Round 42 - Starting August 1st, 2014

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 36 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 take 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. You don't need to PM the next person if you are last on the main list. People on the bumped list will be PMed by vbboz.

The order of play is:

RockDg9 ***
lolkathryn
tantan
livrecache
jennymidget
crimson-tide (You have one free pick available)
amberC
jeniwren
catsalive

Bumped list:

Carole888
seldombites ***
luckaye ***
freelunch
wookiebender

This round has now begun. I've let Carole888 know that she's up first.

I've advised RockDg9 that she's up now.

I have left a PM to vbboz about leaving the group, I have not much reading time anymore.

Sorry guys :(

I've let lolkathryn know that she's up now.

Hi there,

I will take Summerland by Michael Chabon and will replace it with
Midnighters: The Secret hour by Scott Westerfeld

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12805076/

I will PM rockdg9 and seldombites now.

cheers, kathryn/KLL

I would like to take Mortal Remains (catsalive).

I'll replace it with Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris.

I'll let livrecache know that she's up next.

Sorry, but I'll pass on this round, thanks very much. I was a bit tempted by Harold and Maude but then realised the movie is so imbedded in my head that I would gain little from reading the book.

I'll let jennymidget know that she's up next.

We had a cleanout to donate some items to the Book Swap at my work, so I have 4 items to replace:
The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives
Squares of the City
Silence in Hanover Close
Cardington Crescent

I won't pick anything out this time thank you, so I'll just replace those 4 with these:
Ellie by Lesley Pearse - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10371454/
Consequences of Sin by Clare Langley-Hawthorne - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7501612/
A Sudden Fearful Death by Anne Perry - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12829713/
The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6658018/

I will let Freelunch know.

I'd like to select:
The Foundation Trilogy (catsalive) and
Outliers: The Story of Success (lolkathryn)

In their place I shall offer:
The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin - also published as The Death Maze (in the US) by Diana Norman (real name) - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12833070
and
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12833071

I'll also put in another donation:
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8456879

I'll PM all the necessary folk and let amberC know it's her turn.

Thanks.

I will replace;
Cooking with Baz
Born In Death

I would like to take;
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill (crimson-tide)
A Sudden Fearful Death by Anne Perry (jenny midget)

In exchange I will offer;

First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11809482
We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/8494629
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10013279
The True Story of Hansel and gretel by Louise Murphy http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7230025

I will PM all those I need to

Hi all,

Apologies, but it looks like I have released 'Outliers' elsewhere, and so it is no longer available for crimson-tide to pick up (!!) I do normally check my books to make sure they're not on the VBB, but obviously it didn't work this time!!

In its place I offer Black Painted Fingernails by Stephen Herrick

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12805073/

Just noting here that crimson-tide has a free pick available to replace her choice of Outliers - this round or next, whenever she'd like to take it.

I will choose One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Tantan)

and replace with

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12826734/

I will PM Tantan and the next on the list

I'll take

Angels of Darkness (amberC)
First Grave on the Right (amberC)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (amberC)
Consequences of Sin (jennymidget).

I'll add:

One-hit Wonder by Lisa Jewell http://bookcrossing.com/journal/12813672
By the Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz http://bookcrossing.com/journal/12053814
A House to Let by Charles Dickens http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4491542
An Eligible Bachelor by Veronica Henry http://bookcrossing.com/journal/12836892.

Everyone on the bumped list is up now. I'll message them all in the morning, and will close off this round late on Sunday.

I have advised those on the bumped list that they're up now.

Hi All, I think I may have to stop participating, Real Life just isn't giving me much of a chance here! I get my notifications, think "oh yeah, I'll get right onto that" and then completely forget. :P

I think I've still got a book in the "box", I'm happy to send it (or whatever) on if it's wanted, but I'll bow out of choosing a book until work settles down or the kids grow up and move out. One of those is bound to happen at some stage, right?? ;)

No problem wookiebender. I've moved your book into Donations. Hope to see you back again soon! :-)

This round is now finished. The next round will begin on October 3rd.

Oh dear! I am so sorry! I've done the same thing as Wookie did! Thank you for reminding me. There's been so much happening at this end and I forgot to get back to you. Will see you all again in October.

No problem Carole888 - we'll see you then! :-)