Do you have any of these books you're willing to send?

I recall Sand starting something similar to this in the old forum, but with books Owed as opposed to Lost. This is a bit different... Instead, I'd like to keep an updated list of books that were never received by their intended recipient for one reason or another. Valid reasons include, but are not limited to:

1. lost in the mail or package damaged in transit such that the book is no longer readable
2. the person who was supposed to send the book(s) has disappeared or otherwise become incommunicado

So if another Obsessor has an available copy of one of these books, they could send it along to the originally intended recipient in a kind of "Pay It Forward". Hopefully, those offering up AVLs from their shelf will check this list first. *hint hint* :wink:

With the help of the other mods *asks nicely* we'll keep this list up-to-date as others add to this thread. We'll attempt to keep up with and remove old entries as best we can, HOWEVER before sending, you should PM the intended recipient to verify they still want the book and confirm their address, as they may have since acquired it elsewhere or no longer want to read it.

A few guidelines:

• Please don't add books owed from SandDanz. We've set up a separate thread for her books in the hopes that she'll eventually return and fulfill those obligations.
  
• If both parties involved in the transaction are still active at BObs and sending stuff out, please verify that the book was indeed never received before adding it here. In many cases it may just have forgotten to be journaled at the receiving end. (I expect this is part of standard VBB maintenance anyway.) The only books that should be listed here, in which both parties are still active members, are those books that are truly lost in the mail.
  
• Before sending, contact the intended recipient directly to verify they still want the book and confirm their address. They may have since acquired it elsewhere or no longer want it since we put this list together.
  
• You should only offer up books that you have available to send now or in the immediate future. We don't want this list to become a way of transferring Owed TBRs from one pile (or person) to another. :P
  
• This service is intended only for other Obsessors. By that I mean please don't post in here about books gone missing over on BookCrossing for people who aren't even involved over here. I don't mind linking to any other lists like this from the top post but I don't want to be adding all those to our list.

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:angel: Books Wanted

From Historical Fiction VBB:
• The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys for cowgirl-up. Never rec'd from cougmax.
• The Sticklepath Strangler by Michael Jecks for FamFatale. Never rec'd from butterfly-noir.
• The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy for rebeccaljames. Never rec'd from butterfly-noir.
• The Land Breakers by John Ehle for Marlene. Lost in mail en route from Danesnboxers.
• A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer from catsalive to lexilewords for Historical Fiction VBB Round 9 Nov 2007 mailed on 12/06/07
  
  
  From Everybook VBB:
• The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy for Potok-fan. Lost in the mail from MissyZ.
• The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo for missbagpuss. Lost in transit from happybunnygirl.
• High Heels and Homicide by Kasey Michaels for kislany. Never rec'd from happybunnygirl.
• The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh for MissBagpuss from daughterofcokie. Released elsewhere??
• Bleachers by John Grisham for MissBagpuss. Never sent by Suefitz.
• The Cider House Rules by John Irving for LadyJanet. Never sent by butterfly-noir. - butterfly has now mailed this one
• Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich for twiggywig. Never sent by Suefitz.
• Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns for purple-pixie. Never sent by Suefitz.
• Last to Die by James Grippando for rebeccaljames. Never sent by Suefitz.
• Death Cruise by Donald A. Davis for rebeccaljames. Never sent by Suefitz.
• Tyrannosaurus Sue by Steve Fiffer for rebeccaljames. Never sent by Suefitz.
  
  From Audio Book Box:
• The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve (6 cassettes, unabridged) for irenic. Lost en route from Danes.
  
  From Science Fiction/Fantasy VBB:
• Dragon Fantastic by Martin Greenberg for catsalive Never rec'd from malagan.
  
  From Paranormal VBB:
• Kitty #1: Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn for Three. Lost enroute from nan1970.
  
  From Sci-fi/Fantasy VBB:
• The Stone Light by Kai Meyer to Kyrissaean. Wild Released by Antheras.
• The Dubious Hills by Pamela Dean for Xeyra. Mailed to SandDanz for m-bag but this book was left out and never sent later.
• The Secret Texts Book 1: Diplomacy of Wolves by Holly Lisle for krin511. Never sent by malagan.
• The Secret Texts Book 2: Vengeance of Dragons by Holly Lisle for Tribefan. Never sent by malagan.
• Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt for nimrodiel. Never sent by malagan.
• Starship Troopers by Christopher Stasheff to rebeccaljames. Never sent out malagan.
• Last Warrior Queen by Mary Mackey for teachie. Never sent by malagan.
• Strangewood by Christopher Golden for karendawn. Never sent by malagan.
• Keys to the Kingdom #4: Sir Thursday by Garth Nix for appaloosatb. Never sent by Asterw.
• The Bromeliad Trilogy #1: Truckers by Terry Pratchett for shaunesay. Never sent by Asterw.
  
  From Mystery VBB:
• First Avenue by Lowen Clausen for WestofMars. Never sent by Jebbie74.
• Midnight Voices by John Saul for rebeccaljames. Never sent by Suefitz.
• This Pen for Hire by Laura Levine for Sunlightbub. Never sent by daughterofcokie.
• City of Bones by Michael Connelly for luckaye. Never sent by BruceAlexander.
• Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman for luckaye. Never sent by BruceAlexander.
  
  Miscellaneous Lost in Mail:
  
• What She Craves by Lucy Danes for fantasy. Lost in mail from herbwench.
• Snow Place to Die by Mary Daheim for catsalive. Lost in mail from herbwench.
• The Mole People by Jennifer Toth for cathepsut. Lost in the mail enroute from HoserLauren.
  
  Miscellaneous Owed by MIA people:
  
• Cliff Hanger by Philip R. Craig owed to twiggywig from BuyItFromBobbie for No Foolin' Mystery Swap 4/07
• Confessions of a Slacker Mom by Muffy Mead-Ferro owed to darkpunkangel from BuyItFromBobbie for Raiding Bookshelves Swap 3/07
• Dream Guy by Candy Halliday owed to rapturina (who was last on site 5/5/08) from BuyItFromBobbie
• The Most Wonderful Animals That Never Were by Krutch owed to rebeccaljames from Medic-Ice May Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Swap 05/18/07
• Stripped to the Bone by Jasmine Stone owed to cosmic-gin from alcatraz2006 Sizzling Spring Erotica Swap 05/11/07
  Bright Rooms by Jenny Maxwell mailed by Giz-angel on March 22 -2007 to Danesnboxers. Did this book arrive?
  The Language of God mailed: June 30-2007 by Catwoman to Danesnboxers
  I Have Lived a Thousand Years Mailed: June 30-2007 by lizabeth to Danesnboxers
  Definitely Dead mailed Oct-10-2007 by lizziwhiz to Danesnboxers
  Hard Truth mailed by elsi Feb. 16-2008 to Danesnboxers
  American Gods Mailed by redhot-brat on March 03-2008 to Danesnboxers
  Paddy Clarke Mailed by msjoanna on March 12-2008 to Danesnboxers
  Rules of Prey. mailed on April 10 (sender Luckaye. She bought it on betterworld for Danesnboxers
  Every dead Thing mailed on April 10 (sender Luckaye. She bought it on betterworld for Danesnboxers
  Just One look Mailed by Danesnboxers. on Nov. 6-2007 to AceofHearts
  Body Double Mailed by Danesnboxers feb. 08-2008 to Crimson-tide
  Choke mailed by Danesnboxers on March 08-2008 to Azuki for Luckaye not arrive
  The Shadow of The Wind : May 23-2007 by perfect-circle to geishabird.
  The Passion mailed by elsi on Nov. 19-2007 to geishabird
  Silent Treatment mailed:by akashafamily May 30-2007 to Turtle?
  Aftermath Mailed by Luckaye on August 23-2007 to AlterEgoZoe . Lost?
  The Woman Most Likely To... mailed by Darkpunkangel on Sept. 24-2007 to chronicbooker
  Shutter Island mailed by missbaggpuss on Oct. 24-2007 to cestmoi.
  Damage Control mailed by Ri on Dec. 05-2007 to Apolonia
  Babyland mailed by Ri on March 24-2008 to Bunnylady
  A Civil Contract Mailed by Catsalive on Dec. 06-2007 to lexilewords
  Fairyville mailed Jan 3-2008 by Lexilewords to Kyrissean
  Snow Flower and the Secret fan Mailed by Lexilewords on April 05-2008 to SimplyCee, no BC url and it did not arrive.
  The Nightwalkers: Jacob (Book 1) mailed by Nikel on Jan. 25-2008 to Sidney
  The Daughter of Time mailed by nwpassage on Feb. 15-2008 to Darkpunkangel
  Lord Jim mailed by luckaye on March 18-2008 to darkpunkangel
  The Tiger Rising mailed by appaloosatb on March 01-2008 to Ellymae
  A Promise of a Lie mailed by Redhot-brat on April 08-2008 to elsi

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:fairy: Wishes Fulfilled

• Anita Blake #10: Narcissus in Chains by Laurell K. Hamilton for kislany from Paranormal VBB. Went missing enroute from Nan1970.
  Amberkatze is kislany's angel for this book!!
• The Englisher by Beverly Lewis for ramson. Never received from "thecrookedfrog"
  Wish fulfilled by dancing-dog.
• Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue for cats-eye. Never rec'd from cougmax.
  Wish granted by sunlightbub
• The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich for morsecode. Never rec'd from cougmax.
  lovemylife is paying it forward for morsie! - rec'd 2/14/08
• Mister Monday by Garth Nix for Geegal. Never received from Helly in Round 4 of Teen VBB.
  Wish granted by lmn60.
• Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani for giz-angel. Never rec'd from butterfly-noir.
  Wish granted by sunlightbub
• Intensity by Dean Koontz for luckaye. Never received from Suefitz from Mystery VBB Round 12 (July 2007).
  Wish granted by wss4.
• Monster by Jonathan Kellerman for MissBagpuss. Never sent by Helly77.
  Wish granted by AceofHearts.
• Undead and Unemployed by MaryJanice Davidson for Pyan. Lost enroute from Meshe.
  Lemonitsa is making Pyan's dreams come true. :grin:

June 26/08 - butterfly-noir has returned to the site and has been mailing out her owed books - I'll be deleting them from this list as they are rec'd - WELCOME BACK, BUTTERFLY! We appreciate that you are fulfilling these old obligations and we hope you'll stay and play once you're caught up!!!! :)

Malagan has also returned to the site and intends to mail out owed books - I'll also delete those as they are rec'd. And WELCOME BACK, MALAGAN! Sorry to hear you've had a tough time but glad things are looking up - we hope you hang out with us again!

**All outstanding books listed here are now listed in the Owed Book Database. If the wish has been fulfilled, it is marked as such with a comment in the Notes field saying who fulfilled the wish. We did it this way so that the complete list by original intended sender will be accessible through the History tab if needed. Thanks to all our Angels for fulfilling wishes!

Hello :)

I have Single White Vampire, and can send it to cestmoi, but it will be in February, if that's OK.
I need to read it first :D

hugs,
Lemmy

Okay since it's been like 9 months since I last checked with cestmoi on those books (when I saw her in Charleston), I emailed her to verify that she didn't since get them elsewhere.

So thank you Lemmy! :kiss: And I'll update here if cestmoi doesn't post here directly.

Wow Cherie. :o You are the best. It seems you have been very actieve lately here trying to sort stuff out.
Just have to say you are a great mod. :hug:

sorry don't have any of the books

Don't have any of them but I'll keep my eyes here :)

I can send Narcissus in Chains to Kislany. I am only on #8 in the series but I don't mind sending mine to her and getting another copy elsewhere when the time comes.

I don't have any of those 3.

Anybody else need help? :shrug:

Well why don't you check with Kis and see if she's ready for it now or what. Perhaps she wasn't ready for it yet and that's why she told Nan she'd write it off. So at the rate you read, you might have gotten to it before Kis needs it anyway. I just hate to see her go without since she had put something in the VBB for that and does still want it....

Thanks Amber!! :hug:

I know that Rosie said she knew of some outstanding books owed from Cougmax who's now gone.

Perhaps she's going to confirm if they're still wanted/needed by their original participants and then those should definitely go on the list too.

Okay! Will pm Kislany now :wink:

There are several from the Everybook VBB that would qualify for this list. I haven't checked with most of these people so you may want to do so before sending any books...

*The Return Journey by Maeve Binchy (MissyZ ---> Potok-fan) mailed
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo (happybunnygirl ---> missbagpuss) mailed
*The Englisher by: Beverly Lewis (thecrookedfrog ---> ramson)
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani (butterfly-noir ---> giz-angel)
High Heels and Homicide by Kasey Michaels (happybunnygirl --> kislany)
Sisters & Husbands by Amanda Brookfield (purple-pixie ---> three104) mailed
*The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh (daughterofcokie--> MissBagPuss) released elsewhere??

I didn't include the books that suefitz owes 'cause I keep hoping that she'll show up once she gets back on her feet and send out what she owes. :unsure:

These are some from the Historical Fiction VBB - I haven't checked with people to see if they are still wanted, so please do that before sending anything out.

The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys (cougmax --> cowgirl-up)
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue (cougmax --> cats-eye)
The Sticklepath Strangler by Michael Jecks (TBR) (butterfly-noire --> FamFatale)
The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich (cougmax --> morsie)
The Persian Boy by Mary Renault (TBR) (butterfly-noir-->morsecode)
The Tin Flute by Gabrielle Roy (TBR) (butterfly-noir ---> rebecca)

And it looks like this one got lost in the mail:

The Land Breakers by John Ehle (Danesnboxers --> Marlene) -- sent

I will be sending the Anita Blake book to Kislany so you can cross it off the list.

Should be able to pop it in the post this week or next week.

Cherie ~

What a really awesome new feature!! Thanks so much for this and everything else you do, you and the mod's.

I don't have anything now but will keep looking in here.

I added them all to the list, but some of these I'm not sure on as I couldn't look up their status on BookCrossing. (Maybe it's down at the moment.)

Like the one from purple-pixie for instance. She's still active. That's marked mailed but there's not a date so is it that you don't know. In which case purple-pixie should be following up rather than asking someone else to bail her out. If it was legitimately lost in the mail, that's another thing and it does belong here.

Also, Three has admitted that she has a lot of stuff she hasn't yet journaled. Have you confirmed with her that she definitely didn't receive that book from purple-pixie. (Actually this is the same transaction I'm questioning anyway.)

For anything to do with daughterofcokie, you can contact her mom, ChemoRN, via BookCrossing and let her know on any books DoC owes and she will send it out.

So basically I'd like to see a teensy bit more research from your side before automatically putting everything that's not yet received on this list. Okay? :grin:

Sure, I understand that you'd like more research done, so don't worry about putting the ones on there that you don't want to. I'm certainly *not* doing any work on finding out which ones from the Everybook VBB should go on the list. I maintain the Everybook VBB books out of play list so I thought compiling this information would be helpful; however, I am not everyone's personal assistant. If people don't have the time and effort to journal their owns books either with receipt info or with accurate info if/when the book was sent, I'm certainly not spending my time and effort to put into resolving what is going on with their books. If someone wants their book on the list, they can take on the responsibility of submitting the request themselves, I suppose.

ChemoRN and I had a conversation weeks ago about the released books and I suggested she pm mbp regarding The Onion Field.

I was thinking about something similar with this with the Horror VBB. Most that I have on my list are to or from SandDanz (which from what I remember is on the job hunt still). I was considering asking Sand if she didn't mind, I could offer my copy of a book she owes someone in the VBB.

Thanks Joy! For filling me in on the DoC one. :)

And what I'll do right now is just point Three to this thread and ask if she knows whether or not she received that book and if she still wants it. That's all... :thumbsup:

Unfortunately, I kinda do feel like I have to play the "personal assistant" role many times with the Paranormal VBB. Like if you've noticed the recent threads about Nan and Shawnna, for example. So yeah, I play the cattle prod quite a bit around here! :lol: I think some people are beginning to LIKE it!! :whip: :giggle:

Hiya! The mods and us have been discussing offline what to do about Sand's books. I think Cheesy wanted to spearhead something to help her out but I definitely think it should be done *outside* of this, because in most cases, Sand does have the books, just not the funds to get them mailed out, and sometimes not the time to find everything. Though I know she came a long way in getting her library organized. So yeah, we should definitely handle her stuff separately....

I do still owe a book to Sand from Round 1 of the Horror VBB myself, but in all honesty, unless you tell me I can't play otherwise, though I really haven't taken anything out since then anyway, I've kinda had the book that I owe her at the bottom of my priority list. I hate to be sending her more stuff just yet....

I'm keeping quiet Cherie :giggle:

I will try and sort out some from the mystery VBB but like chamb I'm getting a bit flaked out with it. I've been doing PMs to people to try and find out where books are, and not everyone has replied :(

No problem and thanks for putting together the list.

I certainly do understand about have to prod people with the VBBs and I'm certainly all for doing that within the VBB, as that comes with the role of hostess/manager/organizer. I wouldn't have agreed to the posistion if I wasn't ready to pm/annoy/pester people! :rolleyes: For me though, I'm not keen on doing any more work for the benefit of other people when they aren't willing to do the work for themselves. And, I'm not talking about any person or people specifically, I mean anyone and everyone! :lol:

I don't care as long as they eventually get mailed and they get to whoever took it out of the VBB.

I just feel bad about a lot of the books that Sand owes. :erm: I'm kinda hestitant to mail Sand anything, as the last time I mailed something to her (and she was also active here, and I PM'd her the BCID so she wouldn't have to lug a book around just to JE it), she didn't journal it at all. :shrug:

BTW I *do* see an awful lot of book rings, rays and boxes that Suefitz is either offering or signing up for. I would PM her and ask her to consider mailing the stuff she owes from here before offering rays/rings/boxes of her own and/or signing up for stuff. But I'm too much of a coward.

She hasn't really done any within the past three months that I know about, but if you see her doing it again let me know... I have no problem asking her to get her priorities in order (owed books vs rabcks, not real life priorites).

Great work Cherie. You can take my two books off, I don't necessarily need them.

:cry:

:duh:

:blink:

Um, yeah. Sorry about all this. My life has been nothing but chaos for the last couple of months. I am working again, after 4.5 years of staying home with the babies, 3 part-time jobs, sometimes all of them in a 24-hour period. I know lots of people work and still uphold their responsibilities here so I have no excuses. I'm still here, somewhere, and will honestly try to do better.

:blush:

Edited to say, Yes the book is here, you can take it off the list. **bows and scrapes backing out the door**

:hug: :kiss:

:hug: We love you three! Thank you for straightening us out!! :whip: :kiss:

Cool idea. Thanks for the effort it takes to keep this active and up to date. I currently don't have any of the missing books, but will happily "donate" any should it come up at a later date that I do have one that shows up on the list.

FYI, I messaged happybunnygirl about her past due books and the fact that she hasn't been on the site since the end of October. Will let y'all know if I hear back. I did notice she was still active on MySpace regularly...

Just an FYI, I know that Jebbie is behind with a lot of books, but have noticed that she is still very active on Bookcrossing. So someone may want to contact her and see what is up.

ETA-- Here is one book from the Sci-fi/Fantasy VBB that I think qualifies--

The Stone Light by Kai Meyer (Antheras --> Kyrissaean) Wild Released????

I have emailed her about the outstanding books on the mystery VBB but I haven't had a reply....

Great idea Cherie- Next time I go to a library sale I'll take the list. I like having something to look for- see, then I'm not going for myself, oh no, I'm looking for someone else and if a book or two just happens to fall into the bag :whistle: when I can't help that now can I?

I know lizziwhizz (who updates the Audio Books Out Of Play) thread, at one time had a list of books owed by cougmax from that Bookbox. Perhaps she can provide that list. I was trying to find it to see if I had anything that was owed but it looks like she removed it from the Out of Play thread.

I have The Englisher by Beverly Lewis and I would be glad to send it on to ramson :D

Thanks Diane! I'll mark that off in the list. :angel:

Yeah, that'd definitely be a good idea to get over here. I've been trying to make sure all the VBB mods know that this was set up, but haven't really found the time to contact them each individually so I figure by word of mouth, they hopefully should all stumble in here over the course of the next week or so. :grin: Thanks!

Janet, that's a super idea as well. Thank you for being so kind!! :hug: (And I love the reasoning as well.... :wink: )

I have this one. I could move it high on my TBR pile and send it as soon as I finish reading it (probably within the next month).

So long as that's no trouble? :unsure: If you've got an overflowing Owed TBR or anything, we can wait to see if someone else has it available. :shrug:

For now, I'll go ahead and mark it from you, but if you get too backed up, we can throw it back into the list and see if anyone else comes up with it... just LMK, k? :hug:

I may second that PM to Suefitz if she is still signing up for stuff. While running a few rounds of the Audio Book Box I let her off the hook with several books in the box that hadn't yet been selected so she could focus on getting her owed books sent out. This was in October:

and to my knowledge no change has occurred in the books she owes via the Audio Book Box. Shall I post the books she owes for this list, Cherie?