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Saranghae

@WildestDreams

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

Hello Bookaholics

It's September and it's time for Confessions!

Are you all ready for another edition of Newsletter?

Before starting, we'd like to thank you each and every member who appreciated and left a comment as well for the first Newsletter of Book Talk Forum!

Every month, we will have up a new newsletter, so everyone can catch up about lastest release book, best quotes and many more!

The feature of this newsletter are:

-Book of the month

-Upcoming books

-Bookshelf

-Over a cup of coffee

-Quote of the month

-Bookaholic Contest of the month

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Hope you all will enjoy and have fun reading!!

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Parm&Appy&Deba

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Saranghae

@WildestDreams

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

And the mountains echoed
by Khaled Hosseini

Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their skulls touching, their limbs tangled.

One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.

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This Author has the ability to captivate and transport the heart and soul through time and space. Yes, because he managed to fill the pages of life and feeling, to tell stories of pain and suffering but also of hope and redemption. The story spans six decades of Afghan history (1949-2010), from the reign of Zahir Shah, Russian occupation, since the proclamation of the Islamic Republic attack on the Twin Tower.
Similarly, the fate of the two brothers Pari and Abdullah opens the door to a tumultuous whirlwind of stories and characters.

Through the evocative power of words, the author builds unforgettable characters. Among all I particularly loved Nabi, chauffeur and faithful servant, haunted by the specter of guilt that goes through with his long existence much of the novel.

"And the Mountains Echoed" talks about choices and suffering, sin and loneliness, mistakes and regrets, but above all there is about love. Love declined in all its nuances, love that generates suffering and sacrifice, love that cheats and hurts, love that gives joy and hope.

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Saranghae

@WildestDreams

Moderator

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

A couple of book names releasing during September! Share with us here, others releases you loved reading for this month!

September 1

September 8

September 15

September 29

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!

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

by Oscar Wilde

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.."

Conversations with Wlliam Styron by William Styron

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."

A games of thrones by George R.R. Martin

" Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."

by J.K. Rowling

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Saranghae

@WildestDreams

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

Have you finished reading all the books on the nightstand?
Your wishlist asks to be updated?
Are you already thinking about what to read next?

Here we are to help you!
Here are some book suggestion to read for each genre!

Young Adult

All The Bright Place

by Jennifer Niven

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It's only with Violet that Finch can be himself"a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who's not such a freak after all. And it's only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.

Romance

Ruin
by Rachel Van Dyken

I'm not your typical girl. I've been running away from the memories that haunt me for so long that depression has become my only comfort. I was content in the darkness...until Wes Michals offered to be my light.

I didn't know that time wasn't my ally -- that every second that ticked past was one step closer to the end of something that was beginning to mean the end of myself. He tried to warn me. He promised me all he was able to offer--each moment as it came--but it would never be enough.

Sometimes when you think it's the end, it's only the beginning. Wes thought he could save me, but in giving me everything, he ruined me. Because after one kiss, one touch, I couldn't--I wouldn't ever be the same.

And from that moment on, his heartbeat became my own!

Historical

The Bronze Horseman
by Paulina Simmons

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned upside down when Hitler's armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to Leningrad.

Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled past, he is drawn to Tatiana"and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana and Alexander's impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects"a secret as devastating as the war itself"as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world and their lives forever.

Classics

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.

Paranormal

Fallen

by Lauren Kate

What if the person you were meant to be with could never be yours?

17-year-old Lucinda falls in love with a gorgeous, intelligent boy, Daniel, at her new school, the grim, foreboding Sword & Cross . . . only to find out that Daniel is a fallen angel, and that they have spent lifetimes finding and losing one another as good & evil forces plot to keep them apart.

Get ready to fall . . .

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Saranghae

@WildestDreams

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

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!

The second Bookaholic
to sit on this hot seat

is none other than

IF Most Wanted Person
😆😆😆
Yep guys, you guesssed it right!!!!

She is

-Koeli_Appy-

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1) A Book you couldn't finish?

Miles High (Air Series#2) by R.K. Lilly *face palm. [caution: Adult Read]

2) Series or Stand alone's?

Depends actually. It's tough to choose but ya if i have to choose i would prefer standalone.

3) Favourite Genre?

Rom-Com or Romance with HEA which is heavily emotional.

4) Funniest Book?

I dont remember atm. But ya See Jane Score by Richel Gibson is all i remember atm.

5) Character who you liked first then hated?

I dont like books which has inconsistent characters. So i guess I will pass this. I havent come across any such book.

6) Alpha that you would like to date?

Oh there are so many... *giggles Alex from Annie's Song, Alex from Kiss An Angel, Hudson from Fixed Series, Miles from Ugly Love. All brooding men from Mills and Boons :v and ofcourse CTG from FSOG ☺️.

7) Book that you wouldn't save in a fire?

I dont remember the name of that book but i am definately not going to save that from fire if i ever had a paperback of that book. I was do depressed for two consecutive days

8). Literary tea party. You are allowed 7 guests, who do you invite? (characters, authors...)

CoHo, Miles Archer, Ryles, Julia James, Christian Grey, Elena from FSOG and Hudson

9) A book everyone should read at least once.

Annies Song, Driven(+18), Fixed Series, Kiss and Angel, Resisting Temptation(+18) You Loved Me Series.

10) What are you reading right now?

Monster in his eyes (+18)

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Saranghae

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Saranghae

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Obsidian Orbiters

Posted: 8 years ago

I hope you all had a good time going through the Newsletter of this forum.

.Credits.
Tags: debasree04

We will present the Newsletter monthly...in the first week of each Month!
It will posted by me DUGGUlicious or -Koeli_Appy-

Please drop in to give your opinion/suggestion and if you want to feature in the next "Over a cup of coffee" session or part of Newsletter Team,
drop us a PM and we will get back to you!

Happy reading!

Cheers

Parm

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594805

Inactive

Posted: 8 years ago

Hey,

Firstly I wanted to say amazing job on both the newsletters.! I was kinda inactive on IF the last month so I couldn't comment properly but this is a really great initiative ❤️ And so amazing the effort you guys put into it. *Kudos* to the entire team

Now coming to the NL. I just CANNOT wait for 29th september.!! AFTER YOU I am still not over me before you. First book that made me cry 😭 I am planning to order paper backs of both just so that I can read and re-read and re-re-read and so on 🤣

Khalid H is too depressing for me. Left thousand splendid suns mid way 😆

Bronze horseman though was out of the world. 👏 Though some parts need discretion 🤣 But the feel that book gives, it transports you to pre world war russia. ❤️ It was a different experience.! But the next two parts ruined its magic 😡

Appy jahan dekho bas tum hi chayee hui ho 🤣 how arent you burnt being grilled everywhere 🤣 congratulations 😆

Looking forward to being part of this book club 😳

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594805

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Posted: 8 years ago

#10

to kill a mocking bird is on my list of never ending books to read 🤣 Fallen sounds really interesting too. Definitely will give it a try ❤️

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