Title: March YBS
Description: Play time!
Description: Play time!
Breeze - March 24, 2008 01:23 AM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
1. redhot-brat* < {} >
2. Giz* < {} >
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene* < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis* < {} >
9. Root* < {} >
10. Teachie* < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic* < {} >
13. flicki* < {} >
BRAT! Start us off anytime!!! Whose reveal would you like to see?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
1. redhot-brat* < {} >
2. Giz* < {} >
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene* < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis* < {} >
9. Root* < {} >
10. Teachie* < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic* < {} >
13. flicki* < {} >
BRAT! Start us off anytime!!! Whose reveal would you like to see?
elsi - March 24, 2008 02:06 AM (GMT)
Checking in. Need to prepare a reveal.
rootmartin - March 24, 2008 02:09 AM (GMT)
Hi! I'm checking in. I'll post who has my reveal in my sig. Yeah!!!!! :bananadance:
One clarification on the rules - do we have to leave moves?
One clarification on the rules - do we have to leave moves?
Breeze - March 24, 2008 02:10 AM (GMT)
Well I just learned how to use the new database and I noticed some participants have books listed on there as being owing for more than 6 months....
Please check it out and try to update if you can. If you have books that people have been waiting to receive for more than 6 months, please be honest. Thanks!
Please check it out and try to update if you can. If you have books that people have been waiting to receive for more than 6 months, please be honest. Thanks!
redhot-brat - March 24, 2008 05:48 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Breeze @ Mar 23 2008, 08:10 PM) |
| Well I just learned how to use the new database and I noticed some participants have books listed on there as being owing for more than 6 months.... Please check it out and try to update if you can. If you have books that people have been waiting to receive for more than 6 months, please be honest. Thanks! |
I have cleared the one owed to LML already and it should be removed now.
I just heard back from AM on the one I owed to her. It is a case of she said to nevermind sending it and I never updated my records to reflect that. She chose to not pick something else at the time, but we decided tonight to have her pick something in it's place which I will be sending out as soon as she tells me what it is.. I will have a mod update/clear it tomorrow. :)
Other then those the rest of my owed are within the 6 month (actually within 3 months) frame, so I am okay now? :shrug: I think.
ETA: I will ask for Giz's reveal, which I have, so I'll be right back with it, as I know she's in bed at this hour. :wave:
redhot-brat - March 24, 2008 06:07 AM (GMT)
Giz's reveal
The Sea by John Banville
Synopsis
This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared there, in that long-ago summer, as if from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins, Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. Praise for "The Sea": 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov. "The Sea" [is] his best novel so far ...Banville's prose is sublime' - "Daily Telegraph". 'This is a novel in which all Banville's remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, disturbing, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation' - Allan Massie, "Scotsman". '"The Sea" is a beautiful novel, challenging and richly rewarding ...It is a comfort to know that we have a lord of language among us' - Gerry Dukes, "Irish Independent".
This book won the Man Booker prize 2005
The Sea by John Banville
Synopsis
This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared there, in that long-ago summer, as if from another world. Mr. and Mrs. Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins, Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow. Praise for "The Sea": 'With his fastidious wit and exquisite style, John Banville is the heir to Nabokov. "The Sea" [is] his best novel so far ...Banville's prose is sublime' - "Daily Telegraph". 'This is a novel in which all Banville's remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, disturbing, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation' - Allan Massie, "Scotsman". '"The Sea" is a beautiful novel, challenging and richly rewarding ...It is a comfort to know that we have a lord of language among us' - Gerry Dukes, "Irish Independent".
This book won the Man Booker prize 2005
redhot-brat - March 24, 2008 06:14 AM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
1. redhot-brat* The Sea {} >
2. Giz* < {} The Sea
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene* < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis* < {} >
9. Root* < {} >
10. Teachie* < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic* < {} >
13. flicki* < {} >
Giz! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
1. redhot-brat* The Sea {} >
2. Giz* < {} The Sea
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene* < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis* < {} >
9. Root* < {} >
10. Teachie* < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic* < {} >
13. flicki* < {} >
Giz! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
camis - March 24, 2008 06:23 AM (GMT)
Checking in - I need to sort a reveal...
giz-angel - March 24, 2008 10:07 AM (GMT)
Checking in and I'd like spiderchic's reveal please :grin:
I will be out this afternoon (more family)
I will be out this afternoon (more family)
Marlene - March 24, 2008 10:43 AM (GMT)
checking in.
Spiderchic's Reveal
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Summer 1924
On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house,a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999
Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
Spiderchic's Reveal
The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
Summer 1924
On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house,a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.
Winter 1999
Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old memories - long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind - begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge, something history has forgotten but Grace never could.
spiderchic - March 24, 2008 10:49 AM (GMT)
Checking In :wave:
Am off to brave the Trafford Centre - need to find a dress for the wedding in Canada - eeek.
Be back later
Am off to brave the Trafford Centre - need to find a dress for the wedding in Canada - eeek.
Be back later
Marlene - March 24, 2008 10:50 AM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki* < {} >
Boomda! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda* < {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene < {} >
7. Sunny* < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki* < {} >
Boomda! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Marlene - March 24, 2008 10:51 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (spiderchic @ Mar 24 2008, 11:49 AM) |
| Checking In :wave: Am off to brave the Trafford Centre - need to find a dress for the wedding in Canada - eeek. Be back later |
O darn. sorry babe. I had checked to see if you were there before I used your reveal.
O lucky you. the shops are open? :drool: :lol:
spiderchic - March 24, 2008 10:53 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Marlene @ Mar 24 2008, 10:51 AM) | ||
O darn. sorry babe. I had checke to see if you were there before I used your reveal. O lucky you. the shops are open? :drool: :lol: |
No, thank you for revealing me have only just logged in quickly before my shopping trip!
I am dreading it have been putting it off, I hate traipsing round the shops and trying things on in sweaty changing rooms - ah well am going to try Debenhams apparently they have a sale on so hopefully will find something flattering quickly and cheaply!
:D
teachie - March 24, 2008 10:55 AM (GMT)
checking in and I have no books owing for more than 6 months. :lol:
Marlene - March 24, 2008 10:55 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (spiderchic @ Mar 24 2008, 11:53 AM) | ||||
No, thank you for revealing me have only just logged in quickly before my shopping trip! I am dreading it have been putting it off, I hate traipsing round the shops and trying things on in sweaty changing rooms - ah well am going to try Debenhams apparently they have a sale on so hopefully will find something flattering quickly and cheaply! :D |
Okay. I hate shopping like that too. If you ahve to buy clothes for yourself. aargh.
Being confronted with yourself in mirrors of small dressing rooms. aargh Horrible.
I hope there is one shop where you can find a few nice things you can try one.
Good luck!!
giz-angel - March 24, 2008 10:56 AM (GMT)
Shopping was dreadful on Saturday so good luck spider!
teachie - March 24, 2008 10:59 AM (GMT)
We are off to a food fayre ay Missenden Abbey - as if we need temptation! Should be back around 4 ish if not before. I doubt you be down to me by then, I have sent my reveal out.
Have a great day at the Trafford Centre spiderchic, rather you than me! I am sure you will get a gorgeous wedding outfit there, some great shops.
Have a great day at the Trafford Centre spiderchic, rather you than me! I am sure you will get a gorgeous wedding outfit there, some great shops.
elsi - March 24, 2008 11:03 AM (GMT)
OK -- sent my reveal to Redhot-Brat, Marlene, and SpiderChic.
rootmartin - March 24, 2008 11:06 AM (GMT)
Just checking in! I'm so tired I feel that I'm going to have to drag myself through the day.
Unfortunately, last Thursday, our au pair was rear-ended while stopped at a light. The good news is that everyone is fine. The bad news is that our van is really beat up. We have no other car that can transport all 4 of our kids ('cuz the oldest is still too young to sit in the front seat). So, today, I have to go rent a van, hope that the offender's insurance will cover it, and then drive around sorting it all out.
What a hassle! :wacko:
Oh well, everyone was fine though. Thank God for that!
Unfortunately, last Thursday, our au pair was rear-ended while stopped at a light. The good news is that everyone is fine. The bad news is that our van is really beat up. We have no other car that can transport all 4 of our kids ('cuz the oldest is still too young to sit in the front seat). So, today, I have to go rent a van, hope that the offender's insurance will cover it, and then drive around sorting it all out.
What a hassle! :wacko:
Oh well, everyone was fine though. Thank God for that!
giz-angel - March 24, 2008 11:21 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (rootmartin @ Mar 24 2008, 11:06 AM) |
| Just checking in! I'm so tired I feel that I'm going to have to drag myself through the day. Unfortunately, last Thursday, our au pair was rear-ended while stopped at a light. The good news is that everyone is fine. The bad news is that our van is really beat up. We have no other car that can transport all 4 of our kids ('cuz the oldest is still too young to sit in the front seat). So, today, I have to go rent a van, hope that the offender's insurance will cover it, and then drive around sorting it all out. What a hassle! :wacko: Oh well, everyone was fine though. Thank God for that! |
Oh no poor root :hug:
Sunlightbub - March 24, 2008 12:02 PM (GMT)
:hug: Root
Good luck Spiderchic - Hate going clothes shopping when I need something for an event, as you can never find anything. If you don't need anything there is always loads :lol:
Good luck Spiderchic - Hate going clothes shopping when I need something for an event, as you can never find anything. If you don't need anything there is always loads :lol:
giz-angel - March 24, 2008 12:03 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sunlightbub @ Mar 24 2008, 12:02 PM) |
| :hug: Root Good luck Spiderchic - Hate going clothes shopping when I need something for an event, as you can never find anything. If you don't need anything there is always loads :lol: |
Yeah or if I don't have any money... :lol:
New Look have a sale but that's not very wedding is it?
AceofHearts - March 24, 2008 12:24 PM (GMT)
Morning :coffee:
Breeze - March 24, 2008 12:25 PM (GMT)
ACK! I just remembered we need the BC link now too!!! Please include it in your reveal! Thanks!
boomda181 - March 24, 2008 12:27 PM (GMT)
Checking in! And, I just realized that it is my turn, I will ask for Marlene's reveal!
Marlene - March 24, 2008 12:54 PM (GMT)
Hey! just peeking in during brunch
My book is one I really enjoyed.
Waking Beauty a Novel by Elyse Friedman
Friedman (Then Again) offers up a spunky, spiteful revenge novel about Allison Penny, an ugly 20-something who suddenly wakes up gorgeous—a silly conceit counterbalanced by bulls-eye social commentary and sharply drawn characters. Allison's roommate, Virginie, and her boyfriend, Fraser, have long made Allison's life hell; pretty much everybody is inconsiderate of pretransformation Allison, including her own adoptive mother. Her only friend is Nathan, a video store clerk and aspiring film critic. Early chapters catalogue the injustices of a world in which unattractive people can't get ahead, while later chapters satisfyingly knock down the pins lined up earlier: Allison gets revenge on Virginie, Fraser, her mother and a supporting cast of shop girls, literati and other pretentious types. But she hasn't become beautiful just to get revenge, has she? "Did I have some sort of beauty duty to perform? And if so, what would it be? Posing naked for a PETA billboard? Administering blowjobs to ugly outcasts?" No, but there's a lesson here: "it's what's on the outside that counts." Beautiful Allison gets handsome suitors, job offers—even her mother's affection. But she's kept her sharp, sardonic view of all things superficial, and she still loves homely Nathan. Friedman thumbs her nose at many of the conventions of chick lit, and the nasty bite of her prose offers plenty of guilty pleasure.
P.S this copy is well read
BC journal
My book is one I really enjoyed.
Waking Beauty a Novel by Elyse Friedman
Friedman (Then Again) offers up a spunky, spiteful revenge novel about Allison Penny, an ugly 20-something who suddenly wakes up gorgeous—a silly conceit counterbalanced by bulls-eye social commentary and sharply drawn characters. Allison's roommate, Virginie, and her boyfriend, Fraser, have long made Allison's life hell; pretty much everybody is inconsiderate of pretransformation Allison, including her own adoptive mother. Her only friend is Nathan, a video store clerk and aspiring film critic. Early chapters catalogue the injustices of a world in which unattractive people can't get ahead, while later chapters satisfyingly knock down the pins lined up earlier: Allison gets revenge on Virginie, Fraser, her mother and a supporting cast of shop girls, literati and other pretentious types. But she hasn't become beautiful just to get revenge, has she? "Did I have some sort of beauty duty to perform? And if so, what would it be? Posing naked for a PETA billboard? Administering blowjobs to ugly outcasts?" No, but there's a lesson here: "it's what's on the outside that counts." Beautiful Allison gets handsome suitors, job offers—even her mother's affection. But she's kept her sharp, sardonic view of all things superficial, and she still loves homely Nathan. Friedman thumbs her nose at many of the conventions of chick lit, and the nasty bite of her prose offers plenty of guilty pleasure.
P.S this copy is well read
BC journal
Flicki - March 24, 2008 01:09 PM (GMT)
Hi!
I'm around for quite a while now, but haven't checked in officially. Won't probably have to, too, being last and everything... boohooohoo!
Le Flicques
I'm around for quite a while now, but haven't checked in officially. Won't probably have to, too, being last and everything... boohooohoo!
Le Flicques
Sunlightbub - March 24, 2008 01:15 PM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki* < {} >
GG! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace* < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki* < {} >
GG! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Breeze - March 24, 2008 02:32 PM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki < {} >
GG! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG* < {} >
5. Ace < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} >
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki < {} >
GG! It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Breeze - March 24, 2008 02:33 PM (GMT)
Just updating the "check-in" *'s
spiderchic - March 24, 2008 02:45 PM (GMT)
Well am back from an expected depressing shopping trip!
I had to stop myself buying even more books in Waterstones (3 for 2)
I have come home empty handed so am going to raid the catalogue now - much easier in the comfort of my own home.
I did wash my car on the way home as it was filthy after driving through the sleet and snow on saturday, so feel I have achieved something - ha
Root - hope your car renting goes ok, sorry to hear about the bump!
:D
I had to stop myself buying even more books in Waterstones (3 for 2)
I have come home empty handed so am going to raid the catalogue now - much easier in the comfort of my own home.
I did wash my car on the way home as it was filthy after driving through the sleet and snow on saturday, so feel I have achieved something - ha
Root - hope your car renting goes ok, sorry to hear about the bump!
:D
rootmartin - March 24, 2008 02:50 PM (GMT)
Thanks everyone for your happy thoughts!
We rented the van with no issues. Now, we just have to make sure that the other inaurance will pay.....
We rented the van with no issues. Now, we just have to make sure that the other inaurance will pay.....
Marlene - March 24, 2008 03:05 PM (GMT)
Sorry about your car Root.
Spiderchic. I love Waterstones. :drool:
Rowena was using the computer. Now she is gone upstairs for a shower so I took the chance to check in, see what happened.
Spiderchic. I love Waterstones. :drool:
Rowena was using the computer. Now she is gone upstairs for a shower so I took the chance to check in, see what happened.
Marlene - March 24, 2008 03:08 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Flicki @ Mar 24 2008, 02:09 PM) |
| Hi! I'm around for quite a while now, but haven't checked in officially. Won't probably have to, too, being last and everything... boohooohoo! Le Flicques |
Flicki. Did you get my pm about the European wish list relay?
I decided to play.
Not sure what happens next, only that I have a book of your wish list available. :)
teachie - March 24, 2008 03:24 PM (GMT)
:hug: Root. I hope the other insurance pays out.
Spiderchic have you thought of trying Cheshire Oaks, the outlet centre, or is that too far away from you?
Now we have our new shopping centre in Wycombe, the previous shops are turning into outlet stores for Country Casual/Austin Reed, Principals and Alexon. We finally have a decent shopping centre so don't need to trek to Oxford or Watford. :bananadance:
Spiderchic have you thought of trying Cheshire Oaks, the outlet centre, or is that too far away from you?
Now we have our new shopping centre in Wycombe, the previous shops are turning into outlet stores for Country Casual/Austin Reed, Principals and Alexon. We finally have a decent shopping centre so don't need to trek to Oxford or Watford. :bananadance:
AceofHearts - March 24, 2008 03:41 PM (GMT)
Hope the insurance pays. It should.
Spiderchic, can't stand clothes shopping. But I don't think I would be brave enough to pick something from a catalog. It always looks better on someone else
Spiderchic, can't stand clothes shopping. But I don't think I would be brave enough to pick something from a catalog. It always looks better on someone else
GateGypsy - March 24, 2008 03:49 PM (GMT)
I had suspected that I needed to check in :lol: I can't possibly have a book owed more than 6 months: I haven't been playing for six months yet! :giggle:
So, this is my check-in, confirm, my reveal is out with BCID (I'm so proud of me)... and now I will look at the reveals and then be right back with an update.
ETA: at this stage in the game, I believe I'm going to ask for Rootmartin's reveal. I'll PM to let her know...
ETAA: Oh! I'll bet she's already taken off to do those errands and van-related things -- should I just go get it?
So, this is my check-in, confirm, my reveal is out with BCID (I'm so proud of me)... and now I will look at the reveals and then be right back with an update.
ETA: at this stage in the game, I believe I'm going to ask for Rootmartin's reveal. I'll PM to let her know...
ETAA: Oh! I'll bet she's already taken off to do those errands and van-related things -- should I just go get it?
Flicki - March 24, 2008 04:06 PM (GMT)
Hi there!
Here comes roots reveal! :-)
Rootmartin's reveal:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Here comes roots reveal! :-)
Rootmartin's reveal:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Flicki - March 24, 2008 04:12 PM (GMT)
Welcome to the March YBS - where everyone is welcome!!!
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
GG asks for Rootmartin's reveal The Book Thief
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG The Book Thief {} >
5. Ace < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} The Book Thief
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki < {} >
Ace It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?
Please be up-to-date on all sending-book commitments (not over 6 months).
Check-in within the first 24 hours of the game (midnight on the 24th) - without check-in we will not wait 12 hours on your turn. After 2 hours you will be moved to the bottom
Leave your reveal with one other player/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Leave a move in your sig or with another players/hostess/anyone - tell us who has it in your sig
Have fun!!!! This is the only everyone-and-everything welcome swap!
Book held
Book revealed
Number of steals (max 5)
* = not checked in
moves:
Redhot-brat asks Giz's reveal The Sea
Giz asks for Spider's reveal The House at Riverton
Boomda asks for MArlene's reveal Waking Beauty
GG asks for Rootmartin's reveal The Book Thief
1. redhot-brat The Sea {} >
2. Giz The House at Riverton {} The Sea
3. Boomda Waking Beauty {} >
4. GG The Book Thief {} >
5. Ace < {} >
6. Marlene < {} Waking Beauty
7. Sunny < {} >
8. camis < {} >
9. Root < {} The Book Thief
10. Teachie < {} >
11. elsi < {} >
12. spiderchic < {} The House at Riverton
13. flicki < {} >
Ace It's your turn to choose!!! Whose reveal would you like to see or are you going to steal?