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In March, I’ll release Bee Season (which was very good) in the airport in Cozumel. I had good luck with the Murakami novel I released in the airport in Lisbon. It ended up in Ireland!

Finally, something has happened with a book I released. I left Haruki Murakami’s Dance Dance Dance in the Lisbon airport, and now it’s in Co Kerry, Ireland. Great news!

Someone had found one of my books! Yay!! It’s my first one to have been found and entered onto bookcrossing. I am rather excited!

The book was ‘The Testament Of Gideon Mack’ by James Robertson!

Hehe this is the highlight of my day so far…

... I hid some bookcrossing tagged books (The Autograph Man, Playing Away and Puppets) in the big basket of free books in my local post office. People go in for stamps, see a book in the basket, take it home and read it and then they can return it when they’ve done (or not) and put books they no longer want in the basket too.
I’m kind of hoping someone in my village will register the book on bookcrossing and I’ll have found a new buddy.
:)

I’ve released a couple of books in yesterday and today. One in St Andrews and the other in Blair Atholl.

My workplace has set up a table in the public area of our office. It is now the release location for our books. We also have a “persona” for our office to release books, http://www.bookcrossing.com/mybookshelf/capscrossing and we have posted a notice on our website’s news for this month telling people about our table.

I’ll leave it somewhere in Portugal, don’t know where yet. I wish more people who find my books would log in and write that they found it at least.

I’m donating books to local book fairs. BookCrossing just doesn’t have much of a following in my region and that’s half of the fun.

I dropped off a hard back copy of Elizabeth George’s In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner in the lounge at work. Someone picked it up a few days ago, and I’m wondering if he/she will register it. I’m a bit suspicious now of letting really nice hard back books go…people tend to keep them, or even worse, sell them to used bookstores. Bad Bad!

I’ll leave one in the Heathrow airport, and one in the Istanbul airport. I’m a bit discouraged by how few books are found and registered on Bookcrossing. Someone picked up one of the books I released and sold it to a used bookstore! Luckily, the person who bought it registered it. Some people’s kids, eh?