**Official time starts Friday, March 21st @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have GREEN somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there!!
**Send your reveal to two other people in this swap! Please!
**You have 12 hours to make your move if you don't you will be bumped to the BOTTOM!
**Leaving moves is up to you they are NOT required!
**If you leave moves they will not be used until it has been the player's turn for 4 hours (hoping they will return and make their own move)
~~~UNLESS the player explicitly asks for their move to be used immediatly.
**Please remove yourself if you have outstanding commitments anywhere on BO over 6 months old. Please PM me if you think someone falls into this category.
**Just have fun!!

Moves:


Reveal Thread


Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 5)


1. wss: ~(*):~
2. Da Brat: ~(*):~
3. Da Bug: ~(*):~
4. BooksForever: ~(*):~
5. CdnBlueRose: ~(*):~
6. The Infamous Cheesy: ~(*):~
7. mellonhead: ~(*):~
8. Nursie: ~(*):~
9. Terra: ~(*):~
10. BunnyLady: ~(*):~
11. Chambejd: ~(*):~
12. LML: ~(*):~


Wss... Feel free to start us off when your ready! Time won't start til tomorrow at noon!

Woohoo!! Looks like I get to start us off.

I will wait till this evening though, since I can not send out my reveal until then.

:bananadance:

ETA: My reveal has been sent to wss4 and cheesy! :)

:bananadance: :wub: :bananadance:

I'm reading my reveal now. I guess I'd better put my reveal together and send it out to a few people.

I'm rethinking my reveal. It's on a certain someone's wish list but she's not signed up for this swap. Must :coffee: and ponder this bookish situation.

I need to put my reveal together, I will do that tonight and send it out.

Guess I better get my reveal together. I'm reading it right now. Got your reveal Cheesy. :wave:

Okay I have sent my reveal out to those in my siggy. Seems that I sent them twice as the first one hung up on me, so just delete one of them. They are both the same.


Now to start us off on this grand adventure I am going to ask Rosie to reveal!!

Cool! Back in a flash! :)

Mine is a Take One, Two, or Three Offer:

The Wishing Jar by Penelope Stokes
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3754161



Stokes has an unquenchable penchant for using the symbolism of objects as a springboard for her stories (The Memory Book; The Amber Photograph; The Treasure Box) and this novel predictably combines her distinctively good writing with a mostly recycled plot line involving time travel and women looking to the past for guidance. This contemporary tale, aimed loosely at evangelical Christian women, features 51-year-old widow Abby Quinn McDougall lamenting her life. She feels trapped between a surly teenage daughter, Neal Grace, and an aging live-in mother who requires her careful attention. On the family bookcase is an ivory porcelain "wishing jar," an heirloom that's purported to work its magic for those with deep yearnings. Abby, Neal Grace and Granny Q all long for change, and their wishes become the axis around which the story spins. The novel, in three parts, starts strongly, then slips into a time travel sequence that is fairly imaginative, but weakens the narrative and slows the pace. The multigenerational relationships of women are always good fodder for fiction, yet some of Stokes's plot elements (death by drunk driver, a hospital scene turning point and an unwed teen pregnancy) are hackneyed motifs in evangelical fiction. Stokes's established readers will feel a sense of d‚j… vu, though her prose is smooth as butter. One wonders what Stokes might be capable of should she stretch her wings and risk a little bit more.


The Pirate Queen: the Story of Grace O'Malley, Irish Pirate
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5915405



From Publishers Weekly
Gold celebrates the bravura of "a woman in a man's world" with his swashbuckling second novel (after Warrior Queen) about a 16th-century Irish buccaneer as gorgeous as she was dauntless. Set against the backdrop of Ireland and England from 1544 to 1588, the novel tracks Grace O'Malley's career from girlhood to middle age, with the occasional chapter cutting away to Queen Elizabeth I, an equally red-haired, resourceful and outspoken heroine. The daughter of a chieftain and merchantman–cum–pirate, Grace takes up her father's trade and commands a merchant fleet by age 30. An astute trader, ruthless pirate and Irish patriot, she plunders the ships of the Dutch, French, Spanish and Turks—and with particular relish stymies the oppressive English. She also achieves two marriages, four children and many amorous liaisons. Grace's story meets Queen Elizabeth's toward the novel's end, when the English kidnap Grace's youngest son. The Irishwoman courageously calls on the queen to ask for her son's return, and the two kindred spirits spend a remarkable night together of shared confidences and political wheeling and dealing. This fantastical yarn will satisfy readers looking to root for a strong woman with a sharp sword and even more pointed tongue.


The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5002055



From Publishers Weekly
Two powerful women of indomitable will-Elizabeth I and the sea-loving Irish pirate, Grace O'Malley-collide in this vivid but ungainly historical drama. Maxwell (The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, etc.) introduces the fabulous queen at 60, her face white with alum and eggshell paint and her red wig ablaze. Twice the age of her confidant, the brilliant Robert Devereaux, earl of Essex, she is brittle and bitter, loath to show any weakness or mercy. Determined to stamp out the ongoing unrest in Ireland, she calls on the notorious O'Malley for counsel. O'Malley's son and brother are in the custody of the English, and it is for their sake that she agrees to appear before Elizabeth. In an extraordinary private conference late at night in the queen's rooms, the Irishwoman tells her own story, which is the history of an island nation at war with England and itself as well as of a woman who has lived a long and turbulent life. Moved by her tale, Elizabeth grants her wishes, but soon finds herself sending Essex to destroy the rebellion raging in Ireland. Ravaged by syphilis and outnumbered two to one, Essex is persuaded by O'Malley that there is no shame in asking for a truce, and he makes peace with the Irish. Though he rushes back to Elizabeth hoping for her blessing, he falls from favor and desperately engineers a hopeless uprising. Maxwell's double portrait of two aging women is warmly drawn ("Look at us," says Grace. "Two old birds fightin' for the same feckin' worm"), but the novel's pacing is erratic, its leaps from England court intrigue to Irish battle scenes jarring.

Well there's a load of green colored books. :lol:

**Official time starts Friday, March 21st @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have GREEN somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there!!
**Send your reveal to two other people in this swap! Please!
**You have 12 hours to make your move if you don't you will be bumped to the BOTTOM!
**Leaving moves is up to you they are NOT required!
**If you leave moves they will not be used until it has been the player's turn for 4 hours (hoping they will return and make their own move)
~~~UNLESS the player explicitly asks for their move to be used immediatly.
**Please remove yourself if you have outstanding commitments anywhere on BO over 6 months old. Please PM me if you think someone falls into this category.
**Just have fun!!

Moves:

Wss4 asks Rosie to reveal Wishing Jar/Pirate Queen/Wild Irish


Reveal Thread


Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 5)


1. wss: Wishing Jar/Pirate Queen/Wild Irish(*):~
2. Da Brat: ~(*):~
3. Da Bug: ~(*):~
4. BooksForever: ~(*):~
5. CdnBlueRose: ~(*):Wishing Jar/Pirate Queen/Wild Irish
6. The Infamous Cheesy: ~(*):~
7. mellonhead: ~(*):~
8. Nursie: ~(*):~
9. Terra: ~(*):~
10. BunnyLady: ~(*):~
11. Chambejd: ~(*):~
12. LML: ~(*):~


Redhot-Brat, it's your turn!! Time won't start til tomorrow at noon!

:spin: :spin: Woo Hoo, we are SWAPPIN' now!!! :spin: :spin:

Excellent reveals :blush: :o

Glad to see that we've started. I'll be around tonight but not during the day tomorrow. I probably won't be needed for a few days anyway. I've sent out my reveal and am ready to watch the action! :D

:peek:

I did PM brat earlier when I posted the update :)

:wave:

:sleep: :wave:

:peek:

Goodnight! :)

Sorry I havent been around much today after I posted this.. had to take my stepdaughter to Potosi to meet her fiance and then tonight John and I went to get the boys Easter stuff and to buy Kenzie her big girl car seat the infant seat was starting to hurt her little shoulders.. and its PINK of course!

I will get my reveal ready and out then I got to get to bed cuz Kenzie is a morning person unlike her grandma! LOL

see y'all in the morning.

Morning. See Brat still has not popped in. I have to work today. Will check in during lunch. Have fun!!

I'll be back later this afternoon!! :)

Going to work today - won't be home until about 6pm my time, so hopefully you don't need me. I don't want to leave a move because I'll want to see what's been revealed by then. I don't think I'll be able to check in from work. Have a good day! :)

I've been here and will check back periodically. I will send my reveal to someone yet today.

Anybody want to volunteer to take it?.... :peek:

:wave: Morning!

:peek:

Good Morning Everyone.. I will probably not be here much this weekend I found my 15 year old son last night I havent seen in 8 years and I am going to see this weekend in Arkansas.. I am soo excited!

Wow! Best of luck, I hope everything works out with him.

I talked on the puter all night last night.. he kept saying Mom I miss you and Mom I love you and I was just bawling like a baby!

Awwww Holly :cry: :hug:

OMG....I don't know what happened but this sounds like exciting news and I am very happy for you.

((((( Nursie ))))) Safe travels, and I hope everything works out the way you want it to! :hug: :wub:

I'll be leaving soon for an appt., back by noon Calif. time.

Wow. Safe journey Nursie. Hope all goes well. :hug:

Yay! I'm so excited. My first swap back. I can't wait. Thank you nursie for organizing and good luck today.

I am so sorry guys. I had some family stuff come up yesterday afternoon that required my immedate and prolonged attention. I'm just now getting a moment to collect myself and realized this started already.

I will get my reveal out shortly.

Ok I was just reading the thread and realized it is my turn also. So could I get Nursie's reveal please.

Hi Brat,

Hope all is OK now, no worries, you know us, always trying to get an early start! :giggle:

I have Nursie's reveal, have PM'd her on Yahoo Msngr, will post her reveal in a few if she doesn't pop over.