Round 78 - Starting Friday October 9th, 2020

***This round is now complete***

OZ VBB
The Australian Virtual Bookbox - Round 78

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:

amberC
crimson-tide
daisy09 (sofie777)
catsalive
leah152
jeniwren
book-a-neer
lolkathryn (KLL)
aussieangel2

Bumped list:


*** You have books to be replaced

- It's your turn now

Welcome Everyone to Round 78

Time again already for a new round! Hope everyone is keeping well and getting lots of reading done.

As there are not very many of us, I've decided from now on to only alter the order of play every two rounds instead of each time.

Could I also ask that folk review their wishlists in order to make sure that they are up to date. And also that they do have at least a couple of pages of wishes, as it makes it easier for others to add books to the box knowing that they are sought after and will most likely be chosen.

As usual, I've messaged everyone to give a heads up for the new round. I've told amber she can start us off tonight if she wishes.

And one last thing . . . if when it's your turn you are too busy and wish to postpone it, please don't just do nothing. Either put up a quick post here to that effect or PM me - then the box can keep moving along. Thanks.

I have 4 books to replace

I would like to choose;
American Dirt (jeniwren)

Three Women (KLL)

I will exchange them with;

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/13717372

Nightshades by Melissa F Olsen
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14387116

The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15294957

Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14063395

Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14108661

The House Between Tides by Sarah Maine
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14107668

I will PM crimson-tide, jeniwren and KLL

I need to replace two books, Transcription and The Progress of Love and will move them across into the Extras Collection.

I am removing five books from Extras which have been there a while with no interest: Oscar & Lucinda, Firmin, Trick or Treat, The Bookman's Wake and Beloved.

I would like to choose two books:
A Man called Ove from amberC
and
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest from KLL

So the four I need to add to the box are:

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16049709

Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16001376

V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11578697

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6333297

And will add in one more to Extras:
Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor by Max Pemberton
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050109

Will contact amberC, KLL and sofie777
Thanks

I have three books to replace. I'm replacing them with:
March by Geraldine Brooks https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15855099/
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15853056/
I Did a Bad Thing by Linda Green https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16045317/

i would like Salt Creek from Amber C please

Adding three books:
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050133 The Historiaan by Elizabeth Kostova
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15936036 Black Oxen by Elizabeth Knox
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/11637748 A Rope of Sand by Elsie Burch Donald

Will msg Catsalive and Amber C
Regards

Thanks Lynnette - have PMed you.

I'm deleting A Rope of Sand as it was offered in Round 75 so now needs replacing.
The other two books offered are enough to replace both it and Salt Creek, so it's all good. :-)

I'm also putting in the extras:
Miss Webster & Cherif by Patricia Duncker https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050351
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050448

Thanks Leah - added. 👍

Replacing The Prague Orgy & Pastures of the Blue Crane with:

The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15762174
The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley - https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/12048523

PM sent to leah152, although I see she's already been in. Should it be jeniwren? I don't know, but I've PMd Leah.

Thanks catsalive, sorry if I confused anyone else lol! I'll look through the 'box' in the next couple of days :O)

I'd like Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops please & will replace it with The Almost Archer Sisters by Lisa Gabriele :O) https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050389/
Pming book-a-neer & jeniwren now :O)

I will take Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison ( crimson-tide) and replace with In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16050169
I will PM book-a-neer and crimson-tide now.

Nothing for me this round.

Replacing Zorro with

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Back
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15859782

Will pm lolkathryn.

*Edited to post replacement book.

Hi All, I won't pick anything but have two books to replace ( Kitchen Confidential and Bridget Jones).

I will replace with

Conviction by Denise Mina https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16053534
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/16053536

I will PM aussieangel now,

Sorry!! one more book to replace - with The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2909483

I'd like to select Twisted Twenty-six from amberc

I have some other changes to add but will log back in tomorrow and update.

Sarah

I need to make the following changes:

Move from round 76 to extras:
Shadowfell
Raven Flight
Buzz Cut

Replace with:
Gravity by Erica Wagner
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15904990

Is everyone hanging out without me? by Mindy Kaling
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15904989

Eating Grapes Downwards by Jill Roe
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15904998

Remove from Extras:
Blood Law
Every which way but dead
Educating Alice

Replacement for book selected from this round:

More Beautiful Lies edited by George Papaellinas
https://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/15904995

I will pm amberc now.

Thanks Sarah. That means this round is now all done.

The next round will begin early December.
Thanks everyone.