Round 31 - Starting July 6th, 2012

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Round 31 - Starting July 6th, 2012

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1vbboz
Edited: Jul 23, 2012, 9:44 pm

*** This round is now complete ***

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 that are available at VBBOZ Books and books owed at 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 it appears that you may not have been sent a PM about your turn you will be given an additional 12 hours. If we still 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.

The order of play is:

L1nda ***
Elddau1onBC
Carole888
wookiebender ***
lolkathryn
catsalive ***
luckaye (you have one free pick)
jennymidget ***
amberC ***
tantan ***
crimson-tide
RockDg9
jeniwren

Bumped list:

livrecache
bekoh ***
seldombites ***

*** You have books to be replaced

2vbboz
Jun 18, 2012, 8:19 pm

Just letting everyone know that I will be away on July 7th and 8th, and I'm not certain whether I'll have internet access during the evenings. I'll start this round July 6th anyway, and will update the books on the evening of July 8th at the latest.

3anxovert
Jun 27, 2012, 7:16 am

I'd like to be passed over again this round please. still not reading and consequently have nothing to offer.

4crimson-tide
Jun 30, 2012, 11:52 am

Can I please be moved to the end of the list? Nothing in the box grabs me right now, but that may (hopefully) change during the round... Thanks.

5L1nda
Jul 4, 2012, 6:34 am

Can I be a pain and play my turn now so as not to hold everyone up? I have a busy 48hours coming up and don't expect to have much time for internet. tantan can you please pm Elddau1onBC on Friday (I don't want to do it now and set the ball rolling too early)
Thanks - Linda

I will remove The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

And replace with Crossing Paths by Debbie Robson

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11244434

This book is written about Bookcrossing by our very own lakelady2282. I’m only passing this on as I’ve ended up with it on my kindle as well. For more information on Debbie Robson and the book see here http://www.tomareebook.com/about_me.html

6Elddau1onBC
Edited: Jul 6, 2012, 2:05 am

Okey dokes, for my turn I'm choosing:

Crossing Paths (L1nda)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Carole888)
Hallowed Bones (luckaye)
The Komandant's Mistress (jeniwren)

I'm offering:
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5684262

The Body Artist - Don DeLillo
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5959354

A Twist in the Tale - Jeffrey Archer
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9734861

The Last Time They Met - Anita Shreve
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9956676

Thanks. Will email everyone now.
- Have emailed CArole888 for her turn.

7Carole888
Jul 7, 2012, 11:10 am

Thanks so much Elddau1. I am sorry, I couldn't get here earlier.

I have had a look, and I can't find anything in the box so I will have to skip this round.

I need to replace two books from round 29 though - I am removing A Woman of Independance and Passing and will replace with Lulu in Marakesh http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10326460 and The Elegance of the Hedgehog http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7405427

I'll pm seldombites now

Thank you.

8Carole888
Jul 7, 2012, 11:17 am

(I've emailed seldombites - I notice that there is a message on her shelf saying that she is offline for a few weeks so I am not sure if she will get the message)

9vbboz
Jul 8, 2012, 8:19 pm

My head is too fuzzy to work out when seldombites was contacted about it being her turn, but I'm pretty sure it was more than 24 hours ago so I'm going to bump her for now.

Seldombites, if I've bumped you incorrectly please let me know and I'll add you back in.

10wookiebender
Jul 10, 2012, 3:40 am

I did get a message saying it was my turn last night. Sorry guys, just too flat out at the moment. Please skip me this round. (Oh, looks like you have! Excellent, sorry it took me so long to let you know.)

11lolkathryn
Jul 10, 2012, 9:34 am

Hi All,

I've had a look through the list and unfortunately nothing is grabbing me. I'll pass this round.

Sorry!
Kathryn

I'll pm catsalive now

12catsalive
Jul 10, 2012, 9:45 pm

I will remove:

Annie Freeman's Fabulous Travelling Funeral
The Children's Writer by Gary Crew (RockDg9)
Venus Envy by Rita Mae Brown (crimson-tide)
Velocity by Dean Koontz (seldombites)
The Elegance of the Hedghog by Muriel Barbery (Carole888)

I'll add:

Eternal Craving by Nina Bangs http://bookcrossing.com/journal/11137030
Moon Called by Patricia Briggs http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3746951
Hunting Diana by Doreen Orsini http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4894076
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley http://bookcrossing.com/journal/11238879
Longitude by Dava Sobel http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4102970

I'll PM all involved & luckaye.

13seldombites
Jul 11, 2012, 2:07 am

G'day,

I apologise. I haven't been on the computer much. Please place me at the end of the list.

Thanks.

14luckaye
Jul 11, 2012, 5:37 pm

Taking:
Moon Called (Mercy Thompson) by Patricia Briggs (catsalive)
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (seldombites)

Adding:
Virus by Sarah Langan
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6637426/

16amberc
Jul 13, 2012, 7:34 pm

Replacing

I'd Tell You I lOve You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
Beautiful Lies
Ghost Walk
Summer Psychic

Taking

Hunting Diana (catsalive)
Norse Code (jennymidget)

Offering

The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7501625
Who Killed Angelique? by Emma Darcy http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7582372
Hidden Star by Nora Roberts http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/431884
City of Masks by Daniel Hecht http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6874116
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7557937
Room by Emma Donoghue http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10424360

I will PM catsalive, jennymidget and bekoh

17tantan
Jul 14, 2012, 8:50 pm

I need to replace:

At the Stroke of Madness
The Death of Princes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
It's Not You It's Me
The Mirror Crack'd

And I would like to take:

The Birth of Venus (crimson-tide)
The Outcasts (lolkathryn)
The Sooterkin (wookiebender)

And I am putting in:

Spin the Bottle by Monica McInerney - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/9937949
Upside Down Inside Out by Monica McInerney - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/9937967
4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3351977
The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4252230
Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/5440775
The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/9937957
Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/7547838
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - http://bookcrossing.com/journal/9937915

18crimson-tide
Jul 15, 2012, 7:12 am

Thanks for the email tantan.

I'd like to choose three books:
Room by Emma Donoghue (amberC)
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (amberC)
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (tantan)

Putting into the box:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11273018
Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8246451
Darkness Visible by William Styron - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4411145

Just off to have my dinner, and then will email everyone concerned.
Thanks all.

19rockdg9
Jul 15, 2012, 6:49 pm

There's nothing I want this time so I will skip over to jeniwren.

20jeniwren
Jul 15, 2012, 7:12 pm

Ok
I will take Darkness Visible by William Styron (crimson-tide)

And offer

My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11260533

Sending PM's to both crimson-tide & seldom bites now

Thanks

Sent from my iPad

22livrecache
Edited: Jul 19, 2012, 11:48 pm

Sorry about my tardiness. I've been interstate for the past week.

If it's not too late, I'd like to select the Hunger Games and The Road.

I will replace them with:

The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2462657
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5715749

With thanks

23vbboz
Jul 20, 2012, 3:12 am

This round is now finished.

Thanks everyone. We'll start the next round on September 7th.

24crimson-tide
Jul 20, 2012, 4:17 am

And thanks to you Tanya, for all the time, effort and patience you put into organising the VBB.

25vbboz
Jul 20, 2012, 7:04 am

My pleasure. :-)

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