Making Faces

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As much as I loved Fern and Ambrose, Bailey was the very best part of this story. Bailey was so strong, so resolved to live his life to the very fullest. He was full of laughter, love and beauty. He was sweet, funny, and was exactly the person Fern needed in her life. I really agree with Fern’s mother and aunt. Fern and Bailey were brought into this world around the same time for each other. This book will leave you with an egg sized blob of emotion in your throat, it's really beautiful. I'm sitting here writing this review trying to find something I didn't love about it and I can't. I love to feel and this book allowed me too.

Perfect for any number of lessons; character design, reflections, (self) portraits, and any activity where you need a customisable face. Perfect for the topic Ourselves. Even the side characters are interesting and feel genuine. Everyone’s family was different and impactful, and I love the way it all came together. Every once in a while a book comes a long that, from the moment I first hear about it, takes over my mind and heart and doesn't let go until I've read it, lived it and immersed myself in the story. Making Faces was such a book. I read the blurb and shivers just went right through me and I immediately knew that this book was a must-read.Fern was in love with Ambrose long before the book started. She loved him this vanilla-baby-love. She always looked at him with those big puppy-eyes. And it was fine, when she was younger, but when she got older, that little girl crush just felt weird. Gradually, Fern and Bailey bring Ambrose out of hiding. He didn't want the world to see him. He felt like a beast and he felt it was his fault for a lot of things that happened. But the three started having a wonderful time together. How could you not with Fern and Bailey! Ambrose, is the town's pride. He's handsome, athletic, he has the perfect life. At least on the outside that's how it seems, until one day an event that changed the world forced him to look at his own life differently. In the parts where they were in Iraq, all they did were talk about girls. I never got the feeling that they were actually fighting in a war, up until the last scene in Iraq where road-side bomb exploded. And even that was a very short scene. Making Faces sends a messages to the reader. For me the one word that came to mind is Perception. We all have our own perceptions, when you look at someone how does your perception of them differ from someone else. What constitutes beauty and is our understanding of it flawed.

Could you belong to someone who didn’t want you? Fern decided it was possible because her heart was his, and whether or not he wanted it didn’t seem to make much difference. I must admit that this story's raw power and heartbreaking scenarios had me in an almost constant fit of tears. But it was a beautiful cry fest. I cried for a Fern — for believing she was so incredibly insignificant because of her unremarkable appearance. I cried for Ambrose's quiet strength, humility, and decency—which was all I saw in both his beautiful and "beastly" state. And for Bailey — who so desperately craved becoming a hero, never realizing he was one all along.A sly, pointed face with something vixen in it, the look of a child evacuee who had lost his parents and grown up too fast —Penelope Gilliatt As Fern and Ambrose grow closer, the lives of their friends grow more complicated. Bailey lives with the pain of watching the girl he loves endure a living hell. His light-hearted presence in Fern and Ambrose's lives is in direct contrast to the sadness he lives with. Spoiler Free-Thank you to all of the previous reviewers and a special shout out to Mo for personally recommending this book to me.

Maybe everyone represents a piece of the puzzle. We all fit together to create this experience we call life. None of us can see the part we play or the way it all turns out. Maybe the miracles that we see are just the tip of the iceberg. And maybe we just don't recognize the blessings that come as a result of terrible things.” Fern is a girl who experiences an "ugly girl syndrome." She in not particularly pretty and she is awkward. That, however, does not stop her from loving Ambrose, a beautiful boy and a wrestler at her high school. She knows that someone as beautiful as him would never be with someone like her.News flash, Fern Taylor! Everything has changed! You are beautiful, I am hideous, you don’t need me anymore, but I sure as hell need you!” It wouldn’t hurt so badly if I didn’t love him so much. That’s the irony of it.”
“There isn’t heartache if there hasn’t been joy. I wouldn’t feel loss if there hadn't been love.” Questions you could ask – can you make me a ‘angry face’? What would ‘angry’ eyes look like? What would ‘sad’ eyes look like? Can you make me a ‘sad face’? Also use other vocabulary such as ‘miserable, frustrated, terrified, proud’. Needless to say, Amy Harmon is an outstanding writer. She is a story teller, my favorite kind of author. By encouraging your child's creativity to run wild, you are helping them to express their emotions .

True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the I don’t know why. This book is so far out of my usual comfort-zone it’s ridiculous. I never read NA. Usually my cynical brain gets bored half-way through a romance. and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies can't contain it." I remember reading a review where it was said that just because characters can quote Hamlet and Shakespeare doesn't mean they are deep. I completely agree. There was quote, upon quote, upon quote. Sometime, after I passed 50% mark, I remember rolling my eyes every time I read name Hamlet or Shakespeare. The quotes were beautiful and somewhat romantic, but there were sooo many of them. I wished they would have stopped quoting someone else and would have come up with something interesting and original, something of their own, to say. If I wanted to know what Hamlet's or Shakespeare's opinions were on this or that subject, I would have gone and read their work. I thought author overdid with quotes. You are still beautiful," Fern says softly "I think that statement is more a reflection of your beauty than mine."Ambrose wanted to laugh. He wasn't afraid of anything. Not anymore. “Not a damn thing, Dad. I used to be afraid of going to hell. But now that I'm here, hell doesn't seem so bad.” this was such a tender love story, as all love stories should be. but where the surprise came from was not the fondness i felt for the romantic and healing love between two people who desperately needed it, but seeing the importance of a strong and resilient love between friends and family. that, to me, was the greatest gift of this book.