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    <body><![CDATA[(Pre-1985-) Dianna Wynne Jones is my absolute favorite writer of all time. Since I've gotten this far with cataloguing much of my reading history, I had to make sure this fact is recorded here somewhere. I actually haven't read this one -- my favorite -- in years, mostly because I'm terrified I'll d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6916166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this book infinite stars. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's simply fantastic. I stayed up all night once, reading it . . . my second time. The thing I like best about Diana Wynne Jones is that her heroines are always really strong people. Polly is imaginative, quick-thinking and independent. She doesn't sit around waiting for help, she makes things happ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27447190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw this title on the Young Adult shelf at the library and, remembering <em>Eight Days of Luke</em>, <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle" title="Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones">Howl's Moving Castle</a></em> and other titles I'd enjoyed by the same author, I picked it up.  I'm glad I had read the other books by Jones before, because I wasn't really impressed by this one, and I might not hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14217819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As nineteen-year-old Polly is packing to go away to college, she looks at a picture on her wall called &quot;Fire and Hemlock&quot;, a mysterious image of flame and smoke; suddenly, new memories begin to enter her mind -- memories that reveal a childhood full of fantasies, yet full of dangers, a chi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81026452">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's strange. I was sure at first that I'd read this when I was younger, and bits still chimed with me, but a lot of it felt like new discoveries. Strange parallels with the main character, here! I can't decide whether it counts as a new read or a reread. Hmm. Anyway! I just read a handful of review...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66645657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a child, I fondly remember reading many Chrestomanci books and after recently enjoying Howl's Moving Castle and it sequels, I decided to pick up a few more of Jones' books. Maybe it's just because I'm no longer a kid but this didn't do it for me. <br/><br/>Jones' characters are, as always, very...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50543907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best fantasy I've read in some time. I was absolutely captivated. The characters she's created, the world, the plot--it all weaves together in a truly wonderful piece of fiction. The novel tells the story of Polly, who slowly pieces together the clues of her missing memory. Her friendship with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2451221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dianna Wynne Jones is my favourite author of all time, really.  And this is definitely high on my list of all-time favorite books.  I love how she melds fantasy effortlessly with reality to create this great mystery/love story/can't really classify it.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[why does this book always have such TERRIBLE covers?  don't let them turn you off.  dianna wynne jones is fantastic across this board, and this is my favorite of her books.  it's written for a slightly older audience than many of the others (dogstar, etc).  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good grief.  I don't now why I really liked this book.  When I wasn't reading it, I would forget I was reading it.  Usually I can't wait to get back to a book but I would see this book sitting on the arm of the couch and kind of feel a bit of surprise like, oh yes, I was reading a book.  Plus, the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57529857">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started reading this book I had no idea it would involve the fair folk, like the other book that I happened to read at the same time, War of the Oaks.  Overall, in both War of the Oaks and Fire and Hemlock, as well as in Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (another book involving the Sidhe) it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47442490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The contemporary Tam Lin retelling where ten-year-old Polly accidentally gatecrashes a funeral and gets involved in Tom's attempts to free himself from a faerie queen figure.<br/><br/>I liked both Tom and Polly, and I enjoyed the book, but I had a lot of problems with it.<br/><br/>My chief probl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44545926">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story aimed at teenagers, I think.  The main protagonist (Polly) grows from age 10 to age 19 during the course of the book.  However, there are lots of references to literature (not all of it children's literature) that I think would pass over the heads of younger readers.<br/><br/>Polly is 19 y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41071666">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.leemac.freeserve.co.uk/">Diana Wynne Jones</a><br/><br/>Most people have only one set of memories.  But things are a little different for Polly Whittacker.  She has one set, normal, undistinguished in any way, and another set which her nineteen-year-old self struggles to retrieve.  These hidden memories are all centered ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31833879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my opinion, this is one of Diana Wynne Jones's best books. EVER.<br/><br/>Fantasy but not fantasy in the classical sense; romance but not again, not in the classical sense, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367158.Fire_and_Hemlock" title="Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones">Fire and Hemlock</a> is a modern retelling of Tam Lin; a Scottish ballad about a maiden (because where would any ballad be wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31400809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What Diana Wynne Jones does so well is to create self-contained stories that not only have a proper beginning, middle and end (although, as has often been noted, not necessarily in that order!) but which have a sort of ouroborous effect - the tail eating the head in an apparently endless cycle that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27982190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely one of my favorites of hers so far. It's a retelling of two Scottish ballads... sort of. I thought the realistic elements, though, were the heart of the story - the chronicle of the protagonist's painfully dysfunctional childhood, the vivid descriptions of England in the eighties, and the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24490008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover is absurd, but the story is interesting, if a bit confusing. <br/><br/>*Spoilers*<br/>P.O.?:<br/>In order to unravel the mystery surrounding her nine-year-double-stranded memories, Polly must delve into her past, allowing herself to remember the event that led to her amnesia-like state...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13640806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Explores in a very meta way the mythical trope of hero figures through the interactions of a young girl Polly and a man called Thomas Lynn whom she befriends at a funeral being held at the mysterious neighbouring manor house one Halloween. References to Tam Lin, Thomas the Rhymer and T.S. Eliot's Fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10458485">more...</a>]]></body>
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