"This book.. I was chosen by it."

Got a GREAT journal entry yesterday for The Year of Living Biblically that was just too cool not to share here!  Released the book last week at a grocery store, and turns out this person got it yesterday!  Yet again, BC serendipity in action!

*** Note to self, be careful when releasing at this particular store, note the journal comment about how the store was going to throw the book away!

 

Viva la Bookcrossing!

2014 releases to date: 4

Total Books Released: 3256
Total Releases Journaled: 207
Catch rate:  6.38%

 

Sometimes you have to just laugh

Sometimes you get great journal entries on books you release in the wild.  We've seen those from people who were having the proverbial "worst day ever" and happened upon the perfect Bookcrossing book in the unlikeliest of places.  Good stuff!  Then there are the not so nice ones that will tell us not to leave books at a certain business, or that it is stupid to do what we do, or that *gasp* the book has been destroyed!  Once in a while you get those super bizarre ones that just have you rolling on the floor, literally!

This book, Lady Of The Knight, was one of those.  It was a Harlequin Historical romance I had released in, I believe, a Target parking lot (I sure wish BC tech could finish retrieving all the missing release entries on older books).  The response of the person who caught the book was bizarre yet hillarious!

It made happiness bleed out my anus.

My nipples are still tingling. I am going to take this book to Argentina to spread the love.

Hmm... yeah, to each his or her own, I guess, huh?

Viva la Bookcrossing!

Total Books Released: 3126
Total Releases Journaled: 198
Catch rate:  6.33%

A recent catch

So one thing I will be doing a lot of on this blog will be talking about releases and catches.

For those of you not in the know, a release is a book registered at Bookcrossing.com and labeled with it's own BCID (or Bookcrossing identification) number.  We Bookcrossers will often take said book and "release" it out in the world, or as we say, "in the wild".  We'll leave them on park benches, on periodical racks in entryways to restaurants, newspaper machines, bus stops, in waiting rooms, you name it!  Then, we make release notes on the website to show that the book is released, where, etc.  Eventually, the hope is that someone whose life crosses paths with the book, will take the time to go online and enter that BCID and leave a few comments about the book and where it is.  I believe the site has an average "catch" rate for wild releases of about 10 percent.  I personally sit at just under 6.5 percent.

So last Saturday, I released a copy of Blood Moon at a local library.  Left it on the pamphlet rack in the foyer so as not to have confusion with the library's books (plus, I always clearly label the outside of my books so it is obvious they are freebies).  A few days later I got a catch!  This one copied the text of my release note, and added that it was a good book... so looks like this person joined (not a requirement) the site, then read the book and left it in the same place I had. 

As any Bookcrosser can tell you, the thrill of getting that email saying your book has a journal entry (aka was caught) is immeasurable! 

Viva la Bookcrossing!