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Aug 13, 2020
☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
2018-gr-choice,
menu-reading-is-served
Q:
Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and they could be continents away for all it means anything. (c)
We start at 5 stars (I read it, didn't I? And I enjoyed it, sort of?):
+ 1 star: Lovely exploration of memory and how it tricks us. That much, I loved.
- 1 star: What I didn't love is:
> The ocean that is not an ocean (or is it, after all?). Or wha ...more
Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. You stand two of you lot next to each other, and they could be continents away for all it means anything. (c)
We start at 5 stars (I read it, didn't I? And I enjoyed it, sort of?):
+ 1 star: Lovely exploration of memory and how it tricks us. That much, I loved.
- 1 star: What I didn't love is:
> The ocean that is not an ocean (or is it, after all?). Or wha ...more
Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2014)
A man visits his childhood home after many years away. His old house is gone, but the farm at the end of the road is still there along with its pond. He remembers an eleven year old girl named Lettie Hempstock who lived there, and who had claimed that the pond behind her house was an ocean. He met her when he was seven years old and had since forgotten how they met and what happened when a sinister woman named Ursula Monkton came to look after him and his ...more
A man visits his childhood home after many years away. His old house is gone, but the farm at the end of the road is still there along with its pond. He remembers an eleven year old girl named Lettie Hempstock who lived there, and who had claimed that the pond behind her house was an ocean. He met her when he was seven years old and had since forgotten how they met and what happened when a sinister woman named Ursula Monkton came to look after him and his ...more
When a middle-aged man returned to his childhood home he begins to remember an odd time in his past - a time when he met a girl named Lettie and he was thrown into a world of darkness and mystery. This lovely little book was weird and different and wonderful. I always fine myself amazing at how Neil Gaiman is able to write about things so far out there that I have trouble relating to. This one was definitely outside of the box!
See my full review here: http://onceuponatime-bookblog.blogspo... ...more
See my full review here: http://onceuponatime-bookblog.blogspo... ...more
If I didn't commit myself to a book discussion, I would never had finished this book. I had no idea what this book was about and never read any books by the author. But I'm glad I finished it. There was much to discuss. The book is about childhood or it could be about adulthood. It's about escapism
from the things we find difficult to a world where we find comfort. ...more
from the things we find difficult to a world where we find comfort. ...more
OK, a bit overrated. It's not firmly within the "young adult" genre, but it's close. This wasn't one of the "teenagers on the verge of losing their virginity" coming of age stories (think: Dawson's Creek). It's ponds and lakes and death and recovering your story.
Best thing: THE WORM. Worth reading just for that business. ...more
Best thing: THE WORM. Worth reading just for that business. ...more
Nov 05, 2013
Lore
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Nov 05, 2017
Eileen
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Apr 03, 2018
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