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It’s one thing to watch a movie about magicians and illusions, and to watch those spectacular feats come to life right before your eyes. The Harry Potter series comes to mind as well as the film Now You See Me. It’s a completely different thing to live those illusions in your mind reading a book and to find an author who not only articulates them in a believable and eloquent manner but brings the magic to life in words. This is what Erin Morgenstern has done and as an aspiring author, I am sever
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..." I have to admit, I was a little concerned I would be let down after the first few pages. Once I settled into the slower, dream like rhythm of the book and stopped resisting, stopped wanting a fix for a fast paced here and now type, I realized I held a prime example of what it takes to write well.
Morgenstern creates a dream like world and detailed sensory experiences that draw the reader in, and it is smart. But it is so much more. It holds the best of the worlds of intellectual genius, soci ...more
Morgenstern creates a dream like world and detailed sensory experiences that draw the reader in, and it is smart. But it is so much more. It holds the best of the worlds of intellectual genius, soci ...more
Aug 11, 2016
Ali Caitrin
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
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Jan 01, 2016
Jennifer
marked it as to-read
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review of another edition
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