offer:
Paul Is Undead by Alan Goldsher http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8573752

Thanks very much.

I shall let dolphin-au know his time has come..

As this is the third round where I can't find anything of interest in the box I will pull out of the OZ VBB alltogether. Thanks for all the contributions to my reading in the past!

I'll pm jubby that it is her turn.

Thanks jon, if you decide to join us again just post a message

I'm pretty sure Jubby is still offline so I've pm'd the people on the bumped list. A few are from Queensland so are more than likely unable to respond.

Norfolk's selections are:

The Italian Girl (jenniwren)

Cold Fire (Bekoh).

Will replace with

The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley

The way of the Goddess by Ly Warren-Clarke.

Replacement for Life of Pi is Fine Just The Way It Is by Annie Proulx.

Greetings everyone.

I am back again. Hurray.

Thank you for being so patient. I didn't get the PM (they never seem to work, and I have just posted a message with an alternate email address on my Bookcrossing profile page), but happened to check here and see the messages.

I will pass this round, and like Dolphin-au/jonvanh I am debating about leaving this box also. I'll give it one more round.

Thank you for all your hard work L1nda. I do appreciate it.

So sorry for the delay. As far as I can figure, I have 5 books to replace, so here goes:
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8079666/
A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7995715/
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7995672/
Name all The Animals: A Memoir by Alison Smith
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6544517/
It Sleeps In Me by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7995692/

And I would like to select:
House Rules by Jodi Picoult (L1nda)
and add:
Perfume by Patrick Suskind
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5526760/