<![CDATA[Mirror Mirror]]>

false <![CDATA[Mirror Mirror]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185433887m/15858.jpg 15858 15 The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm -- and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia -- decadent children of a wicked pope -- no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care -- so to speak -- of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White -- and has a truth and beauty all its own. 1131006 book 2003 Mirror Mirror: A Novel total:6807|5:609|4:1738|3:2710|2:1328|1:422| 6807 21205 10268 604 2 4 false false Sun Sep 09 21:37:31 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 21:43:45 -0700 2007
I said I would because I'm not sure anything Maguire does will compare with the freshness, the intrigue and the delight I found in Wicked. Or t...more...]]> 1 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Mar 26 04:59:16 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 26 05:04:42 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon May 05 15:27:04 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 18:16:06 -0700 2008 Ms. Houseman
H World Lit
5 May 2008

Gregory Maguire
Mirror Mirror
New York: Harper Collins, 2004
280 pp. $16.00
978-0-06-098865-4

The novel “Mirror Mirror” was an immense letdown after reading “Wicked” and “Son of a Witc...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jan 11 07:41:29 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 07:47:29 -0800 2008
I appreciated the position Gregory took in this re-telling ...more...]]> 1 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 01 08:18:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:54:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 07:22:51 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 16:01:19 -0700 2008 I rarely ever put a book down before I have finished it, no matter how bad it is... but I not only put this book down, I gave it away. The cafe I was reading it at had a collection bin of books to send to the needy in Africa. A...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 24 17:48:06 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 17:58:57 -0800 2008
Part of the problem was in the fact that I did make this a read aloud. McGuire intersperse...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Dec 06 19:51:01 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 15 10:44:32 -0700 2008
"What child does not feel itself perched at the center of creation?... Small children know the truth that their own existense has caused the world to bloom into being."

"Speaking uses us...more...]]> 1 2 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jan 12 17:47:47 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 17:52:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:45:27 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 10:41:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 02 10:07:02 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 10:07:18 -0700 2009
I was sorely disappointed and that is being kind. I felt li...more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 13:51:46 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:32:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 02:28:25 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 05:35:35 -0700 2009
For the most part, it's okay. There's no distinct reason as to why I disliked it because, for the most part, there's nothing horrible about it. There's no one point where I sat u...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat May 30 17:51:16 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 17:51:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 19:04:19 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 12:29:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Feb 15 21:06:54 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 20:56:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:47:35 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 06:54:21 -0700 2009 Wicked. Though it doesn't have explicit sex, it skirts around with plenty of sexual subject matter. The story's the transformed Snow White fairy tale. Guess who the wicked witch is? Lucrezia Borgia, with all of the gossip/rumor of the high Renaissance attached, co...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:06:58 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 15:10:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 08:15:12 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:32:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 07 14:42:57 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 14:43:45 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15858