Not your traditional detective story! I fell in love with the charming lady detective, and enjoyed the bits about African culture along the way.

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I've started a book ray for this book! Let me know by PM if interested in being a part of this ray! Please indicate your willingness to ship internationally. If you sign up for the ray, I would be happy if you added me to your list of friends! .

Here is the way the book ray works. See the list of participants at the bottom of this message:

1. Sign up for this BookRay by sending me a Private Message. New members will be added to the end of the list.

2. When the person above you on the list finishes the book, they will send you a Private Message to ask for your mailing address. If you are too busy to read the book in the next few weeks, let me know and I will move you down on the list.

3. Make a journal entry when you receive the book to let us know you got it.

4. When you finish the book, make another journal entry telling us what you thought. Pictures, favorite quotes, and other embellishments are encouraged.

5. Send a Private Message to the person after you on the bookray list and request their mailing address. If the person is going away on vacation or doesn't answer within 7 days, please PM me so I can move the missing person down the list, and then... repeat step 5.

6. Send the book on its way.


BOOK RAY PARTICIPANTS

#1 elliemae (Ontario, Canada)
#2 jilltrav (Tennessee, USA)
#3 grace4truth (Michigan, USA)
#4 First-Noel (US)
#5 nekki2976 (New York, USA)
#6 goldloeckchen (Germany) (will ship to Europe)
#7 torialouise (UK)
#8 antsnax (Texas, USA)
#9 rubyjules(Vermont, USA)
#10 Junegirl (Wisconsin, USA)
#11 KarinAlyssa (Montreal, PQ, Canada)
#12 LaughAtlantis (Massachusetts, USA)
#13 murmurrr (Australia)
#15 Readinator (Australia)
#15 Soongsis2 (Singapore)
#16 dospescados (USA)(prefers to ship to USA, but will also ship internationally)

The book started its journey to Tennessee today!

I found out about Book Crossing from a friend and looked it up. I had heard about this book and found that Ellie Mae had it available. I asked her to send it on and she did. It arrived this week and I cant wait to start it.
Then I will keep it on my available list to be sent on the next person. What a great way to share books!

CAUGHT IN NASHVILLR TN USA

Sorry- I made the above entry- I didnt log in first. So consider this a continuation of entry #2.

A second copy of the book is being mailed today to grace4truth! We now have two copies in circulation for the same ray.

Rec'd as part of bookray. Thanks! Looking forward to reading this.

It took me a little while to get into as the style is different than I'm used to. But I'm glad I kept going. This is a great little book about a woman in Africa who opens her own business.

Will be sending this on to First-Noel as part of a bookray.

Wow perfect timing. I just received this one today and I'm leaving for vacation at 6:00 AM tomorrow. This one is going on the plane with me.

I've heard so much about this one, from a magazine article in People, to a piece about it on 60 Minutes. I figure this is one band wagon I'll jump up on. I'll let you know what I think as soon as I'm done.

Finally finished this one. It didn't hold my attention but becuase of the choppy way it's written it didn't seem to matter all that much. I did enjoy it. I though Mma Romotswe was wonderful, although most of her investigations were successfull because of luck. Either that or Botswanans' are extremely naive and fell for her tactics.

I will look into reading Morality for Beautiful Girls.

Mailed off today at lunch time.

Received this yesterday. I plan to read it as soon as I finish a couple of other rings (hopefully I'll get it out this week).

I loved this book! I have rarely found a book lately that I'll read in one day. I loved that I could read it in snippets between chores orset it down to take care of my daughters, but when I picked it back up, it was easy to get right back into it.

I also loved that the detective stories were reminiscent of adult Encyclopedia Brown tales.

Thanks for sharing elliemae!

I'll be sending it out to Goldloeckchen this week.

Found this in the mail, yesterady. Thanks for sending it!

I started right away and finished yesterday evening.
What a sweet sweet book! I've been hoping to read this for a long long time and I wasn't dissapointed. Now, I'm hooked and have to get the others in the series :-)

Will send this on, as soon as I get the adress.

RELEASE NOTES:

arrived today - will be next up to read

I'd heard a lot about this series so was keen to read - it didn't disappoint. I thought it was a fabulous book. I love the character of Precious Ramotswe and how she describles and loves her country of Botswana. I liked the scene setting at the beginning when you learn about her life and her father before moving to the present day adn the detective agency. It was a real gentle read, but once i started i found it hard to put down. Thanks for sharing!

On to antsnax now!

Couldn't get hold of antsnax so sending to rubyjules instead. Happy Travels book!

Yeah, I'm so excited that I received this in yesterday's mail! I am reading a book right now, but this will be the next one I read. Thank you.

I really wasn't so sure I would enjoy this book before I started it, but I got sucked right in. It was so good. I'm really looking forward to reading the rest of the series.

Junegirl asked to be skipped, so as soon as I get KarinAlyssa's address I will mail this out.

Released on Thursday, December 23, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring Controlled Releases.

RELEASE NOTES:

I mailed this out today. It is going Economy Post, so it might take a while, but please know that I did pass it on! :-) Joyeux Noel!

I thought I was going to receive this book in January, but it arrived today in my mailbox, thanks to RubyJules. I'll begin it next week as I just started a book yesterday.
Thank you for EllieMae for sharing that book.

I was slightly deceived at first as I thought it would be a mystery, but instead it was a book about living in Africa. Passed that point, I really started to enjoy this book and the life of Mma Ramamotswe and the life in Africa. I knew that all countries are different, but Botswana seemed ideal compared to Rwanda or other African countries.

Thank you EllieMae for sharing that book, I will ship it to LaughAtlantis later this month when I'll be going to the post office.

Even if I read this book quickly, I didn't get to go at the post office since the New Year. I'm sorry for delaying this bookray. It's going to LaughAtlantis tomorrow.

Received earlier this week... this is in great condition considering how many people have read it. This will be the next on my TBR. Thanks!