Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions


book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna ~ (~); ~
3. azuki ~ (~); ~
4. bluecat07 ~ (~); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); ~
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); ~


Msjoanna, take it away. Who would you like to reveal :flasher: ?

Oh, I better set up my reveal then...

I sent my reveal to catsalive, just hope it got there cos the pm's don't always work.

Hey guys, I've been pretty sick for awhile now and haven't had a chance to even choose a book, so I think I'm going to have to bow out of this one. :( Sorry!

Yes, I have it :)

Would you like me to bump you down to the end?

I hope you are feeling better now Grinquitica. You can use a TBR to play with, it doesn't need to be a book you have read already.

I don't even have to do that if you still want to play... you still have 11+ hours to make your move. We want you to stay if you're up to it, grin :hug:

That's really nice, you guys, but I've been sick for over a week now and I don't know if there's an end in sight. Can't even get out of bed to look at my shelf, so I don't think I'm going to be able to do this. Sorry. :(

I've had a message from grin to say she is still ill in bed & won't be playing.

Get well soon grin :hug:

Please note - As there are only 6 of us I have changed the max steals to 4.

:pm: to msjo.

I will go to bed now. Will check in tomorrow morning around 9 a.m. again.

Good night or good day to you Aussies! :wave:

ETA: Left moves in my siggy just in case... Feel free to use them, thanks!

oh wow this started already? I am still in the PUF and kind of forget.
Well, gringuitica, hope you get well soon. We sure miss you.
I will go ahead and send out my swap to someone.

Morning all. :wave: I am off to my school fair this morning but will be back in 4 hours or so.

Good morning! :wave:

Get well soon, Grin! :vibes:

ETA: It is 9:40 a.m. our time and I'll have to go - teach two students English and Maths. :D Will be back in 3,5h...

I'm here!! Will send my reveal out to a few people today but just dashing off to take my daughter to her piano lesson.

I'd like whoever comes in next to reveal please. Back to :zzz:

catsalive's reveal:



If the Sun Doesn't Kill You, the Washing Machine Will by Peter Wood (TBR)

Transported by his employer to work in the Middle East, Peter Wood became enmeshed in the bizarre and hilarious lifestyle of the desert state of Qatar. In this book he reveals how the most mundane operations of daily life can prove bafflingly complex as he describes the driving test that involves reversing round an obstacle course for 30 minutes, the elaborate weather forecasts in a country where the weather is the same for 364 days a year, and the country's first takeaway pizza restaurant, which is impossible to locate.

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions


book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (~); ~
3. azuki ~ (~); ~
4. bluecat07 ~ (~); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); ~
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


Azuki, time to travel. Would you like to :pirate: or :flasher: ?

Will pop back in again later.

I'm back home and will be online for a bit...

Good Morning all!!!

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions


book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:
Msjoanna asked Cats to reveal If the Sun Doesn't Kill You
Azuki started the swap in the right spirit by making the first steal!!


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna ??? (~); ~
3. azuki If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (1); ~
4. bluecat07 ~ (~); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); ~
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


MsJoannaYour book is stolen already!! Who would you like next to :flasher: ?

I'd like azuki to reveal please.

I just realized that I have azuki's reveal, so here it is:




The River at the Centre of the World
by Simon Winchester

From Publishers Weekly
"The delicious strangeness of China," as Winchester puts it, is as much the subject of this absorbing account of a personal journey as is the Yangtze River, the third-longest in the world and the entry to China's heartlands. Along its banks, some of the most important events in the country's history have played out, and the river occupies a singular place in the national psyche. In 1994, Winchester followed its course from the East China Sea to Tibet by boat, car, train, plane, bus and foot; but this is more than an ordinary account of a traveler's pilgrimage, although it is a must for any visitor to China. Wryly humorous, gently skeptical, immensely knowledgeable as he wends his way along the 3900 miles of the great river, Winchester provides an irresistible feast of detail about the character of the river itself, the landscape, the cities, villages and people along its banks. Most notably there is Shanghai, once "the most sinful city in the world," now an economic powerhouse rivaling Hong Kong; Wuhan, where the 1910 revolution began that brought Dr. Sun Yat Sen to power and where Mao Ze Dong, at 70, chose to make his famous swim; the Three Gorges, where a great, controversial dam to rival Aswan is being built; and Chongquin, once Chiang Kai-shek's smoggy and furnace-hot capital. Finally, Winchester made his way to the great river's source 15,000 feet high in the mountains of Tibet. A journalist who has written extensively about Asia (Pacific Rising; The Sun Never Sets) and spent nine years in Hong Kong making frequent visits inland, Winchester is comfortable with the country's long, complex history and politics, and he writes about them with an easy grace that defies the usual picture of China as an enigma wrapped in a conundrum.

Good Morning all!!!

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions


book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:
Msjoanna asked Cats to reveal If the Sun Doesn't Kill You
Azuki started the swap in the right spirit by making the first steal!!
msjoanna asks azuki to reveal The River at the Centre of the World


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna The River at the Centre of the World (~); ~
3. azuki If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (1); The River at the Centre of the World
4. bluecat07 ~ (~); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); ~
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


Bluecat, It's your turn!! Would you like to steal :pirate: or reveal :flasher: ?

I am off out for the evening, I will try and get on again before I go to bed. I will send my moves to msjoanna.

People coming over for dinner soon - will try and check in before I fall into bed.

Sorry to have kept you waiting.

I want to steal If the sun doesn't kill you. :D

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions


book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:
Msjoanna asked Cats to reveal If the Sun Doesn't Kill You
Azuki started the swap in the right spirit by making the first steal!!
msjoanna asks azuki to reveal The River at the Centre of the World
bluecat steals If the Sun Doesn't Kill You from azuki


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna The River at the Centre of the World (~); ~
3. azuki ??? (); The River at the Centre of the World
4. bluecat07 If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (2); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); ~
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


Azuki, the Sun has set!! Would you like to :pirate: or :flasher: ?

I will go to bed now. Tomorrow we have to get up quite early and leave for the ballet of my friend's ballet school. I help selling the tickets before it starts and hubby helps setting up the stage decorations during the show... So I will be back in the afternoon. I left moves though. Please use them if you need me. Thanks! :P

Good night! :sleep:

Night all I will be back in the morning. :wave:

Well, I can't really steal so seems like the only thing to do is ask for a reveal... Let's see, how about teachie you show us what you have?

Teachie's reveal is Encore Provence by Peter Mayle.

From Publishers Weekly
After a four-year leave, Mayle is back in the region he described in his bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours ProvenceAand the British author's fans will be pleased that he decided to return to his adopted homeland, for his writing is as charming and witty as ever. In the first chapter, "Second Impressions," Mayle explains that he and his wife quit the convenient, efficient life in America for the "smell of thyme in the fields" and "the swirl and jostle of Sunday-morning markets" of Provence. Mayle goes on to make hash of former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth Reichl's disparaging assessment of Provence, apparently based on a single August visit, and heaps scorn on those who consider themselves to be "travelersAintelligent, well-mannered, cultured"Arather than tourists (as he proudly labels himself). The author then assists future tourists by naming his favorite markets, vineyards, bakeries, chambres d'h?tes, even places to go for the best olive oil or honey. A chapter called "A Beginner's Guide to Marseille" is equally informative and offers the little-known fact that "La Marseillaise" was actually composed in Strasbourg. Mayle enticingly recounts his peregrinations around the truffle markets and his searches for the perfect corkscrew or melon, but it's his ability to capture the subtle cultural peculiarities that distinguishes his writing. Upon first arriving in France from the U.S., Mayle observes, "I think it was the sight of a man power-washing his underpants [with a hose] that really brought home the difference, cultural and otherwise, between the old world and the new." Line drawings not seen by PW. 130,000 first printing; author tour.-- that really brought home the difference, cultural and otherwise, between the old world and the new.

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions

This is just a reminder that if your book doesn't get stolen it is good manners to offer the person who has it a choice of other books (such as anything on your AVLs, bookshelf, some other selection), unless yours is the last book revealed.

book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:
Msjoanna asked Cats to reveal If the Sun Doesn't Kill You
Azuki started the swap in the right spirit by making the first steal!!
msjoanna asks azuki to reveal The River at the Centre of the World
bluecat steals If the Sun Doesn't Kill You from azuki


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna The River at the Centre of the World (~); ~
3. azuki Encore Provence (); The River at the Centre of the World
4. bluecat07 If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (2); ~
5. teachie ~ (~); Encore Provence
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


Teachie, where are you going!! Would you like to :pirate: or :flasher: ?

I would like to see what msjoanna has there please.

Anyone have msjo's reveal?

Hi and Bye!

Just went online really quick, have to get dressed and ready for the ballet now...
See you later... :wave:

Good morning!

I have msjoanna's reveal:

Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks



From Library Journal
Yes, a fridge. People sometimes do the craziest things when they've had too many beers. Hawks, known throughout Great Britain for his humor and appearances on various radio and television shows, made a drunken bet with a friend that he could successfully hitchhike around Ireland with a refrigerator as his traveling companion. Once sober, he realized the magnitude of the task he'd set himself but agreed to honor the bet anyway. The result is a hysterically funny travelog, in which Hawks shares his warm regard for the Irish, his amusing contacts with the natives, anecdotes from places he stayed, and brief tales about those who gave him rides. Anyone who enjoys Bill Bryson or Dave Barry will greatly appreciate Hawks for a writing style that seems to be a stew made of one part Monty Python, one part Benny Hill, and two parts Barry. Highly recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with browsing collections.

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Ms Joanna says: "I've been wanting to read this book since it came out. I was living in Ireland when it was first popular and it was all over the bookstores there at the time. Finally I have a copy and will be excited to share it with someone here after I finish it."

Armchair Travel Swap

Normal 12 hour rules
Please leave moves if you know you are going to be gone for more than a couple of hours
Feel free to PM me (catsalive) if you have any questions

This is just a reminder that if your book doesn't get stolen it is good manners to offer the person who has it a choice of other books (such as anything on your AVLs, bookshelf, some other selection), unless yours is the last book revealed.

book revealed
book held
(number of steals)
max=4

Moves:
Msjoanna asked Cats to reveal If the Sun Doesn't Kill You
Azuki started the swap in the right spirit by making the first steal!!
msjoanna asks azuki to reveal The River at the Centre of the World
bluecat steals If the Sun Doesn't Kill You from azuki
azuki reveals Encore Provence from teachie
teachie asks msjoanna to reveal Round Ireland with a Fridge


1. gringuitica ~ (~); ~ - withdrawn due to illness
2. msjoanna The River at the Centre of the World (~); Round Ireland with a Fridge
3. azuki Encore Provence (); The River at the Centre of the World
4. bluecat07 If the Sun Doesn't Kill You (2); ~
5. teachie Round Ireland with a Fridge (~); Encore Provence
6. candy-is-dandy ~ (~); ~
7. catsalive ~ (~); If the Sun Doesn't Kill You


Candy, where are you going!! Would you like to :pirate: or :flasher: ?