Be Excellent To Each Other

Sooo... Mali and Pod are still without? Is this correct?

Pod, if you haven't got your book by tomorrow, let me know and I'll buy a new copy for you.

Ok, well at least two of the 12 books sent or yet to be sent have gone missing in the post.

A 17% fail rate of parcels sent through Royal Mail just is not acceptable. I hope that the people that sent the missing books (GJ and Myoptika) will claim for compensation via Royal Mail. They'll try and fob you off with a book of stamps as they have done Craig even though he sent his item recorded deliver and has documentation to prove its £35 value.

I think with Royal Mail screwing up so royally (they also pilfered a package the GJ sent to me, not related to the book swap) that it means, unfortunately, that the book swap will be all but unworkable in the future, which is a darn shame as it could have been a good idea.

Thanks again, Royal Fail.

Remember that mine only got sent on Tuesday, so all is not yet lost.

oh, I thought you said Ange sent yours last week? Sorry, I was mistaken.

No, I gave mine to Ange to post last Wednesday. She didn't get around to it until Tuesday, but neglected to tell me this until I'd queried it.

To be fair to her, she never said she had posted it, I just assumed.

Ah, oh well then, maybe all is not lost.

I'll send it recorded tomorrow Meems and we'll see how that goes OK?

I'd be interested in seeing what books people received.

I'd also be interested in participating in round two of this fun.

Aw, that's so sweet Rev O So small and silly to be worried about it - you aid from the beginning that it's be late and I quite understand and do not mind at all!

Well, if people want a round 2 I will organise it in a couple of weeks or so, as I said for the first one, it only really needs 2 people to participate, minimum, for it to work.

Also, yes, please do tell of the books you have received, everyone!

I received The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg from Mimi. It's billed as 'The biography of the language from 500AD to the year 2000'. It is exactly the sort of thing I love and Meems picked well. 959 bananas.

I received "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters" by Matt Ridley.

I shall take it on holiday with me, I think.

Sounds exactly like a light holiday read!

Phase Space - Stephen Baxter. I shall be starting it tonight.

Haha, Stephen Baxter is ace.

No bookybooky
Did the postman steal it?

I got a card through my door and have to go to the post office to collect it which I will probably do tomorrow or on wednesday.

FFS.

It's possible it might be here tomorrow?

Can we keep doing this until we forget why I was sending you something in the first place?

I got my book. "The King of Tort" which looks good. Thank you very much, i will enjoy that.

That's a John Grisham, isn't it?

It is.

My book has arrived!

It looks great, I will explain and thank at greater length a bit later as I am in a muddle with other things at the moemnt, but i now believe that all books have arrived - is this correct? can we call this a success?

ThanksRev O - the book looks great, i am going to have a proper look this evening x

Hooray!

Craig 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Goddess Jasmine 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Kern 6% 6% [ 1 ]
MaliA 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Mark X 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Mimi 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Mr Russ 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Myoptika 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Pod 6% 6% [ 1 ] x
The Rev Owen 6% 6% [ 1 ]
Shin 26% 26% [ 4 ]
Vegetables 6% 6% [ 1 ]


Why did shin get 4 books?

This has been an interesting project - are there plans to do a second run? I'd be interested.

You'd have to send four books to Shin you know.

I may or may not have left my bookswap book on the train this morning, along with my bag.

OOPS.

I think you need to change your member title to 'Mr Useless face'

ITS NOT MY FAULT THE BOKO IS CURSED NOW IS IT?!!?!!?!

OMG

Don't worry! Don't worry!
I'll get it back!



or buy a new one.

I was quite interested in reading about anal flaps and dung.

Thanks for my book by the way, wanted to finish reading it before I said but I keep getting side-lined.

Dear me, Three Men in a Boat is absolutely brilliant, and I'd never even have considered reading it if it wasn't for this book swap. So thank you, mystery swapper, you have excellent taste indeed.

We read this in an English class when I was about thirteen. I think it was probably a little over my head at the time, though I recall the teacher loved it.