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Buku ini mungkin agak sulit untuk dibaca sampai tuntas, karena beberapa hal: (1) gaya penceritaannya yang membingungkan seperti puzzle, bolak-balik antara kejadian nyata dengan dongeng yang dikisahkan Nenek kepada Elsa; (2) setting dan istilah-istilah yang tidak familier (buku ini ditulis oleh orang Swedia dan Elsa adalah anak 7 tahun yang amat sangat cerdas); (3) tokohnya yang banyak dan semua diceritakan dengan kedalaman.
Tapi begitu bisa bertahan membaca, pelan-pelan memahami gaya ceritanya, ...more
Tapi begitu bisa bertahan membaca, pelan-pelan memahami gaya ceritanya, ...more
Love books? Were you ever a lonely little girl, or were you wise beyond your years? Did you long for a superhero who could help you out when you were 7 going on 8?
Do you have an imagination and do you like to use it? Do you enjoy books that can bring you from tears of laughter to tears of grief in a matter of a few paragraphs?
Read this book at once.
Do you have an imagination and do you like to use it? Do you enjoy books that can bring you from tears of laughter to tears of grief in a matter of a few paragraphs?
Read this book at once.
LOVED this book.
This book has so much going for it. Mysteries, fairy tales, precocious children, monsters and dragons, nemeses who turn out to have hearts after all, a slobbery dog, Harry Potter references....it's all there. I laughed, I cried, I sobbed.
Elsa is almost eight, and her Granny is her personal superhero and only friend. Granny has told Elsa fairy tales of their own kingdoms, in their own secret language. One night in the hospital, Granny gives Elsa an envelope that will begin her t ...more
This book has so much going for it. Mysteries, fairy tales, precocious children, monsters and dragons, nemeses who turn out to have hearts after all, a slobbery dog, Harry Potter references....it's all there. I laughed, I cried, I sobbed.
Elsa is almost eight, and her Granny is her personal superhero and only friend. Granny has told Elsa fairy tales of their own kingdoms, in their own secret language. One night in the hospital, Granny gives Elsa an envelope that will begin her t ...more
well that was a trip
realized today that my book club meets tomorrow and i'd completely forgotten so i spent the past four hours powering my way through this book
i quite liked it! but i'm a huge sucker for stories within stories, like i saw a few reviews were a bit ehh on all the miamas stuff but that was my jam, give me all the personally significant fairytales
tho i gotta say speaking as a formerly precocious seven year old myself, elsa did not read as seven...at all...
3.5 stars ...more
realized today that my book club meets tomorrow and i'd completely forgotten so i spent the past four hours powering my way through this book
i quite liked it! but i'm a huge sucker for stories within stories, like i saw a few reviews were a bit ehh on all the miamas stuff but that was my jam, give me all the personally significant fairytales
tho i gotta say speaking as a formerly precocious seven year old myself, elsa did not read as seven...at all...
3.5 stars ...more
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Backman has an amazing talent for recreating the magical realism of childhood. This book made me both laugh and cry.
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