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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

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Chit-Chat Corner

What kind of reader are you? Omnivorous or specialist in your favorite genre? Do you love the triumph of imagination or do you prefer the story based on real life? Do you think the most important thing is "what" you write, or"how" you write it?

Through a few simple questions, in this section we will know each other better from time to time!

But before starting, introduce yourself and here comes a little Challenge for you!

Use the first letter of book to spell out your name.

[If you don't wanto to share your real name, spell out for username]

This&That Book

Physical book or e-book?

Dog ears or bookmarks?

Adult or Young Adult?

Series or standalone?

Borrow or buy?

Bookstore or online?

Fiction or non fiction?

Fantasy world or real life issues?

Kindle/ iPad, or other?

Starry-eyed romance or full of action?

Read the review or decide for yourself?

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

#42

AUGUST NL

- Book of the Month (Tag) 🤔Thinking about book

- Upcoming Books (Tag)IN PROGRESS

- Genre Specific books (TAG) DONE

- Chit Chat Corner (Tag? )DONE

- Quote of the Month (TAG) DONE

- Game of the month (TAG) Your call Mommy...Book/Blurb thing or reading challenge?

-Creative column of the month (Creative title🤔): Top 5 most awaited books turning into movie

1-Ugly love
2- Me before you
3- Mockingjay (Part Two) by Suzanne Collins
4- American Sniper by Chris Kyle
5- Inferno by Dan Brown

What say?🤓

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Koeli

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Posted: 10 years ago

#43

okey lemme put up the voting thread for the main heading

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Dark Charm

@WildestDreams

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Posted: 10 years ago

#44

Book Quote of the Month

A great writer is capable of engaging the reader right from the opening sentence. In each Newsletter, we will share with you readers aphorisms or sentences deserving special attention!

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clarke.

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."

The fault in our stars by John Green

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."

The catcher in the rye by J.D. Salinger

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

#45

For Book of the month, should I write a review?

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

#46

Originally posted by: -Koeli_Appy-
okey lemme put up the voting thread for the main heading

Voting thread for main heading? 😕

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

#47

.Book Of The Month.

Making Faces
by Amy Harmon

Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore.
Making Faces is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale of Beauty and the Beast, where we discover that there is a little beauty and a little beast in all of us.

::::::*****

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

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There once was a little girl Fern, with curly red hair, freckled, who felt a little ugly, who loved reading and writing romance novels imagining her prince charming. She always dreamed of tall, dark, muscular, with long hair, confident and sport champion: she dreamed and loved Ambrose Young. She was invisible to his eyes until a fortuitous exchange of letters is a glimpse of the soul of each other but a chink too small so that can't make a difference at the time. And then comes the September 11, 2001 and America is brought to its knees by the attack on the twin towers, an event that marked the United States and beyond.

"Maybe we just don't recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things"

Ambrose joined the army and with him, his four friends, and here the life of the student, son, model athlete undergoes a turn that will put him to hell. When the soldier falls almost two years after the mission in Iraq in his village nothing will be as before: he was taken away his beauty, he was taken away his dignity, he has been taken away his friends ... he was taken away the peace and life!

"If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?"

But Fern continues to see in him only the man she loved in high school and that although he is scarred, he is back on his feet from the Army. His Ambrose is back and he needs her to find himself, to be able to accept what happened, to shake off the guilt that haunts him ... and Fern will be there as a gift of God ready to give all the love and attention he needs to.
Ambrose does not feel, however, the height of the love of Fern, she has become so cute no one will ever want to be with a monster like him ... it seems the roles are reversed but the same Fern still suffers from the syndrome of 'ugly' girl who always makes her feel inadequate.

"Have you been nobody?...
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail."

Making faces is more than a love story - is a story that teaches us to overcome the difficulties of life with courage. In this book, every page, every line of dialogue, every word is deeply meaningful, all history is pervaded by constant references to religious and spiritual nevertheless perfectly match the development of the events without being pretentious or false moralist. This is a novel with a unique message about true beauty and on second chances, it's a heartbreaking story of intense love, friendship, heroism, of loss and knowing how to accept yourself.

A special shoutout to character of Bailey who brings together these two protagonist. He will be able, in spite of his disability, to give lessons of life to everyone and make us feel children, able to complain of anything having everything.

Now if you love exciting stories, full of love and that leave a mark of course you can not miss this book ...

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Dark Charm

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Posted: 10 years ago

#49

IF First Reading Challenge

- Members Sign up GA with basic info:

3 or 5 Rounds with different tasks and one Final Round between last two members!

Working on GA Nn tasks for first round!

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Koeli

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Posted: 10 years ago

#50

Main Tag :

Sub Tags:

- Book of the Month
- Upcoming Books [In the pipeline]
- Genre Specific books (one each) [Book Shelf]
- Chit Chat Section with a member [Over a cup of coffee]
- Quote of the Month
- Game of the month [Bookaholic Contest of the Month]