Round 75 - Starting Friday May 8th, 2020

***This round is now complete***

OZ VBB
The Australian Virtual Bookbox - Round 75

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 round.
• You have 48 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.
• When it is your turn, you may pass, take it, or ask to be placed at the end of the list if you wish.
• Once a book of yours is removed from the box, please send it as soon as possible (unless an arrangement has been made with the receiver). TBR books are fine as long as you can read and send within a few months.
• 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, unless you know the books are on another participant's wishlist.
• It helps if participants have a wishlist and keep it up to date.
• 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 page for each book. A link to the LT work page is also helpful.
3. Check the “Books to be replaced” collection and replace if needed.
4. If you do not wish to take your turn then, you have the option to be placed at the end of the list.
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:

catsalive
lolkathryn (KLL)
crimson-tide
amberC
leah152
book-a-neer
daisy09 (sofie777)
jeniwren

Bumped list:
aussieangel2 ***

- It's your turn now

*** You have books to be replaced

Welcome Everyone to Round 75

Hope you are all managing OK and getting lots of reading done.

As usual, if anyone wishes to replace books prior to their turn feel free, but it is not essential.

Just a reminder that it's really helpful if we all have a wishlist, and that it is kept up to date.

Before this round begins I'd like to refresh some of my books in the Extras Collection.

Removing:
Force of Nature
Ancient Light
Dorchester Terrace
Nation

Adding:
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Sauders - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15927333
The Colour by Rose Tremain - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15812469
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15815849
The Collector by John Fowles - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6377065

Lincoln in the Bardo won the Man Booker Prize 2017 and the other three are all on the 1001 Books List, if anyone is interested in that sort of thing.

Replacing The Bookshop & The Dragons of Ordinary Farm

Taking
Under The Skin (crimson-tide)
A Place Called Winter (amberc)
The October Man (amberc)

Adding
Single White Psychopath Seeks Same by Jeff Strand https://bookcrossing.com/journal/12048520
Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce https://bookcrossing.com/journal/12048628/
The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose https://bookcrossing.com/journal/15888267
The Prague Orgy by Philip Roth https://bookcrossing.com/journal/4821834
Pastures of the Blue Crane by Hesba Brinsmead https://bookcrossing.com/journal/15881131

PMd crimson-tide, amberc & lolkathryn.

I'd like to replace The Last King of Scotland and The Fifth Witness with

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7788936/

Zorro by Isabel Allende
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14831958/

Hi all,

I won't pick any books up but I have 3 to replace, which I will replace with

Complicity, Iain Banks
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
Bridget JOnes's Baby, Helen Feilding.

These all need to be registered on bookcrossing still, but I'll do it later today . I'll Pm crimson-tide now.

Kathryn/lolkathryn

Thanks Kathryn

I'd like to choose two books:
Eva Luna (jeniwren)
Moth Smoke (book-a-neer)

Adding:

Transcription by Kate Atkinson
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14841976

The Progress of Love by Alice Munro
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4325488

Will now PM jeniwren, book-a-neer and aussieangel2
Thanks

Wonderful news - we have another new member joining us!

sofie777 is a BookCrosser from NSW, but her screen name here on LibraryThing is daisy09 because the BC name was unavailable.

Initial contributions are:

A Rope of Sand by Elsie Burch Donald
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11637748

Double Vision by Pat Barker
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11851968

Welcome to the box sofie777 / daisy09
🙂

Yay! Welcome Sofie777

Hi sofie777/ daisy09! :O)

I have told amberC that it is now her turn.

I need to replace;
Year of Wonders
Fates and Furies
Elizabeth Is Missing
The Pearler's Wife

I would like to take
Double Vision )sofie777/daisy09

Single Whit Psychopath Seeks Same (catsalive)

I will offer;

To Siri, With Love by Judith Newman
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/97514704460

Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13783367

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14182888

Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure by Joanne Harris
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11955509

The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson Ellis
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13932076

The Summer Before The War by Helen Simonson
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14003850

I will PM Leah 152, cats alive, and sofie777/ daisy09

Hi people, hope you're doing well, woohoo for more reading time eh? Lol! :O)
Anyway, I would like:
Dear Mrs Bird from catsalive & The White Girl from jeniwren :O)

I'll replace them with
The Shunning by Beverly Lewis
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15744132
The Bride Stripped Bare
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15576427

Also vbboz, I want to replace Rage by Wilbur Smith with My Brilliant Career https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15620858
& I'll chuck a book in the extras pile too! The Naturalist's Daughter https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15790854

Oh yeah, I'll pm catsalive & jeniwren now :O)

Thanks Leah.

I'm on the move right now, so will replace all the books later today. 🙂

I would like to be bumped to the end.
Thanks I will pm next on the list

Nothing for me this round.

PM'ing daisy09 now.

Requested The Red Thread from Catsalive
Replaced with The Orchardist's Daughter Author Karen Viggers
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15730743
Will pm jeniwren

Nothing to interest me this round.

I have told aussieangel2 it is now her turn again.

Do people wish to go back to two monthly rounds, or have the next one in June?

Next one in June is OK with me.

I'm ok with whichever although my TBR pile is saying once a month is enough lol! :O)

I'm fine either way.

OK, that's it for this round. Thanks everyone.

I'll probably split the difference and start the next round in the second half of June.
As usual I'll give everyone a couple of days notice.

I would be happy with June