The Novelle

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The Island - Jen Minkman

Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across the Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The fools living behind it are not amenable to reason - they believe in illusions. That's what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors. But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the...

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Hearts Under Fire - Antonio Scotto di Carlo*

Jenny is a beautiful young business woman. She lives in an Italian tourist town here she owns a shop. Her need for independence is her strength, but her innate distrust sometimes creates problems with others. One day she encounters love. More than an encounter, it's a collision, a head-on collision. Her heart isn't Eros's only target, and everything changes...Police begin investigating suspicious events around her, slowing down the construction of a new great hotel in town and rocking her life even more. I had so many different thoughts and emotions whilst reading this book, and after the first...

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Alphabet Books: The Knife Of Never Letting Go

NOTE: I don't believe I've read a book beginning with J In order to showcase the books that I own, I have created a little segment whereupon I will go through each book one letter of the alphabet at a time.The Knife Of Never Letting Go - Patrick NessTodd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the...

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Thursday Quotables: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open" Harry Potter is one of those series that inspired millions of children, and adults alike (and still does) for millions of reasons. It got people reading and it also teaches some very valuable life lessons in the form of a fiction story. Sometimes authors are the most powerful role models, and popular authors often have the power to send a good message to teach the world. I believe JK Rowling is one of those that tried to do good.Hosted by...

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Alphabet Books: Insurgent

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS In order to showcase the books that I own, I have created a little segment whereupon I will go through each book one letter of the alphabet at a time. Insurgent - Veronica Roth Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future. Yet if Tris wants to uncover the truth about her world, she must be stronger than ever... because more shocking choices and sacrifices...

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Thursday Quotables: A Storm Of Swords

"The greatest fools are offtimes more clever than the men who laugh at them" I'm now continuing along with trying to read the gargantuan series that is A Song of Ice and Fire, and George R.R. Martin, as always, never fails to inspire the world with one of his many quotes. I'm absolutely in love with these books and although the second book was a bit of a slog with setting the scene and setting things up for the following books, I am quite thoroughly addicted. Even though I can't read more than one of these books...

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Review: Deception Point

Author: Dan BrownSource: Market (secondhand)Published: 2010 Rating: ★★☆☆☆Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about...

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Cover Lover: Orange

I absolutely LOVE cover design and I wanted to highlight some of my favourite and not so favourite covers out there. In order to put some kind of order to this I have decided to section off the covers into different themes. About A Boy by Nick Hornby This cover sums up the main aspect of what happens in the book without spoiling anything in the simplest terms; the idea of meeting up with someone and going to the same place. The (almost) repetition of the same design could symbolise the regularity that life can assume or...

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Spring Clean Your TBR: April in Review

Total books Finished: 4The Witch Of Napoli - Michael SchmickerCrown Of Midnight - Sarah J. MaasInside Out - Maria V. SnyderHere's Looking At You - Mhairi McFarlane(Started Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire - JK Rowling, but didn't complete it in April)Book Goals: 4/6Total Pages: 1931I have had an extremely busy working month in April which is amazing for the money in comparison to March when I worked about 3 times in a whole month. I don't think this has really affected my reading though however, as I've still managed to read 4 out of 6 books...

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Alphabet Books: The Hundred And One Dalmations

In order to showcase the books that I own, I have created a little segment whereupon I will go through each book one letter of the alphabet at a time.The Hundred And One Dalmations by Dodie SmithWhen the Dearlys' Dalmatians have their first litter of puppies -- fifteen in all -- everyone is delighted. But their joy is shattered when the pups are kidnapped! The humans don't have a clue as to who the culprit is, but the smartest dogs in London are on the case -- and on the trail of the fur-loving Cruella de Vil, who...