Do we have enough players for an ATS starting on March 1st? The last one was in December.

For newbies, we're basically looking at travelogues - about a person's travels - not travel guides. Think Bill Bryson, not Let's Go.

You can see the types of books offered in previous swaps here, here, here, here & here.

Please, no Frances Mayes or Peter Mayle. These are about people intending to stay put, if not permanently, at least for many years, so there is no travel involved just lots of whining about tradespeople. Not that I didn't enjoy some of the mishaps Mayle endured in Provence.

Without drawing any hard & fast rules, we'll go with travelogues, travel experiences, & the fun of impermanently living abroad be it working, studying or simply being there.


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Me, Me, Me, Me!!!!!! :dance3:

Oh, good! There'll be two of us, at least :giggle:

Add me too! My favorite genre.

How fun...

I love this swap! Me, Me, Me!

I already PMed you to join! I'm really looking forward to this one.

Lovely to see you again Ri :)

Not that you're eager, or anything :lol:

Fabulous to have you both join us. :)

:dance: Me too!

Now, must :read:

Fantastic! :yahoo:

Don't forget me!! I love to travel!

Is that a travel bug in your sig? :giggle:

Now that I have read and sent out all books from my previous swaps (at least for this swap) I am good to go!!

Also, may I add that travel means travel. If someone buys a house and moves to live in a different country, that doesn't count as traveling.

Actually, I don't agree. I think it depends on the book. For example, I'd definitely include The Sex Lives of Cannibals in this genre even though the author lived on the Pacific island that he described. He was there briefly, as an outsider, and was writing about his adventure of living there.

But someone who moved permanently or for a long time, maybe not so much...

Actually, I have to go with msjoanna here. I put Sex Lives of Cannibals in this category as well as The Caliph's House in which he bought a house in Morocco for one year and was refurbing it while living there. So, I guess I always thought of it as "travel/brief living experiences abroad" (as in 1-2 years max)....

Any other thoughts?

I'd love to play (for the first time) but I'll be absent so ...

I thought that The Caliph's House is fiction (i.e. novel), don't know why? :blush:

I agree with what others have said. Sex Lives of Cannibals was what immediately came to mind.

I think we'll go with "travel/brief living experiences abroad". Even long experiences abroad are counted as travel writing, but I think Frances Mayes & Peter Mayle might be swap-killers. What do you think? Exceptions can be made for other books - we are not going to be inflexible. I'm quite interested in some of the living experiences.

Is playing this game the same as playing the Non-Fiction Swap? Are all the swaps done like the yankee swap style? It was really, really fun....

Yep. Same old thing :lol:

Well, I was thinking of books like Under the Tuscan Sun. There was one that showed up in a swap and both Cats and I felt didn't really belong. But I can see it's hard to draw a concrete line. Especially when sometimes an author unexpectedly settles into a place longer than intended, or plans to stay for a long period and ends up being on the road again.

I am happy with the majority decision.

I'll play! :)

Gotcha, krin baby :)

I agree about Under the Tuscan Sun.

I have added a rider to the original post. Does this sound like a reasonable definition/proviso/restriction?

I'm ok with your proviso... and since my reveal isn't by either author, I feel I am safe :wink:

:phew:

Is it too early to send my reveal out? :lol:

:bananadance: **so psyched** :bananadance:

:giggle:

The book I'm going to use is on 5 BookObsessors' wishlists, but none of them have joined this swap yet. :rolleyes:

:rofl:

Maybe invite them?

I had something downright awful happen to me yesterday. Travelled into London by train with only 1 book and finished it on the way in!! Ahhh! No book to read on the way home.

So I had to go and buy one! Found an excellent book for this swap, am now reading it. It's v good! :drool:

Is that allowed - pushing your book before the swap even starts?? :giggle:

Candy you should be better prepared! :nono: As a BOer, how can you not have enough books around you all the time, to be prepared for all thinkable and unthinkable circumstances??? What if you got kidnapped? What if an alien beamed you up its spaceship? How will you survive without a library along with you?

On the other hand, in view that you have found a good book for the swap, you will be let go of lightly for this first offense.

:rofl:

Awesome.

I'm not the only one who always has a paperback tucked in her jacket pocket then? (and another in my schoolbag as backup!)

Congrats on finding a good book for the swap, though! I'm really looking forward to seeing all the reveals here. I can tell I'll definately be updating my wishlist after this one!

OK! My reveal is out! **so eager to start** :pepper: :bananadance: :pepper:

My husband laughs at me as I always have to take a spare book with me everywhere (just in case) but on this particular occasion I was already weighed down with work related stuff and I stood in my office wondering where I could stash my spare book (no pockets, handbag (sorry, purse) too small). There was just no room. I decided (erroneously, it turned out) that the book I had would last. Sigh!! Never again!!

However, every cloud.... I wouldn't have bought the book I'm reading and you lot wouldn't have had the option of getting it next! :D

Am I the only European in this swap?? :unsure:

Looks like it... but you'll be joined by a lone kiwi :)

Antipodean :hug: Did you feel it??

Right back at you! :hug:
If I'm a kiwi, then what are you? A badger? Fox? Squirrel? :giggle:

It'll be a regular zoo.


Eek! I accidentally opened your reveal krin but managed to page back before I saw it. :duh: