Please post on this thread when books are mailed and received.

Please remember that TBRs are a-ok, but should be mailed within six months of being chosen.

Books Out Of Play - Round 1

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (rootmartin --> teachie) at CheriePie's for teachie's m-bag
American Fuji by Sara Backer (ri --> rebeccaljames)


Books Out Of Play - Round 2
*Almost Adam: A Novel by Petru Popescu [Kenya] (rebeccaljames --> bartonz)
Desert Flower - The Extraordinary Life of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie [Somalia] (luckaye --> zzz) mailed
*The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason [Myanmar (Burma)] (zzz--> hobbit)
The Shadow of Imana (Caribbean Writers SeriesRG) by Veronique Tadjo [Author from Côte d'Ivoire writing about Rwandan genocide] (zzz --> eicuthbertson)

Books Out Of Play - Round 3
*Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See [China] (luckaye ---> sudokugirl)
**Tenko by Anthony Masters [Japan] (luckaye --> dancing-dog)
*The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan [India] (dancing-dog)-->teachie mailed to Cherie for teachie's m-bag


Books Out Of Play - Round 4
***The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard (hendertuckian--->eicuthbertson)
*Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah [China] (luckaye --> dancing-dog)
*Breadfruit by Celestine Hitiura Vaite [Tahiti] (luckaye-->morsecode)
*The Last Burden by Upamanyu Chatterjee [India] (sudokugirl-->hendertuckian)

Books Out Of Play - Round 5
*The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*The Truly Married Woman by Abioseh Nicol [Sierra Leone] (Bartonz --> VeganMedusa) mailed
Scribbling the Cat - Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller [Zambia] TBR (VeganMedusa --> bibliotreker) mailed
**Love in The Driest Season by Neely Tucker[Zimbabwe] TBR (tenneh --> Azuki)
*Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat [Haiti] (msjoanna --> bartonz)
*Belshazzar's Daughter by Barbara Nadel [Turkey] (azuki --> eicuthbertson)

Books Out Of Play - Round 6
**Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
*Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara [Japan] (sudokugirl --> shnedwards)
**Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee Hee by Meera Syal (shnedwards --> rootmartin)
**Salon by Maral Khorozian, Rebecca Le Tourneau (morsecode --> rootmartin)
Mammon, Inc. by Hwee Hwee Tan [US/Singapore] TBR (shnedwards --> rootmartin)
**The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [India] (msjoanna-->geishabird)
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble [Korea] (rootmartin-->teachie)
*Karma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India/US] (sudokugirl-->hobbit)
**Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende (bibliotreker-->hobbit)
*Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto [Japan] (azuki --> sudokugirl)
*Micronesian Legends by Bo Flood [Micronesia] (bartonz --> sudokugirl)
*The Land Without Shadows by Abdourahman A. Waberi [Djibouti] (bartonz --> sudokugirl)
*Sunrise on Kusatsu Harbor by Dan Maloney [Japan] (hobbit --> bibliotreker)
*The News from Paraguay: A Novel by Lily Tuck [Paraguay] (bartonz --> bibliotreker)
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi [Iran] (sudokugirl --> azuki)
The Guru of Love: A Novel by Samrat Upadhyay [Nepal] (rootmartin --> azuki)
***Monkey Hunting (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Cristina Garcia [China/Cuba] TBR (Bartonz --> azuki)
***A Dakar Childhood by Nafissatou Diallo [Senegal] (dancing-dog--> Bartonz)
Ndowe Tales I by Enenge A'Bodjedi [Equatorial Guinea] (hobbit--> Bartonz)
***July's People by Nadine Gordimer [South Africa] (geishabird --> Bartonz)
Bollywood Confidential by Sonia Singh [India] (rootmartin-->dancing-dog)
Peony in Love: A Novel by Lisa See [China] (Bartonz --> zzz)
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami [Japan] TBR (shnedwards --> msjoanna)
***Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa by Peter Godwin[Rhodesia] TBR (tenneh --> msjoanna)
*Tarnished Beauty by Cecilia Samartin [Mexico/US] (rootmartin --> eicuthbertson)
Batoula by Rene Maran [Gabon] (hobbit --> eicuthbertson)
**The Book and The Sword by Louis Cha [Hong Kong] (hendertuckian --> eicuthbertson)

Hi all!

So, since folks are already shipping off books for this second round, I started up a new thread for books out of play. Please let me know if I need to update something or missed anything.

Thanks for playing! :bananadance:

- Melissa (aka rootmartin)

Received today :)

I'm little confused... we have two Books Out Of Play threads?
http://bookobsessed.com/index.php?showtopic=2343&st=0

:unsure: Yeah.... that would be my fault. I was under the impression that there needed to be a new thread for books out of play for each round. But obviously, I could just updated the one that I had already started. :wacko:

So, let's just go with this one and I'll update it for all future rounds.

And, thanks for putting up with me on my learning curve.... :whistle:

Received :)

Red Azalea by Anchee Min (dancing-dog --> msjoanna) mailed
--> Received!

All mailed today! :D

Mailed.

Mailed today.

The Icarus Girl is winging her way to Canada! (Do you see what I did there?)

Very witty.... :wink:

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [Nigeria] (geishabird --> teachie) mailed

Received, thanks a lot geishabird.

Heat and Dust (TBR) by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala [India] (geishabird --> VeganMedusa) [color=green]

Sorry, I received this a few days ago. :)

Received! Thank you. :D

Books Out Of Play - Round 1


Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang [China] (rebeccaljames --> bartonz)

I no longer need this and told RebeccaJames she can relist it

mailed yesterday

Received Chinese Cinderella last night - will JE it soon.
thanks sudokugirl!

Round two --

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia by Tony Horwitz (Egypt, UAE, Yemen, Israel, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan) TBR (Bartonz --> hobbit)

sent 11.28.07

12/3/07 Mailing to Sudokugirl :

From Round 2: Kaarma and Other Stories by Rishi Reddi [India] (ladiibbug ---> sudokugirl)

Round 3 has started! :dance2:

The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad [Afghanistan] (msjoanna --> luckaye)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton [South Africa] (msjoanna --> luckaye)
--> These are going to azuki for the m-bag today.

Red Azalea by Anchee Min (dancing-dog --> msjoanna) mailed
-->Received!

The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble [Korea] TBR (luckaye -> azuki) has been sent to Azuki today at her Hong Kong address :)

The Twentieth Wife sent to CheriePie today for teachie's M-bag.

Received :)

Both of these have been received.

*Spring Moon by Bette Bao Lord [China] (bibliotreker --> bartonz) received :D

Just want to update that I have received The Red Queen, and The GOod Earth is with me now to be mailed to Luckaye next week.

Both mailed today.

I see there are perks to hosting a m-bag! :giggle: I hope you have enjoyed reading it :)

received :)

arrived 3 weeks ago :)

Received :)

Sorry, I see that I didn't report yet but I've received this!

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (geishabird--->luckaye)
Arrived today! Thank you :hug:

Received! Thanks very much geishabird! :D

Just want to update that all books sent to luckaye via me, except for Namma, had been mailed out to luckaye at the beginning of January.

From Round 3 - *Geisha: The secret history of a vanishing world by Lesley Downer [Japan] (eicuthbertson --> dancing-dog) - received 1/14/08

Will be mailed this week.

Received! Thank you! :D

*Embracing the Dragon: A Woman's Journey Along the Great Wall of China by Polly Greeks [China] TBR (VeganMedusa-->eicuthbertson)

Has been received.