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luckaye - September 5, 2007 09:28 PM (GMT)
Books Out Of Play - Round One: September 2007
All clear!

Books Out Of Play - Round Two: November 2007
243 - Perfume by Patrick Suskind TBR (darkpunkangel---->bluejazzyfish)
*19 - The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Vintage Contemporaries) by Mark Haddon (darkpunkangel-->Wijntje)
*785 - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (luckaye --->darkpunkangel ) mailed


Books Out Of Play - Round Three: January 2008
116 - The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (sudokugirl ---> Bibliocrates)
686 - To The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf- TBR (bluejazzyfish ---> Bibliocrates)
*472 - Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (sudokugirl--->luckaye ) TBR
174 - Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard (luckaye ---> Camis)
42 - Atonement by Ian McEwan [TBR] (Bibliocrates --> darkpunkangel)
**608 - Of mice and men by John Steinbeck (Bartonz --->bluejazzyfish) mailed

Books Out Of Play - Round Four: March 2008

**819 - Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (msjoanna ---> perfect-circle)
274 A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (TBR)(sunflowergirl ---> Jubby)
603Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Sunflowergirl ---> Jubby)
643 - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein (msjoanna ---> Jubby)
*199 - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (TBR Bartonz --->luckaye)
*133 - The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (TBR) (sunflowergirl --> sudokugirl)
27 - Unless by Carol Shields (sudokugirl)---> sunflowergirl
709 - The War of the Worlds (Penguin Classics) by H.G. Wells (darkpunkangel)---> sunflowergirl
891 - Vilette by Charlotte Bronte (luckaye) ---> sunflowergirl
95 Enduring Love by Ian McEwan (TBR)(sunflowergirl ---> dolphin-au)

**June 17/08 - I updated this list in preparation for transfer of the data to the Owed Books Database - all books that had been received were deleted, anything still owed and/or mailed but not yet received remains and will be transferred.
-- Rosie :)

msjoanna - September 11, 2007 02:20 PM (GMT)
116 - The reader by Bernhard Schlink (msjoanna ---> sudokugirl)
-->mailed today via airmail

geishabird - September 11, 2007 02:44 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 05:28 PM)
385 - The Nice and The Good- Iris Murdoch (geishabird --> msjoanna)
562 - Murder must advertise - Dorothy L. Sayers (geishabird ---> Jubby)
662 - The passing by Nella Larson (geishabird ---> Jubby)

Mailed! :D

blackadder75 - September 11, 2007 09:41 PM (GMT)
199 - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (blackadder75-->bartonz) TBR

Has been read and is going out in tomorrow's mail.

bartonz - September 12, 2007 02:28 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (blackadder75 @ Sep 11 2007, 09:41 PM)
199 - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (blackadder75-->bartonz) TBR

Has been read and is going out in tomorrow's mail.

Bless you BlackAdder! :hug:

VeganMedusa - September 13, 2007 01:38 AM (GMT)
552 - Cry, the Beloved Country - by Alan Paton (TBR) (VeganMedusa-->geishabird)
595 - Coming up for Air by George Orwell (VeganMedusa ---> dolphin-au)

posted today.

msjoanna - September 13, 2007 09:05 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (geishabird @ Sep 11 2007, 10:44 AM)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 05:28 PM)
385 - The Nice and The Good- Iris Murdoch (geishabird --> msjoanna)

Mailed! :D

And now received. Will journal when I'm at home and organized.

sudokugirl - September 19, 2007 11:39 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (msjoanna @ Sep 11 2007, 02:20 PM)
116 - The reader by Bernhard Schlink (msjoanna ---> sudokugirl)
-->mailed today via airmail

received :)

sudokugirl - September 19, 2007 12:57 PM (GMT)
341 - Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (sudokugirl --->Teachie)

mailed today

VeganMedusa - September 21, 2007 12:42 AM (GMT)
70 - Timbuktu by Paul Auster (Jubby ---> VeganMedusa)

arrived today, thanks Jubby. :)

sudokugirl - September 21, 2007 01:48 PM (GMT)
562 - The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric (sudokugirl ---> tranq1)

Mailed today.

shnedwards - September 23, 2007 03:15 PM (GMT)
The Story of O sent out to camis the day before yesterday. I'll get Hawksmoor and Amsterdam in the post next week.

blackadder75 - September 23, 2007 06:27 PM (GMT)
I got these two last week.

676 - Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence (Jubby ---> blackadder75)
134 - Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (dolphin-au ---> blackadder75

I'm in the process of reading this one. I hope to have it finished soon and sent out.

2 - Saturday by Ian McEwan (blackadder75-->darkpunkangel) TBR

camis - September 24, 2007 09:39 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (shnedwards @ Sep 23 2007, 04:15 PM)
The Story of O sent out to camis the day before yesterday.

Received today :D

bartonz - September 24, 2007 05:01 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (bartonz @ Sep 12 2007, 02:28 PM)
QUOTE (blackadder75 @ Sep 11 2007, 09:41 PM)
199 - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (blackadder75-->bartonz) TBR

Has been read and is going out in tomorrow's mail.

Bless you BlackAdder! :hug:

Received!

geishabird - September 24, 2007 06:02 PM (GMT)
Shnedwards, if you happen to wander by this thread, I sent a PM requesting your address so that I could send you Black Water...perhaps you didn't get it. I'll try again, but in the meantime if you happen to see this, drop me a line! :D

Jubby - September 24, 2007 08:50 PM (GMT)
Sorry, I'm still new to this, and should've done this earlier...

I've posted (and all have been received and journalled):

- Timbuktu by Paul Auster

- Lady Chatterley's lover by D.H. Lawrence

- The Sea by John Banville

Thank you.

teachie - September 25, 2007 09:36 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (sudokugirl @ Sep 19 2007, 12:57 PM)
341 - Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (sudokugirl --->Teachie)

mailed today

Arrived today, thanks sudokugirl.

blackadder75 - September 28, 2007 02:04 PM (GMT)
I've just sent this book in today's mail.

2 - Saturday by Ian McEwan (blackadder75-->darkpunkangel)

tranq1 - September 28, 2007 10:44 PM (GMT)
Received in the mail today. The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric (sudokugirl ---> tranq1)

luckaye - October 2, 2007 12:20 AM (GMT)
761 - Room with a view by E.M. Forster (TBR) (Luckaye ---> rebeccaljames)

I cannot for the life of me find my copy (it may be somewhere on my desk ..... :rolleyes: ) so I am having another copy sent to Rebecca via Amazon marketplace

darkpunkangel - October 6, 2007 04:45 AM (GMT)
2 - Saturday by Ian McEwan (blackadder75-->darkpunkangel)

Came today, thanks :D!

shnedwards - October 7, 2007 03:00 PM (GMT)
81 - Amsterdam is on the slow boat to Australia!

luckaye - October 11, 2007 09:14 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (shnedwards @ Oct 8 2007, 01:00 AM)
81 - Amsterdam is on the slow boat to Australia!

Well it was a fast plane as it arrived yesterday! Thank you!

shnedwards - October 13, 2007 12:54 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Oct 11 2007, 09:14 PM)
QUOTE (shnedwards @ Oct 8 2007, 01:00 AM)
81 - Amsterdam is on the slow boat to Australia!

Well it was a fast plane as it arrived yesterday! Thank you!

:o Wow! Bargain! Hurray for the Royal Mail and its overworked, disgruntled workers putting parcels on the wrong pile!

geishabird - October 16, 2007 02:31 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (geishabird @ Sep 24 2007, 02:02 PM)
Shnedwards, if you happen to wander by this thread, I sent a PM requesting your address so that I could send you Black Water...perhaps you didn't get it. I'll try again, but in the meantime if you happen to see this, drop me a line! :D

It's now in the mail. :D

geishabird - October 20, 2007 10:42 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 05:28 PM)
474 - Mrs. 'Arris Goes To Paris by Paul Gallico (Bartonz --> geishabird) mailed


Received; thanks!

VeganMedusa - November 3, 2007 05:09 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 6 2007, 09:28 AM)

The Trial by Franz Kafka (VeganMedusa --> perfect-circle)
*450 - The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (VeganMedusa --> msjoanna)

Posted yesterday.

sudokugirl - November 3, 2007 11:46 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 09:28 PM)
804 -The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (Tribefan ---> sudokugirl) mailed

Received :)

luckaye - November 9, 2007 07:17 PM (GMT)
Updated :)

shnedwards - November 12, 2007 08:43 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 09:28 PM)

78 - Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (teachie --->shnedwards)

Received last week. Thank you! :D

geishabird - November 13, 2007 01:23 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 04:28 PM)
291 - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (geishabird-->dolphin-au)
37 - The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster (geishabird--->bartonz)

These were both mailed today.

camis - November 16, 2007 07:49 PM (GMT)
From round 2

*408 - In cold blood by Truman Capote (perfect-circle-->camis) - received

blackadder75 - November 21, 2007 12:18 AM (GMT)
354 - Surfacing by Margaret Atwood (blackadder75--->bartonz )

This is going out in tommorow's mail.

teachie - November 21, 2007 08:43 AM (GMT)
I had forgotten all about posting here. I posted off The Bell to Jubby, surface mail, a few of weeks ago. :rolleyes:

blackadder75 - November 21, 2007 01:41 PM (GMT)
*92 - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [TBR] (blackadder75-->Wijntje)

I finished this late last night, it's going off in today's mail.

perfect-circle - November 22, 2007 06:22 AM (GMT)
Sorry, didn't realise I had to post here as well:

365 - The bluest eye by Toni Morrison (Tribefan --->perfect-circle) mailed
*701 - The Trial by Franz Kafka (VeganMedusa --> perfect-circle) mailed

These are both with me now


663 - A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (perfect-circle --> Jubby)
*436 - One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (perfect-circle ---> blackadder75)
*831 - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson (perfect-circle-->geishabird)

These have all been posted.

shnedwards - November 23, 2007 06:26 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (luckaye @ Sep 5 2007, 09:28 PM)

247 - Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (shnedwards ---> VeganMedusa)

On its way to VeganMedusa today, along with a long-overdue bookring book and some holiday treats. Don't look at the customs form on the back! :nono: It'll spoil the surprise!

VeganMedusa - November 26, 2007 04:08 AM (GMT)
*506 - The Story of O by Pauline Reage (tranq1 --> VeganMedusa) mailed

received today, thanks!

shnedwards, you're lovely - and I have trained myself well not to look at the forms or address so it's always a total surprise when I open a parcel. :P

sudokugirl - November 27, 2007 11:21 AM (GMT)
*27 - Unless - Carol Shields (perfect-circle --> sudokugirl)


Received today. Thank you, perfect-circle.




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