~*~ Welcome to the Non-Genre Swap!! ~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to take your turn, otherwise you will get bumped to the bottom.
2. You must send your reveal out to at least 1 other person. Please put this information in your sig or post here to let me know!


Book held
(Number steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Chronic asks .... to reveal ....

1. Chronic* ~~ (~); ~~
2. Vegan ~~ (~); ~~
3. Lauren ~~ (~); ~~
4. Lizabeth ~~ (~); ~~
5. Morsie ~~ (~); ~~
6. Breeze ~~ (~); ~~
7. Ri ~~ (~); ~~
8. MsJoanna ~~ (~); ~~
9. Ace ~~ (~); ~~
10. Flicki ~~ (~); ~~
11. YOL ~~ (~); ~~
12. Sejent ~~ (~); ~~
13. Molekilby ~~ (~); ~~
14. Boomda* ~~ (~); ~~
15. Giz ~~ (~); ~~

Chronic, start this swap off right for us! Who would you like to reveal??

yesssss!

If you see a star by your name it means I don't know who you have left your reveal with yet.

:bananacheer: Wow, 2nd!
My reveal should be with sejent, lauren, giz & Flicki as it says in my sig.

Oh my.... last :cry: oh well that's the way it goes :) am really looking forward tot his swap though :wink:

:bananadance:

Ri is after me...that can't be good. :runaway:

I'll send my reveal once I get home from work. I am debating between two books.

I have your reveal! DUH!! :duh:

I've picked my reveal, but haven't had a chance to register it yet on BC. I guess I can send it out without a link though.

I'll try to put it together in a few minutes.

ETA: My reveal is now out...

I'm off to a meeting with a company for my strategy course. :rolleyes:

I like stars so I think I will wait awhile

Me too! :giggle:

I'll get my reveal out to people a little later. Now it's time for a nap! :yawn: I've been working from 6 am to 2 pm all week and let me tell you, I am not cut out for such a schedule! :blink:

pretty stars :angel:

Sent my reveal to giz, Breeze and Lizabeth.

Looking forward to the swap.

I'll be out for a couple of hours so feel free to use my (terribly exciting) move. :)

I sent my reveal out earlier today :)

My reveal is out and everything is in my sig - I am out at the Travel Show tomorrow so I won't check in til later.

I have sent my reveal out to a couple of people.

Done :wink:

I'm outta here! If you're feeling bored while I'm asleep, just read my signature to find my reveal. :-)

First post should be up to date now.

I also got a reveal from Sunny for the Best of 2007 swap. Too bad I'm not playing in it :giggle:

Just solidified my choice and sent my reveal off. I hope it is a good one!

Why can I only see 19 seconds of it? It says 2 mins on the little bar, but then it stops after 19 seconds....

Huh?

I don't know. Other videos are working but not that one.

Want to know what I discovered? Mamma Mia is going to be a movie this summer!!!! Yippee!!! I love love love the musical!

Are you talking about the YouTube video I posted in the other thread? :shrug:

I'm not an ABBA fan, and didn't see the musical. So whatever :P

Oh good lord. Its a good thing you know what the hell I'm doing cause clearly I don't. How did I manage to do that?

Whatever, I'm sick, I'm going to bed. Maybe I'll be sane in the morning. :bash:

That's what I was wondering :giggle:

Good night!

That is one of my favourites! We saw it in Toronto just before it left it was a hoot.

Good Night

Im asking msjoanna to reveal and now Im going to get my reveal ready to send out.

Ok my reveal has been sent out to Morsecode, Giz-angel and hoserlauren. See you in the morning.

Ooh! I'll be right back with Joanna's reveal.

msjoanna's reveal:

A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews



From Publishers Weekly
A 16-year-old rebels against the conventions of her strict Mennonite community and tries to come to terms with the collapse of her family in this insightful, irreverent coming-of-age novel. In bleak rural Manitoba, Nomi longs for her older sister, Tash ("she was so earmarked for damnation it wasn't even funny"), and mother, Trudie, each of whom has recently fled fundamentalist Christianity and their town. Her gentle, uncommunicative father, Ray, isn't much of a sounding board as Nomi plunges into bittersweet memory and grapples with teenage life in a "kind of a cult with pretend connections to some normal earthly conventions." Once a "curious, hopeful child" Nomi now relies on biting humor as her life spins out of control—she stops attending school, shaves her head and wanders around in a marijuana-induced haze—while Ray sells off most of their furniture, escapes on all-night drives and increasingly withdraws into himself. Still, she and Ray are linked in a tender, if fragile, partnership as each slips into despair. Though the narration occasionally unravels into distracting stream of consciousness, the unsentimental prose and the poignant character interactions sustain reader interest. Bold, tender and intelligent, this is a clear-eyed exploration of belief and belonging, and the irresistible urge to escape both.

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I absolutely loved this book, though it was not at all what I expected. I'd thought that the book would have more focus on the Mennonite church and its practices, but instead the book was one of the more wonderful character-driven novels I've read. The book fell apart in the final chapter, but I'm willing to forgive the author not knowing how to end because the rest fo the book was such a delight to read. The book captures the experience of faith followed by questioning in a way that was startling and unusual. The setting of the book -- in a rural Mennonite community in Canada -- managed to work brilliantly.

Indeed, I almost used this as my reveal for the Best of 2007 Swap, but decided to use something else there...

And I'd like to ask for giz's reveal. Sorry - won't update just now, got to get son to bed.

~*~ Welcome to the Non-Genre Swap!! ~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to take your turn, otherwise you will get bumped to the bottom.
2. You must send your reveal out to at least 1 other person. Please put this information in your sig or post here to let me know!


Book held
(Number steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Chronic asks Msjoanna to reveal A Complicated Kindness
Veggy asks giz-angel to reveal ...

1. Chronic* A Complicated Kindness (~); ~~
2. Vegan ~~ (~); ~~
3. Lauren ~~ (~); ~~
4. Lizabeth ~~ (~); ~~
5. Morsie ~~ (~); ~~
6. Breeze ~~ (~); ~~
7. Ri ~~ (~); ~~
8. MsJoanna ~~ (~); A Complicated Kindness
9. Ace ~~ (~); ~~
10. Flicki ~~ (~); ~~
11. YOL ~~ (~); ~~
12. Sejent ~~ (~); ~~
13. Molekilby ~~ (~); ~~
14. Boomda* ~~ (~); ~~
15. Giz ~~ (~); ~~

Giz, reveal yourself !!

Giz's reveal:

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox



Book Description
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is Maggie O’Farrell’s most stunning novel yet – the story of a life stolen, and reclaimed.

‘Ladies and gentlemen, behold. It is most important to keep yourself very still. Even breathing can remind them that you are there, so only very short, shallow breaths. Just enough to stay alive…’

Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Even Kitty, Esme’s beloved sister, is beginning to lose patience. Something will have to be done.

Years later, in the same city, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great aunt in a psychiatric hospital who is about to be released.

Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, is too adrift in her own memories to answer Iris’s questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family’s history.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox is a stunning depiction of a life stolen and reclaimed: an outstanding achievement from one of our finest novelists

~*~ Welcome to the Non-Genre Swap!! ~*~

Rules:
1. You have 12 hours to take your turn, otherwise you will get bumped to the bottom.
2. You must send your reveal out to at least 1 other person. Please put this information in your sig or post here to let me know!


Book held
(Number steals - max 5)
Book revealed

Moves:
Chronic asks Msjoanna to reveal A Complicated Kindness
Veggy asks giz-angel to reveal The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

1. Chronic* A Complicated Kindness (~); ~~
2. Vegan The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (~); ~~
3. Lauren ~~ (~); ~~
4. Lizabeth ~~ (~); ~~
5. Morsie ~~ (~); ~~
6. Breeze ~~ (~); ~~
7. Ri ~~ (~); ~~
8. MsJoanna ~~ (~); A Complicated Kindness
9. Ace ~~ (~); ~~
10. Flicki ~~ (~); ~~
11. YOL ~~ (~); ~~
12. Sejent ~~ (~); ~~
13. Molekilby ~~ (~); ~~
14. Boomda* ~~ (~); ~~
15. Giz ~~ (~); The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Liz, what you gonna do???? Steal or reveal? !!

This was the winner of Canada Reads on CBC Radio in 2006!

Both books sound good - in fact, I joined a bookring for Esme Lennox, so if I end up with it, I'll save some postage. :D