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My Weekly Book Review #7

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Swap Coordinator:PisceanMama (contact)
Swap categories: Books  Letters & Writing  Email 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:October 29, 2011
Date items must be sent by:November 5, 2011
Number of swap partners:5
Description:

There are a lot of readers on Swap-Bot, and many of us like to share that reading with others. Inspired by @iggygirl s Book of the Week swaps (in which we review new books), this swap is going to be a weekly review of all the books you read in a week rather than just first time reads.

Any books that you read/listen to to completion are fine: novels, audio books, fiction or non-fiction, children's books, graphic novels, books read for a class or just for fun. Whatever you would consider a book that you want to share counts for this swap.

Each week, you can include any book that you've started or finished. I know that my books are rarely started or finished during a certain time frame, and I suspect the same goes for others.

The swap period will be for one week. You can send your swap at any time throughout that time, but please make sure that you are covering a full week of reading time.

The information that you need to include for this swap is:

  • The time frame of the books that you're reading
  • Whether you started or finished the book (and can include both)
  • The title of the book
  • The author of the book
  • The number of pages (for paper or e-books) or run-time (for audio books)
  • A synopsis of the book
  • Your thoughts on the book
  • Who you think would enjoy the book (eg. serious scholars, fans of the paranormal, people who like a certain author's writing)

This isn't a race to see how many books you can read in a week. Everyone reads at a different pace and has different things that affect their ability to read during a given week. So it doesn't matter if you've only been able to start one book, or if you've read 10 within a week. They are all equally important, because they are important to you.

I am hoping to have this be an on-going swap series. I will have the sign-up period be for one week and the send period be for one week, with the new swap going up the same day that I assign partners. Feel free to jump in at any time.

As this is an e-mail swap, there should be no reason to miss sending on time. But if anyone gets flaked on, please let me know and I'll be happy to angel. I suspect there will be others among the participants that are willing to do the same.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

Discussion

rafafp 10/29/2011 #

So excited for this, my first Swap gonna make it big. :D <3

PisceanMama 10/29/2011 #

Glad to have you! I hope you enjoy it!

rafafp 11/ 1/2011 #

Thank you so very much. :) Xox

namelessgirl 11/13/2011 #

So just to let everyone know what is going on with @rafafp ...

This is the message I sent on November 12th: "Hi there, just checking in as I haven't received this swap.... I know sometimes email gets lost or ends up caught by spam filters, etc. Please let me know if you have sent it or are going to be sending it soon. Thanks so much!! =)"

This is what I just got back today (November 13th): "Oh my, you didn't receive it? I am so sorry. I did send it, I'm going to resend it to you right now. I'm so sorry. And thank you so much for letting me know. Xox"

Sounds pleasant enough (even though none of this person's other partners had received the swap either -- I checked to see if any of them had left Rafafp any feedback). I have checked through my spam folder though -- this swap was not sent to me the first time and certainly has not been resent to me either.

Rafafp then marked the swap as sent and promptly deleted their profile, so now we can't leave them negative feedback for not sending. Just a heads up to everyone!

If anyone has this user's email address, we might want to pass it on to the swapbot admins. Odds are this person will try to sign up and create a new profile very soon...

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