Title: April US Swap play thread!
Description: Come and play!
nursiegirl42 - April 25, 2008 12:41 PM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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 4)
1. Daelith: ~(*):~
2. BunnyLady: ~(*):~
3. KathyB: ~(*):~
4. Brat: ~(*):~
5. BooksForever: ~(*):~
6. wss: ~(*):~
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):~
8. Rosie: ~(*):~
Daelith... Feel free to start us off when your ready!
Daelith - April 25, 2008 03:08 PM (GMT)
Ooooo I'm first! It's not noon yet, but it did say to start anytime.
KathyB what have you got for me?
ladiibbug - April 25, 2008 03:54 PM (GMT)
Hi Everyone! Yay, we're movin'!
I'll be back around noon PST. Sent my reveal out last night.
wss4 - April 25, 2008 03:56 PM (GMT)
Sent my reveal out to those in my siggy. I have KathyB's reveal, but I think she is here so I will let her reveal herself. I will be back this afternoon.
Have fun!!
KathyB - April 25, 2008 03:58 PM (GMT)
KathyB's Reveal
Bright Side of Disaster by Katherine Center
http://bookcrossing.com/journal/6074498 2007 Advanced Readers Copy
“Offers credible descriptions of first-time motherhood, affecting characters and situations and low-key charm.”–Kirkus Reviews
“Stellar . . . Center paints an accurate and humorous view of motherhood.”–Booklist
Jenny Harris always expected that she’d fall in love, get married, and have a baby–in that order. Now, very pregnant and not quite married, she actually doesn’t mind that she and her live-in fiancé, Dean, accidentally started their family a little earlier than planned; she’s happy to have so much to look forward to. But Dean–whom Jenny loves enough to overlook his bad facial hair, his smoking habit, and his total commitment to a cheesy cover band–is acting distant, and not in a pre-wedding-jitters kind of way. The night he runs out for cigarettes and just doesn’t come back, he demotes himself from future husband to sperm donor.
And the very next day, Jenny goes into labor.
In the months that follow, Jenny plunges into a life she never anticipated: single motherhood. At least with the sleep deprivation, sore boobs, and fits of crying (both hers and the baby’s), there’s not much time to dwell on her broken heart. And things start looking up. She learns how to do everything one-handed, makes friends in a mommy group, and even manages to give dating tips to her sweet, clueless father–who’s trying to court her sassy mother again, fifteen years after their divorce. She also gets to know a handsome, helpful neighbor–with a knack for soothing babies–who invites her out dancing. But Dean is never far from Jenny’s thoughts or, it turns out, her doorstep,and in the end Jenny must choose between the old life she thought she wanted and the new life she’s been lucky to find.
A spirited debut novel with a terrifically appealing voice, a fantastic sense of humor, and a lot of heart, The Bright Side of Disaster reminds us that sometimes it takes the worst-case scenario to show us the best in everything.
KathyB - April 25, 2008 04:01 PM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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 4)
1. Daelith: Bright Side of Disaster(*):~
2. BunnyLady: ~(*):~
3. KathyB: ~(*):Bright Side of Disaster
4. Brat: ~(*):~
5. BooksForever: ~(*):~
6. wss: ~(*):~
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):~
8. Rosie: ~(*):~
BunnyLady - hop right in and take your turn! Would you like to :thief: or have someone :flasher:
KathyB - April 25, 2008 04:03 PM (GMT)
Booksforever - April 25, 2008 04:36 PM (GMT)
Good morning! I should be off and on all day. My reveal is with KathyB and BunnyLady....but please wait a few minutes for me if asked to reveal (no more than 30) as I should be checking in about every 30. Thanks!!
Justine
redhot-brat - April 25, 2008 05:37 PM (GMT)
I'm off to get a few errands and some shopping done. I'll be back in a couple hours and will check in then. I'll update my siggy before I go to show who has my reveal and whose reveal I have as well. Cya all soon. :wave:
nursiegirl42 - April 25, 2008 07:03 PM (GMT)
Thanks for getting this going.. I feel like I am on full speed ahead today.. yesterday John had to go to Buffalo NY for a business meeting and I had to take him 2 hours (one way) to the airport and then come back and tonight he is coming back at 9:49pm our time so me and the boys are going to go eat dinner with my mom and sister before we head up to get him later.. so we should get home around midnightish.. Oh the reason I had to take him is cuz one of my kitties decided to take a nap in the motor of his truck the other day (she is fine now thank goodness but got pretty beat up) but she BROKE the truck so... and I wasnt going without my car! LOL I had to go grocery shopping this morning and I've cleaned the house and done laundry today and now I am off to read for 30 minutes before I have to go out and feed the horses and pig then off to get the boys and head north!
Tomorrow I will be spending the day planting more stuff in my garden so I just wont be around much so thats why I took my name off the list.. hope you understand!
But that book of KathyB's looks YUMMY!! :drool:
Daelith - April 25, 2008 07:18 PM (GMT)
Sheesh, goes to show how observant I am. :duh: And I thought I was busy today. I'm tired just reading about yours, Holly. :lol:
KathyB - April 25, 2008 07:42 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Daelith @ Apr 25 2008, 02:18 PM) |
| Sheesh, goes to show how observant I am. :duh: And I thought I was busy today. I'm tired just reading about yours, Holly. :lol: |
I thought the same thing. It made me tired to think of having to do all that driving. :rofl:
wss4 - April 25, 2008 08:04 PM (GMT)
I won't be around this evening. My oldest dd has a softball game out of town. But will check in tonight around 10.
BunnyLady - April 25, 2008 08:14 PM (GMT)
The ladybugs are out in full force at my house so lets see that reveal!
BTW- I have not left my reveal with NE1 yet I will do so here shortly.
Daelith - April 25, 2008 08:19 PM (GMT)
Ladiibbug's reveal
Your Choice - Either One of These Two:In The Company of Ogres - A. Lee Martinez (2006)BCID:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5719725
"For someone who's immortal, Never Dead Ned manages to die with alarming frequency -- he just has the annoying habit of rising from the grave. But this soldier might be better dead than face his latest assignment.
Ogre Company is the legion's dumping ground -- a motley, undisciplined group of monsters whose leaders tend to die under somewhat mysterious circumstances. That's where Ned's rather unique talents come in. As Ogre Company's newly appointed commander, Ned finds himself in charge of such fine examples of military prowess as a moonstruck Amazon, a very big (and polite) two-headed ogre, a seductively scaly siren, a blind oracle who can hear and smell the future, a suicidal goblin daredevil pilot, a walking tree with a chip on its shoulder, and a suspiciously goblinesque orc.
Ned has just six months to whip the Ogre Company into shape or face an even more hideous assignment. But that's not the worst of his problems. Because now that Ned has found out why he keeps returning from the dead, he has to do everything he can to stay alive ...
In The Company of Ogres does for fantasy, what A. Lee Martinez's award-winning novel, Gil's All Fright Diner, did for horror -- and elves and goblins may never be the same!"
*** OR ***
The One That Got Away - Romance Anthology (Victoria Alexander; Liz Carlyle; Eloisa James; Cathy Maxwell)(2004)BCID:
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5960677
"He was the first ... He was the best ... He was the one that got away!
Now he's back -- but do you still want him?
Every woman remembers that one special man who slipped through her fingers, leaving her not only asking the question "What happened?", but also wondering about what could have been if she hadn't let him go.
Now four of today's bestselling historical romance writers (see above) show us what can happen when the man you *thought* was out of your life forever returns.
In this stirring quartet of original novellas, four sets of star-crossed lovers are given the golden opportunity to relive the passion, and set the past right. Fate has brought these couples back together, but only love can determine if each is just a momentary madness, or a reunion that will last for all time."
Daelith - April 25, 2008 08:25 PM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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:
Daelith asks KathyB to reveal Bright Side of Disaster
Bunny asks for ladiibbug's reveal In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
Reveal Thread
Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 4)
1. Daelith: Bright Side of Disaster(*):~
2. BunnyLady: In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away(*):~
3. KathyB: ~(*):Bright Side of Disaster
4. Brat: ~(*):~
5. BooksForever: ~(*):~
6. wss: ~(*):~
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
8. Rosie: ~(*):~
KathyB - time to spring into action and take your turn! Would you like to :thief: or have someone :flasher:
KathyB - April 25, 2008 08:28 PM (GMT)
I'd like to see Wss4's reveal, which I have in my messages box. Since she said she would not be around this evening, I'll go ahead and reveal it.
KathyB - April 25, 2008 08:29 PM (GMT)
Wss4's reveal
Touched by Darkness
by Catherine SpanglerSynopsis
Dr. Kara Cantrell settled in the sleepy town of Zorro, Texas, convinced she and her child had escaped the sinister reach of a supernatural underworld. But now dark forces may jeopardize her new life. Her only hope is Damien Morgan, a dangerous, alluring man with superhuman abilities. He and Kara share a mystical link that triggers desires they must ignore. But as they work together to protect her son, and begin tracking the evil stalking them, something threatens to push them toward the edge...of darkness.
**This is an unregistered copy so I will have to provide the BCID later.
KathyB - April 25, 2008 08:30 PM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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:
Daelith asks KathyB to reveal Bright Side of Disaster
Bunny asks for ladiibbug's reveal In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
KathyB asks Wss4 to reveal Touched by Darkness
Reveal Thread
Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 4)
1. Daelith: Bright Side of Disaster(*):~
2. BunnyLady: In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away(*):~
3. KathyB: Touched by Darkness(*):Bright Side of Disaster
4. Brat: ~(*):~
5. BooksForever: ~(*):~
6. wss: ~(*):Touched by Darkness
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
8. Rosie: ~(*):~
Brat - time to spring into action and take your turn! Would you like to :thief: or have someone :flasher:
KathyB - April 25, 2008 08:32 PM (GMT)
BunnyLady - April 25, 2008 08:40 PM (GMT)
HaHa Am I slow or what!
ladi and kathyb just disreguard those pm's I sent.
also-I left my reveal with wss, Books4 and Rosie (sorry no image tho I am having issues with that)
BunnyLady - April 25, 2008 08:44 PM (GMT)
Nobody steal my book.
I will probably not be back 'til morning.
Daelith - April 25, 2008 08:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (BunnyLady @ Apr 25 2008, 03:44 PM) |
Nobody steal my book.
|
:blink:
Like that will help with this bunch.
:rofl:
redhot-brat - April 25, 2008 09:39 PM (GMT)
I think I'd like to see what Rosie has for me. Rosie reveal thyself
Daelith - April 25, 2008 09:44 PM (GMT)
I'm about to head out from work in about 15 minutes. I'll check back in a couple of hours.
ladiibbug - April 25, 2008 09:50 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (KathyB @ Apr 25 2008, 08:29 PM) |
Wss4's reveal

Touched by Darkness by Catherine Spangler
Synopsis Dr. Kara Cantrell settled in the sleepy town of Zorro, Texas, convinced she and her child had escaped the sinister reach of a supernatural underworld. But now dark forces may jeopardize her new life. Her only hope is Damien Morgan, a dangerous, alluring man with superhuman abilities. He and Kara share a mystical link that triggers desires they must ignore. But as they work together to protect her son, and begin tracking the evil stalking them, something threatens to push them toward the edge...of darkness.
**This is an unregistered copy so I will have to provide the BCID later. |
Heck, this one's highly stealable for the guy on the cover alone! :o :drool:
KathyB - April 25, 2008 11:14 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ladiibbug @ Apr 25 2008, 04:50 PM) |
| QUOTE (KathyB @ Apr 25 2008, 08:29 PM) | Wss4's reveal

Touched by Darkness by Catherine Spangler
Synopsis Dr. Kara Cantrell settled in the sleepy town of Zorro, Texas, convinced she and her child had escaped the sinister reach of a supernatural underworld. But now dark forces may jeopardize her new life. Her only hope is Damien Morgan, a dangerous, alluring man with superhuman abilities. He and Kara share a mystical link that triggers desires they must ignore. But as they work together to protect her son, and begin tracking the evil stalking them, something threatens to push them toward the edge...of darkness.
**This is an unregistered copy so I will have to provide the BCID later. |
Heck, this one's highly stealable for the guy on the cover alone! :o :drool:
|
Don't go getting any ideas - this one is mine!
Daelith - April 25, 2008 11:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (ladiibbug @ Apr 25 2008, 04:50 PM) |
| Heck, this one's highly stealable for the guy on the cover alone! :o :drool: |
I was thinking the same thing. :lol:
CdnBlueRose - April 26, 2008 12:34 AM (GMT)
Sorry for the delay - I just got home and I don't have things ready yet - I'll be back ASAP with my reveal.... :blush:
CdnBlueRose - April 26, 2008 12:46 AM (GMT)
Decaffeinated Corpse by Cleo Coylehttp://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/5863290
When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigate...at least until the first dead body shows up.
CdnBlueRose - April 26, 2008 01:11 AM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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:
Daelith asks KathyB to reveal Bright Side of Disaster
Bunny asks for ladiibbug's reveal In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
KathyB asks Wss4 to reveal Touched by Darkness
Reveal Thread
Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 4)
1. Daelith: Bright Side of Disaster(*):~
2. BunnyLady: In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away(*):~
3. KathyB: Touched by Darkness(*):Bright Side of Disaster
4. Brat: Decaffeinated Corpse(*):~
5. BooksForever: ~(*):~
6. wss: ~(*):Touched by Darkness
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
8. Rosie: ~(*):Decaffeinated Corpse
Booksforever - time to spring into action and take your turn! Would you like to :thief: or have someone :flasher: PM sent to Booksforever
Daelith - April 26, 2008 01:18 AM (GMT)
I'm off to watch tv and then to bed. Will check in before taking Bam-Bam to the vet in the morning.
Booksforever - April 26, 2008 01:22 AM (GMT)
Wow, my turn already. BRB
Booksforever - April 26, 2008 01:27 AM (GMT)
I think I will steal "Bright Side of Disaster" from Daelith. I will PM her now and do a quick update.
wss4 - April 26, 2008 01:30 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Daelith @ Apr 25 2008, 07:31 PM) |
| QUOTE (ladiibbug @ Apr 25 2008, 04:50 PM) | | Heck, this one's highly stealable for the guy on the cover alone! :o :drool: |
I was thinking the same thing. :lol:
|
Yeah I ended up with 2 copies and I am pretty sure it had something to do him. :giggle:
Booksforever - April 26, 2008 01:35 AM (GMT)
**Official time starts Friday, April 25th @ 12pm CST.
**Book must have YELLOW somewhere on the cover doesn't matter how much as long as it's there and must be 2004 or newer!
**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:
Daelith asks KathyB to reveal Bright Side of Disaster
Bunny asks for ladiibbug's reveal In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
KathyB asks Wss4 to reveal Touched by Darkness
Brat asks Rosie to reveal Decaffeinated Corpse
Books steals Bright Side of Disaster from Daelith
Reveal Thread
Book held
Book revealed
Number of Steals (max 4)
1. Daelith: ?(*):~
2. BunnyLady: In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away(*):~
3. KathyB: Touched by Darkness(*):Bright Side of Disaster
4. Brat: Decaffeinated Corpse(*):~
5. BooksForever: Bright Side of Disaster(1):~
6. wss: ~(*):Touched by Darkness
7. ladiibbug: ~(*):In Company of Ogres or The One that Got Away
8. Rosie: ~(*):Decaffeinated Corpse
Daelith, there is no Bright Side to Disaster! Would you like to :thief: or have someone :flasher: PM sent to Daelith
redhot-brat - April 26, 2008 03:40 AM (GMT)
redhot-brat - April 26, 2008 05:37 AM (GMT)
I totally agree about the hottie on the cover. :yum: I'm headed to bed now. I'll check in tomorrow. Sweet Dreams Everybody!
nursiegirl42 - April 26, 2008 06:00 AM (GMT)
Well we're finally home! Woohooo! :bananadance: I'm headed to bed to read for maybe 5 minutes before my eyes just seal shut!
There are some good books sooo far! :drool:
KathyB - April 26, 2008 06:00 AM (GMT)
:sleep: way past my bedtime - nite all!