Moon Palace
Registered by snoopy56 of Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk United Kingdom on 12/2/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
12 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by snoopy56 from Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk United Kingdom on Saturday, December 2, 2006
A contemporary novel which tells the story of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s - spanning three generations. The narrative moves from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, from Manhattan to the landscape of the American West.
Journal Entry 2 by snoopy56 from Ormesby St Margaret with Scratby, Norfolk United Kingdom on Friday, January 5, 2007
Sent as a trade to geetheflea
Journal Entry 3 by geetheflea from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, January 8, 2007
Sent to me by Snoopy56. Thanks very much! Can't wait to start it as enjoy Austers books so much.
Journal Entry 4 by geetheflea from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, March 23, 2007
I loved this book. The themes of isolation and redemption were beautifully woven into the story. There are many images that will stay with me for a long time (the furniture made of boxes of books, the hermit in the cave, imagining how it would be to be blind and so on). Auster seems to create haunting stories and this is no exception.
Journal Entry 5 by geetheflea from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, March 23, 2007
My first Bookray!
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* PM the next person on the list for their address when you receive it so as to try to avoid hold-ups later on.
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* Read (and hopefully enjoy!) Don't feel pressurised to read it in a rush (and life gets in the way sometimes!) but if you need to keep hold of the book for longer than say a couple of months, please journal to let us know.
* Journal again when you've read it to let us know what you think of it.
* The person at the end of the ray gets to decide what to do with the book.
Participants (new joiners will be added to the end of the list):
1) Betty22
2) bookfrogster
3) GlitterLover
4) celticseahorse
5) welshgem
6) Amanida
7) Plum-crazy
8) gingergeoff
9) Gooner
10) MrsDanvers <-----------------------here!
Some brief "rules"
* Journal the book when you receive it.
* PM the next person on the list for their address when you receive it so as to try to avoid hold-ups later on.
* If you don't hear from the next participant within a few days, PM them again. If after a few more days you still haven't heard from them, PM me to let me know, and move on to the next person on the list.
* Read (and hopefully enjoy!) Don't feel pressurised to read it in a rush (and life gets in the way sometimes!) but if you need to keep hold of the book for longer than say a couple of months, please journal to let us know.
* Journal again when you've read it to let us know what you think of it.
* The person at the end of the ray gets to decide what to do with the book.
Participants (new joiners will be added to the end of the list):
1) Betty22
2) bookfrogster
3) GlitterLover
4) celticseahorse
5) welshgem
6) Amanida
7) Plum-crazy
8) gingergeoff
9) Gooner
10) MrsDanvers <-----------------------here!
Arrived today. Thanks geethe flea. I'll try to read this as soon as possible and send on quickly. Am excited about reading it.
Finished this morning.
I really enjoyed reading this, it was lovely, with many beautiful images.
Have pmed bookfrogster for her address, and will send on as soon as she replies.
Thanks for the chance to read this, I am a confirmed Auster fan now!
I really enjoyed reading this, it was lovely, with many beautiful images.
Have pmed bookfrogster for her address, and will send on as soon as she replies.
Thanks for the chance to read this, I am a confirmed Auster fan now!
Journal Entry 8 by bookfrogster from Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
This arrives safely this morning. This is next to be read once I've finished the book from my NSSEB partner.
Once again Paul Auster does his duty and doesn't disappoint. This is a great book with three different epic stories running through it. You don't realise until you are captured by each one. Thanks for making this one available geetheflea. Off to Glitterlover next.
Arrived yesterday - thanks very much. What a fantastic card bookfrogster, of Audrey Hepburn. Suitably glittery and glam.
totally loved this book. full of unthinkable coincidences and amazing tangents. Auster effortlessly creates landscapes of immence beauty and insight. NEXT! (Glitterlovers hubbs first journal entry)
Previous entry was from DH in case that isn't clear :)
I wasn't originally sure about reading this, my DH read it and loved it which made me try the first few pages. I was sucked into the world of Marco Stanley Fogg before I could blink. I have read other Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo - and found his very male voice course and grating. This book however has an elegance that pulls you along comfortably even when tackling a trauma. I appreciated the occasional reassuring remarks that told you it was going to be OK at points when you could easily imagine a disastrous fate was going to befall a character. There was an undercurrent of nature having a great impact on the way lives are shaped, so that where it starts with recollections of man landing on the moon it ends with just man and moon.
A fantastic book, I will enjoy tackling others of his now.
Posting on to the next ring person today.
I wasn't originally sure about reading this, my DH read it and loved it which made me try the first few pages. I was sucked into the world of Marco Stanley Fogg before I could blink. I have read other Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo - and found his very male voice course and grating. This book however has an elegance that pulls you along comfortably even when tackling a trauma. I appreciated the occasional reassuring remarks that told you it was going to be OK at points when you could easily imagine a disastrous fate was going to befall a character. There was an undercurrent of nature having a great impact on the way lives are shaped, so that where it starts with recollections of man landing on the moon it ends with just man and moon.
A fantastic book, I will enjoy tackling others of his now.
Posting on to the next ring person today.
My first book that rattled..mini panic.. is something broken..HOW?..
ooo little stars which if my previous experince of Auster is anything to go by will be highly appropriate.
Looking forward to this, will be next up when finished one I'm struggling with..or sooner LOL
Thanks Glitterlove for my stars..
Geetheflea for ringing it..back soon
ooo little stars which if my previous experince of Auster is anything to go by will be highly appropriate.
Looking forward to this, will be next up when finished one I'm struggling with..or sooner LOL
Thanks Glitterlove for my stars..
Geetheflea for ringing it..back soon
I loved this book and feel positively tongue tied after Auster's smooth eloquence. I got so caught up in each of the stories, each vivid and exceptional in their detail , something normally I baulk at but with this author it is a pleasure.
How he manages the connections and twists is something and yet you get this wry smile at the end, well is it a story or is real..part of me falls for it each time ..could life really be like that..but then you come back to earth and you realise what a master storyteller he is and I don't mind because I have enjoyed the read so much.
Strangely or is it? the book I mentioned I was struggling to finish so I could start this involved a very look section on someone pushing themselves to practically the limit of starvation also. In that story you didn't get the feeling of growth interconnectedness, human strength and frailty that I did here.
This book will be one that will be in my consciousness for sometime turning , growing showing me other aspects of itself..and bringing some of its wonderful images into my visual and dream life..
I feel contented and replete :o)
I will dip into some bits of it again for a couple of days and then get it on its way to Welshgem
My 3rd and favourite Auster so far.
How he manages the connections and twists is something and yet you get this wry smile at the end, well is it a story or is real..part of me falls for it each time ..could life really be like that..but then you come back to earth and you realise what a master storyteller he is and I don't mind because I have enjoyed the read so much.
Strangely or is it? the book I mentioned I was struggling to finish so I could start this involved a very look section on someone pushing themselves to practically the limit of starvation also. In that story you didn't get the feeling of growth interconnectedness, human strength and frailty that I did here.
This book will be one that will be in my consciousness for sometime turning , growing showing me other aspects of itself..and bringing some of its wonderful images into my visual and dream life..
I feel contented and replete :o)
I will dip into some bits of it again for a couple of days and then get it on its way to Welshgem
My 3rd and favourite Auster so far.
Recieved
Received from Welshgem, who has passed on it, this morning. Just finished a book, so will start it immediately.
Agree with the other journals - a compulsive and haunting tale, or 3 tales which fit together in a surprising way (or not so surprising when you get to the end).
Very good. Thanks for the ray geetheflea. Will be travelling again when I get plumcrazy's address.
Very good. Thanks for the ray geetheflea. Will be travelling again when I get plumcrazy's address.
On its way to plum-crazy.
Journal Entry 19 by 
Plum-crazy
from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, July 30, 2007
Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, July 30, 2007
This arrived this morning. I've a couple of books waiting to be read first then I'll start it -hope I enjoy it as much as everyone else has!
Journal Entry 20 by Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 5, 2007
Plum-crazy from Brighouse, West Yorkshire United Kingdom on Sunday, August 5, 2007
Well, I got through this much faster than I expected!
I have to say when it arrived I thought "I'm not going to enjoy this"....but how wrong I was! I found the story so engrossing, once I started reading I just had to know what was going to happen next...I couldn't put it down!
I loved the way the characters were linked together but without them really knowing it"It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, the wrong place at the right time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out".
I particulary liked this piece from the part of the story where Effing is talking to Marcus about his trip to Salt Lake City. It's something that will stay with me.
A here exists only in relation to a there, not the other way around.
"There's this only because there's that;if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down.
Think of it, boy.We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
Thanks geetheflea for making this book availiable, & it will be on it's way to gingergeoff by the end of the week.....& there's still a bit of something in it from Glitterlover!
I have to say when it arrived I thought "I'm not going to enjoy this"....but how wrong I was! I found the story so engrossing, once I started reading I just had to know what was going to happen next...I couldn't put it down!
I loved the way the characters were linked together but without them really knowing it
I particulary liked this piece from the part of the story where Effing is talking to Marcus about his trip to Salt Lake City. It's something that will stay with me.
"There's this only because there's that;if we don't look up, we'll never know what's down.
Think of it, boy.We find ourselves only by looking to what we're not.
You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
Thanks geetheflea for making this book availiable, & it will be on it's way to gingergeoff by the end of the week.....& there's still a bit of something in it from Glitterlover!
I received this today and I will read it as soon as I have finished my current read.
I'm afraid I really didn't get into this, I found some sections of the book quite interesting, like the period where M.S. ventures into Central Park, but I found the explantations over long and at times, superfluous. I found that I lost interest in the book towards the end and I was skipping several pages at a time and missing very little of the plot!
I will PM the next person and pass the book on.
I will PM the next person and pass the book on.
Journal Entry 23 by gingergeoff at Controlled Release in -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom on Friday, August 31, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (8/31/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in -- Controlled Release, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- United Kingdom
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Posted to Gooner as they are next in line...
Posted to Gooner as they are next in line...
This one arrived here today. Thanks for posting, gingergeoff, and for sharing, geetheflea. I was just about to start another book today, but as this is a ring, I'll postpone that one until I've finished Moon Palace.
I really enjoyed this one, having lived in Manhattan on the Hudson, just down from Riverside Park, some eleven years ago. I will hand this one on to the next person in the ring, Mrs Danvers, probably next Saturday, the "second Saturday of the month" when there is usually a meet-up in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.
This is my second Auster book: I'll certainly read more.
Thank you for sharing, Geetheflea.
This is my second Auster book: I'll certainly read more.
Thank you for sharing, Geetheflea.
Unfortunately, Gooner and I were unable to meet-up last week, so this arrived by post, whilst I was working in Bristol.
Thanks for sharing geetheflea.
Thanks for sharing geetheflea.
A more straight-forward than usual Auster; I enoyed these three epic tales seen through the eyes of MS Fogg. The pervading air of loss and sadness got to me from time to time and I put the book to one side several times.
Journal Entry 28 by MrsDanvers at Caffe Nero, King's Parade OBCZ in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Released 15 yrs ago (11/18/2008 UTC) at Caffe Nero, King's Parade OBCZ in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom
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This is off to the Cambridge OBCZ to help it on its travels.
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Hi and if you are new to all this, welcome to Bookcrossing.
It would really be appreciated if you would make a comment about the book, where you found it and what you thought of it.
The book is now yours to read, keep, or pass it on. We'd like to know where it travels to, and if you don't want to join you can do this anonymously.
If you would like to know what happens to the book after you have passed it on please join. It doesn't cost anything, it's private and it's interesting to travel by proxy around the world.
If you do join, I hope you'll put my name down - mrsdanvers - as your referring member.
