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Thinks and Things
Thinksandthings can hear people's thoughts and turn them into things. However, the world just isn't ready for a farm of Grandma clones or to be introduced to the Durtle (half dog, half turtle creature).
The Fixer repairs the damage some of the thinks have caused. However, when the Witch from the Hansel and Gretel fable escapes to Suburbia, a carousel lion comes to life and...more
The Fixer repairs the damage some of the thinks have caused. However, when the Witch from the Hansel and Gretel fable escapes to Suburbia, a carousel lion comes to life and...more
Paperback, 102 pages
Published
2009
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I won this book in a blog contest. It's self-published and so the author was trying to get the word out for it.
It's a fantasy story about a world similar to ours (exactly like?) except that there's a person called Thinksandthings who wander the earth listening to people's thoughts and turning those thoughts into real things. Good things can come out of it (airplanes, TV, etc), but sometimes things go wrong (kids believing in fairytale witches, for example), so the Fixer goes around correcting th...more
It's a fantasy story about a world similar to ours (exactly like?) except that there's a person called Thinksandthings who wander the earth listening to people's thoughts and turning those thoughts into real things. Good things can come out of it (airplanes, TV, etc), but sometimes things go wrong (kids believing in fairytale witches, for example), so the Fixer goes around correcting th...more
Thinks and Things is a quirky novella that spins a fairy tale type story. The book itself is made up of many chapters, each being a little story unto itself but contributing to the overall story line. These stories, much like classic fairy tales, are whimsical on the surface but often have darker underlying themes like depression, mental illness, grief, and bullying to name a few. However, it also has some classic fairy tale characters you will recognize, as well as references to faeries, vampir...more
This book way okay. The vignettes were interesting, but it took a long time for the connection between them to occur. Also, there were a ton of punctuation, spelling, and grammar problems that really detracted from the quality of the story.
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