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I Wish I was In....

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I Wish I was In....
Group:Cup and Chaucer
Swap Coordinator:hollycm6 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Books 
Number of people in swap:7
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:February 11, 2010
Date items must be sent by:March 18, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Each of us will list several books (three to five?) we would love to step into...make sure at least one is something most people will have heard of...then when partners are assigned, refer to the list and choose one of them for your partner to be "in".

Send your partner at least three items to "help" her be in her book. For example, your partner says "I wish I was in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." First things first... if you have never read the book, or never heard of it, now's the time! :) Then think of things from the book, and choose three (or more) to send. A tea cup, a small selection of interesting teas, a broken watch, a chess piece, a deck of cards, a white rabbit, a key, a small bottle with a ribbon and tag... or you might send a handmade item involving any of these, a bookmark for example, or an altered playing card. With the exception of the original books, it is all sender's choice, even the final choice of the one book.

It doesn't have to be expensive (a few tea bags, a homemade bookmark) or even useful (a single chess piece or altered playing card), just interesting and fun. You might want to include a note explaining your choices; your partner might not automatically understand the reference!

I am going to allow a month after sign-up for this one, to help spread out my postage a bit, and in case we end up having to read our partner's book! Feel free to send as early as you want. :)

NO flaking.

This swap idea is an altered version of something originally created by @Emzycal , who has kindly given us permission to use and change her idea.

Discussion

hollycm6 01/28/2010 #

I wish I was in Winnie the Pooh, by AA Milne!

I wish I was in ANY Sherlock Holmes adventure, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

I wish I was in Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court!

I wish I was in one of Alice's Adventures, by Lewis Carroll!

I wish I was in Anne Of Green Gables by LM Montgomery!

I can come up with lots of others if you are my partner and you need more ideas... :)

CariahCreates 01/29/2010 #

Wow-it was hard to narrow this down!

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Any of the Company series by Kage Baker

Any of the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde

Might have to look up those last 2 but the first 3 are pretty well known. Just PM me if you need any help deciphering.

hollycm6 01/29/2010 #

Oooh... I didn't think of Watership Down! And I JUST bought a Thursday Next book... it's a series?????!!! I had no idea... I haven't even read it yet! It just looked so fun. Anyone interested in it, Barnes and Noble has what I imagine must be the first in their bargain book section. :) I think about $4.

Yes, at first I said "three" and I simply couldn't DO it. :)

CariahCreates 02/ 1/2010 #

Wheres is everyone? This is an awesome swap! Of course, I don't mind swapping with Holly-love her choices.

The first Thursday Next book is The Eyre Affair so definitely start there. While it's good, the series really picks up in the later books.

raindropsonwindows 02/ 2/2010 #

this is kind of the cutest swap ever. :)

raindropsonwindows 02/ 2/2010 #

where did you find the picture of the dandelion becoming music? i LOVE that!!

raindropsonwindows 02/ 2/2010 #

i wish i was in peter pan by barrie.

or a wrinkle in time by l'engle.

or the giver by lowry.

or little women by alcott.

or anne of green gables by montgomery.

or jane eyre by bronte.

or emma (or mansfield park) by austen.

or the secret garden by burnett.

or the tale of despereaux by diCamillo.

or winnie-the-pooh by milne.

: )

gracielous 02/ 2/2010 #

I put off joining til I narrowed it down somewhat. It was hard to do. This swap is just too neat of an idea to pass up.

I wish I was in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

or The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien

or Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by JRR Tolkien

or The Wind in the Willows by: Kenneth Grahame

or The Sun Also Rises by: Ernest Hemingway

or Anna Karenina by: Leo Tolstoy

or A Tale of Two Cities by: Charles Dickens

or Moll Flanders by: Daniel Defoe

or Any of the Chronicles of Narnia series by: C.S. Lewis

This should be fun. : )

LeishaCamden 02/11/2010 #

I wish I was in ...

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Majipoor cycle by Robert Silverberg

Wyrd Sisters ... or basically any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The Branion Realm series by Fiona Patton

hydro75 02/11/2010 #

I wish I was in...

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

any of the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Not classics, but might be fun to work with if you've read them:

Choke by Chuck Palahunik

Fat Bald Jeff by Leslie Stella

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

hollycm6 02/12/2010 #

I enjoyed the Curious Incident, too. :)

gracielous 02/12/2010 #

I enjoyed choke it was a very interesting book.

Masterbard 02/27/2010 #

I wish I were in:

The Harvester, by Gene Stratton-Porter (one of my all-time favorites)

The Hobbit, by Tolkien

Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula LeGuin

Redwall, by Brian Jacques

Gate to Women's Country, by Sheri Tepper

Any Valdemar book by Mercedes Lackey (I like Bards!)

Any in the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey (I like the 'Fire Rose' best!)

Any in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (love 'Going Postal'!)

hollycm6 03/ 1/2010 #

I edited this swap, pushing the send by date back one more week. Let me know if this is enough time for everyone!

hollycm6 03/ 4/2010 #

I am probably going to be running behind on this one... but maybe not. I do read pretty fast! I just got my books ordered today and am really looking forward to reading them. :)

Masterbard 03/15/2010 #

Leisha, you're gonna love your little box.... :) This was so much fun to put together; I hope this swap will be a regular occurrence, because I'd for sure participate every two months or so... I could've done almost any book on the lists above and had a great time with it.

Holly, I'm dying to know WHICH book you picked! Or at least which author... You have very carefully not said which you're reading currently..... ;P

hollycm6 03/15/2010 #

No but I AM loving the one I chose! ;)

hollycm6 03/16/2010 #

Well, masterbard, my initial postage to South Korea was going to be $43 for a package worth MUCH less... so it's back to the drawing board! But I'm getting there... :)

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