10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. Lizabeth~ ( ) ; ~
2. Apolonia~ ( ) ; ~
3. AM10000: ~ ( ) ; ~
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Wss4: ~ ( ) ; ~
6. Boomda181: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; ~

Lizabeth, please start us off by choosing the first person to REVEAL!!

I'm here. I am going to see if everyone get into the room in the next few minutes before I ask for a reveal

I just went to check if the book I am offering was on anyone's wishlist and it was...Mine!! :giggle:
Guess I should go through that list again.

:rofl:

Sounds good, Lizabeth..I'm working on getting my reveal together.. :lol:

Ok, got my reveal together..You all might have to be patient with me though, it has been a LOOONG time since I've done any updating! And I don't think I've ever done it on this board! :blink:

I have a reveal -- a book that I only recently read and enjoyed very much. If it isn't to the liking of the winner, she may pick a replacement from my entire Available & TBR lists.

I think I am going to ask for Elsi's reveal (I was going to ask before I even saw her recent post :giggle: )

Running Scared by Elizabeth Lowell



From the back cover:

Risa Sheridan knows everything about gold-its mysteries, its allure, its perils. Her boss, Shane Tannahill-owner of the ultra-successful Las Vegas gambling mecca, the Golden Fleece-is addicted to the stuff. Now an ancient Celtic piece is being offered to Shane for his collection, with the promise of more to come, and the casino owner is hooked. But though she shares Shane's enthusiasm, Risa is wary - because something about this particular artifact is mysterious and troubling, something that says "stay away." It is a voice that should be heeded, because soon people are dying all around them. And whether it's an ancient curse that has taken hold or their lives or the simple, murderous greed of unscrupulous adversaries, there is suddenly no place in the surreal, blinding glitter of Vegas for Risa and Shane to hide...

:peek:

AM I would like to see what you have please.

10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. LizabethRunning Scared~ ( ) ; ~
2. Apolonia~ ( ) ; ~
3. AM10000: ~ ( ) ; ~
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Wss4: ~ ( ) ; ~
6. Boomda181: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; Running Scared~

Apolonia, Your turn!! Are you going to STEAL or ask for a REVEAL??

Are ya going to play?

Come on, you know you want to.

My reveal is: "The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx



He is the definitive loser. The big "L". He's timid, an underachiever, drifts from job to job, and even lacks in the looks department. He seems to ache for love and let's his cheating wife walk all over him. He's Quoyle. No first name, just Quoyle. What Quoyle does have, is two little girls, who love him and a big heart that is tied up in knots and needs to be untangled.

When the wife is lost in an auto accident, Quoyle is on his own to try to rebuild his life, and care for his daughters. Drowning in his own misery, his domineering Aunt takes charge and whisks them all off to the home of the Quoyle's, a rugged little fishing town in Newfoundland. The town is one where everbody knows everybody and they all have tales of yore to tell. After Quoyle lands a job with the local newspaper, he soon becomes part of the big family of friends and neighbors, and learns to love again. The town has quite a few local characters that add quite a bit of humor and history to the story.

Proulx gives marvelous descriptions of the area and makes it very easy to visualize the surroundings. Each chapter opens with a brief introduction, usually of some intricate knot used by sailors and fisherman(most often from "The Ashley Book of Knots"), which seem to hold some life secrets and, parallels the life changing events Quoyle is going through. As the story unfolds, we can see the gradual progress of Quoyle's big heart opening up to love, and becoming the man he has inside of him.

10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. LizabethRunning Scared~ ( ) ; ~
2. ApoloniaThe Shipping News~ ( ) ; ~
3. AM10000: ~ ( ) ; The Shipping News
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Wss4: ~ ( ) ; ~
6. Boomda181: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; Running Scared~

My turn!! Wss4, What do you have to show me??

That title looks awfully familiar :giggle:

Your the only one here who has had this on their bookshelf. :lol:




(Mine has a different cover)

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)
by Jasper Fforde


Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard.
Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour, Styx moves on to the nation's most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall, where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames.

Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye. The audacity of the premise and its working out provides sudden leaps of understanding, many of them accompanied by wild fits of the giggles. This is a peculiarly promising first novel. --Roz Kaveney

:peek:

:rofl: I'm good at picking like that..

Since Ramson hasn't shown up since I put up the play thread, I'm going to bump her to the bottom...

10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. Lizabeth Running Scared~ ( ) ; ~
2. Apolonia The Shipping News~ ( ) ; ~
3. AM10000: The Eyre Affair~ ( ) ; The Shipping News
5. Wss4: ~ ( ) ; The Eyre Affair~
6. Boomda181: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; Running Scared~
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~

Wss4, Your Turn!!! Do you want to STEAL or REVEAL?? :ph34r:

That makes it my turn!!

I want to see what Apolonia has!

My reveal is:
Wolf Tower
by Tanith Lee





Synopsis
All her life, Claidi has endured hardship in the House, where she must obey a spoiled princess. Then a golden stranger arrives,living proof of a world beyond the House walls. Claidi risks all to free the charming prisoner and accompanies him across the Waste toward his faraway home. It is a difficult yet marvelous journey, and all the while Claidi is at the side of a man she could come to love. That is, until they reach his home . . . and the Wolf Tower.

Annotation
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.

10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. Lizabeth Running Scared~ ( ) ; ~
2. Apolonia The Shipping News ( ) ; Wolf Tower
3. AM10000: The Eyre Affair~ ( ) ; The Shipping News
5. Wss4: Wolf Tower~ ( ) ; The Eyre Affair
6. Boomda181: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; Running Scared~
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~

Boomda, Your Turn!!! Do you want to STEAL or REVEAL?? :ph34r:

WooHoo! That makes it my turn, luckaye what do you have???

:rofl:

Based on recent journal entries, I believe that this may have been my book at one time. :giggle:

So AM you and I both have that special ability. :P

You're even better though because the one you revealed was once your copy! :rofl:

Nooooooo!!!!


I can't believe I just did that!!! :bash:


I was going to offer The Stone Prince but when you asked me to reveal I switched it to something else cause I had checked because I knew it was in your TBR pile.

That was a good switch huh? :blush: :lol:

:rofl:

French Kiss by Beth Roberts

This is the novelisation of the movie starring Meg Ryan (Kate) and Kevin Kline (Luc). Kate hates flying, but her husband to be is in Paris with another woman, and she's determined to win him back. On the flight to Paris, she is seated next to an obnoxious French criminal named Luc. Kate's introduction to Paris is a disaster. Luc pretends to be a gentleman, but he's really out to recover some stolen jewels. The results border on farce as Kate tries to win back her man and Luc his loot.

Morsecode took The Stone Prince from me in December.

I see Ramson!! :yahoo:

My goodness, you ought to have seen some of the images I got when I googled French Kiss to get a pic to use :blush: :blush:

10 Minute time limit on turns, aka quick play. :)


Book currently held
Book revealed
Number of steals (Max 4)

1. Lizabeth Running Scared~ ( ) ; ~
2. Apolonia The Shipping News ( ) ; Wolf Tower
3. AM10000: The Eyre Affair~ ( ) ; The Shipping News
5. Wss4: Wolf Tower~ ( ) ; The Eyre Affair
6. Boomda181: French Kiss~ ( ) ; ~
7. Luckaye: ~ ( ) ; French Kiss
8. Elsi: ~ ( ) ; Running Scared~
4. Ramson: ~ ( ) ; ~

Luckaye, Your Turn!!! Do you want to STEAL or REVEAL?? :ph34r:

I can only imagine! :rofl: Poor Lucie! I've gotten google surprises a few times too.

:rofl: I can imagine! :blush:

:rofl:

I can only imagine

Cool!!!!!

oh my gracious. We all said the same thing!

Wendy if it makes you feel any better I have 2 copies of the Shipping News on my shelf.
I am a member of the club too!!
:rofl: