Welcome to the January YBS

Timekeeping starts at NOON on Jan 1st (to give everyone time to recover)

Book held
Book revealed
# of steals (max 5)

Moves:





1. Ace ~ () ~
2. Giz ~ () ~
3. Ramson ~ () ~
4. KathyB ~ () ~
5. Rebecca ~ () ~
6. Stellarv ~ () ~
7. luckaye ~ () ~
8. redhot-brat ~ () ~
9. Chronic ~ () ~
10. Marlene ~ () ~
11. Bluecat ~ () ~
12. elsi ~ () ~
13. rootmartin ~ () ~


ACE! Happy New Year! Start us off anytime!!!!

Oh my gosh! I guess I can take a couple of hours to pick a book for swapping! I may be last on the list, but I'm the first to check in!

Hi there!

I signed up on the other thread but I don't seem to be in the line-up. :( Any chance that I can be included? :kiss:

Just got back from our New Year's Eve party with friends. Will pick a reveal and send it to some before I go to bed...

Ace would like Luckaye to reveal!!

Forgot I signed up for this one :giggle: My reveal has been sent out and I'm ready!!

Sending out my reveal in a few mins. I will be out most of the morning/afternoon tomorrow. I'll check in though as soon as we get home.

My reveal has been sent to Ace and StellarV.

Good Night everyone!!! Happy New Year!!!

Sorry! :blush: My bad!

Oh! Well then I had best go get a reveal - be back soon!

Lucie's reveal


Atonement by Ian McEwan

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge.
By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

I have started to read this book so I ought to be finished by the time the swap in over. The new movie is out soon so it wil be good to compare.

Welcome to the January YBS

Timekeeping starts at NOON on Jan 1st (to give everyone time to recover)

Book held
Book revealed
# of steals (max 5)

Moves:
Ace asks Luckaye to reveal: Atonement



1. Ace Atonement () ~
2. Giz ~ () ~
3. Ramson ~ () ~
4. KathyB ~ () ~
5. Rebecca ~ () ~
6. Stellarv ~ () ~
7. luckaye ~ () Atonement
8. redhot-brat ~ () ~
9. Chronic ~ () ~
10. Marlene ~ () ~
11. Bluecat ~ () ~
12. elsi ~ () ~
13. rootmartin ~ () ~


Giz! Happy New Year!!! It's your turn!

I'm going to bed. I will check in when I wake up around 10am.

I'd like the next person who arrives to reveal please :)

Too late - I have already revealed! :giggle: Good night all - was up too late last night and I need to sleep!

Book Lover by Jennifer Kaufman & Karen Mack



Some women shop. Some eat. Dora cures the blues in the comfort of her L.A. high rise by bingeing on books - shutting the door on the outside world until she emerges strong enough to face her problems. Now her life has fallen apart, all she has left is her love of literature and the book benders she relied on when, as a child, her larger-than-life father wandered away and she and her sister were left with an alcoholic mother. She's coping with a painful separation from her husband, scraping the bottom of a dwindling inheritance and attracted to a seductive guy who works in her local bookstore. He seems to embody all that literature has to offer - but life is more complicated and real people aren't as compliant as the characters in novels..."

out of 5 reviews on amazon. co.uk

oOOOOOooooo thanks Marleney :)

Welcome to the January YBS

Timekeeping starts at NOON on Jan 1st (to give everyone time to recover)

Book held
Book revealed
# of steals (max 5)

Moves:
Ace asks Luckaye to reveal: Atonement
Giz asked the first person to arrive to reveal: Book Lover


1. Ace Atonement () ~
2. Giz Book Lover () ~
3. Ramson ~ () ~
4. KathyB ~ () ~
5. Rebecca ~ () ~
6. Stellarv ~ () ~
7. luckaye ~ () Atonement
8. redhot-brat ~ () ~
9. Chronic ~ () ~
10. Marlene ~ () Book Lover
11. Bluecat ~ () ~
12. elsi ~ () ~
13. rootmartin ~ () ~


Ramson! Happy New Year!!! It's your turn!

You like giz? or have already read cause it is a UK book?
hangover? :whistle: :rolleyes: :lol:

I like, not read it :) and NO hangover I had just one beer last night!

Morning or rather noon! :wave:

LOL I will be back later xx

I had 2 and I feel like a piece of crap :whistle: :rofl:


Good Afternoon Blue!!!! :wave:

Do you have a low tolerance?

I just had a glass of champagne and I feel fine, just a bit tired...

Happy New Year!!!! :wave:

Just wanted to let you know that I sent out my reveal to Marlene, Ace, ramson and luckaye.

I guess so. I was shoocked . I woke up in the middle of the night and really felt like back in the days. hangover.

two beers? :rofl: Is this because I am getting old or because of the meds. :blink: I guess both. :rolleyes:

I hope you'll feel better soon!

Just doing my first checkin of the new year :wave:

My reveal has been sent to Ace, Giz and Redhot

I have reveals for giz and redhot.

Be back later :D

Oh, I arrived before my turn, lucky me! :phew:

Did anybody say hangover? :sick2:

I'll go pick my reveal and send it out.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!! :bananacheer:

I knew I had to drive and I knew the cops would be out in full force last night, so I only had one beer and then a glass of champagne at midnight. Went and saw Kevin Fowler which, if you like country songs that are a little bit naughty, was an awesome way to bring in the new year.

Good Morning. I shared 1/2L of wine with DH and am fine. Or as fine as normal :giggle:

Morning :)

So none of us are completely wrecked then? Oh Marleney I agree about the medication and also the age thing :giggle: of course you know more about that than me! Go on, whip me now! But my tolerance for alcohol is way down on how it used to be :erm: and I seem to suffer for far longer.

Anyway I should have left some moves but I didn't :lol: so I will when I go again

None of us? Speak for yourself, dear... :giggle:

I guess large quantities of beer + wine + chapagne is not a good combination after all... :sick2:

:rofl:

And about age versus tolerance, I couldn't have said better. I am suffering today way more than I used to when I was in my twenties. Guess it's time to cut down on the alcohol...

Aw poor stellar :hug: I hate hangovers. Until I forget how bad they are and drink lots.

Think I shall have some rootbeer now it's much nicer than the real stuff :giggle:

:o :blink: :wacko: :angry: :whip: :whip: :whip: :bash: :rant: :nono:

:rofl:

Poor Stella. :flowers: here you might prefer this :coffee:

I am feeling oke again. Just felt lousy in the night and when I woke up.

Maybe I also notice it much more is because I never drink.
My God I am proud of myself.

I had a phase where every evening I drank 2 beers but I think I drink 6 beers in 1 year now.
so my body is not used to it, but boy I needed it and I had so much fun on my own. :whistle: :lol: :rolleyes:

Giz I don't think you need to leave moves.
Or maybe you do. You have a great book next to your name of course :whistle:

I hate to go away from the game and leave no moves - cos it means everyone could be waiting on me. :nono: :giggle: So I will try and leave some soon :)

no ace your not as fine as normal your a fine as usual

there is no normal involved :rofl:

:rofl: