I have a copy of this already in my Permanent Collection but I couldn't resist picking this copy up in the charity shop to trade or relay.

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Stephanie Plum, the trash-talking New Jersey bail bondswoman of this popular series, is tracking Maxine Nowicki, who's wanted for skipping out on a car-theft charge lodged by her ex-boyfriend. Now the ex-boyfriend's very interested in getting back the love letters he supposedly wrote to Maxine. But what he's really looking for is the secret on which Evanovich hangs her screwball cast of colorful minor characters, including Sally Sweet, a cross-dressing drag queen; Lula, the 250-pound ex-hooker who works for Steph's boss; Cousin Vinnie, the bail bondsman; Grandma Mazur, who packs a Glock and is always looking for a little action; and Joyce, a wannabe bounty hunter who's been cramping Steph's style since she played pass the salami with Steph's ex-husband. The action doesn't get much farther from Trenton than the Jersey Shore, but when Steph's apartment and car are blown up by the others on Maxine's trail and she moves in with Joe Morelli, the handsome, arrogant cop she's been hung up on since high school, it gets hotter than the craps table in Atlantic City.

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Please make a journal entry as soon as you recieve the book and also when you send it to the next person. Then we know where the book is!

When you are finished with the book please PM the next person on the list and ask for their address so you can send it on to them!

Also let us know what you thought of the book but don't give too much away!

Lastly if you have nicer bookcrossing labels or stickers then decorate the book a little! Also stick a postcard from your country in with a message! Could be fun :)

This Bookring is still open! Pm if you would like to join!

Here is the bookring order so far!

1) FiBe in the UK <-- Completed!
2) Snowy652 in Canada <-- Completed!
3) MissGrace in the US <-- Asked to be Skipped.
4) MomsL8 in the US <-- Completed!
5) Megi53 in the US <-- Completed!
6) totoroandmei in Japan <-- Completed!
7) kzel in Australia <-- Completed!
8) kubchen in Ireland <-- Completed!
9) Cross-patch in the UK <-- Completed!
10) Back to me in Austria <-- Home!

The order may change to accommodate for the postal preferences of the ring members.

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There is an envelope travelling with this book. Inside the envelope is a selection of jokes. Please pick 1 joke and use the BCID on the joke/envelope to journal your joke. Please type in the joke so everyone can read it.

Please make sure that you send the envelope on with the book!!!

Please feel free to send the joke you picked onto someone else!

http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3668561/Amberkatze/book_-A-Joke-a-Day-2006-Gabriele-Docherty

Really enjoyed this book. In fact I don't think I've read a bad Stephanie Plum book yet!!! This is now ready to go on to the next person on the list, will PM them now. Thanks for letting me take part in this ring.

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sent on to the next person on the list. Thanks for letting me take part.

arrived safe and sound today -- I have a few to read before it but will not be too long. I will comment once I have read it and then send off to the next reader.


April 7 ~ started reading this one today -- pm'd MissGrace for an address on this date as well.


April 8 ~ Another fun read by Evanovich. I have to say that I laugh out loud more at this series of books than I have at any other book I have read thus far. The stories are not deep and they are a nice change from the deep literature that I tend to read at times. This was a fun and quirky book. I was happy that there was more of Grandma Mazur in this book as book 3 had very little of her --- I happen to be a Grandma Mazur fan myself. Thanks for letting me join this ring.

**still waiting to here back from MissGrace -- I will send it as soon as I have an address.

April 10 ~ MissGrace asked to be skipped - waiting for MomsL8 address

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sending to MomsL8 -- bookring

safe travels little book -- enjoy your journey!

Arrived over the weekend safe and sound from snowy652 - reading Three now - hope to get this within the month! Thanks!

I'm so sorry everyone! This bookring has NOT stalled - other than by me, of course! I was waiting for Three to arrive so as to read them in order, and I sat down and read half of it, and then major life crises (seems to be my modus operandi this year)interrupted. I need can finish Three hopefully this weekend, and then by June 15, all crises will abate, and I can speed read through Four. Thank you so much all for putting up with me! I so wish I could just spend all my time....reading!

Thanks again everyone!

Jill

I'm a little under halfway finished. I should finish this book this week and be able to send it on! Thanks so much for your patience everyone!

Whoohooo! I'm finished! I couldn't put it down! Suffice it to say - this is the book I've been waiting to read. I will pm the next person on the list and send it right away! Jill

PS - I've pmed Megi53 and asked for the address of where to send....hopefully, I'll be able to send this out before the weekend!

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Just mailed it on to the next person - Megi53! Enjoy!

Just came in the mail! Thanks :-)

So funny! The new characters Sally Sweet, Sugar, and even Bernie the produce guy added a lot to this series. I didn't care for Grandma Mazur (sorry, snowy!) or Lula in the first three books, but they were a lot more subdued here (probably to make room for Sally's outsized personality!)

The pacing and descriptions are much better now than in the previous Evanovich books I've read. Here's a great example from page 198:

"The rain stopped halfway home, and Trenton showed no sign of relief from the heat. The hydrocarbon level was high enough to etch glass, and the highways hummed with road rage. Air conditioners were failing, dogs had diarrhea, laundry mildewed in hampers, and sinus cavities felt filled with cement. If the barometric pressure dropped any lower everyone's guts would be sucked through the soles of their feet into the bowels of the earth."

You don't see writing like that in your run-of-the-mill supermarket romance!

Oh, and Stephanie gets another couple of crazy haircuts: one from Morelli himself; the second at Grandma Mazur's favorite salon.

Mailing to totoroandmei later this afternoon, along with the jokes and the postcards (I contributed one of South Carolina).

I have been waiting for this. Thanks! I really enjoyed it and can't wait to read the whole series!

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Picked up from the post office last Saturday. I've had a few rings arrive just before this one, but I will get to it as soon as possible.

I love this series, and this book was no exception. Although probably a bit unrealistic, the situations Stephanie gets herself into are hilarious, and always make for a fun read.

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On its way to kubchen

Received the book by post today, thanks very much. Looking forward to read me very first Stephanie Plum novel.

OMG how funny was that! This book really cracked me up and helped me through some awful rain and flu.
Thanks Amberkatze for sharing!
Will send the book as soon as I'll receive Cross-patch address.

20/10/06 Posted the Plum yesterday to Cross-patch. Enjoy!

I love Stephanie Plum! Thank you, kubchen, book arrived today. And, thank you, Amberkatze, for sharing.

As good as ever. There were laugh out loud moments - and I love Sally!
I'll send it on home when I get Amberkatz's address. Thankyou.
8 Nov. Sent to Amberkatz this afternoon.

Yay!!! This bookring made it back home! Thank you to everyone who took part and thanks to Cross-patch for sending it home!

I sent out another bookring on the same day as this one. Also a Janet Evanovich 'Hot Six'. Funnily they nearly made it back to me on the same day!! Hot Six arrived back on the 6th Nov and this ring arrived back yesterday, the 10th!

Anyway thanks again to the 8 people who took part! The book has been to 6 countries and was travelling for 9 months.

I hope to get the book travelling again somehow!

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Taking this to the English BC Meet-up and hope to pass it on to someone who will enjoy it!

Picked this up at the English meet-up tonight. Looking forward to reading it!

I enjoyed this book - the characters are such fun. Thanks AmberKatze for thinking to pass the book on to me!

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Leaving this book at Haydn Kino OBCZ.