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Me too! Looks to be all dark and delicious! :D
Whitney wrote: "I wish to participate"Jenny wrote: "For the mirroring challenge do we just comment here?"
Yeap! You can post your ten (10) book list here in a comment or you can message me directly if you want.
Whatever and/or whichever you wanna do :D
The Curse Merchant
This is my pick for our November Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
✨ Blurb: ✨
Dorian Lake spent years cornering the Baltimore hex-crafting market, using his skills at the hermetic arts to exact karmic justice for those whom the system has failed. He keeps his magic clean and free of soul-corrupting Netherwork, thus avoiding both the karmic blow-back of his practice and the notice of the Presidium, a powerful cabal of practitioners that polices the esoteric arts in America. However, when an unscrupulous Netherworker interferes with both his business and his personal life, Dorian's disarming charisma and hermetic savvy may not be enough to keep his soul out of jeopardy.
His rival, a soul monger named Neil Osterhaus, wouldn't be such a problem were it not for Carmen, Dorian's captivating ex-lover. After two years' absence Carmen arrives at Dorian’s doorstep with a problem: she sold her soul to Osterhaus, and has only two weeks to buy it back. Hoping to win back Carmen's affections, Dorian must find a replacement soul without tainting his own. As Dorian descends into the shadows of Baltimore’s underworld, he must decide how low he is willing to stoop in order to save Carmen from eternal damnation... with the Presidium watching, waiting for him to cross the line.
The Day She Cried
This is my pick for our November Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
✨ Blurb: ✨
She was my first love.
She was my first hate.
The very sun in my world tried to burn me alive with her lies and cruelty.
Until I dimmed her light for good…
Or so I thought.
Now she’s back.
Cracked. Broken. Lost.
And for the first time in a long time, I feel free.
Free from our past. Free from my present that suffocates me. Free to destroy her future.
Her misery is my music.
Thrilling. Invigorating. Intoxicating.
For so long, all I’ve done is hate her.
So why do I love her?
Remedial Rocket Science
This is my pick for our November Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
✨ Blurb: ✨
Rocket science is no problem. Falling in love, on the other hand…
College student Melody Gage is craving a night of no-strings fun when she meets charming out-of-towner Jeremy, and that’s exactly what she gets. Until three years later, when Melody relocates to Los Angeles and finds herself thrust back into Jeremy’s orbit.
Not only does her hunky one-night stand work at the same aerospace company where she’s just started her dream job, he’s the CEO’s son. Jeremy’s got a girlfriend and a reputation as a bad boy, so Melody resolves to keep her distance. Despite her good intentions, a series of awkward circumstances—including an embarrassing crying jag, a latte vs. computer catastrophe, and an emergency fake date—throw her together with the heavenly-smelling paragon of hotness.
As the billionaire playboy and nerdy IT girl forge an unlikely friendship, Melody’s attraction to Jeremy grows deeper than she’s ready to admit. Will she risk it all for a shot at her happy ending?
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10/10/2017
2 Stars (And that is mighty generous of me)Ugh truer words have probably been spoken about this book.
It had a slim number of virtues and it so, so many negatives it made me shudder!
I finished it and will read anything else following in the series but that is just my weirdness. 😨😠😵
So far i am absolutely IN LOVE with it! It is AMAZING! I can't wait to continue reading! 😍❤️
I just started this and i'm having quite a few sensible chuckles this far in (29% as i type this). Though it bugs me a bit as i feel a lot of things happening all at once yet nothing is happening. The narrative seems iffy to me.
Let's see how it will go on! It certainly has a level of potential to it!
This is my pick for our October Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
This is my pick for our October Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
This is my pick for our October Read!
❤️ I hope you enjoy my pick! ❤️
WHAT IT IS: We do love Tijan (duh!) but we think it’ll be good to spice & mix things up by adding more authors. The Auxiliary Challenge will see the group take on books by other authors as part of Group Reads.
But we won’t just make a schedule/list of books like normal people, oh no. We will do it like the crazies do it and you all will help us out and make the challenge your own. XD
HOW IT WORKS: Each month we will give you a set of parameters, you will suggest books based on those given parameters, the suggested books will be put to a poll and the most voted will become next month’s reads. If there are “left over books”, meaning too many from previous poll(s), then we will pool them together for you to make a choice.
Each month's nominations will have their own thread.
You will have two (2) weeks to nominate a book and then two weeks to vote
Clear? No? Ok let me give you guys an example:
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Suggest one book for the given category per person
-A Book
A) With a purple cover
Person 1:
A)Trickery of the Gods by Jaymin Eve & Jane Washington,
Person 2: Nomination
Person 3: More Nominations
Gather all suggestions into Poll. Vote. Most voted are in next month’s Reads. Too many books with high votes? Save and use on later months.
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The Challenge will start on January 1st, 2018. The actual suggestions and subsequent voting however will be done in December.
If you are wondering why I decided to go with that method of selection it’s simple: It gives everyone the opportunity to suggest their many different books that have somehow something in common. This is the method another group I participate in does the monthly selection, not quite the same though. It allows people freedom.
Additional Info:
Challenge
Start: January 1st, 2018
Finish: December 31st, 2018
Prequel Preparation: December 1st – 31st, 2017
Hello & Welcome to the Mirroring Challenge 2018!
WHAT IT IS: Tijan has her own style of writing, her own theme so to speak. Even though each author is unique there can be similarities found among some of them. Since we are all in the group it is a given that we like her style/theme, so I thought books similar to her style might be something people in the group might want to try.
The Mirroring Challenge is designed to do just that, bring authors similar to Tijan to the spotlight.
HOW IT WORKS: Below you can suggest books you’ve read that are close to Tijan’s writing style until a specific date. After that I will gather any and all suggestions and make a schedule which will start in January 2018. The schedule information will be accessible to everyone so you can plan ahead on how many and which ones you will read. Additionally a Challenge will be made for this within the group.
RULES:: Each person can suggest up to 10 books only!
I can make no promises that each book suggested will end up included in the Challenge for 2018, though I will try my best to accommodate everyone. So depending on the amount of the suggestions: Either the extra suggestions will be added to the 2019 Challenge directly or a Poll(s) might be made to let you decide which books to include for 2018.
So get started on suggesting!
Suggestions
Start: October 1st, 2017
End: December 14th, 2017
Challenge Book List announced on/available after
December 25th-26th, 2017
Mirroring Challenge 2018
Start: January 1st, 2018
End: December 31st, 2018
I read this question in another group I participate in and I thought it interesting. So what do you guys prefer when reading: First, Second, Third or Alternating Person narrative points of view?A Short Summary of each POV term can be found here
Some Examples:
~~First
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
The Hunger Games Trilogy by Susanne Collins
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
~~Second
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas by Tom Robbins
Fighting Fantasy by Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone
~~Third
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Abraham "Bram" Stoker
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
~~Alternating
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Gift by Vladimir Nabokov
For me it's the characters. If I can't like the characters then I put all my chips on the plot :P
When reading a book what is it that matters most to you the Characters or the Plot?I know both would be the perfect answer but like life books rarely have it all
Which are the worst and which are the best books you’ve ever read that are popular? Share them here.
That's a tough one.. Hmm let me see..Well if I had one it would be Shanti from the Warrior Chronicles Series.
