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Owl in Love
I am in love with Mr. Lindstrom, my science teacher. I found out where he lives and every night I perch on a tree branch outside his bedroom window and watch him sleep. He sleeps in his underwear: Fruit of the Loom, size 34.
Owl Tycho, the shape-shifting daughter of "simple witches", is a high school student by day and owl by night. When her nightly vigil over her science
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Published
June 7th 2004
by Graphia
(first published October 25th 1993)
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Feb 11, 2011
Mariel
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4 of 5 stars
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I will fowl you
I really liked this. Displacement and confusion as fairytale with the food chain as the (animal) kingdom. Owl in Love is about a girl/owl named Owl. She's in uncomfortable skin that is not her own when she's a girl or bird. As a bird she's still torn between worlds based on new longings, and more predatory urges. Her parents are straight-up bird. I felt she was more bird than girl in a different way (less nesting and more free flying), and somehow felt closer to her birdish thoughts than human o...more
Maybe some of you may recall my tweet about this book being a creeper. I still stand by that tweet. I will say, I did warm up to Owl In Love a bit, but definitely feel a little too old for it. Owl In Love by Patrice Kindl is about this 14 year old girl named Owl who is -get this- a wereowl. She has a creeper crush on her teacher Mr. Lindstrom, who is pushing mid-forties, and somewhat balding. Basically she turns into an owl and watches him from the window. I know gross, right! Anyhoo, I spent mo...more
This book is quirky, unique, and surprisingly touching. I wondered how the author was going to pull off the were-owl aspect, but as Kindl seems to have created a sort of alternate Earth where magic is possible and shapeshifting occasionally crops up in families, it wasn't nearly as farfetched (in terms of the story's internal logic, that is) as I'd thought. Certainly Kindl does an excellent job of conveying Owl's detached, alien perspective on human life while still making her a sympathetic char...more
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This books is entirely different from other shapeshifter-stories. Owl, the fourteen-year-old heroine, is really more bird of prey than human girl. She has black blood and therefore greyish skin, a heart-shaped face featuring large yellow eyes and feathery hair ending in a widow's peak. She does not eat human food, because she cannot digest it without losing her dual nature (after trying a sandwich she was not able to take off for days). Instead she hunts at night and eats yummy rats, mice and ha...more
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What an unexpected little gem!
Owl in love manages to be a fully fraught supernatural teenage romance without spilling over into maudlin self-importance. Just the right amount of humor -- Not parody. Though there is some similarity to Switchers, Kindl tells a delightful story and I would happily read more by her.
"Owls are not house-proud. The almost obsessive tidiness of this room made me uneasy. A few rotting branches or some old leaves would have made the place look a lot homier, in my opinion....more
Owl in love manages to be a fully fraught supernatural teenage romance without spilling over into maudlin self-importance. Just the right amount of humor -- Not parody. Though there is some similarity to Switchers, Kindl tells a delightful story and I would happily read more by her.
"Owls are not house-proud. The almost obsessive tidiness of this room made me uneasy. A few rotting branches or some old leaves would have made the place look a lot homier, in my opinion....more
I decided to re-read Owl in Love since it has been 5 or 6 years since the last time I re-read it, and I've changed and grown a lot as a reader. The beginning of the book is really rocky as it is just the main character giving the premise of the book with some short stories about what's "happened" so far. Owl, the main character, is a wereowl who falls in love with her science teacher. My favorite thing about the book is how Kindl portrays Owl's love. She has these unattractive descriptions of he...more
Owl in love is the title of the book and the name of the author is Patrice Kindl.The main characters were owl and his parents, Houel(David),mr. Lindstrom, and Dawn and his family. What was most challenging in the book was when Owl wasn't happy when she saw her firend Dawn was not really to be trusted any more cause she know she wanted Mr. Lindstrom and she was the first person to tell her she likes him. But now Dawn was trying to get Mr. Lindstrom attention to her that make Owl unhappy and it wa...more
I am in love with Mr. Lindstrom, my science teacher. I found out where he lives and every night I perch on a tree branch outside his bedroom window and watch him sleep. He sleeps in his underwear: Fruit of the Looms, size 34.
Owl Tycho is a fourteen-year-old girl who can turn into an owl, or
perhaps an owl who can turn into a girl. She’s not just a girl with
magic powers: she looks a little like an owl in human form, her blood
is black and her skin is grayish, and she lives on a diet of mice and
inse...more
Owl Tycho is a fourteen-year-old girl who can turn into an owl, or
perhaps an owl who can turn into a girl. She’s not just a girl with
magic powers: she looks a little like an owl in human form, her blood
is black and her skin is grayish, and she lives on a diet of mice and
inse...more
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This is one of my favorite books. I read it once as a teenager and again as an adult and I still love it. This book is simply about growing up... and in its defense yes, I know that the main character has a crush on her nasty old teacher at the beginning of the book, but that's the whole point of the 'growing up' part! Because she had no friends due to her owlish nature, she simply didn't have an appropriate person to crush on and I imagine that the teacher was one of the only people who talked...more
Patrice Kindl is my new favorite writer. This was the oddest book I've read lately, which is saying something. A girl with witchy parents can change into an owl. Is head-over-heels in love with her science teacher (who shares the same last name as my cute college zoology professor, funnily enough). Struggles with trying to fit in with classmates when she can't even eat human food. And more . . .
Dark and funny. Strangely sensual.
Dark and funny. Strangely sensual.
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This is one of the most charming YA books I've ever read, and definitely not like anything else. It's quirky and sweet in equal parts, which is one of the things that really makes it work (without the sweetness, I think the quirkiness would be just too much, and without the quirkiness, the sweetness would be icky). I especially love Owl, the narrator, as a character; she's 14 but talks like a pedantic 50-year-old, and she has a developmentally normal crush on her science teacher, a bizarre but l...more
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I've been thinking about how to review this book, but I was mostly drawing blanks, so I'll just type it as it comes... I haven't read too much YA fiction, but I must say this was very, very different from those that I did read. That's something to be appreciated, but it just didn't work for me. Maybe it's because I'm way too old for this book, I don't know, but I didn't feel any connection with Owl. Honestly, mostly she just creeped me out...
Owl's a 14-yea...more
I've been thinking about how to review this book, but I was mostly drawing blanks, so I'll just type it as it comes... I haven't read too much YA fiction, but I must say this was very, very different from those that I did read. That's something to be appreciated, but it just didn't work for me. Maybe it's because I'm way too old for this book, I don't know, but I didn't feel any connection with Owl. Honestly, mostly she just creeped me out...
Owl's a 14-yea...more
This is Patrice Kindl's first Young Adult novel, and it shows. Her main character, Owl, thinks, talks, and acts like no teenager. Her plot begins slow, never fully develops, and has an insufficient, speedy wrap-up. The story describes a few brief weeks in the life of Owl, who is a shape-shifter and transforms every night into her namesake. She spends her owl-time gazing at her science teacher while he sleeps. She thinks he is her mate for life, if only NY laws allowed this. Her parents support t...more
Fourteen year old Owl is a human that shape-shifts into an owl. In human form, Owl even resembles her other half. While owls don't generally make strong attachments to other owls, they do remain loyal to the one owl they decide to spend the rest of their lives with. Owl has bonded with her 40 year old Biology teacher. She spends all night, as an owl, watching him from the tree outside his bedroom window instead of hunting. Because of her familiarity with Mr. Lindstrom's property, Owl's suspicion...more
This is one weird little book, and I absolutely loved it. Owl is a 14-year-old wereowl, but she is much more owl than girl, very serious, predatory and territorial. She is desperately in love with her 40-year-old teacher and only at the end of the book is it merely implied that this is a bad idea. The themes don't seem too kid friendly, so I don't think I'd recommend it to a child unless it was a vaguely creepy, serious kid that I knew well. What was so great about this book? The writing! And th...more
"I am Owl. It is my name as well as my nature. There are birds of prey in my family going back hundreds of years ..."
Every time I reread this book, I fall in love with its voice all over again.
Every time I reread this book, I fall in love with its voice all over again.
I first read this book about 10 years ago, when I was the age of the protagonist. 13-year-old me was so moved by parts of it that she laboriously typed entire pages of this book into a Word document and saved them ... and I found those files a few weeks ago.
It's probably terrible that I decided to find and read this book again because I thought, in both 2004 and 2013, that the mad boy's scenes were so hauntingly, achingly beautiful. Owl herself is quirky and her thought processes totally foreig...more
It's probably terrible that I decided to find and read this book again because I thought, in both 2004 and 2013, that the mad boy's scenes were so hauntingly, achingly beautiful. Owl herself is quirky and her thought processes totally foreig...more
Fifteen-year-old Owl's crush on her 40-something science teacher is so sincere, so ardent, I couldn't help but admiring her devotion. She had a kind of Anne Shirley way of describing things--romanticizing the hole in her love's battered shoe and the rumpled tweed jacket he sports. And at first the fact that she watches him every night as he sleeps seems a little creepy, until you realize she's doing it perched on a branch outside his window in between hunting for mice and voles. Owl is an owl. O...more
Another good recommendation from my go to person on YA books. The plot summery made me very dubious, however it was an unexpected pleasure. I feel like most people who can turn into animals are usually represented as being comfortable and fully adjusted to being human AND animals. In this book though the girl Owl is actually more owl than girl, which makes for a very weirdly complicated human life and personality. She can't eat human food for instance, and even when she is human she likes to eat...more
Kindl's writing reminds me of Francesca Lia Block, though not as graphic or strange. Owl is a fourteen-year-old were-owl. She is struggling to fit in with humans she doesn't really understand and be true to her owl nature at the same time. Oh, did I mention she thinks she's in love with her science teacher; can we all say ewwww! One night she notices a boy in the woods outside Mr. Lindstrom's house. Why is he there? What is it about him that Owl can't seem to resist? An interesting, if fantastic...more
Jul 23, 2012
Brie
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Goofy Middle Schoolers
Shelves:
oh-my-fluffy-youth
When I was 12 I thought this was the greatest book in the world and it was so freaking awesome.
As an adult, I tried to read it again - an endeavor I should have never embarked on.
I started to read it, and it began to lose the magic and the sparkle that had captivated me as a teeny bopper. So I stopped. I wanted it to be as good as I remembered it and not weird because the science teacher Owl has a crush on is old, balding and likes to wear tighty-whiteys. Not swoon-worthy at all to a 14 year old...more
As an adult, I tried to read it again - an endeavor I should have never embarked on.
I started to read it, and it began to lose the magic and the sparkle that had captivated me as a teeny bopper. So I stopped. I wanted it to be as good as I remembered it and not weird because the science teacher Owl has a crush on is old, balding and likes to wear tighty-whiteys. Not swoon-worthy at all to a 14 year old...more
Written for young adults, this book has alot of things in it that I found funny, if perhaps written that way unintentionally. Then again, maybe not. I was really chuckling over the description of the girl’s crush on her 40-year old science teacher and her parents’ surprise reaction to her announcement of her impending marriage to said teacher.
My favorite part was when the girl visits her friend’s house and her reaction to her friend’s pet hamster, including the demonstration of the hamster’s sub...more
My favorite part was when the girl visits her friend’s house and her reaction to her friend’s pet hamster, including the demonstration of the hamster’s sub...more
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Che strano, strano romanzo! Non l'ho amato quanto Goose Chase, ma come non omaggiare con quattro stellozze l'abilità di Patrice Kindl nel farci sentire la voce di una protagonista completamente fuori dalla norma (e non poco inquietante, aggiungerei), ben lontana dalle sciaquette slavate che imperversano negli YA di questi tempi?
...voglio Keeping the Castle! ç.ç
...voglio Keeping the Castle! ç.ç
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I bought Owl in Love by Patrice Kindl on a complete whim. It turns out to be the author's debut novel. In it, Owl Tycho, an owl "by name and by nature" spends her days as a teenage girl and her evenings as a barn owl (Tyto alba).
Her name is so similar to what she becomes, that one can just imagine the other characters in the book doing a double take whenever Owl is first introduced. Owl, though, has other obsessions — namely her science teacher who is more than twice her age. Why he intrigues he...more
Her name is so similar to what she becomes, that one can just imagine the other characters in the book doing a double take whenever Owl is first introduced. Owl, though, has other obsessions — namely her science teacher who is more than twice her age. Why he intrigues he...more
I think it needs explanation why I read this. The only excuse I can find, is that I read the word "were-owl" on the back and was made curious. Even when I started reading it, found out about the crush this thirteen year old girl had on her forty-something teacher, and, worse, that it was actually a teenage girl read, I still couldn't get myself to stop reading.
Actually, for the first time in a while, I was compelled to read a book when reading Owl in Love. That's not to say its exceptional. It's...more
Actually, for the first time in a while, I was compelled to read a book when reading Owl in Love. That's not to say its exceptional. It's...more
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Overall this book was really sweet and adorable. Because of this, I find myself at a loss of what to comment.
This book surrounds the tale of Owl, a freshman in high school who is love with her Bio teacher. Oh, she's also a shapeshifting owl with witches for parents.
I thought the author did an incredible job of really getting into the owl's mind if an owl had to inhabit the body of a teen girl, not the other way around. I think most people would have my expectation, that we would see the teenage...more
This book surrounds the tale of Owl, a freshman in high school who is love with her Bio teacher. Oh, she's also a shapeshifting owl with witches for parents.
I thought the author did an incredible job of really getting into the owl's mind if an owl had to inhabit the body of a teen girl, not the other way around. I think most people would have my expectation, that we would see the teenage...more
4.5 stars!
an utterly unique and charming fantasy.
owl is a weird owl raised by two witch parents
who are just a little eccentric. they have named
their daughter owl and have helped her best
they can in her growing up to be a healthy
wereowl.
owl is in love with her 40 year old science
teacher. she spends much of her time perched
on a tree outside his bedroom window at night,
spying on him. (ha!) but then she noticed a boy
who is lurking near her teacher's home, and a
mystery begins to unravel for owl.
told...more
an utterly unique and charming fantasy.
owl is a weird owl raised by two witch parents
who are just a little eccentric. they have named
their daughter owl and have helped her best
they can in her growing up to be a healthy
wereowl.
owl is in love with her 40 year old science
teacher. she spends much of her time perched
on a tree outside his bedroom window at night,
spying on him. (ha!) but then she noticed a boy
who is lurking near her teacher's home, and a
mystery begins to unravel for owl.
told...more
Kind of a fun book, but a little strange--which is saying something with some of the books I read. Owl is a wereowl girl who operates mostly on the mentality if the bird of prey rather than as a human. Her parents are witches, her blood is black (giving her an odd complexion), and she has a crush on her teacher whom she kinda stalks. A wereowl boy shows up somewhere along the line--who is weirder than her. Strange, but an okay story. (August 2008)
Owl lives in two worlds--fourteen-year-old student by day, mouse-hunting owl by night. She is a were-owl, born into a family of witches. Her biggest problem is her unrequited love for her biology teacher--until she meets a strange owl in the trees outside her teacher's house. This is an endearingly odd and unique little book, brought to life by Owl's curiously old-fashioned voice and the vivid description of her life as a bird of prey.
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I was born in Alplaus New York in 1951, the youngest of four daughters. My father is a mechanical engineer, my mother a housewife. My family is very nice – I like them all a lot. As a child I loved animals and read obsessively.
We had (still have) a family cottage on Lake George. The people who live next door are life-long friends. On summer weekdays during my childhood there were ten fem...more
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I was born in Alplaus New York in 1951, the youngest of four daughters. My father is a mechanical engineer, my mother a housewife. My family is very nice – I like them all a lot. As a child I loved animals and read obsessively.
We had (still have) a family cottage on Lake George. The people who live next door are life-long friends. On summer weekdays during my childhood there were ten fem...more
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