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Archive through October 28, 2003

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Azriel

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Congrats, Max!!!

Seamonkey

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Woo hooo Azriel and Max!! I'm gathering up books to release.. just wish my kit would arrive because I'd like to have their bookplates and such.. so far I'm just going thru books read recently that are still downstairs in the living room since with my knee surgery I'm not about to climb the stairs to the room over the garage (the stairs have some dry rot problems).

and of course some books are keepers if I'm collecting that author.

Seamonkey

Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have 30 books registered now. If anyone who is coming to theTVCH Long Beach Meeting Friday or Saturday or Sunday and is interested in catching any of these titles (and registering their catch at bookcrossings and later re-releasing), email me and I'll label them and bring them along.

My bookshelf: http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/SeamonkeyofTVCH

Slothkitten

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey-WOW!
I checked out your bookshelf,excellent,eclectic,
wonderful read's.I should have posted a week ago,
I used your name as a reference.I'm very slow at this online stuff,it'll probably be a month before I get everything together and release.
Too bad,I'm in Texas,can't catch even one of those
great books.

Azriel..your story cracked me up!!Don't hurt yourself running from your "drops"lol!
Singapore culture doesn't take kindly to trash,but those books are not trash,bet you they get caught!Love your stories,:.)

Slothkitten

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Max...yay!That was fast!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm excited.. all my books are labelled (the ones registered) and five have been spoken for by TVCH members who will be meeting in Long Beach.. I'll bring the rest to see if anymore will be "caught".. then I'll start releasing into the wild..

Hermione69

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 8:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is such a cool idea and I have SO MANY books I could release into the wild! I'll have to look through my personal library and pick some this weekend! I have two copies of Order of the Phoenix... I wonder if I could be strong enough to leave one of those!

Hermione69

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm signed up. I'm Hermione69.

I'm going to email this website to my friends!

Seamonkey

Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh good, Hermi.. I was gonna come and drag you over soon.. this is a no-brainer for you..

Seamonkey

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 8:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hermi, wish you could have been there this weekend.. not only could you have snagged some books.. a few TVCHers made off with booka and Zachsmom and her mom took an armload!! Anyway Lanzee was there and we have a "sign" that she showed us .. took a nanosecond for all of us Survivor watchers to shout out "JON".. so I learned the sign for dumb and Lanzee and I know have Jon and dumb firmly connected ..

(the Jon sign involves crossed arm flasing of sideways V signs while, bouncing, grinning loonily and looking.. dumb.

I'm still reading the book by the chef, busy weekend with the TVCH group.

Reiki

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I made my first release today. I left a book in the desk draw at the hotel I where I was staying in Saranac Lake, New York.

I also bought a book while I was in Lake Placid called Dancehall. Its a fictionalized account of a murder mystery based in Lake Placid. Once I have read it I will release it too!

I told me sister about Bookcrossings and she thinks its a great idea too.

Seamonkey

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 11:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reiki, I made my first releases this weekend!!

Three entirely "in the wild" at the Westin Hotel in Long Beach.. one that was picked up from the table at the TVCH meeting by a non-tvcher.. well one that we saw for sure, and a bunch to TVCHers and families in Long Beach, as well as some to Zachsmom's mom in Irvine.. haven't recorded all yet.. also picked up two from Z-mom, but need to get her on the site to register them as released to me.

I think I'll release one at the physical therapy place tomorrow.

Wargod

Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 11:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey, I'll register ours tomorrow. Darren started reading his earlier while I was busy taking a nap, LOL. This is such a good thing. Mom used to leave books laying around the house and I was always suprised to find our friends who'd end up leaving with them. Somehow she just knew if you left them out kids who didn't normally read would just pick them up.

Seamonkey

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War, which one did Darren get.. just so I can "officially" release it on the site.. I'm so glad he took one. I "registered yours as "in the wild" last night :)

I plan to see if I can get some books for kids and plant them around some likely places.

A really neat thing at Barnes and Noble one Christmas, they had trees with descriptions of kids in foster care or maybe it was at Orangewood.. anyway, you picked your kid(s) and then bought a book for their age and donated it for them. I got a couple of kids and got great books, but also got a journal for each of them, the journals were "kewl" and included stickers and gel pens..

Wargod

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 8:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
He took Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

I'm always the one to buy books for the kids in my life. I always get the funniest looks, you know, "aw man, that isn't the latest toy." Then later I hear how much they enjoyed their books, lol.

Seamonkey

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved buying and giving "Everyone Poops!"

I've registered all the books that were released and even have one listed for release today at my PT waiting room :)

Love this!!

Life of Pi is a good one.

Wargod

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've heard thats a great book for little ones, Sea.

This year most of the kids I buy for are old enough that I'm going to buy gift certificates for the bookstore so they can pick their own.

Do you find it hard to part with your books? I've been thinking about registering, but I'm not sure I could get rid of some of mine. Darren would love you forever though if I were to start getting rid of some of them, lol.

Seamonkey

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm not getting rid of my favorite authors.. also I have many many books (but I've had way longer to collect books).

Yes I did suffer a twinge or two with some of those books but I just know that I have more books that I have or will have or will want to read, than I'll have time to read, so I cannot re-read most of my books.

And I simply adore the idea that someone else (and hopefully a bunch of someone elses) will be reading those books.

Reiki

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went through my bookshelf twice before I found a book I could stand to part with. I would give up some of my others - you know the ones I loved, but haven't touched in years - but what if I should have a sudden urge to read them again!

I have to start with the books in boxes in the closet that someone gave me and haven't earned a spot on my shelves.

Seamonkey

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That sounds like a plan, Reiki.

War, I agree that if possible, let kids decide on their own books.. but some kids don't seem to have much access to what is available so for those I take a chance

Kaili

Monday, October 20, 2003 - 1:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love "Everyone Poops"!!! It cracks me up! Same with...what's the other one..."Everyone Farts" or something like that. I've always gotten a kick out of "The Potty Book" too. LOL

Djgirl

Tuesday, October 21, 2003 - 10:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Reiki, I just pulled over 100 books off my shelves, and ended up putting back 5. Can you believe that I was able to part with that many??? I still have over 100 though - it drives my bf nuts!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, October 22, 2003 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm coming from a place where I have thousands of books..

I set one free at the 7-eleven today when I went to by some lotto numbers.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 12:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Woohoo!! I got Angel Wings!! on Bookcrossing.com..

Max and DJgirl you also got them; go LOOK!!

Azriel

Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 1:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awwww crud, I can't even get a stinkin star! Grats, Sea, Max and DJ The wings are cute.

Kady! Apriljo! Go sign up and put that Azrielle referred you!