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2020 Challenge Progress
Here's my placeholder for the 2020 challenge✅ 1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea
The Seas by Samantha Hunt ✔
The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan
The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto
✅ 2. Fairies/Changelings
Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black ✔
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
✅ 3. Witches/Crones
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice - this is my first re-read; the last time was when pb came out in 91
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe - because this has sat unread on my TBR shelf for YEARS!
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare ✔
✅ 4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Greenwitch by Susan Cooper ✔
✅ 5. Dragon
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede ✔
✅ 6. Djinn
Djinn City by Saad Hossain
The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories edited by Mahvesh Murad
Fortune's Fool by Mercedes Lackey ✔
✅ 7. Tricksters
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
You Let Me in by Camilla Bruce ✔
✅ 8. Shapeshifters
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai
Burning Roses by S.L. Huang ✔
✅ 9. Ghosts
The Good House by Tananarive Due
Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo ✔
✅ 10. Cats
Chinese Whiskers by Pallavi Aiyar
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Breed to Come by Andre Norton
Tails, You Lose by Carol J. Perry ✔
✅ 11. Reader's Choice - Vampires
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle L. Gómez
Hôtel Transylvania by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
The Vampyre, The Werewolf and Other Gothic Tales of Horror
Death Masks by Jim Butcher ✔
✅ 12. Reader's Choice - Fairies/Changelings
Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon ✔
My list for 2020 challenge..... will be upgraded1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
Nominations:
The Wicked Deep
The Shape of Water
The Changeling Sea
Half a King
✅ 2. Fairies/Changelings
Nominations
The Modern Faerie Tales: Tithe; Valiant; Ironside
Possession
The Autumn Castle
✅ 3. Witches/Crones
✅ 4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
✅ 5. Dragon
6. Djinn
The Golem and the Jinni
The City of Brass
✅7. Tricksters
May be:
Son of a Trickster
Neverwhere
✅ 8. Shapeshifters
✅9. Ghosts
Maybe
The Graveyard Book
10. Cats
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Night Tiger
✅11. Reader's Choice ...Alternative world/ High fantasy
Sorcery of Thorns
Island Beneath the Sea
The Fifth Season
The Girl and the Stars
12. Reader's Choice.... Mythology
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Bear and the Nightingale
Norse Mythology
Spin the Dawn
I'm In!1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
✅2. Fairies/Changelings: The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia A. McKillip
✅3. Witches/Crones: I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
✅4. Nature Spirits/Green Man The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest by Ellen Datlow
✅5. Dragon Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
6. Djinn
7. Tricksters
8. Shapeshifters
✅9. Ghosts The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
10. Cats
✅11. Reader's Choice (Trolls) Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo
12. Reader's Choice
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*1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
* 2. Fairies/Changelings
Tithe by Holly Black
* 3. Witches/Crones
The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
* 4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
* 5. Dragon
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
* 6. Djinn
Daughter of the Salt King by A.S. Thornton
* 7. Tricksters
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
* 8. Shapeshifters
You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce
*9. Ghosts
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
* 10. Cats
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
* 11. Reader's Choice: Angels
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
* 12. Reader's Choice: Div
Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
My placeholder:✅ 1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc):
The Kappa Child
The Seas
The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story
✅ 2. Fairies/Changelings:
✅ 3. Witches/Crones:
The Virago Book of Witches
Moss Witch and Other Stories
Dendera
Visions of the Cailleach: The Myths, Stories and History of the British / Celtic Earth Shaping Crone Goddess of Winter
Hurricane Season
✅ 4. Nature Spirits/Green Man:
The Forest of Hours
The Green Man
The Erl-King
A Monster Calls
✅ 5. Dragon:
The Priory of the Orange Tree
✅ 6. Djinn:
✅ 7. Tricksters:
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Neverwhere
Monkey: A Journey to the West
American Indian Trickster Tales
The Gospel of Loki
Tyll
✅ 8. Shapeshifters:
Girl Meets Boy
The Werewolf
✅ 9. Ghosts:
Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology)
The Prospectors short story
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
✅ 10. Cats:
Puss-in-Boots
The Tiger's Bride
✅ 11. Reader's Choice: Voodoo/Haitian folklore -
The Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales
Mojo: Conjure Stories
✅ 12. Reader's Choice - Fabulous Beasts
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
Autobiography of Red
Also: When Plants Go BAD
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Have you all seen the thread?
Jalilah wrote: "There have not been many nominations for books for the fairy/changing group read.Have you all seen the thread?"
I wondered the same thing since it had 14 votes, which is a lot for one of our group polls.
Personally, I didn't have anything burning up my TBR for this theme, and that's why I didn't vote for it. Hopefully there'll be more noms over the next couple days.
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Have you all seen the thread?"
It may just be because of the holidays! Though I see we're getting nominations now! :)
Here's my placeholder (to be updated):✅1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc) - The Brides of Rollrock Island
✅2. Fairies/Changelings - The Treachery of Beautiful Things
The Darkest Part of the Forest
✅3. Witches/Crones - The Black Witch The Iron Flower
✅4. Nature Spirits/Green Man - The Darkest Part of the Forest
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
✅5. Dragon - A Wizard of Earthsea
6. Djinn - The Golem and the Jinni
7. Tricksters - Neverwhere
Cruel Beauty
8. Shapeshifters - You Let Me In
9. Ghosts - A Drowned Maiden's Hair
✅10. Cats - The Starless Sea
The Master and Margarita
✅11. The Deep
✅12. Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga
2. Fairies/ChangelingsThe Queen of Nothing- yes
3. Witches/Crones -
Sorcery of Thorns, The Weather Witch, Truthwitch, Witchery Hill, The Worst Witch Collection.
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
Son of the Shadows or The Last Unicorn yes
5. Dragon
Tales from Earthsea, Wizards,
6. Djinn
The City of Brass
7. Tricksters
Son of a Trickster
8. Shapeshifters
Sirens
9. Ghosts
The Graveyard Book
10. Cats
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Cat Dreamer
11. Reader's Choice , Howl's Moving Castle, The Memory garden, Miss Peregrine’s home for Peculiar children, Ensnared, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, (parts one and two) Fantastic Beasts – the original screenplay.
Carole Weave-Lane
1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)Undecided.
2. Fairies/Changelings
Except the Queen by Jane Yolen
3. Witches/Crones
Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
Undecided.
5. Dragons
Undecided.
6. Djinn
The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty
7. Tricksters
Undecided.
8. Shapeshifters
Undecided.
9. Ghosts
The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
10. Cats
Undecided.
11. Reader's Choice
Undecided.
12. Reader's Choice
Undecided.
Placeholder:1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
Undine
2. Fairies/Changelings
Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire
OR In an absent dream by Seanan McGuire
3. Witches/Crones
The changeover by Margaret Mahy (IT)
OR Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
OR The forgotten beasts of Eld
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
Undecided.
5. Dragons
The storm king by Joan D. Vinge (in A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic)
6. Djinn
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud
7. Tricksters
The gospel of Loki by Joanne Harris
OR The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
8. Shapeshifters
Undecided.
9. Ghosts
The hounting of Hill house by Shirley Jackson
OR Scary stories to tell in the dark by Alvin Schwartz
10. Cats
Tailchaiser's song?
11. Reader's Choice
Undecided, prob. The queen of nothing
12. Reader's Choice
Undecided.
January 1-December 31, 2020Read a book containing these creatures/magical beings.
1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc
The Changeling Sea by Patricia A. McKillip-13/20-*****
2. Fairies/Changelings
The Isles of the Blest by Morgan Llywelyn-6/11/20-*****
3. Witches/Crones
Veil of Time by Claire R. McDougall-3/16/20-*****
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness-8/10/20-*****
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
Spirit's Princess by Esther M. Friesner-1/22/20-****The
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden-1/14/20-*****
5. Dragon
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien-6/9/20-*****
6. Djinn
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski-9/4/20-*****
7. Tricksters
The Case of the Fickle Mermaid by P.J. Brackston-9/2/20-***** Trickster was a Sea Sprite
8. Shapeshifters
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare-6/20/20-*****
9. Ghosts
The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb-3/28/20-*****
10. Cats
Philida by André Brink-4/3/20-****
1. Reader's Choice-Mythical and Magical Creatures-Fantasy
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor-3/24/20-*****
12. Reader's Choice-Ogres
Once Upon a Crime by P.J. Brackston-8/22/20-*****
I'll add only finished reads. Last year's planning didn't turn well as the list was becoming chaotic mess of genres and languages with each final position, as usual :)9. Ghosts
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo
11. Reader's Choice - The Trojan War retelling
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
12. Reader's Choice - Biblical retelling
Genesis by Bernard Beckett
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1. Water Creatures (mermaids..."
I am doing the same thing!
I prefer just to post as I go and then post the final list at the end.
I have no idea yet!
Jalilah wrote: "Asaria wrote: "I'll add only finished reads. Last year's planning didn't turn well as the list was becoming chaotic mess of genres and languages with each final position, as usual :)1. Water Crea..."
Me too. I have some ideas from the challenge threads like The Master and Margarita for 10, and either
Age of Witches by Marina Dyachenko or Howl's Moving Castle for 3 but I don't know yet what will stick.
My 2020 placeholder:The following books were read containing the indicated creatures/magical beings.
✔1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc): Malamander, Rise of the Jumbies, The Book of Speculation, The Starless Sea
✔2. Fairies/Changelings: Tithe, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
✔3. Witches/Crones: Macbeth
✔4. Nature Spirits/Green Man: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Greenwitch, The Green Man, A Little Book of the Green Man, The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
✔5. Dragon: Dragonflight, Dealing with Dragons, Farmer Giles of Ham
✔6. Djinn: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
✔7. Tricksters: Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures
✔8. Shapeshifters: A Song Below Water
✔9. Ghosts: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
✔10. Cats: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, A Tiger for Malgudi, The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
✔11. Reader's Choice: Tilly and the Bookwanderers
✔12. Reader's Choice: Persinette
3. Witches/CronesHowl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones . This time I decided to pick up an English version. It made a difference, but not as great as I thought. I'll write more tomorrow.
Somehow, I completely missed this thread! In my defense, I just finished a major move, and thus had other things on my mind. Like a few others here, I'll just update the list as I finish books. 1. Water Creatures
2. Fairies/Changelings:
✔ Witches/Crones: The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-- A significant chunk of the book involves several main characters' grappling with donning the "Crone" or "Death-Crone" of the Goddess specifically.
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
5. Dragon
✔ Djinn: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
-- Collection of dark twists on classic fairy tales, the final of which involves the main character(s) trying to dispel a curse cast by a djinn (the titular "last wish").
7. Tricksters
8. Shapeshifters
9. Ghosts
10. Cats
11. Reader's Choice
12. Reader's Choice
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1..."
No worries! It's never too late. :)
2. Fairies/Changelings Rhapsodic by Laura Thalassa. I desperately searched for something that would fulfill the criteria of the challenge. Way outside of my comfort zone, but I also wanted to see how Paranormal Romances usually are written. Definitely not my cup of tea.
4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: With Pearl and Sir Orfeo
5. Dragons - Dary Bogów (The gifts of Gods) -Retelling of Slavic mythology.
Initially, I planned to exclude books unavailable in English for the sake of consistency. To no avail, as usual. I'm still on the fence whether I should switch it for something else.
I'm cheating here. It is a collection of short stories, with the narrator serving as a framing device (Fun!). Think Henson's "The Storyteller". The Dragon is Zhmiy, the Guardian of Navia (Slavic Underworld), in this retelling one of Chernabog and Mokosh' sons, who is cursed with a repulsive to him human shape.
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That sounds fun!
8. Shapeshifters - Blanca & Roja10. Cats - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
That leaves me with 6. Djinn. The most natural choice seems The Golem and the Jinni or A Dead Djinn in Cairo, which are out of question as I'm not keen on rereading them. I'm tempted to pick uncensored One Thousand and One Nights: Complete Arabian Nights Collection but it's doubtful I'd finish it on time. I have no idea what to read for this.
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The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
The Candle and the Flame
Alif the Unseen
The City of Brass
I put those in order, with my top two recs being Falls in Love and Candle and the Flame. But I don't think there's anything wrong with Alif and City of Brass, I just had some trouble personally getting into them.
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Margaret wrote: "Here are some other djinn options I enjoyed:The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
The Candle and the Flame
Alif the Unseen
[book:The City of Brass..."
Thanks for your recs, I've tried all of them at some point. They didn't work for me back then. But they might. My reading is often affected by my moods.
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It was good because it not only has lots of Djinn, but because takes place in Bangladesh and the author is from there. I felt like I was transported while reading it.
My rating is 3 because I was disappointed by the last few chapters but otherwise it kept me captivated.
Even though the author of Alif the Unseen is American I felt her depiction of the Arabian Gulf States was accurate. I really loved it, but I remember one of the members here said the computer part was inaccurate
The City of Brass was highly disappointing for me. I was excited about the setting in Cairo, but it's just the first chapter and the rest was just like regular fantasy for me.
I have not read the others Margaret mentioned
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I don't know! Are you replying on your phone or on a computer? The Goodreads app is pretty terrible.
fix the mark ...brackets with /i, no spaces, so it will stop being italic after the quote
Jalilah wrote: "Can someone please explain why the writing turns out like this sometimes? I've edited and still can't get it how it usually is"I guess that's because you were quoting Asaria and there was an unclosed book tag at the end of that quote (if you click "Reply", Goodreads limits quote to a certain number of characters and then adds ellipsis at the end, unfortunately in this case it happened in the middle of the book tag). Then i closing tag somehow got into this broken book tag and wasn't interpreted correctly, so your whole comment was displayed in italics.
I cannot be sure unless I publish a comment and see how Goodreads display it, so let me do some testing ;)
1. I removed the book tag:
Asaria wrote: "8. Shapeshifters - Blanca & Roja
10. Cats - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
That leaves me with 6. Djinn. The most natural choice seems"
2. I manually closed the book tag (I had to delete it first and then look for the book by myself because the tag was broken):
Asaria wrote: "8. Shapeshifters - Blanca & Roja
10. Cats - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
That leaves me with 6. Djinn. The most natural choice seems The Golem and the Jinni"
3. No changes in the quote:
Asaria wrote: "8. Shapeshifters - Blanca & Roja
10. Cats - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
That leaves me with 6. Djinn. The most natural choice seems The Golem and the Ji..."</i>
If this sentence is displayed in italics, my theory is correct ;)
4. It was not italics, so I came up with another idea :D. Weeeell, it is now, I broke it on purpose, then I fixed it, but it remains in italics, Goodreads messes sth up here. But you could also have added a square closing bracket after i closing tag. So i tag was interpreted as a part of the book tag.
Asaria wrote: "8. Shapeshifters - Blanca & Roja
10. Cats - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
That leaves me with 6. Djinn. The most natural choice seems The Golem and the Ji..."</i>
Now, this part is definitely italics, but I also messed sth up here :D I'm giving up :D
All right, I looked into source code and i closing tag somehow was interpreted as part of a link, a tag. Sth I named "book tag" is in the practice rendered as a link, but you cannot edit the link itself. I don't know where you put the square closing bracket, but I'm quite sure the code in my comment is now correct, but after I broke it once, it will be apparently broken forever :DSo... definitely, there is some bug on Goodreads part.
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Jalilah wrote: "I readDjinn City for this category. It was good because it not only has lots of Djinn, but because takes place in Bangladesh and the author is from there. I felt like I was transpo..."
I dropped The City of Brass because I thought the protagonist is behaving like idiot. I can take a lot but not someone making a fool of themselves. I couldn't get into "Alif the Unseen" too. Possibly the case of wrong time, wrong mood.
Sorry for late reply :)
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It was good because it not only has lots of Djinn, but because takes place in Bangladesh and the author is from there. I felt li..."
You might like One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh. It is a retelling or reimagining of 19 of the original tales. There are definitely a few Djinn.
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The Painted Boy by Charles de Lint. I remember liking it and there is an actual dragon in it ( I believe in Uprooted there is not? )
Jalilah wrote: "You might like One Thousand and One Nights by Hanan Al-Shaykh. It is a retelling or reimagining of 19 of the original tales. There are definitely a few Djinn"I read it in 2018. I liked it :)
Eventually I went with The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Hossain.
Jalilah wrote: "I have only Dragons left. I have ordered Uprooted from the library, but if it doesnt come soon I am going to re-read
The Painted Boy by [author:Charles de Lint|81851..."
No real dragons noticed in Uprooted
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I'm really interested to know which category people loved and which they struggled with.Unexpectedly, dragons didn't fire me up. However, for me, the Djinn surpassed expectations - and looking at other's reads on this category, I'm going to keep going.
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Unexpectedly, dragons didn't fire me up. However, for me, the Djinn surpassed expectations - and looking at..."
What did you read for the Djinn category?
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Unexpectedly, dragons didn't fire me up. However, for me, the Djinn surpassed expectations - and looking at..."
I read a lot of excellent witch books this year.
I still haven't read a djinn book, so I'm interested in what you read for that!
I read quite a few water creatures' books this year, but most of them were okay but not great. Usually, I enjoy books with water creatures.
I'm writing an adult fantasy novel with dragons in it right now. :) I will say, while I loved books with dragons in them as a child and teen, many of those books don't hold up as well as an adult, and there just aren't that many dragon books for adults that are super great. There are some exceptions, and I know I haven't read them all!
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Unexpectedly, dragons didn't fire me up. However, for me, the Djinn surpassed expectations - and looking at..."
I looked at your above list and saw you read The Golem and the Jinni for your Djinn book. It's so good, I agree!
Amanda wrote: "Unexpectedly, dragons didn't fire me up. I'm there with Amanda. I read Uprooted when it first came out, but couldn't get into the same author's Temeraire series or The Golem and the Djinni.
I'm so busy the past year or two with research reading (including a lot of historical fiction) that challenge books have to really engage me for me to want to finish them.
That said, I've struck gold with several challenge picks[this year: [book:I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem|6157650] and Lolly Willowes for witches; The Star Child for Fae; The Guinevere Deception.
And for nature spirits I was lucky to stumble on Marissa Doyle's latest magical historical Evergreen, a YA set in 1901 in which the MC is a dryad whose best friend is Theodore Roosevelt's famously ungovernable daughter Alice.
Margaret wrote: 'I still haven't read a djinn book, so I'm interested in what you read for that!' -..."I enjoyed both of these:
The Golem and the Jinni
The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
I also want to read Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn.
I really enjoyed the green man theme. It was the comparison of the many different Sir Gawain & the Green Knights that I’ve read over the past two years. Then the green man art books I chose really sparked my creative side.
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I enjoyed both of these:
The Golem and the Jinni
The Djinn Falls in Lo..."</i>
I loved [book:The Golem and the Jinni! I have been waiting in anticipation for the sequel."
I changed my read for Dragons. I was hesitant about Uprooted because of many members lukewarm reactions. If it had real Polish folktales I might reconsider but I think I am going to read The Future Falls. It is the 3rd in a series. I read the first two a number of years ago. There is a character who turns into a real life dragon. It also has a lot of bad reviews however, so if I can't get into it I will still reread The Painted Boy which I remember liking very much . There's also a real dragon in it too and I can definitely recommend it!
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I think we can start thinking up next years or not?
Jalilah wrote: "I changed my read for Dragons. I was hesitant about Uprooted because of many members lukewarm reactions. If it had real Polish folktales I might reconsider but I think I am going to read The Future Falls. It is the 3rd in a series. I read the first two a number of years ago. There is a character who turns into a real life dragon. It also has a lot of bad reviews however, so if I can't get into it I will still reread The Painted Boy which I remember liking very much . There's also a real dragon in it too and I can definitely recommend it! "I don't think there is a lot of Polish Fairy Tales present in it. Not even one comes to my mind. The whole thing is Naomi Novik grew up with translated French tales adapted by Natalia Gałczyńska. "Agnieszka piece of heaven" retold in "Uprooted" is one of them. This fairy tale isn't widely read in Poland. Everybody knows the legend of the Golden Duck dwelling in Warsaw, faustian Twardowski or Wawel Dragon. But "Agnieszka skrawek nieba"? Before "Uprooted" I didn't know it exists at all! In her defense, Novik was writing imagined Polish land of her childhood. Still, the setting feels quite generic, imho :(. The Forest excluded, ofc. It's cool.
It gets quite good ratings on Polish blogs, most issues being pacing and character development.
I'm tempted to review "Uprooted" strictly from a cultural point of view.
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Read a book containing these creatures/magical beings.
1. Water Creatures (mermaids, selkies, kappa, etc)
2. Fairies/Changelings
3. Witches/Crones
4. Nature Spirits/Green Man
5. Dragon
6. Djinn
7. Tricksters
8. Shapeshifters
9. Ghosts
10. Cats
11. Reader's Choice
12. Reader's Choice
I am adding individual threads for each topic. Happy reading!