Of Mice and Maltesers - the new thread for Round Two

[artifarti]

Hello everyone and welcome to the new thread for Round Two!

To recap, the basic rules are:
No chicklit
No abuse memoir type stuff
No horror
No hardbacks

Auto/biography is allowed as long as it?s not anything too obscure (or crap, obviously).

Chocolate to the value of about £2 each time.

Here is the list:
artifarti
aristocat
Dysgu
PistachioLemon
TheBuggerofSuburbia
stickylittlefingers
AgentProvocateur
LolaLadyBird
Itsjustafleshwound
pooter
muddleduck
LadyBee
FlyingMonkey
Maria2007
johnworf

johnworf is a new member so be nice!

As before, please email me at artifarti at hotmail dot co dot uk with the initials of your chosen book and author (e.g. ROTN by TH for Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy) so I can check there are no duplicates. I will assume all your name, address and chocolate details remain the same unless you tell me otherwise (johnworf, please send me yours)

Please do this on or before July 10th. Then I will email you all with the name of the new person you are to post the books to (we are reversing, for anyone that hasn't picked that up.)

No-one has indicated that they want to drop out so I am assuming not at the moment.
I have now read all the books so I am thinking about which was my favourite - so many good ones, a difficult choice.

Thanks arti :)

hope you're well by the way? Glandular fever over?

Thanks for the book and choccie ladybee. I have devoured both. I absolutely LOVED the book - off to catch up on my reviews, i have been a tad lax in that dept.

Dysgu have you sent to me yet, no book so far

has anyone seen Dysgu on a thread lately?
i haven't had a book yet or any message - hope she is ok

PistachioLemon - finished your book and really enjoyed it. Have posted on your thread.

How is everyone else doing? Has everyone got this month's book? aristocat?

arti no book here yet and have sent Dysgu a message but no reply
perhaps she will be in touch soon

Okay, if there's no sign in the next couple of days, I'll email her.

Pooter have you reviewed the last book you sent me? I can't find a thread, but I don't want to start a new one if there is one hidden away somewhere. It was Ladybee's book, I think.

No i havent AP - i was worried about starting a new thread if there was one i had missed (actually, same as the other 2 ive read...) I MUST go and start them! Watch this space.

Hello aristocat huge amounts of sorry that book has not been sent yet. Long story - with no exciting bits to make it worth including here!

Anyway, book and chocolate are now packaged and will be in the post tomorrow - and next one will be on time at the start of next month - promise!

There should be a thread for each book now...and I have bumped the ones that were in danger of dropping off the page.

hi all,
i am struggling with this months book, and its now half term and too busy doing pumpkins and days out to settle down and read ..........

i will try my hardest to get it to you on time arti - hope everyones busy reading

I've finished this month's book, and I was going to post it to SLF tonight because I know she's finished hers too.

But on the way home from work, the delicious Thornton's chocolate I'd bought her fell into my mouth.

I'll try again tomorrow.

I have that problem too AP. We often get home from Sainsbo's to find that they have unaccountably sold us a pack of yumyums with one missing!! Dreadful.

My DH is currently reading this months book after i raved about it. He isn't as impressed as i am - but he is a confirmed nerd of the highest order and it doesn't contain enough maths,computers or robots for his liking.

We have separate bookshelves

looking forward to next month's book. Will try not to sneak a peek.....

oh - arti - i am moving house as of the 1st Dec - I will email you with the new address soon. And anyone wanting to buy a house in Essex - step this way please. PLEASE!

AP glad it went to a good home!! I'm just coming to the end of "Alone in Berlin" and though it's brilliant, it is rather harrowing and depressing (if also redemptive and all the other things they said on the cover!), so I'm hoping this month's book is going to be JOLLY! If not, the chocolate will be jolly. If I ever get any, that is

arti have posted to you this week, hope it gets there soon

Got it thanks aristocat. Looks good.

Respect - did you receive mine?

Is everyone else on track?

Dysgu have you posted to me yet?

pooter have you posted to me yet? we've been having problems with our mail - there's a new postie, and our house is hard to find. It all got delivered to the police station yesterday

Am off to the postbox as we type! Sorry - we are in the throes of moving house and i'm so stressed i can't think straight.

'twill be with you forthwith - and it's a cracker!

ladybee have you posted to me?

That's fine - don't worry. Was only concerned that the police had eaten the chocolate!

Really sorry everyone, have disappeared for a while... but am now back in the loop. Off now to write my thoughts on 2 books (Chandellina's and another one- will track it down, as don't know owner).

How is everyone else? This thread has gone a bit quiet recently.

Hello all - been another crazy month but I did post the book to you aristocat last Monday so I really hope that it has made it to you sometime in the past month.

PistachioLemon have you posted to me this month yet? I waited to check as something arrived on Friday but got returned to the sorting office - picked it up today and it wasn't this month's book.

I too must add to the threads about the books...

Hello all - are there any books stilm MIA?

For those of you that were part of the first round of this swap, have you seen that our voted-for favourite Any Human Heart has been turned into a TV drama serial (starting Sunday night, 9pm)?

not only that arti but there is Q and A with William Boyd here at MN!

thanks for the book Dysgu i have read it and will post it on soon