it's the Crap Book Swap!!!!

Don't forget to tell us WHY you think the book is crap!

Books held
Books revealed
(# of times stolen)
Max steals = 5
books out of play

PARTICIPANTS:
1. Rebeccaljames !!!! (#), ???
2. sunlightbub !!!! (#), ???
3. stellav !!!! (#), ???
4. Gringuitica !!!! (#), ???
5. bluecat !!!! (#), ???
6. Cats !!!! (#), ???
7. breeze !!!! (#), ???
8. Brat !!!! (#), ???
9. Giz !!!! (#), ???
10. Candy !!!! (#), ???
11. Blackteiw !!!! (#), ???

Rebecca whenever you are ready to start, go for it!

:bananadance:

:giggle:

Yep we are off when Rebecca arrives I think she is now :sleep:

:wacko: :whistle:

I'm going to bed. I'll be back around 10am or so.

I sent candy an email in case she is still about.

I have to go shopping today :sick: but I'll be in and out

I'm off out in a bit and probably won't be back til this evening...I'll leave moves in my sig :D

Checking in. Slept long and just got up... :wave:

:wave:

I want to see candy's reveal to. :peek:

Hey! Glad this has started! I'll send my reveal off...

Good morning all! :wave:

Reveal sent, I'm all ready to play!!!

I won't be around much today, 'cos Sting awaits for me! Yes, today it is the only Brazilian show of The Police and I am terribly excited. I'm going there in the afternoon to get the best place.

'Till then I will be in and out.

Reveal has been sent, but I won't be around much today... gotta run some errands!

I received your reveal grin. :rofl: :whistle:

Stella. Sting? :drool:
I know you will have so much fun. :bananadance:
(he to with all those gorgeous Brasilian women drooling over him) :lol:

Still no candy? Ohhhh. Maybe Rebecca will decide on another reveal cos I don't think candy can have sent hers out.

Good Morning!
My reveal has been sent and I have reveal for a few people (not Candy though)
I'll check back in the afternoon. :wave:

I'm soooo excited!!!

I'll be away in two hours. :D

I am back from teaching two students. :wave:

Stella, I bet you'll have a wonderful time at the concert!

Have a good time Stella :)

Take That were playing at the O2 last night which is just down the road from me - 5 mins on the bus. And Spice Girls are playing there too in a bit - but tickets are so expensive for these big gigs.

I deleted my last post since candy hasn't sent her reveal out yet.

I would like Brat to reveal please.

Brat's reveal:

Ghosts of the Fireground by Peter M. Leschak



If almost no one has heard of the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871, which consumed an entire Wisconsin town and killed twelve hundred people, that's because it occurred at the same time as the Great Chicago Fire. But Peshtigo was a far more potent example of just how devastating and uncontrollable fire can be, which is why it fascinates the author. In this curious blend of history and autobiography, Leschak, himself a wildland firefighter, intersperses an account of the Peshtigo disaster with stories of his own experience on the fireground. The result is often formally awkward, but the material is gripping, and Leschak does an excellent job of evoking both the terror and the majesty of a raging fire. In clean, understated prose, he describes the world of the firefighter, in which endless days of waiting give way to hours of intensity and exaltation. Firefighters, Leschak suggests, may not like fires, but they're never happier than when they're in the middle of one.

it's the Crap Book Swap!!!!

Don't forget to tell us WHY you think the book is crap!

Books held
Books revealed
(# of times stolen)
Max steals = 5
books out of play

PARTICIPANTS:
1. Rebeccaljames Ghosts of the Fireground (#), ???
2. sunlightbub !!!! (#), ???
3. stellav !!!! (#), ???
4. Gringuitica !!!! (#), ???
5. bluecat !!!! (#), ???
6. Cats !!!! (#), ???
7. breeze !!!! (#), ???
8. Brat !!!! (#), Ghosts of the Fireground
9. Giz !!!! (#), ???
10. Candy !!!! (#), ???
11. Blackteiw !!!! (#), ???

Sunny, what crap do you want?!

Sunny wants my reveal - BRB

Giz's reveal:

A Dangerous Husband by Jane Shapiro



Amazon.com
Reading The Dangerous Husband is like waking up to earthquake weather: Jane Shapiro's second novel exists in an atmosphere where something shattering is always about to happen. Its context is deceptive--New York in the '90s, a world of artists and writers (the narrator is a photographer), elegant dinner parties at chic apartments. But beneath the surface of this polished world there is trouble. Things are not quite right. For a start, the narrator's new husband, Dennis, cannot move two steps without tripping over himself. At one point he falls through a glass tabletop and almost maims his penis. He keeps an albino frog in a bucket in the basement. The frog floats there, colorless, a sign--but of what?

Shapiro is that rare breed: a truly funny writer who is also emotional and lyrical and deeply sad. Like Joy Williams, she seamlessly evokes a dark and unmistakable world. In The Dangerous Husband the narrator always feels like she is bluffing, playing the part of the wife, watching herself act the way a woman in love acts, wishing she could stop watching herself, wishing she could escape her acute and menacing self-consciousness. Shapiro describes loneliness in prose so precise it's breathtaking:

In loneliness, as we know, anyone who cares for you can become the object of a kind of vagrant love: dry cleaner, hair cutter, naturally any masseuse if you visit one; occasionally the doctor, always the nurse. If any of these evinces a bad attitude you can be crushed like a pip. Otherwise, depths of gratitude. The guy who fixes the frame of your eyeglasses (which you will have broken yourself, when you're lonely, by some method like forgetting they're in bed with you and fitfully rolling back and forth and crushing them in the night), this wonderful simple calm optician, holding up your own glasses in delicate fingers.

As the story progresses, the narrator begins to fear her husband more and more, and fear isolates her further. While at times the plot edges into the implausible, Shapiro never lets it stay suspended there for long. Even when you can't believe her story, you trust her. By the book's end, I knew I would follow her anywhere.

Giz's review
Oh my, this book irritated me! Pretentious, poor construction, HORRIBLE characters, I wanted to hurl it straight out of the window! And looking at the reviews on Amazon I think are you reading the same book as me???? I found it too CLEVER for the sake of it.... oh you can tell can't you, me and this book did not part as friends. So I am offering it in this swap, as I KNOW there are people who disagree with me, and I am hoping to see what someone else thinks!

it's the Crap Book Swap!!!!

Don't forget to tell us WHY you think the book is crap!

Books held
Books revealed
(# of times stolen)
Max steals = 5
books out of play

PARTICIPANTS:
1. Rebeccaljames Ghosts of the Fireground (#), ???
2. sunlightbub A Dangerous Husband (#), ???
3. stellav !!!! (#), ???
4. Gringuitica !!!! (#), ???
5. bluecat !!!! (#), ???
6. Cats !!!! (#), ???
7. breeze !!!! (#), ???
8. Brat !!!! (#), Ghosts of the Fireground
9. Giz !!!! (#), A Dangerous Husband
10. Candy !!!! (#), ???
11. Blackteiw !!!! (#), ???

Stellarv, what crap do you want?!

I'd love to know why Brat did not like her crap.


Sounds interesting.
Damn It sucks that I do not have crap . well I have loads of it :whistle: but not crap I think others will like. ;)

Just give me some two minutos more, and I'll choose. :rolleyes:

ETA: OK, let's go for a reveal to make a change. I never do it! I'd like bluecat to reveal.

she says in her JE :)


The New Yorker's reviewers comment about Leschak's writing style being "formally awkward" sums up my probelm with the book quite well.

It's a good book, and very detailed writing. It gives you a great feel for the events and time period.However Leschak's constantly getting off track and adding in flashbacks to his own firefighting adventures just really throws the feel of the book for me.

So though I enjoyed the history and thriller aspects of it, I simply couldn't fully enjoy the book. Better luck to the next reader.

I'll PM bluecat to let her know I'd ike to see her reveal. :dance2:

I'll get it. Hang on...

My reveal is:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court



Book Description
The story of Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who is accidentally returned to sixth-century England, is a powerful analysis of such issues as monarchy versus democracy and free will versus determinism. Yet it is also one of Twain's finest comic novels, still fresh and funny after more than 100 years. This edition reproduces more than 40 of Dan Beard's original drawings.

I had to read this for an English lit class and just couldn't get into it. Didn't get the humour. I liked Huck Finn but not this book. But maybe someone else will think it is hilarious and interesting?!

it's the Crap Book Swap!!!!

Don't forget to tell us WHY you think the book is crap!

Books held
Books revealed
(# of times stolen)
Max steals = 5
books out of play

PARTICIPANTS:
1. Rebeccaljames Ghosts of the Fireground (#), ???
2. sunlightbub A Dangerous Husband (#), ???
3. stellav A Connecticut Yankee in.... (#), ???
4. Gringuitica !!!! (#), ???
5. bluecat !!!! (#), A Connecticut Yankee in...
6. Cats !!!! (#), ???
7. breeze !!!! (#), ???
8. Brat !!!! (#), Ghosts of the Fireground
9. Giz !!!! (#), A Dangerous Husband
10. Candy !!!! (#), ???
11. Blackteiw !!!! (#), ???
12. camis !!!! (#), ???

Gringuitica, what crap do you want?! Will you steal crap or reveal some??

I am off to a girls night out with my sister-in-law. We will go to the movies first and then go to a bar and get some drinks...

Have a nice Saturday evening everyone! :wave:

Have fun Blue!!!!

I'm hanging around here for a couple hours before we go out to do some errands and then to the in-laws for dinner....

I will be off to watch the saturday night TV delights and to start wrapping presents in a while but I will check back periodically. I am not going to leave moves cos I don't know what to do :lol: but I will before bed :)

Have fun, girls! :wave:

I am also leaving. It's three in the afternoon and I'm going near where the concert happens. I'm meeting friends, having some beers, and waiting for the best moment to enter the stadium and getting the closest I'll ever get to Sting!!! :wub:

See you tomorrow! :cheers: :party:

Hey it is SCDT! :bananadance:

Thanks for the description of the fire book.

Have Fun you all.

Me and Giz will have fun in front of our Tvs.
I've watched speed skating and Biathlon today.
Yes the wintersport season has started.
Although I cannot really enjoy watching as I used to. I get to nervous. so stupid :pirate:

Blue. Liebe grüße
Stella hasta la vista? :rofl:

Sorry I disappeared earlier and didn't leave my reveal. I've been out most of the day getting rained on, drinking coffee and eating pizza with other bookcrossers in Ipswich, UK.

I will now send out my reveal details.

I started to feel sorry for you reading the first half of your sentence, but when reading the second part, it stopped. :rolleyes: :lol:

Yeah - it was mostly a very good day! :D

But I had to strip off and get straight in the shower when I got home - I forgot my unbrella and it was a 15 minute walk in the cold and wet to the railway station.