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    <body><![CDATA[This is a gorgeous book. An old hermit woman lives on the side of Mountain, next to River, and her dream selves tell stories. The book of dreams appears in many forms, and creation myths, the fall of Troy, the Sphynx riddling Oedipus, all appear. My favourite passage comes when a physical book appea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23294214">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gorgeous, lush and strange (plus, I love an author who works with illustrators...)--a hybrid of Japanese, Sumerian and other mythologies that mixes up into a glorious brew of chimerae, feminism and adventure. I'm so glad I went through the trouble of finding this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read and loved both volumes of &quot;The Orphans Tales.&quot; so naturally I want to read more!<br/><br/>Got this out of library, so it should be read soon!<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medieval Japan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This is a map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contorted surface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptian legend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet and merge...  In Catherynne M. Valente's second novel since the critically acclaimed The Labyrinth, language and myth construct a strange new geography of the self.  This is The Book of Dreams: open it and walk the shadowy paths of this extraordinary landscape.]]>
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