BOOKCROSSING ON THE ENCHANTED HIGHWAY

In a comment on yesterday's post, Judy wondered which book I found in the Grasshopper leg... here it is, Blue Rabbit and Friends.

A quick read! In the end, Blue Rabbit hops on his bike and heads off "to see the world - with the open sky above and the wind in his face", looking for adventure - as were we (especially the wind part).

In its place, I left the Birth of Venus, sorta' figuring that would be the last I would hear about this book for awhile.




Imagine my surprise when I found this message from Bookcrossing in my email when we got home:

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Book Title: The Birth of Venus
Author: Sarah Dunant
Saturday, July 12, 2008

I found this book on the Enchanted Highway. It was resting on one of the Grasshoppers legs.

CAUGHT IN ENCHANTED HIGHWAY NORTH DAKOTA USA

By AnonymousFinder
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That was followed very shortly by another message, sent to me (AreWeThereYet, my Bookcrossing name) as a personal message through Bookcrossing (a way that registered Bookcrossers can communicate with one another while keeping their identities private):

Hello AreWeThereYet,
i found this book.
and it will kill me to ask, were you the woman riding the motorcycle?

Signed, Tank123

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Oh, poor Tank! I am sure he registered on BookCrossing ONLY to be able to send off his message. No, I most definitely am not the woman riding the motorcycle, his vision of a lovely, leather-clad adventuring female... maybe they exchanged a wave along the road, or shared a few words at one of the scupltures, and what "could have been" looms in his imagination. I'm fairly certain that a past-middle-aged, mostly-gray-haired female who thinks motorcycles look too hot, too cold, too wet, too windy and/or too noisy is not the stuff of his dream.

Isn't Bookcrossing great?