March YBS - The Reveal Thread

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March YBS - The Reveal Thread; Only post reveals here
Topic Started: Mar 15 2012, 04:12 PM (142 Views)
elsi	Mar 15 2012, 04:12 PM Post #1
Beyond Obsessed Posts: 10,626 Group: Admin Member #985 Joined: September 20, 2007	Welcome to the March 2012 YBS. Reveals to be posted here.



elsi	Mar 15 2012, 04:36 PM Post #2
Beyond Obsessed Posts: 10,626 Group: Admin Member #985 Joined: September 20, 2007	Elsi's reveal: Imaginary Men by Anjali Banerjee Description: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the bachelor from hell at her sister's wedding in India, Lina panics and blurts out, "I'm engaged!" Because what's the harm in a little lie? Who's sari now? Lina scrambles to find a real fiancé because Auntie Kiki will be coming to America soon to approve the match. But date after disastrous date gets her no closer to her prince -- until an actual prince arrives on her doorstep. Lina hasn't been able to stop fantasizing about traditional but dashing Raja Prasad since she met him in India. In fact, her imaginary fiancé has begun to resemble him! Now Raja is in San Francisco and wants Lina to find a suitable bride for his brother. Though they live oceans apart, Lina longs to bridge the gap. But when her fantastic fib catches up with her, life is suddenly like a Bollywood flick gone horribly wrong. Lina may have an over-developed fantasy life, but she certainly never imagined things would turn out like this! Bookcrossing link to be provided ... Edited by elsi, Mar 15 2012, 04:37 PM.



BooksnBeer	Mar 15 2012, 07:15 PM Post #3
Exceedingly Obsessed Posts: 4,204 Group: Members Member #2,253 Joined: March 21, 2008	BooksnBeer Reveal I, for one, have piled enough skyscraper salads to be given some consideration. I’m not working my way up the kitchen ladder for my goddamn health. I know all too well the sting of vinegar in an open cut. Oh yes, that salad you’re eating as a light appetizer? My bare hands have massaged dressing into every leaf. Lettuce loves me. But I’ve got ambition and, I don’t mind saying, a decent palate. I want to be The Chef. And the only way to do this is by becoming the greatest cook I can be. Which means kicking ass on the line, not just salads and desserts. These are my hopes. These are my dreams. Layla Mitchner is a twenty-eight-year-old Cordon Bleu graduate trying to carve out a space for herself in the fast-paced, high-pressure world of Manhattan’s top restaurant kitchens. She knows she’s got the talent to be a great chef, but there she is slaving for a misogynistic boss who’d sooner promote the dishwasher than give a woman the chance to prove her sous-chef mettle. And while Layla knows that the dwindling balance in her bank account won’t begin to cover what she owes her roommate, she’s desperate not to seek help from her self-absorbed, serially divorced, soap-opera-actress mother. Her romantic prospects seem no brighter. She gets set up with a nice enough guy, but his tassel loafers and corporate demeanor reek of the WASP aristocracy she’s determined to leave behind. After continuously striking out, she meets a musician who appears to be the bohemian Mr. Right of her dreams, only to find he may be more deadbeat than heartthrob. But Layla refuses to settle for anything short of true love and success, and she ultimately finds both where she least expects them. Hannah McCouch’s fresh and animated voice leaps off the pages of Girl Cook, a deliciously modern Cinderella story of love, sex, chefs, and the city.



candy-is-dandy	Mar 16 2012, 11:44 AM Post #4
Hooked on Books Posts: 3,788 Group: Members Member #399 Joined: March 16, 2007	In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishigoru imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Haisham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. BCID: http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3747828/



BooksnBeer	Mar 16 2012, 12:47 PM Post #5
Exceedingly Obsessed Posts: 4,204 Group: Members Member #2,253 Joined: March 21, 2008	LoriPed reveal The Wedding Officer by Anthony Capella BC link Captain James Gould arrives in wartime Naples assigned to discourage marriages between British soldiers and their gorgeous Italian girlfriends. But the innocent young officer is soon distracted by an intoxicating young widow who knows her way around a kitchen...Livia Pertini is creating feasts that stun the senses with their succulence—ruby-colored San Marzana tomatoes, glistening anchovies, and delectable new potatoes encrusted with the black volcanic earth of of Campania—and James is about to learn that his heart may rank higher than his orders. For romance can be born of the sweet and spicy passions of food and love—and time spent in the kitchen can be as joyful and exciting as the banquet of life itself!



AceofHearts	Mar 17 2012, 09:06 AM Post #6
Totally Obsessed Posts: 13,856 Group: Members Member #59 Joined: December 23, 2005	bookstogive's Reveal The Scent Trailby Celia Lyttelton http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/9866670/ From Booklist Lyttelton's passion for fragrance inspired her to have a signature perfume created just for her and then to embark on the ultimate olfactory odyssey. Armed with a list of ingredients, she tracked down each component of her scent, tracing its origins, history, and culture. From Publishers Weekly For globe-trotting British journalist Lyttelton, scent evokes memories. Such memories from her childhood, when she traveled with her archeologist mother to distant countries, led her to embark on a quest to find scent origins around the world. Seeking her own bespoke perfume, she visits a London perfumer, introducing readers to the delicate art of composing a perfume, evoking, for instance, a forest at dawn soaked in dew or, more abstractly, a piece of music. With her own formula in hand, Lyttelton sets out to visit places where the ingredients are grown, hoping to meet the harvesters, encounter fragrant fumes and discover the secrets of perfume making. Lyttelton has a magical manner of blending words and sentences to summon up splendiferous odors amid her anecdotes, memories and historical research. Scented sentences permeate the pages as she takes the reader along on her olfactory odyssey across far-flung, labyrinthine landscapes, from the French Riviera and Morocco to Tuscany and Sri Lanka. From the iris fields of Tuscany to the vetivert distilleries of India, from the nutmeg plantations of Sri Lanka to the shores of the Arabian Sea, Celia gives readers a glimpse into the world of scent that few people have ever experienced, providing delicious details on its place in history, for example, how Casanova added small amounts of ambergris to chocolate mousses to aid his amorous adventures, and how Charles Dickens carried a monogrammed pocket nutmeg grater in his waist coat at a time when nutmeg was used to ward off evil and to spice rum. Her enchanting escapades conclude with a glossary of terminology used by perfumers.



elsi	Mar 18 2012, 08:36 AM Post #7
Beyond Obsessed Posts: 10,626 Group: Admin Member #985 Joined: September 20, 2007	Xeyra's Reveal: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry The latest from Barry (whose A Long Way was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker) pits two contradictory narratives against each other in an attempt to solve the mystery of a 100-year-old mental patient. That patient, Roseanne McNulty, decides to undertake an autobiography and writes of an ill-fated childhood spent with her father, Joe Clear. A cemetery superintendent, Joe is drawn into Ireland's 1922 civil war when a group of irregulars brings a slain comrade to the cemetery and are discovered by a division of Free-Staters. Meanwhile, Roseanne's psychiatrist, Dr. Grene, investigating Roseanne's original commitment in preparation for her transfer to a new hospital, discovers through the papers of the local parish priest, Fr. Gaunt, that Roseanne's father was actually a police sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. The mysteries multiply when Roseanne reveals that Fr. Gaunt annulled her marriage after glimpsing her in the company of another man; Gaunt's official charge was nymphomania, and the cumulative fallout led to a string of tragedies. Written in captivating, lyrical prose, Barry's novel is both a sparkling literary puzzle and a stark cautionary tale of corrupted power. http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/6406803/



LoriPed	Mar 19 2012, 06:56 PM Post #8
Exceedingly Obsessed Posts: 4,047 Group: Members Member #7,157 Joined: April 18, 2009	Ace's reveal is The Road by Cormac McCarthy The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.



Therubycanary	Mar 20 2012, 10:39 PM Post #9
The Ruby Canary Posts: 1,487 Group: Members Member #1,749 Joined: January 22, 2008	The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel by Maureen Lindley From the back cover: "Peking, 1914. When the eight-year-old princess Eastern Jewel is caught spying on her father's liaison with a servant girl, she is banished from the palace, sent to live with a powerful family in Japan. renamed Yoshiko Kawashima, she quickly falls in love with her adoptive country, where she earns a scandalous reputation, taking fencing lessons, smoking opium, and entertaining numerous lovers. Sent to Mongolia to become an obedient wife, Yoshiko mounts a daring escape and eventually finds her way back to Peking high society - this time with orders from the Japanese secret service."



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