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Have you ever played that game where you write one paragraph of a story, fold back all but the last sentence of your work, then pass it along for someone else to continue writing the story?Sounds fun, doesn't it? Now, what if the person writing the other part of the story was a complete stranger on the other side of the world? And what if you were writing the story in a highly unusual magical book that often inserted it's own story into the game?
This is the magic that author Lisa Papademetriou c ...more
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What an absolutely wonderful read! Not only was the tale captivating, but the characters were delightful, the narrator added a fresh storytelling approach, and the dance between past and present, America and Pakistan, the story and the story WITHIN the story, was so well done. Pulled me through the pages with a white-knuckled grip on the multiple story strings. The entire story is nothing short of magical, not only in the tale itself, but in the way it seemed to resonate with me, as a reader. Th
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When I cracked this Middle Grade novel by Lisa Papademetriou, I expected laughs, a well drawn story and unique characters, what I got was this and so much more. This magical realism novel has two very real world girls, Kai and Leila, both displaced (temporarily) for the summer with relatives, but in very different settings : the South and Pakistan. Papademetriou entices, no, transports the reader to venture outside her regular world, with delectable details in settings rich with culture. Kai and
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A Tale of Highly Unusual Magic is magical. I loved the interwoven stories, and one thing that the author does incredibly well is to tie in the additional story, the story that book-inside-the-book is telling. I loved the voice of the (sometimes intrusive) narrator and all of the little winks and nods to the reader. I never felt my attention flag.
I also loved the inclusion of the Pakistani culture through the eyes of an American-Pakistani girl, Leila. The coinciding stories, between the two girl ...more
I also loved the inclusion of the Pakistani culture through the eyes of an American-Pakistani girl, Leila. The coinciding stories, between the two girl ...more
May 19, 2016
Tynan Power
marked it as to-read
Aug 11, 2015
Gene Hult
marked it as to-read
Oct 17, 2015
Courtney Stein
marked it as to-read
