Found a box full of books at my apartment complex marked "FREE", so I took a couple :) Tag & release!

Oh thank you so much, tarasdsu! I'm so excited. I started it this morning and after just 18 pages, I'm hooked!

Thanks again for this wonderful RABCK!!!

This was such a good book. I totally identified with Cannie. Well, sort of. I've never been publicly humiliated in a national magazine. Or gotten pregnant by my ex-boyfriend. Nor do I have a famous moviestar for a friend. Ok, I identified with her on the body image idea. She is a great character. I loved this book. Thank you tarasdsu for sending it to me!

I'm setting it up as a bookring. PM me if interested.

Edit -
I'm moving the list of participants here to make my profile page just a bit shorter! :-)

Mailed on 7/29/04
1. jlynnt, IL - US
2. Flakes, IL - Int'l
3. gwendy, NY - US
4. nafyboocs, MD - US
5. Nik-The-Stik, ON - US/Can
6. jeepACV, MD - US
7. sweetpea0678, FL - US
8. portable-solace, TX - US
9. Bunnybee, TX - Int'l
10. RoryG, Finland - Int'l
11. AppleAngel, Malaysia - Int'l
12. MommyMace, MA - US
13. Neena11, Alberta RECEIVED 12/9/05

Released on Thursday, July 29, 2004 at Bookring in Bookring, A Bookring Controlled Releases.

Yeah, it's finally on it's way to jlynnt! I hope everyone enjoys this ray!

This arrived today. Thanks for doing this ray, rubyjules! :o)

I loved this book! I stayed up to finish it last night, it pulled me right in especially at the end. There needs to be more books like this one.

EDIT: Sent to Flakes 8/17/04.

Arrived safe and sound. I'll start this one tomorrow morning!

I really enjoyed this book! I completely identified with Cannie and her wickedly sarcastic sense of humor.

This is the first book I've read by this author, and I'm looking forward to reading more!

On the way to gwendy! :)

i love this so far,, my favorite quote i can't stop laughing over:
(while at a spa) I felt like a very pampered, very exotic pet ... that, or a particularly expensive cut of meat.

some things that i really didn't expect happened in the book. at first i was really annoyed by the drift from what i imagined the book should be, but i was satisfied by the ending. this has been the book i've enjoyed most of recent.

posted to nafyboocs 9/8-
usps deliv confirm # 03030830000044134980

The book arrived today and after all the great reviews I see here I'm really looking forward to reading it.

I loved this book and I'm looking forward to reading more books by this author. I'm also glad I never had any ex's that wrote about me in a national publication. Thanks for sharing rubyjules.

The book was mailed off to Nik-The-Stik today.

Received in the mail today - thanks! :) I really look forward to reading this one... I actually have another bookring that arrived the day before it though, but I will still try & read it ASAP! :)


Update - October 18th:

Just wanted to let everyone involved know that I have started this book today & am currently on chapter 6. I will read as quickly as possible! :)

Ohmigosh!! I just loved this story! Cannie is such a wonderful character. She really made me think about things, and relate to her views. For example, the part that really got to me was when she spoke of advice given to her by a one-time therapist: "You can't change the things other people in your life do, but you can change the way you react to them". That concept is something I myself have struggled with for a while now. I have always thought it in theory... but to know it and manage to apply it, are two entirely different things. Reading it like that though - through Cannie's story - really inspired me to remember it & keep working at it.

I just found this to be a really inspiring work of fiction. I think mostly because it was so down to earth in a lot of ways; and so wracked with emotion, and dealing with emotions.

Thanks, rubyjules, for sharing this! I'm so glad I read it... of course now I'm dying to read Jennifer Weiners' 2nd novel, In Her Shoes! :)

This will be traveling to mamawolfie tomorrow (or as soon as I get the address/just PM'ed her tonite)

I will be putting this in the mail first thing Monday, to JeepACV.

(NOTE: I PM'ed mamawolfie, but she asked to be skipped due to personal time constraints)

rec'd bookring today
I have one bookring in front of it, but then I'll get to this one right away.

Thanks!

OK, I'll admit, I thought this would be a ho-hum, twenty-something single-chic book. It was recommended to me by a friend who likes romance novels (not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just that got me expecting something different). I thought, what the heck, a little light reading now and then never did anyone any harm...

I really enjoyed this book and ended up finishing it in 2 days! Seriously, I enjoyed it! A whole lot more than I expected to, and even caught myself getting a little choked up over Joy.

Thanks for sharing such a refreshing read. I've PM'd seetpea0678 and will ship this ASAP.

Released on Tuesday, November 09, 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:

shipped via media mail to sweetpea0678 today

DC # 0304 1560 0001 6063 8317

Enjoy!

Book arrived here safe and sound. I am spending next week by my boyfriends house so I will probably get a lot of reading done. He is working on his house, so I will have a lot of free time there.
Looking forward to this.

released wrong book.........i have this one still and will send it out as soon as I have next persons address.........i found a copy of this one and released the wrong one on the bookshelf.....sorry for the confusion.......PMing portable-solace

RELEASE NOTES:

off to bunnybed, portable solace already read it

Just arrived today! I'm looking forward to reading this one. I have 2 bookring books ahead of this one, but it shouldn't take too long. I will journal back once I start on this book. Thanks, rubyjules, for the ring!

**Update- Started on this 2/15

Nice book, very real story- full of life's unfortunate events, and disappointments. And it's all in how you look at it, and things might not turn out like the dreams and wishes you have, but they DO work out and people CAN still be happy in the end with new dreams. There are things about Cannie that I couldn't relate to, because I've always felt like I didn't fit in. I'm not skinny, but I'm not overweight, either. And as I can't relate to the thin people... I couldn't really relate to some of the thoughts she had, either. But it is sad that society does tend to put people into categories, isn't it?? And we grow up feeling like we have to fit into some kind of category for acceptance. I've always felt fat, but yet not accepted into "fat circles"- because they'd look at me and tell me I wasn't fat. So, like I said... this story is very real. Funny how you can still be hurt even if you are rejected by people you know with qualities you don't want to be 'known for'. Even all the "weirdness" of the family members- the broken marriage, the withdrawn brother, 'wild child' sister... and even Cannie's mom- although THAT might not happen to all of us (trying not to give away spoilers), it's still common for some of us to see our own moms do things we'd never thought she could do. What is a perfect mom or family anyway?? At least she did the best she could in being there to support Cannie. Again... very real. Even her father... that kind of thing happens too often to kids who don't deserve that kind of rejection.

I didn't enjoy the book too much for the story's sake- but I do like the message and how things turned out in the end. Parts of it went real slow- but from the middle of the book onward, it really did get good.

I will be PMing the next person for the address- I thought I did it already but I haven't! So hopefully I will be able to send it on our next postal day (Tuesday).

Got the address last night. So it goes out today to RoryG in Finland! Happy travels!

I got back from a trip and found this one waiting for me. Should be a quick read :)

I liked the book, even though I was really doubtful in the beginning. Somehow I didn't like the first chapters too much. But it just kept getting better and better. And I totally loved that Cannie didn't need to be thin to be happy. I had borrowed In Her Shoes (next book byt he same author) from my sister and I had already read it, but I had to go back and see what happened to Cannie, since the author tells that she appears in that book as well. Anyway, I liked also that even though this was a romance novel, it had some more meat to it than just the relationship between the main character and the man she's bound to be with.

I'll send this on as soon as I get the next person's address.

Thanks roryG! The book has arrived in my mailbox today. Heard tat this should make me laugh alot so here goes! I'll be sure to make another journal once I'm done reading this. Thanks again!

Oopss...i sent this out 2 weeks ago but forgot to make a journal entry. It should be on its way to Mommmymace now.

Received the book in my mailbox yesterday, arriving safely all the way from Malysia! I have one book ahead of it, but will get started very soon! Thanks!

I decided against finishing the book after a few chapters. The night before, I regrettably finished a very "heavy" book about drug addiction (A Million Little Pieces), and after reading that, well, this book just didn't hit me... I felt, it was a bit like another book I read, Sammy's Hill, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I don't know, this book didn't seem very original.

So anyway, I was curious, and I skimmed a few chapters.

Then I got hooked on the end and finished the last half of the book in one night!

I still thought it was improbable, getting pushed by (well, I won't give it away)...and what happens after...come on... Her Mom, and her Mom's friend, come on...!

But, it was entertaining, and I never would have guessed the last half of the book.

I'll give it a 5!

Thanks for including me in the ring. On to the next person!

Arrived safe and sound today. I was relieved to see that I am the last on the list, as I have 3 other rings to get through. I was just going to do a quick scan before journaling, and have already finished the first chapter... guess I know what I'll be doing this afternoon. lol Thanks for sharing rubyjules. :)