Found this copy at a library sale. Will read, then send off to ann-718my in Malaysia to replace the book that never made it.

This one came in just yesterday. Since the lost book is not so lost anymore, I now have 1 extra copy...aahh the generousity of a bookcrosser. thanks so much carlissa!!!

I'll be doing some rabck's next month and I'm thinking to browse some wishlists afterwards. ;) Or probably organize a bookray? Should ask for more opinions. Okay I'm off to forum!

So it turned out that there were some people who would be interested in joining the bookray!

The book is intended to end its journey in Hawaii for this ray. The participants:
1. maupi (Netherlands) - ship Europe
2. Pauloca (Portugal) - ship ???
3. terpsicore (Portugal) - ship intl
4. agschoolgrad (Georgia, US) - ship intl
5. GateGypsy (Canada) - ship ???
6. Ann32 (Alaska, US) - ship intl
7. kamalamalama (Hawaii, US) - ship intl

UPDATE (Sept 13): mailed off to maupi...

Thanks amy, it arrived safe and sound. Quite a journey, from Malaysia. How I sometimes envy these books!

A beautiful book, I read it during my Christmas break. I was so into the book that when I looked up and out of the window I expected to see the snow storming outside! We had nice, crisp and sunny weather, though, no snow.
Great weather metaphor in this book.
Prejudice, racism, mass hysteria, following the group, Guterson integrated these themes very elegantly in his book. If only many others would read it!
In the end, I was so comforted that Ishmael did "the right thing". He was to me such a sympathetic character; I could imagine his dilemma and sorrow. And then, when all seemed to end sort of well, I had this fear that Kabuo Miyamoto would opt for the brave samurai death as had his grandfather. Just imagine my big, big relief.
BTW, I read some threads on booktalk where readers are not at all positive about Snow Falling on Cedars. Many say they had expected far more, it being such a hype. Luckily, I missed the hype; I read the book without prejudice. That's always an aim, but unfortunately one is often (unconsciously) influenced by hypes, other opinions, and more.

Thank you ann-718my for this ray.

I already have Pauloca's address, the book will travel on as soon as I have time to go to the post office.

I got it today and intend to read it as soon as possible.

Sent it to terpsidore.
Don't have time to read it now.

This book was waiting in my mailbox when I came back from hollidays.Will read asap

I am a bit divided about this book.Some parts are very lyrical and the historical background was quite interesting but at some point I lost interest.Although I finished it because I wanted to know how it all ended.
Knowing that David Gutterson is used to writing short-stories,it seemed to me that because he was writing a novel he put too much information because he did not feel the need to be concise.
Anyway,I'm glad to have had the opportunity of reading this book.Will PM next on list.

mailed on 31st of march to agschoolgrad

I am so sorry I did not journal when I received the book. I am finished with it now, and waiting on the next address.

Overall, I thought it was a good book, and am glad of the outcome.

on way to GateGypsy. Happy travels!

Just arrived in the post, and good timing, too! I was just about to dive into the new Harry Potter book, but as this is a ring, I shall read this first. *grins* See how responsible and restrained I am? *laughs*

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Backleaf states:
"San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspeciously drowned and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder.
In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is mor ethan one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries -- memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense -- but one that leaves us shaken and changed."

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Finished this one a day or two ago, just didn't get a chance to get back and update the journal entry about it. I liked it. Of course, as an Island girl myself, and daughter of a fisherman, sometime gillnetter, this brought a touch of home in a far far away land. It's really strange, actually. I'm IN Japan. My father was an small-island fisherman, son of fishermen... on Galiano Island -- a little ways up the Strait (and on the Canada side of the border) from where this story takes place. He was... Maybe 11 when the war broke out. Yes, my daddy is OLD. *smiles* I kept thinking, as I read it, that my Dad would likely really enjoy this story. I will have to track down a copy of it on audio book for him, since he cannot read books on paper since his stroke.
The only thing that really got me was that the trial part of the story takes place during a huge snowstorm. Having grown up in the area, I know that snow is frightfully uncommon. The author resolved that nitpicky issue for me halfway through the book with an offhand remark at how the last time they had a storm like this was over a decade ago... or something to that tune. So, at least he admits to this snowstorm being a very rare occurance, too, which made me feel better.
The story made me wonder if there are still summer jobs to be had picking strawberries on that Island. *laughs* It sounded like hard but rewarding work in a breathtaking landscape. I miss home just enough to be willing to put in hard physical labour just to be at home *laughs again*
I'd read the reviews other bookcrossers left, so I wondered about them. I don't think that all the detail was extraneous to the story; I actually felt that it was necessary to fleshing out the setting and the characters. I did think it was interesting, though, all the flashbacks. It reads like a string of interspersed, related short stories peppered amidst a novella. Did that make sense? I liked it, though. I really did.

Have the addy and will mail on Monday the 25th. Enjoy!

I received this in the mail today. I'll read it soon.