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I love when I finish a book smiling.
I don't know if you recall my oohing and ahhing and general freaking-outing over the trailer for this book when it popped up last year. For realsies, I lost my mind over it. I still sometimes just watch it on repeat until I've had my fill of the quirky, artistic gloriously creative fantasticness that is this trailer (and the song!!). And now that I've read the book, I like the song from the trailer EVEN MORE. I didn't think that was possible, but it's so per ...more
I don't know if you recall my oohing and ahhing and general freaking-outing over the trailer for this book when it popped up last year. For realsies, I lost my mind over it. I still sometimes just watch it on repeat until I've had my fill of the quirky, artistic gloriously creative fantasticness that is this trailer (and the song!!). And now that I've read the book, I like the song from the trailer EVEN MORE. I didn't think that was possible, but it's so per ...more
I would have enjoyed this a lot more if I would have been able to read it in one or two sittings within the space of a day or two. And it's not the fault of the book that I had to stop half-way through to read some other books and then come back to this. I did read the second half of the book in two sittings and enjoyed that part a lot.
This is like a lot of other classic books in its genre - Alice in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe spring to mind - and it even makes referenc ...more
This is like a lot of other classic books in its genre - Alice in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe spring to mind - and it even makes referenc ...more
OK, I did say I was at page 34 and loving every minute of the book days ago, right? I'm now saying I love absolutely every letters of the book. Catherine M. Valente, you are on the verge of being my new favourite author.
The book started out as a traditional fantasy adventure story, with a young girl swept away to a fantastic world. Then as we met the characters, we knew all is not well in the Fairyland and the human world as well. September, our heroine, learnt these facts little by little and w ...more
The book started out as a traditional fantasy adventure story, with a young girl swept away to a fantastic world. Then as we met the characters, we knew all is not well in the Fairyland and the human world as well. September, our heroine, learnt these facts little by little and w ...more
I am about 100 pages in and I don't like it so far. I have never been a fan of Alice in Wonderland and this has been too much like it so far, with lots of whimsy for no apparent reason.
Now that I have finished it, my impression stands. Things got a little more interesting, but it was still too many words and characters. ...more
Now that I have finished it, my impression stands. Things got a little more interesting, but it was still too many words and characters. ...more
Lexile 870L
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11.0
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11.0
Jul 24, 2012
Harold Ogle
marked it as to-read
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Jul 17, 2014
Sarah
rated it
it was amazing
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Mar 09, 2019
Kristina
marked it as want-to-read-overflow
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