Any takers for another book swap circle thingummy?

One more week, and then I will yank in new people

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See..I've even posted that twice. ZZZZZzzzzz

Flame...I thought that when I read that bit in the post. I've always sent the book I've rec'd in the circle...not one in its place cos the book rec'd in the circle belongs to someone else and if we all did that we could end up with too many books in the circle, if that makes sense. I'd rather be late sending than send another one in its place.

Blimey, what a waffle...tiredness on my part - sick DD1, just out of hospital and lack of sleep on my part.

Flame...I thought that when I read that bit in the post. I've always sent the book I've rec'd in the circle...not one in its place cos the book rec'd in the circle belongs to someone else and if we all did that we could end up with too many books in the circle, if that makes sense. I'd rather be late sending than send another one in its place.

Blimey, what a waffle...tiredness on my part - sick DD1, just out of hospital and lack of sleep on my part.

Starting afresh sounds good but keep sending on the ones still in existence until they get home?

w/r the posting if not finished, I was sometimes a month week late but really wanted to finish them Is a week (a real week, not a month week ) late really really bad? Sending a diff book in its place could get really confusing though. Tbh as long as everyone just has ONE book in their house, we should be fine

TBH I think I started off quite good at organizing things, but have gradually gone to pot as the year's gone on , so I'm very happy to hand over to someone else for next year.

Shall we start afresh on Jan 1st no matter where we are with this year's swap? And try and have a rule where you post on unread if you can't manage to read a book that month, or perhaps even post on another book of your own that you would recommend to others, if you desperately want to read the book you've been sent but haven't enough time?

Re Twilight, I thought it got a bit crap from about half way through. I liked all the will he, won't he? Does he? stuff. But then when it turned out that he wanted to too, all the suspense went out of it. Plus it all sounded very frustrating for both parties. Interview with a Vampire was better.

I've really enjoyed it - where I am so bloody stubborn I have forced myself to read every book, even if they were hard going, and two of them I really enjoyed after thinking it was going to feel like an "is that it?" kind of thing

ahh i see!thankyou

It is a group of 12 MNers, we all pick a book and post it on to the next person in the list. Then, once a month or so (some get held up - often me ) we post the book on to our person.

It works out that there are 12 books going round, so at the end of a year we have all read 12 books we wouldn't have normally chosen. There are discussion threads too, but I don't think we have done much of the discussing for some reason

I think we banned Chick Lit, non-fiction and pre 20th century last time, but I would be happy to just ban chick lit this time (sorry).

At the moment we are trying to work out where the remaining books are.

New cycle due to start at the end of Jan, so I think it is a case of us working out who is planning on staying in, and then when we know how many slots we have free tracking down the people who have asked to join over the time.

There are loads of people wanting to join though and 3 circles going, so it could be worth starting a 4th?

can someone explain to me book swap circle thingy?i love reading-have lots of books,too many laying around,cant afford loads on new books.i mostly like chit lit though(although i did english a level so studied shakespeare etc)

I'm happy to organise if you don't want to do it any more (I seem to be the one who has gone obsessive and hassles people )

(I think you're very good at it, but it might be trickier with 3 DCs, esp. one very brand-new)

... and what I should have also said before I hit the 'submit' button:

Coco, will you still want to be the person in charge of the big stick though?

rosmerta, unless I find that I've already read most of them I suspect it'll be me posting the books on unread since the blockage seems to be 'upstream' from me!

I'd def like to stay in this circle next year - it was fun to read some stuff I wouldn't have picked out for myself. And I already have a book in mind to share....

Sorry, I didn't send my book last week due to illness (just gastric flu, but has taken a while to get back on top). Will be sending to Dinny on Monday or Tuesday.

Hope you're enjoying Twilight Coco. I found it a bit flat meself...was a bit disappointed. Hope you enjoy it more.

Would like to stay in this year. I've been saving a few books specially....

I'm not stepping out of this group.....am looking forward to choosing next years book!

Flossie, thanks, I got the book yesterday. Have started reading it already, am really enjoying it!

I'm planning on staying in the group, just might have to send some books on unread!

Missing: did I post a book to you about a month ago? I can't remember what it was called but it was a weirdy SFantasy-type thing that I just couldn't get into . Was looking for it, can't find it and vaguely remember putting it in the post... My brain is so addled at the moment I really shouldn't be here!

Me still up for it too. I got the bookks Whispy - thank you very much

rl book group

A rl book club or a rl book swap Flame?

I'm still up for reading books next year, extra child or not. I need to read or I go a bit loopy.