find a bookcrossing book

I’ve got alerts that books have been released in places I can go to, I’ve hunted, but never found anything. But I know that I can make this happen. I will be so so happy when I find a book!!

I tracked the book down to it’s hiding place…which was unfortunately on the other side of locked security door in a residential building. I could actually see the communal book shelf through the glass.

Hung around for a bit in the hope somebody would let me in but I figured I was looking a bit creepy and stalker-ish. Also “I want to look at your bookshelf, so could you please let me in” didn’t really strike me as the type of sentence that would make me any new friends.

The long and the short is that this is going to be harder than I thought.

And I might go back tomorrow with some detective gear and sneak in. Depends how obsessive I’m feeling…

One was deposited somewhere in Worcester a few hours ago. Just need to wait until tomorrow then I can go hunt for it.

Very excited!

...but never found. I will hunt harder. Maybe with a butterfly net and explorer hat…

My entry today:

Journal entry 3 by Red-Ru from Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, March 05, 2008

I caught this book (my first) about a month ago while in for donation at the blood donor clinic on Oak. Afterwards, as I settled in for coffee and cookies, I got into a conversation with a lovely and interesting woman who turned out to have freed the book in the first place. We talked about many things, including writers from Agatha Christie to A.A. Milne (even revisiting Pooh Corner when my family showed up). Most enjoyable. I stuck my donor sticker inside the front cover and took the book home.

Now, a month+ later, I’ve finally finished and am re-releasing it. It wasn’t quite what I’d normally read, but I suppose that was the point to some extent.

Be free little book!

nobody releases books where I live – which incidentally isn’t because it’s a small place – so if there aren’t books out there to be caught / found then I can’t complete this goal.

Saying that I don’t want to take this off my list because if I happen to find a bookcrossing book then I will want to tell everyone!

to find one – any one – but as there are apparently only two in the wilds of Gloucester, my chances are limited to say the least. Not that I am giving to receive, but I think it will only be good karma to set some of my own free before I can expect to find one…

It’s been a crap day and then I start up my computer and I have an email alert from bookcrossing that a book was left at a grocery store literally one block from my place!! I jumped up and ran there and it was sitting outside on top of a mailbox in a plastic bag covered in snow!! The title is in Swedish and I only know a little bit so I thought it was going to be really difficult to read but all the text is in English. It’s pretty short, so I’m hoping to read it pretty quickly and pass it on to someone else!

books this way would be my next pastime. I find it harder to part with books, i have this strong strange bond with books i have, even if i will not read them again i somehow want them nearby, just like old friends. I cant bear the thought to let them go, and think of them being desolate and alone. I have bonded with the people in the stories and they are my friends. Or something like that.

The first, and only, book Ive caught was called schrodingers baby or some such like. Anyway, it was a good book.