wild release at least one book per month in 2007

I was going fairly well early in the year, but I ran out of steam trying to do a weekly-themed release challenge.

Will try again in 2008 without a themed challenge.

A very overdue update –
(I think I’ve got everything, but I may have missed a book or two)

March releases:
- Four On The Floor by McInerny
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4952299
- Jewish-American Stories by Irving Howe
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4952305
- It Will Never Happen to Me! by Claudia Black
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4952311
- F-Cubed by Daniel Da Cruz
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4952318

April releases:
- Sun Signs by Linda Goodman
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4973503
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4994801/
- Shopaholic takes Manhattan
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2542029/

May releases:
- The Dragon’s Son by Margaret Weis
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/5078609/
- Mortal Words by Kathryn Lasky Knight
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/5106527/

June releases:
- Midnight Whispers by V.C. Andrews
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4643271/
-Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/5158944
- The Carousel by Rosamunde Pilcher
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4681372

Challenge: Blue skies

1. Thornyhold by Mary Stewart (blue sky in background and reflected in lake)
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2502298/

2. Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas (blue night sky prominently featured)
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4841739/

3. The colour of Canada by Hugh MacLennan (landscape with prominently featured blue sky)
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4465038/

4. Even Vampires Get the Blues by Katie MacAlister (purplish blue sky in background)
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4041361/

5. To Distraction: A Bastion Club Novel by Stephanie Laurens (blue night sky in background)
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4883042/

week 4 – skipped

week 5, releases 1-7
Metallic releases:
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/1923280/
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/642306/
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4724499
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/1651225
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4382905/
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3769008/
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4382908/

week 6 – releases 1-2
V-day theme releases:
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4170669/
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4144296/

Week 7, release 1
One door:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/-/4862757

Week 8, releases 1-5
Pre-1980 cover art releases:
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4887222
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4887231
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4887241
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4887247
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4322689

week 9, release 1
body parts – legs:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4905097/

challenge: knife or gun

both covers have guns on ‘em
1. Solv-a-crime by A.C. Gordon
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4790864
2. Warriors by John Jakes
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4790863

Challenge = birds/feathers
Death’s Master by Tanith Lee
[the cover featues a creature that looks like a vulture with a man’s head – its wings are clearly covered with feathers]
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3473423/

Challenge = numbers

‘Canadian politics in the 21st century’ by Whittington and Williams
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4732292

‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ by J.R.R. Tolkien
[the ring on the cover of this book looks suspiciously like a zero]
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4730072/

‘One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael’ by Ellis Peters
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/2566646

‘The Sixteen Pleasures’ by Robert Hellenga
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1176063

‘Twenty-First-Century Etiquette’ by Charlotte Ford
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/4696343

To help me with my goal of wild releasing more books, I’ve joined Danesnboxers’ 2007 ‘Never Judge a Book by its Cover’ wild release challenge

‘Radio Free Albemuth’ by Philip K. Dick
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1145455/

‘Raney’ by Clyde Edgerton
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3372410/

I just had to share.

I wild released this book on my lunch break and it’s already been picked up!!!! :D
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/4062788