BookCrossing Book Caught After 5 Years!

[katekintailbc]

I bought six bags of books at my library's used book sale last weekend and started going through them tonight. I pulled out the second one to register it to take to the Gaithersburg Book Festival next weekend and, as I went to slap the BookCrossing sticker in the front cover, I found there was already a BookCrossing label there!

I thought, perhaps, it was from someone in my local group, but I didn't recognize their handwriting. Upon journaling it, I discovered that it had been registered in Utah a little over 5 years ago. An anonymous finder found it a few months later in a waiting room and presumably gave it to her sister in North Dakota, then it went travelling. For five years. And it finally wound up in my hands!

I love finding BookCrossing books in the wild, unexpectedly. It's such a pleasure when it's a book that I've not only read but loved!

See the book's journey so far & its journalers here: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/7102607

Where will it go next? I might release it at the book festival... or I might save it to release in honor of Becky, resqgeek's daughter, who passed away (we release books every Valentine's Day in her honor). This book would be an appropriate release as she played soccer.Or, more likely, I might save it for a YA bookbox I'll be starting soon.

Comments

Awesome!

[karsyn smith (from livejournal.com)]

That's so neat that it's been traveling so long you caught it. Congrats!! I miss my old library's Friends of the Library sale. They were huge libraries so there was more than we could ever carry at the time there. Here, nothing seems to change, so I'll go get a bag every time I go out. It's such a small tiny library with not much there, but I'm always glad to get a book or two.

[resqgeek]

When I saw the cover art, I thought this was going to be about this copy: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10320017/ which you gave me and I released in Becky's memory. Hopefully that copy will resurface someday as well.

Great catch, though! I keep hoping to find a BC book when I'm registering books.

SqueakyChu caught one too

[6of8.livejournal.com]

She posted a comment about it on the Site Watch forum. Here is the link: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/11/507383.

Makes me want to hurry up and finish registering all my piles of books in hopes that I will come across one as well. I did find one in a stack of books I bought from a library book sale a few years back, one that MountainWren had registered. Maybe I have used up my allotment already.