~*~ Welcome to the Historical Fiction swap ~*~

We don't start official time keeping until the 29th.

Rules:
1. 12 hours to make your move
2. Leave your reveal with 1+ person ** Please either put it in your signature or let us know by posting here who you have left your reveal with!
3. If you leave moves (not a requirement) please be very specific


Book in possession
(Steals - max 5)
Book revealed


Moves:
Krin asks .... to reveal


1. Krin ~~ (~) ; ~~
2. Elsi~~ (~) ; ~~
3. Xeyra ~~ (~) ; ~~
4. Geishabird ~~ (~) ; ~~
5. Sejent ~~ (~) ; ~~
6. Bluecat ~~ (~) ; ~~
7. Breeze ~~ (~) ; ~~
8. Morsecode ~~ (~) ; ~~
9. Zosime ~~ (~) ; ~~
10. AceofHearts ~~ (~) ; ~~
11. Bemaia ~~ (~) ; ~~
12. GateGypsy ~~ (~) ; ~~
13. VeganMedusa ~~ (~) ; ~~
14. SpiderChic ~~ (~) ; ~~



Krin - when you are ready, make your turn! Who would you like to reveal!?

Go Krin go!

:bananacheer:

I guess I didn't make the cut-off for the swap (or maybe my sign-up post just got overlooked :shrug: )

No matter. I'll play next time around.

I hope you all have a great time :)

I am having a very hard time tonight pulling things together. I completely missed Morsie so she went in where Danes was as she pulled out. Have I missed anyone else?

I'm heading to bed. I sent out my reveal. Goodnight!

off to bed

:wave: Good morning

I haven't sent my reveal out yet but I'll do it when I get to work and can get online to do it. It's been an hectic week. I went on a work trip yesterday and managed to find my inbox full when I arrived, so if you sent me any reveals but your name isn't on my sig, then I didn't receive it.

Morning bluecat. :wave:

:wave:
Morning checking in!

Ooh right at the bottom, have been close to there recently but never the very bottom!!

:D

I've sent out my reveal! :)

Even though I am not playing, you have not get rid of me just yet. :evil:

I will try to visit and see your reveals and chat. :)

krin :wave: to Marlene

Sejent - what do you got? :grin:

Ooh I have sejents reveal - hang on....

Sejent's Reveal



The Night Watch by Sarah Waters (TBR)

"Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch tells the story of four Londoners--three women and a young man with a past--whose lives, and those of their friends and lovers, connect in sometimes surprising ways. In wartime London, the women work--as ambulance drivers, ministry clerks, and building inspectors. There are feats of heroism, epic and quotidian, and tragedies both enormous and personal, but it is the emotional inner lives of her characters that Sarah Waters captures with absolute truth and intimacy. Waters describes with perfect knowingness the taut composure of a rescue worker in the aftermath of a bombing, the idle longing of a young woman for her soldier lover, the peculiar thrill of a convict watching the sky ignite through the bars on his window, the hunger of a woman prowling the streets for an encounter, and the panic of another who sees her love affair coming to an end. At the same time, Waters is in absolute control of a narrative that offers up stunning surprises and exquisite turns, even as it depicts the impact of grand historical events on individual lives."

~*~ Welcome to the Historical Fiction swap ~*~

We don't start official time keeping until the 29th.

Rules:
1. 12 hours to make your move
2. Leave your reveal with 1+ person ** Please either put it in your signature or let us know by posting here who you have left your reveal with!
3. If you leave moves (not a requirement) please be very specific


Book in possession
(Steals - max 5)
Book revealed


Moves:
Krin asks sejent to reveal The Night Watch


1. Krin The Night Watch (~) ; ~~
2. Elsi~~ (~) ; ~~
3. Xeyra ~~ (~) ; ~~
4. Geishabird ~~ (~) ; ~~
5. Sejent ~~ (~) ; The Night Watch
6. Bluecat ~~ (~) ; ~~
7. Breeze ~~ (~) ; ~~
8. Morsecode ~~ (~) ; ~~
9. Zosime ~~ (~) ; ~~
10. AceofHearts ~~ (~) ; ~~
11. Bemaia ~~ (~) ; ~~
12. GateGypsy ~~ (~) ; ~~
13. VeganMedusa ~~ (~) ; ~~
14. SpiderChic ~~ (~) ; ~~



elsi, it's your turn to play! Would you like to steal or would you like a reveal!?

it's totally ok :kiss:

i'll get my reveal sent out shortly

Morning :coffee:

I need some more coffee too!





(my reveal has been sent out)

Ha first reveal. :bananadance: I do have that book.

what is Elis going to do? :wink:

Me too - I thought it was a great book!! :D

A wishlist book for me :whistle:

Hi all -- sorry to make you wait -- I tried & tried to do a Fast Reply from my Kindle, but it wasn't working, so I had to wait until I and my laptop were in a place where there is Internet access.

I'd like to see what Bemaia brought to this party!

UTA -- I sent a PM to Bemaia.

Hey elsi, how are you liking the Kindle?

I love the Kindle for reading books. Its cellular connection is cool for downloading books from Amazon and from Feedbooks. Browsing the web is difficult except for sites that have set up separate "mobile" formats for Blackberry & other PDA users; which means that the BookObsessed site is just too difficult to manage through the Kindle.

Immediately after getting the Kindle, I bought Stone Cold by David Baldacci as my first book to read. I had just finished The Collectors and I was eager to read the sequel. This set the stage for a fair evaluation of the Kindle as a device without unfairly penalizing it if the book turned out to be one I didn't enjoy. I'm now reading Sheepfarmer's Daughter by Elizabeth Moon which was a free download from Baen Books. I'm really enjoying it and will be buying & downloading the two sequels in this trilogy.

and how much does a download like that cost Elsi?

It depends. Stone Cold was $9.99, which is Amazon's standard price for new releases and best sellers. Downloads vary from 59 cents to more than 20 dollars depending on the publisher, seller, and title. Amazon promotes the $9.99 price which is roughly $15 lower than the hardback price for the new releases and best sellers. Once a book is out in paperback, the eBook price *tends* to drop to the same price. Which is pretty good except you can't sell, trade, or give away the electronic copy.

:wave: Checking in

... and out again. Will be back in 3-4 hours...

:wave:

:wave:

Are you still waiting for a reveal???????? :o

Elsi, yes that is a bummer so you don't really owe it? well you do but can't sell, trade etcetera

:wave:

I will reveal in a moment!!!! I'm soooo excited!!


:lol:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

Great choice! I really liked that book!

It's one of my favorites! That's why I put it here! :D

I am going to bed now. See you tomorrow. :wave:

The Day is just starting down here! :)

Good Night! :wink: