Round 60 - Starting October 6th, 2017

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:

crimson-tide
jennymidget
michyj
tantan***
amberC
jeniwren

Bumped list:

foxygirlact*** (You have one free pick)
lolkathryn
catsalive
aussieangel2***

***You have books to be replaced

michy is joining us, and is adding the following books to the box:

The Girl Who Was Taken by Charlie Donlea - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14743942
Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14743943

I'd like to skip my turn this round please. I don't have anything to replace and I'm low on books to offer.

No problem freelunch - thanks for letting me know.

The new round starts tomorrow. I've let crimson-tide know that she's up first.

OK folks, heads up and let's get this show on the road!
The Boss says it's a go . . . so let's go. 😉

I'd like to chose A Place called Winter, kindly offered by jeniwren.

In its place I'll put in An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro, hot off the press as the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12124484
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-05/kazuo-ishiguro-awarded-nobel-literature-pr...

Thanks, and I'll contact jeniwren and foxygirlact.

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

I have to take out "Deadly Beloved" and "Lost in a Good Book".
I pick out tantan's "Explosive Eighteen"' and "Fearless Fourteen"
I offer A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4825480, Brunswick Gardens by Anne Perry - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14753550/, Louisa Elliott by Ann Victoria Roberts - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14753551, and King & Joker by Peter Dickinson- http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14753573.

I'll PM tantan and michyj.

I would like to take The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
I'll replace it with Broken Music: Memoirs - http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13084477/ Stings Memoirs
I'll PM Crimson-tide and AmberC

Can I be bumped to the end of the list please.

I need to replace two books - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Secret River. They can both be put in Donations.

I'll put in:

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
Metro by Alasdair Duncan

I will contact jeniwren now.

There are no books that appeal so could I be bumped to the end for another try?
Thanks

jeniwren - no problem - done. :-)

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

I would like to take:

Cloud of Sparrows and Autumn Bridge (tantan)

The Girl Who Was Taken (michyj)

I will offer:

Miss Chopsticks by Xinran www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12198689

The Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin Crowther www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12245388

The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14387107

I wil PM tantan michyj and jeniwren

I will pass on this round.
Thanks

I've contacted everyone on the bumped list. I'll close off this round on Saturday afternoon.

How did I end up on the bumped list? I wasn't contacted until today?

Hi aussieangel2,

Sorry about that.

I am guessing that whoever had their turn before you forgot to message you, or else the message was lost somewhere in cyberspace.

I didn't see the list before being bumped so can't see where I should have been but no mention in any of the comments above that someone was going to contact me.

I have some to replace so will organise that tomorrow night.

Thanks aussieangel2.

We have the bumped list for when things like this happen. If anyone is missed, or contact goes astray, then there is another opportunity to take a turn before the round is closed off.

Sorry you were missed.

Hey there,

Just wanted to say that I also didn't get any notification that it was my turn, until I got the email last night (for the bumped list).

Anyway, I'll take Children of Men by PD James, and offer 'In the Unlikely Event' by Judy Blume in it's place: https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14146564

I'll contact tantan now.

Cheers,
Kathryn

Thanks Kathryn.

Sorry to you also that you were missed.

I have 3 to be replaced:

The Salmon of Doubt
Geisha
The Gift of Speed

I'll replace them with:

Lorelei's Secret by Carolyn Parkhurst
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5567975

Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2505679

The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2505687

Since I'm in the middle of packing up everything for our move next month to our new house I won't select anything this round.

This round is now complete - thanks all. I'll post in the Questions & Chat thread regarding the start date of the next round.