Welcome to the Great Mysterious

by Lorna Landvik | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0345438817 Global Overview for this book
Registered by DrSlump612 of Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on 9/27/2008
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7 journalers for this copy...
Journal Entry 1 by DrSlump612 from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Saturday, September 27, 2008
Thrift store purchase.

Local author - she lives about a mile from us, in fact.

Book exchange box to Birmingham bookcrossers via LyzzyBee.

Journal Entry 2 by DrSlump612 at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, September 27, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (9/27/2008 UTC) at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom

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This one's on heaven-ali's wishlist also.

Journal Entry 3 by LyzzyBee from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, October 6, 2008
Arrived in the Twin Cities - Midlands book box exchange parcel. I think Ali is on my bookring for this one - not sure. So I'll offer it to everyone and see who would like a go with it...

PARTICIPANTS:

Nordie
Wyldetwo
Megmac
Heaven-Ali
LindyB28 <---- it's here

Ray - so it can go on wherever it wants to now!

Journal Entry 4 by LyzzyBee at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, December 18, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (12/18/2008 UTC) at Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Passing to Sorcha tonight.

And - aha!

This book is being released for the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge 2008 Week 50: Cold Weather, release # 22. There are people with hats on on the cover picture!


Journal Entry 5 by nordie from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, December 18, 2008
uh-huh - I see where this is going......a Box exchange, a ray, PLUS a NJABBIC entry.....?! Must be the nicest way I've been "used and abused" for a while!!!

Happy Christmas!

Journal Entry 6 by nordie from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, December 28, 2008
read over Christmas, it is the usual Landvik premise of someone learning more about themselves by being kicked out of their comfort zone.

Geneva Jordan, star of stage, has just finished an award winning run in a show. Her twin sister begs her to look after her Down syndrome son whilst the parents take a long wished for holiday. Despite her reservations about being able to look after such a teenager, Geneva agrees and learns much over the following month....

Journal Entry 7 by nordie at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, January 24, 2009

Released 15 yrs ago (1/24/2009 UTC) at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom

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Given to Wyldetwo as the next person on the list

Journal Entry 8 by wyldetwo from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, January 25, 2009
Received from nordie at yesterday's meet - thanks and Happy Birthday!

Journal Entry 9 by wyldetwo from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, February 28, 2009
Took me a while to get into this having picked it up immediately after reading 3 books in the same series by another author (Caro Fraser). But I gradually got drawn into it and really enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing it!
Hope to pass it on to Megmac later if she is at this afternoon's Birmingham meet-up.

Journal Entry 10 by Megmac from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, April 4, 2009
Received in post today, thanks :-)

Journal Entry 11 by Megmac from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
This isn't the type of book that I usually go for but I really enjoyed it. It was the tonic I needed and I really loved the character of Geneva Jordan. Will pass to Heaven-Ali in some way soon.

Journal Entry 12 by Heaven-Ali from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, July 26, 2009
This was waiting for me when I arrived home from a few days away. Thanks Megmac.

Journal Entry 13 by Heaven-Ali from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 4, 2009
This may turn out to be my favourite Lorna Landvik - but I can't decide as I really did enjoy the others I have read. As with the other novels, this can be a touch sweet and smaltzy in parts - but all in all - very hard to put down. The story conerns Geneva - broadway star - and her nephew Rich, Geneva agrees after much badgering to look after Rich for a month while his parents take a well earned holiday away from their adorable son who has special needs. This involves her leaving New York for a while and staying in her sister's house in Deep Lake, Minnesota. I loved the characters of Rich and Conrad - two boys who know what friendship is. Some of the conversations between Geneva and her Downs Syndrome nephew Rich felt very realistic, as are their occaisonal frustrations as they try and work out how one another opperates. During her stay in Deep lake Geneva is reminded poignantly of her own childhood, and her dead grandparents, when she finds an old book she and her sister made - called The Great Mysterious. New friends and the secrets of The Great Mysterious help Geneva when she has a desicion to make, and when tragedy comes to Deep Lake. There are some tear jerking bits about 50 pages from the end, but I did enjoy how things were rounded off.

This will be off to Linda soon.


Journal Entry 14 by Heaven-Ali at By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, August 22, 2009

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Sorry for the slight delay in sending this on. In the post to Linda.

Journal Entry 15 by LindyB28 from Acocks Green, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
arrived yesterday; thanks Ali! WIll get to it as soon as I've finished the rather gripping Jodi Picoult that I began the other day.

Journal Entry 16 by LindyB28 from Acocks Green, West Midlands United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I loved this book. Just finished it off and had a little cry a couple of times. If it can go anywhere now, I'd love to lend it to my mum because I think the themes of the book would touch her too.

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