Okay, we're going to start probably in about a half-hour, but really once everyone checks in (or most people do anyway).

Welcome to our Friday ALS!

Max steals = 4
Book in possession
Book Revealed

Moves


Players

1. MsJoanna; ~; ~
2. EllyMae58; ~; ~
3. PepperVL; ~; ~
4. LoveMyLife; ~; ~
5. Alsgal; ~; ~
6. Azuki; ~; ~
7. FranciJo; ~; ~
8. Lizabeth86; ~; ~


MsJoanna! Start us off! Who would you like to reveal?

Awesome! I'm here. I'll get my reveal together while I'm waiting to see others confirm.

My boss is out of the office for a few hours now so I can play :bananadance: :bananadance:

I'm here!

That's close enough to everyone between the check ins and the folks I can see reading.

Let's get Lizabeth's reveal please to start us off. :waves:

My Book is The Hazards of Good Breeding by Jessica Shattuck



From Booklist
Caroline Dunlap has graduated college and returned to her father's house in the genteel upper-class world of suburban Boston for lack of a better option. Her sensitive, 10-year-old brother, Eliot, is quietly launching a search for his baby-sitter, Rosita, who his father, Jack, summarily fired six months ago. Faith, Jack's ex-wife, who is still in the process of recovering from the nervous breakdown that precipitated the end of her marriage, is in town to see a play Eliot is starring in and visit some friends. The characters are all stuck in a sense, in need of a push to disrupt their apathy. For Caroline, the push comes in the form of Stephan, a handsome documentary director whose intentions might not be so noble; for Eliot, it is his quest for Rosita; for Faith, it is a charming Frenchman who romances her; and for Jack, it is a startling revelation about Rosita that will cause him to reexamine his future. Shattuck's debut is quiet and somewhat slow paced, but ultimately it's a funny and moving character study. Kristine Huntley Copyright © American Library Association.

I PMed Azuki, LML, and EllyMae.

Is there anyone else online who we think might want to play?

Welcome to our Friday ALS!

Max steals = 4
Book in possession
Book Revealed

Moves
MsJoanna has EllyMae reveal The Hazards of Good Breeding


Players

1. MsJoanna; The Hazards of Good Breeding; ~
2. EllyMae58; ~; ~
3. PepperVL; ~; ~
4. LoveMyLife; ~; ~
5. Alsgal; ~; ~
6. Azuki; ~; ~
7. FranciJo; ~; ~
8. Lizabeth86; ~; The Hazards of Good Breeding


EllyMae! Would you like to steal or reveal?

Feel free to ask to join! We'd love more people!

needmorezoloft was lurking around a minute ago.

PM'ed NMZ.

*spins in circles*

I'm here! I need to find a book! :o


Thanks for the PM, Pepper!

Oh! :o It's my turn!

Uh...uhm...I'll have alsgal reveal, please.

11 there is 2 here, EllyMae, so I'd say so... there aren't that many of us.

Ladiibbug! You want to play?

My reveal is:

Blind Submission
by Debra Ginsburg



From Publishers Weekly
Memoirist Ginsberg (Waiting; Raising Blaze) gracefully transitions into fiction with a fresh twist on the aggrieved publishing assistant. Angel Robinson is a voracious reader excited to land a job at the prestigious Lucy Fiamma Literary Agency in San Francisco, but she quickly finds herself overwhelmed in the maelstrom of an office. Angel, forever lugging manuscripts home, discovers she has a knack for turning mediocre manuscripts into moneymakers, a talent Lucy handsomely capitalizes on. When an anonymous submission set in a Bay Area literary agency is e-mailed in, Angel begins hammering it into salable shape. At first, the parallels between the manuscript and her life are innocuous enough, but as subsequent chapters appear in her inbox and she corresponds via e-mail with the author (coyly called "G. A. Novelist"), the story begins to reveal intimate details about Angel's life and to contain thinly veiled threats. Could her foundering writer boyfriend be the culprit? A jealous co-worker? Another of Lucy's clients? A game of e-mail cat and mouse unfolds as Angel continues working on the manuscript and her dragon-lady boss angles to sell it. Though not nail-bitingly suspenseful, the plot is twisty enough to keep readers guessing to the end.

Welcome to our Friday ALS!

Max steals = 4
Book in possession
Book Revealed

Moves
MsJoanna has EllyMae reveal The Hazards of Good Breeding
EllyMae has Alsgal reveal Blind Submission
Pepper steals Blind Submission from EllyMae


Players

1. MsJoanna; The Hazards of Good Breeding; ~
2. EllyMae58; ~; ~
3. PepperVL; Blind Submission (1); ~
4. LoveMyLife; ~; ~
5. Alsgal; ~; Blind Submission
6. Azuki; ~; ~
7. FranciJo; ~; ~
8. Lizabeth86; ~; The Hazards of Good Breeding


EllyMae! You've been stolen from already! Would you like to steal or reveal?

Feel free to ask to join! We'd love more people!

I am here! Phew! The line at the post office was soooo looong I kept thinking I will miss this.
I am deciding on the book...

:giggle:

I made my move in the update.

EllyMae... you're up again.

Sorry...getting my reveal tomorrow.

Well. Didn't hold onto that for very long, did I?

Please have Franci reveal.

I'm here. Thanks for the PM. I just got back from Curves. I still don't know if I have to babysit. Now I have to find a book! :o

:giggle: Getting your reveal tomorrow?

Do you mean together?

:duh: Yes, that is what I mean!! :lol:

But won't tomorrow be too late :giggle:

Wow, I guess my book was a hit since it's already been stolen. You all can thank my SIL for it. She sent it to me for my B-day and I figured if I used it for this swap, that gave me an excuse to read it right away :whistle:

I'm here! (Playing "dodge boss" at the moment.) Let me get my reveal!

I see you AlterEgo -- want to play with us?

I was just going to ask if FranciJo ever said for sure she would play when I saw her peeking in here.

I saw AlterEgoZoe here too, want to play?

Would love to but I'm leaving in about 5 minutes!! sorry!

Well fine then, be that way.

Put real life before swapping.

*sniffs*

Oh, I love to play that game! :lol: I usually play it when I'm violating dress code in some way! :rofl:

Ohhh... Dodge the Boss.

Good Luck!

yep.. I would love to ladies.. but it's my lunch time and I'm about to leave :cry:

I won't be back for an hour.

Is it bad that I just told NMZ she should skip lunch so she can swap?

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a BOSS"

hmm, doesn't work quite the same :lol:

Food is for the weak!

Nope, cause I was going to tell her the same thing!

:rofl:

Franci!!! We need your reveal!!!!!

:innocent:

Ok, here's my reveal:



From the Publisher
"Though there are signs of foul play, Emmett Quanah Parker and Anna Turnipseed aren't looking for a killer - the remains dug out of a riverbank by an illegal fossil hunter are 14,000 years old. Parker and Turnipseed are sent to central Oregon as official witnesses to the examination of John Day Man, as he is dubbed, for the bones have quickly provoked a controversy that threatens to erupt into violence: the skeleton is not Native American but distinctly Caucasian, shattering long-held tenets concerning who the first inhabitants of this continent were." "Emmett, with his Comanche and white ancestry, and Anna, a reservation-born Modoc with Asian blood, share a sensitivity to both parties' concerns - and a forbidden attraction that's causing them professional and personal problems. They've broken the unwritten law that partners should never get emotionally involved. Having crossed that line, Emmett and Anna are too distracted by each other to see the escalating suspicion and fear around them when a young tribal anthropologist is swallowed by the misty night and within hours of her disappearance the fossil hunter who discovered the skeleton is found disemboweled." "The Warm Springs Indians insist that the unburied bones of the Ancient One have been turned into a skep, a murderous spirit that haunts the darkness. As winter closes in on the steppes of the Columbia Plateau, accusations of ritualized murder fly between the Indian and white communities - and the fight turns deadly when a second skeleton is unearthed." "In the midst of the turmoil, Emmett and Anna are paralyzed by their own demons. This estrangement could prove deadly if they stop watching each other's back long enough for a killer to target them too. And at the center of it all are the Ancient Ones, exacting a terrible price as the dark path to resolution runs a gauntlet through the boneyards of prehistory."--BOOK JACKET.