City Of Bones

by Michael Connelly | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0752848348 Global Overview for this book
Registered by leeny37 of Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on 7/9/2005
Buy from one of these Booksellers:
Amazon.com | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon DE | Amazon FR | Amazon IT | Bol.com
This book is in the wild! This Book is Currently in the Wild!
4 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by leeny37 from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Saturday, July 9, 2005
I just joined BookCrossing today, and decided this will be my first book to release in the wild :) I finished reading this a couple of weeks ago, although I had bought it ages ago. It's an alright book, it had its moments and was quite an engaging story. I didn't like how some of the characters were developed though, but it could be just me. Oh well, that's it, I wonder if this book will be caught!! How exciting!

From Amazon.com:
Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry's still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it.

In City of Bones, Connelly's eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood's Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he's fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn't the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here.

Journal Entry 2 by leeny37 from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Saturday, July 30, 2005

My first attempt at a wild release with this book failed, so I'm organising a bookring for this one first before trying to do another wild release. This bookring is now closed.



BookRing Instructions:
1. When you receive the book, please make a journal entry so everyone knows it has safely arrived.
2. When you finish the book, please make another journal entry to share some of your thoughts - enjoyed the book, or absolutely hated it?
3. Continue the BookRing by checking this journal entry for the latest list, and sending a PM to the person after you on the list requesting their postal address.
4. Please try to send on the book within 2-4 weeks, thanks! :)
5. Most importantly, ENJOY!

Participants:
1. Funkybamboozle
2. lakelady2282

Back home with me :)

RELEASE NOTES:

Mailed to first participant, Funkybamboozle. Enjoy! :)

Journal Entry 4 by Funkybamboozle from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Excellent. I look forward to reading this. I only have two before it, so it shouldnt take long to send it to the next participant. I love the stickers.

Journal Entry 5 by Funkybamboozle from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, August 13, 2005
I finished this during the week, on one of my first train rides in Sydney this year!! (I obviously dont get out much!! lol)

I found the book to be quite interesting, but there were no happy moments. Just when it looked like something was going right in Bosch's life, it all went wrong.

some interesting points:

* I like the reference to the tunnels of Vietnam during the war - in particular Bosch's experiences
* I will have to look up whether it is really possible for two people to shoot at each other at a point blank range and have the bullets of one gun, penetrate through the barrel of the other gun, preventing the bullets from coming out. Sounds a little far fetched!!!
* is it me, or does there seem to be a fad for exploring child abuse in novels?

Will send to lakelady as soon as I get her address.

Thanks for the ring

Journal Entry 6 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Monday, August 22, 2005
arrived safely

Journal Entry 7 by lakelady2282 from Lake Macquarie, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Thanks so much guys but I'm afraid I'm a bit of a ditz and thought that this was Michael Cunningham of The Hours. I'm afraid it's just not me. Let me know your address Leeny and I'll post it back.
Debbie

Journal Entry 8 by lakelady2282 at on Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Released 18 yrs ago (9/21/2005 UTC) at

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

RELEASE NOTES:

Thanks Leeny

Journal Entry 9 by leeny37 from Melbourne CBD, Victoria Australia on Friday, September 23, 2005
This book is home with me now, thanks for being a part of this bookring! :)

Released 18 yrs ago (9/23/2005 UTC) at Post office: Mailed to another bookcrosser in America, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

RELEASE NOTES:

To be mailed to hfitz5051, the winner of the 6th Tiara RABCK Sweepstakes. She knows already, so it's safe to say this! *grin* Congrats hfitz5051, and I hope you enjoy this book! :) This will be travelling airmail from Down Under, hopefully it won't take longer than 10 days.

Journal Entry 11 by hfitz5051 from Cape Coral, Florida USA on Friday, September 30, 2005
Thank you. This book arrived safely!

Journal Entry 12 by hfitz5051 at Walmart On Del Prado in Cape Coral, Florida USA on Monday, January 14, 2008

Released 16 yrs ago (1/14/2008 UTC) at Walmart On Del Prado in Cape Coral, Florida USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

RELEASE NOTES:

Released for the 2008 Leap Into the Wild 366 Challenge!

Are you sure you want to delete this item? It cannot be undone.