The usual ALS rules apply!


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

1. SandDanz: ~ ( ) ; ~
2. Bookgal : ~ ( ) ; ~
3. Nwpassage: ~ ( ) ; ~
4. Catsalive : ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Rosie: ~ ( ) ; ~
6. Chronicbooker: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Cheesygiraffe: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Darkpunkangel: ~ ( ) ; ~
9. Nursiegirl: ~ ( ) ; ~
10. Redhot-brat: ~ ( ) ; ~

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

Im in and really hoping my head will last and that we will be done by 9:30 ;)

Just going to find a book

Cool! :)

Hmmm... I hate being first, but let's see....

how about our hostess with the mostest revealing! ;)

Back in time for the start! :bananadance:

Ok have a book and Im ready to rape and pilage :o , I mean play nice and be thankful with what I end up with ;)

Don of the Dead by Casey Daniels




From the Publisher
She sees dead people Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiancé took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a head-on collision with a headstone left her with an unwanted ability to communicate with the disgruntled deceased . . . and now Pepper has a whacked Mafia don demanding that she hunt down his killers -- and threatening to haunt her until she does.

Helping my son with his homework off and on .... try me on yahoo messenger if I'm not paying attention .... I'm redhot_brat there ..... Thanks!

Brat

The usual ALS rules apply!


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

1. SandDanz: Don of the Dead ( ) ; ~
2. Bookgal : ~ ( ) ; ~
3. Nwpassage: ~ ( ) ; ~
4. Catsalive : ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Rosie: ~ ( ) ; Don of the Dead
6. Chronicbooker: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Cheesygiraffe: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Darkpunkangel: ~ ( ) ; ~
9. Nursiegirl: ~ ( ) ; ~
10. Redhot-brat: ~ ( ) ; ~

Bookgal! Your turn!! Would you like to STEAL? or have someone REVEAL!??!

brb got to go find a book! I will be making dinner during all this too.. so if Im not here IM me please!

Where is the bookgal? I don't see her about?

Bookgal disappeared! Does anyone have her on IM?

I'm here, sorry! I'd like Sand to reveal please.

From the Publisher

It's not easy to fall in love-especially in Sin City. Nobody knows this better than Greek deities Psyche and Eros, who keep a watchful eye on the mortals in Las Vegas. With a little divine intervention from Aphrodite and the rest of the gods and goddesses, Psyche and Eros set out to fulfill the sexual fantasies of their clients, hoping to turn lust into love.

The Barnes & Noble Review

Michele Bardsley makes creative use of the pantheon of Greek gods in this contemporary romance, dashed with comedy and sexual diversity.

The premise is engaging: Eros and Psyche open a dating service in modern-day Las Vegas, to the horror of their mother/mother-in-law, the well-known love goddess, Aphrodite. Actually it's more of a sex fantasy business, but even at Cupid, Inc., the course of love or sex does not run smoothly. First there's the accountant who loses her virginity and her heart in short order, after she is mistakenly sent to the wrong man at the right office. Then there's the owner of an independent wedding chapel, who earns a date with a movie star. A workaholic editor gets her airplane fantasy filled with another journalist; and a James Bond fantasy comes true for a lonely waitress, as she and a former jewel thief dodge danger. Ginger Curwen

The usual ALS rules apply!


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

1. SandDanz: Don of the Dead ( ) ; Cupid Inc.
2. Bookgal : Cupid Inc. ( ) ; ~
3. Nwpassage: ~ ( ) ; ~
4. Catsalive : ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Rosie: ~ ( ) ; Don of the Dead
6. Chronicbooker: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Cheesygiraffe: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Darkpunkangel: ~ ( ) ; ~
9. Nursiegirl: ~ ( ) ; ~
10. Redhot-brat: ~ ( ) ; ~

Nwpassage! Your turn!! Would you like to STEAL? or have someone REVEAL!??!

Hi yall. :)

Hi AM!

Hiya!! Wanna play? :D

Hi AM! :kiss:

I'd love to....but...I probably shouldn't....

Sorry, was chatting with a coworker... I want to steal both the books that have been revealed so far... plus if any of the rest of you are hiding books that I would enjoy, I'll preemptively steal them too! :P

Lil brat!! :whip: :whip: :P

nw :whip:

only 3 steals? :cry:

Does this mean you're disallowing my move, oh mighty hostess? :cry:

OK, if I can only have 1, it'll have to be Don of the Dead!

he he he Let the Fun Begin :ph34r:

The usual ALS rules apply!


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

1. SandDanz: ~ ( ) ; Cupid Inc.
2. Bookgal : Cupid Inc. ( ) ; ~
3. Nwpassage: Don of the Dead (1 ) ; ~
4. Catsalive : ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Rosie: ~ ( ) ; Don of the Dead
6. Chronicbooker: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Cheesygiraffe: ~ ( ) ; ~
8. Darkpunkangel: ~ ( ) ; ~
9. Nursiegirl: ~ ( ) ; ~
10. Redhot-brat: ~ ( ) ; ~

Sand! The sneaky nw has stolen your book!! Would you like to STEAL? or have someone REVEAL!??!

Well.... it WAS a good try! :bash: :kiss:

I'll have Cheesy reveal

I tried to do 3 steals, but Rosie wouldn't let me! :cry: :lol:

WOO HOO!!! 4 steals! Thanks Rosie! :kiss:

:lol: :ph34r:

My dinner is YUMMMMMMYY!

Roasted cube steaks cooked in the crock pot all day with mushroom gravy, mashed potatoes, corn and green beans!

The Strangler (ARC)
by William Landay



From the Publisher
Boston, 1963. A city on edge. On street corners, newsboys hawk the shocking headline: Kennedy is dead. In the city’s underworld, a mob war rages. But what terrifies Bostonians most is the mysterious killer who has already claimed a dozen victims, a murderer whose name is indelibly linked to their city: the Boston Strangler. This is the electrifying backdrop of William Landay’s magnificent new novel, a story of one Irish-American family, a city under siege, and the long shadow cast by the most infamous killer of his day . . .

For the three Daley brothers, sons of a Boston cop, crime is the family business. They are simply on different sides of it. Joe is the eldest, a tough-talking cop whose gambling habits—fast women, slow horses—drag him down into the city’s gangland. Michael is the middle son; a Harvard-educated lawyer working for an ambitious attorney general, he finds himself assigned to the embattled Strangler task force. And Ricky, the devil-may-care youngest son, floats above the fray as an expert burglar—until the Strangler strikes too close to home.

As Joe’s mob debts close in around him . . . and Michael becomes snarled in a murder investigation gone very wrong . . . and Ricky is hunted by both sides of the law, the three brothers—and the women who love them—are forced to take sides. Now each must look deeper into a killer’s murderous rage, into their family’s own lethal secrets, and into the one death that has changed them forever. As William Landay’s complex, compassionate, and terrifying novel builds to a climax, two mysteries will collide—and a shattering truth will be revealed.

From The Critics

Patrick Anderson - The Washington Post
This is, finally, genre fiction, but of a high order. In the end, one of the brothers must perform some Rambo-style heroics to put things right, and a dying man must stay alive just long enough to gasp out a much-needed confession. Because Landay is writing about crime in working-class Boston, some reviewers have compared him to Dennis Lehane. That calls for clarification. The Strangler is superior to Lehane's early Kenzie-Gennaro novels, but it does not equal the rich prose and intense characterization of his Mystic River. Still, it's an impressive and satisfying performance, and Landay is a writer to watch.

Publishers Weekly
Set in Boston in 1963, Landay's engrossing crime novel is less about the titular strangler than the three Irish-American Daley brothers: Ricky, a thief; Michael, a lawyer; and Joe, a bent cop. A year earlier, the Daleys' father, also a cop, was fatally shot on the job, and the killer has never been caught. The father's partner on the force, Brendan Conroy, has insinuated himself into the family to the point that he's now sleeping with the brothers' mother, Margaret, and is a permanent fixture at Sunday dinner, much to the disgust of Michael and Ricky. Landay (Mission Flats) movingly explores the bonds of family and basic questions of honesty and loyalty. While the novel suggests another killer than the historical Boston Strangler, the emphasis remains on such themes as crime and punishment, love and honor, truth and justice. (Feb.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal
In 1963, when Boston is jolted by the Kennedy assassination, the city is already on edge from the murders attributed to the Boston Strangler. Albert DeSalvo confesses, but the police have misgivings. The three sons of murdered detective Joe Daley alternate as protagonists in this suspenseful tale, which mingles real characters with fictional ones. Joe Daley Jr., assigned to the case, is a cop plagued by gambling debts and increasing mob ties. Brother Michael, also on the case, is an assistant district attorney obsessed with his father's death and the possible involvement of his partner. And youngest brother Rickey is a cat burglar whose girlfriend has just been strangled. Landay makes good use of his own experience as a prosecutor, but the real tension is in the moral ambiguities. Framed by the larger story of the Strangler, the inner tale masterfully portrays the insidiousness of greed, even within the Daley family. Good may triumph, but not at all clearly, and the many twists are truly shocking in the hands of this masterly plotter, whose first novel, Mission Flats, was highly praised. Recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/06; Brian McGrory's forthcoming Strangled (Atria, Feb. 2007) also takes a look at the Boston Strangler case.-Ed.]-Roland Person, formerly with Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews
Irish grief implodes in 1963 Boston. The Daley boys dislike their father Joe Senior's ex-partner, Brendan Conroy, who's moved in on their mother within a year of their father's death on the job. Is there a reason Brendan let Joe walk first down an alley into an ambush? How come the perp has never been found? That's just the beginning of the Daley troubles. Joe Jr., a cop like his dad, has so much gambling debt that he's forced to become a bagman for Vinny "The Animal" Gargano. Ricky, an upscale burglar, has drawn the ire of racketeer Capobianco by heisting diamonds from a swell who's under his protection. And Michael, a functionary in the Attorney General's Eminent Domain Division, has antagonized his boss by insisting that Albert DeSalvo, who's confessed to being the Strangler who throttled 13 women, is just a publicity-seeking nut case. Even when Ricky's reporter girlfriend Amy is murdered, with all the earmarks of a Strangler killing even though DeSalvo's been in lockup, the A.G. still swears he did it, prompting Michael to investigate matters further. Coming up: more dead cops, more battles among crooks and a Strangler-like murder on the other side of the country. In between a slow start and a coda too cute, Landay (Mission Flats, 2003) shows a truly sizzling Boston.

:lol: one of my coworkers was passing around a fax she got from her sister...

"This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow but don’t get any! We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and asked: “So Bob, where’s that 8 inches you promised me last night?” Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!"

The usual ALS rules apply!


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

1. SandDanz: The Strangler ( ) ; Cupid Inc.
2. Bookgal : Cupid Inc. ( ) ; ~
3. Nwpassage: Don of the Dead (1 ) ; ~
4. Rosie : ~ ( ) ; ~
5. Catsalive: ~ ( ) ; Don of the Dead
6. Chronicbooker: ~ ( ) ; ~
7. Cheesygiraffe: ~ ( ) ; The Strangler
8. Darkpunkangel: ~ ( ) ; ~
9. Nursiegirl: ~ ( ) ; ~
10. Redhot-brat: ~ ( ) ; ~

I switched places with catsalive as she's not online.... I'll just move her down a space at a time until she returns! I would like Bookgal to REVEAL please!!

thats hilarious!

there were some other ones on the fax, lets see if I can find it online somewhere... ah here it is!

"Here are some reasons why you should think before you speak …

FIRST TESTIMONY: I walked into a hair salon with my husband and three kids in tow and asked loudly, “How much do you charge for a shampoo and a blow job?” I turned around and walked back out and never went back My husband didn’t say a word… he knew better.

SECOND TESTIMONY: I was at the golf store comparing different kinds of golf balls. I was unhappy with the women’s type I had been using. After browsing for several minutes, I was approached by one of the good-looking gentlemen who works at the store. He asked if he could help me. Without thinking, I looked at him and said, “I think I like playing with men’s balls.”

THIRD TESTIMONY: My sister and I were at the mall and passed by a store that sold a variety of candy and nuts. As we were looking at the display case, the boy behind the counter asked if we needed any help. I replied, “No, I’m just looking at your nuts.” My sister started to laugh hysterically. The boy grinned, and I turned beet-red and walked away. To this day, my sister has never let me forget.

FOURTH TESTIMONY: While in line at the bank one afternoon, my toddler decided to release some pent-up energy and ran amok. I was finally able to grab hold of her after receiving looks of disgust and annoyance from other patrons. I told her that if she did not start behaving “right now” she would be punished. To my horror, she looked me in the eye and said in a voice just as threatening, “If you don’t let me go right now, I will tell Grandma that I saw you kissing Daddy’s pee-pee last night!” The silence was deafening after this enlightening exchange. Even the tellers stopped what they were doing. I mustered up the last of my dignity and walked out of the bank with my daughter in tow. The last thing I heard when the door closed behind me, were screams of laughter.

FIFTH TESTIMONY: Have you ever asked your child a question too many times? My three-year-old son had a lot of problems with potty training and I was on him constantly. One day we stopped at Taco Bell for a quick lunch, in between errands It was very busy, with a full dining room. While enjoying my taco, I smelled something funny, so of course I checked my seven-month-old daughter, she was clean. Then realized that Danny had not asked to go potty in a while. I asked him if he needed to go, and he said “No”. I kept thinking “Oh Lord, that child has had an accident, and I don’t have any clothes with me.” Then I said, “Danny, are you SURE you didn’t have an accident?” “No,” he replied. I just KNEW that he must have had an accident, because the smell was getting worse. Soooooo, I asked one more time, “Danny did you have an accident? This time he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over, spread his cheeks and yelled “SEE MOM, IT’S JUST FARTS!!” While 30 people nearly choked to death on their tacos laughing, he calmly pulled up his pants and sat down. An old couple made me feel better, thanking me for the best laugh they’d ever had!

SIXTH TESTIMONY: This had most of the state of Michigan laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow but don’t get any! We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and asked: “So Bob, where’s that 8 inches you promised me last night?” Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!"

Shopaholic & Baby by Sophie Kinsella (This is an ARC and the cover is actually the same!)

Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is pregnant! She couldn’t be more overjoyed–especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery . . . to the latest, coolest pram . . . to the celebrity, must-have obstetrician.

But when the celebrity obstetrician turns out to be her husband Luke’s glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky's perfect world starts to crumble. She’s shopping for two . . . but are there three in her marriage?

I would have liked to see that news :lol: