Put your reveals here. And ONLY reveals!!!

Archived moves:

Catsalive asks for Butterfly's reveal Stoner by John Williams
Azuki requests LoriPed's reveal of Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Meshe asks for BooksNBeer's reveal Station Eleven
xallroyx asks Camis to reveal Wild
butterfly-noir starts the stealing by running away with The Unnamed Midwife
Azuki mixes it up by asking for GateGypsy's reveal of This Changes Everything
Lori asks for Lauren's reveal and gets Natchez Burning
Elsi steals Station Eleven from Meshe
Meshe steals Wild from xallroyx
xallroyx takes off with This Changes Everything
azuki asks for itpdx to reveal How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Nimrodiel asks lmn60 to reveal Chronicles of St Mary's twofer
lmn60 steals Book of the Unnamed Midwife from Butterfly-noir
Butterfly-noir asks Pepper to reveal Shadowshaper
Pepper steals Chronicles of St Mary's twofer from nim
Nim steals Shadowshaper from Butterfly
Butterfly asks Xeyra to reveal The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Lauren steals the Midwife from lmn
Lmn steals Shadowshaper from nim
Nim asks Kiri to reveal Ghost Talkers
Cheesy steals Chronicles of St Mary's twofer from Pepper
Pepper steals Ghost Talkers from Nim
Nim asks elsi to reveal Commitment Hour
Marge bumped as per her instructions
GateGypsy the Chronicles of St Mary's 2fer right out of cheesy's hands
Cheesy steals from Pepper again and takes Ghost Talkers away from her
Pepper has zosime reveal the Eagle Tree
Zosime asks for shaunesay to reveal Kindred
Tsjara steals This Changes Everything from xallroyx
Xallroyx steals Harry August from the butterfly
Butterfly asks cats to reveal Thicker Than Water
Camis steals Harry August from xallroyx
Xallroyx steals Kindred from zosime
Zosime steals Ghost Talkers from Cheesygiraffe
Cheesy steals Shadowshaper from lmn
lmn steals How to Get Filthy Rich from Azuki
Azuki steals The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August from Camis
Camis steals Thicker Than Water from Butterfly
Butterfly steals Chronicles of St Mary's twofer from GG
GG swoops in and steals The Book of the Unnamed Midwife from HoserLauren
HoserLauren snaffles Station Eleven from Elsi
Elsi asks for Nims reveal Little Beach Street Bakery
itpdx steals Station Eleven from HoserLauren
Lauren steals Book of the Unnamed Midwife out of GG's hands and out of the game
GateGypsy steals Chronicles of St Mary's twofer out of the game from Butterfly-noir and
Butterfly asks azuki to reveal The Looking Glass Wars
Shaunie steals Shadowshaper from Cheesygiraffe
Cheesy asks Spiderchick to reveal Moriarty
Marge dropped out of swap
BNB Steal commitment hour from Nimrodiel
Nimrodiel steals the eagle three from Pepper
Pepper asks xallroy to reveal red rising
SpiderChic steals The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August from azuki
Azuki steals The Eagle Tree from nimrodiel
Nimrodiel steals Shadowshaper from Shaunie and out of the swap
Shaunie steals Ghost Talkers from Zosime
Zosime asks cheesy to reveal Honolulu
Kiri asks tsjara to reveal The End of Mr. Y
Xeyra on her 1st move steals Ghost Talkers out of the game!
Shaunie steals Harry August out of the game!
Spider steals The End of Mr Y from Kiri
Kiri steals Honolulu from zosime
Zosime steals Stoner from Catsalive
Cats steals Moriarty from cheesy
Cheesy steals The End of Mr Y from spiderchic
spider steals Wild from Meshe
Meshe steals Honolulu from Kiri
Kiri needs to reflect on this theft so takes The Looking Glass Wars from Butterfly
Butterfly takes Natchez Burning from LoriPed
Lori decides sleuthing is in order and takes Moriarty from CatsAlive
Cats steals Commitment Hour from BnB
BnB steals Red Rising from a Pepper
Pepper rouses herself to steal The End of Mr Y from cheesy
Cheesy steals Moriarty from Lori
LoriPed steals Red Rising from BnB
BnB steals Commitment Hour from Catsalive
Cats steals Moriarty back from cheesy
Cheesy steals Little Beach Street Bakery from elsi
elsi steals Red Rising from Lori

LORIPED'S REVEAL



The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere #1) by Meg Elison
BC link to be added later

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner
When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead.
In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant—the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power—and the strong who possess it.
A few women like her survived, though they are scarce. Even fewer are safe from the clans of men, who, driven by fear, seek to control those remaining. To preserve her freedom, she dons men’s clothing, goes by false names, and avoids as many people as possible. But as the world continues to grapple with its terrible circumstances, she’ll discover a role greater than chasing a pale imitation of independence.
After all, if humanity is to be reborn, someone must be its guide.

My Opinion: This is not a book for the gentile reader. It is dark, gritty and disturbing. The story depicts brutal violence, especially against women. Normally I would be one of those people who could not handle the violence, but for some reason I found that I could not stop reading this book. I got so caught up in the lives of the survivors, especially Karen. The second book comes out next month, and I look forward to reading it.

I will send any version of this book you prefer as it is available in book, Kindle and Nook forms.

Butterfly-Noir's Reveal:



Stoner by John Williams

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.

And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a "proper" family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

Camis' reveal is....



Wild by Cheryl Strayed

At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America - from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State - and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise - a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.

My Goodreads review:
This was one of the rare occasions when a film made me want to read the book - usually I'm strictly a 'book first' person. Having seen the film, I had a feeling that the book was going to be so much better and I wasn't disappointed.

Cheryl Strayed was a lost soul following the death of her mother and chose to find herself by hiking solo along the Pacific Crest Trail. This is the story of her journey, through ups and downs, with all of the people she met along the way.

Honest and touching, this book will stay with me for a while. And, I now want to go hiking!

A swift moving pandemic destroys most of the people in the world, and here is a misfit cast of characters somehow coexisting, maybe sometimes a little too coincidentally, both before and twenty years after the apocalypse. The focus is on all types of art and that "survival is insufficient." I love the image of our heroes, the Traveling Symphony, artfully (this is another art too I suppose) taking down criminals in their way with crossbows by day, but then later that night performing a Shakespeare play... they have many of them memorized. It might seem a bit impractical... I can't imagine Daryl and Michonne rehearsing Shakespeare, but they have the walking dead to contend with. I like the idea of a character like Kirsten, a coddled young child actress as the plague hits, who becomes a person who needs meaningful knife tattoos. I liked the Toronto setting, but was a little annoyed it also had to include New York City and Los Angeles. I like the balance of the story that is told here: equal parts before, during and after the plague. Sure, this can be added to the post-apocalyptic novel pile, but there is something about this one that seems slightly different. I like the little homages that are made in this book. I see a character named Heller and I can only think of Peter Heller's post-apocalyptic 'The Dog Stars'. Childhood friends Arthur and Clark can only seem like a hint to Arthur C. Clarke, probably because of Station Eleven itself, a comic about a space station that looks like a planet. This one reminds me of a couple other post-apocalyptic books: 'Parasites Like Us' by Adam Johnson and another National Book Award nominee 'Far North' by Marcel Theroux. With so many award nominations, I did expect a little more from this one, but I was not disappointed. I think the world needs these post-apocalyptic scenarios to remind ourselves how precarious the world is at the moment, how quickly it might be to lose almost everything, how much there is to lose. 

GoodReads summary:
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.

In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the myths that are clouding climate debate.

You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it – it just requires breaking every rule in the 'free-market' playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring.

It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap – or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era.

GateGypsy's feelings on the book:
Mind Blown.

So inspired.

Amazing book.

Naomi Klein felt much the same way I bet a lot of you do (depressed, like it's too late, already in a state of pre-mourning for all the beautiful things we won't have and our children will never know), before she researched and wrote this book. Through her investigations, she now feels that we really do have a very real chance to prevent catastrophic climate destabilization, but it will need the people to make demands of their governments, to put pressure on the businesses. She lays out very clear and very achievable paths to re-greening our economy and I actually feel very inspired now to be able to help support the changes that need to be made here in my part of the globe. I hope you read the book, because every country has a role to play, and we need people like you, who feel the way that you do, to tell others about this book, and spread the word. Borrow it from a library, buy a copy and share it with your friends, get your hands on it somehow, read and share. And then tell your other friends to read it. We really can make a difference.

HoserLauren's Reveal


Natchez Burning
by Greg Iles

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes The Bone Tree and the upcoming Mississippi Blood—an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.
Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American nurse with whom he worked in the dark days of the 1960s. Once a crusading prosecutor, Penn is determined to save his father, but Tom, stubbornly invoking doctor-patient privilege, refuses even to speak in his own defense.
Penn''s quest for the truth sends him deep into his father''s past, where a sexually charged secret lies. More chilling, this long-buried sin is only one thread in a conspiracy of greed and murder involving the vicious Double Eagles, an offshoot of the KKK controlled by some of the most powerful men in the state. Aided by a dedicated reporter privy to Natchez''s oldest secrets and by his fiancée, Caitlin Masters, Penn uncovers a trail of corruption and brutality that places his family squarely in the Double Eagles'' crosshairs.
With every step costing blood and faith, Penn is forced to confront the most wrenching dilemma of his life: Does a man of honor choose his father or the truth?
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/14138112

itpdx's reveal




How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Publishers comments:
His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the worlds pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation and exceeds it. The astonishing and riveting tale of a mans journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over rising Asia.” It follows its nameless hero to the sprawling metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most fluid, and increasingly scarce, of goods: water. Yet his heart remains set on something else, on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths crossing and recrossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along.

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a striking slice of contemporary life at a time of crushing upheaval. Romantic without being sentimental, political without being didactic, and spiritual without being religious, it brings an unflinching gaze to the violence and hope it depicts. And it creates two unforgettable characters who find moments of transcendent intimacy in the midst of shattering change.

My review:
What a wonderful story told in a innovative way. This is the story of one man's life from rural village to wealthy businessman and beyond told in the form of a self-help book with humor and some soul searching. In addition to delightful observations on the relationship between author and writer, there is a primer on how business is done in Asia. The narrator is in the water business and he gives us glimpses of how bottled water and private water systems may operate in developing countries. And through his stories of the women in his life--mother, sister, wife and classmate, we see the how their lives are changing.