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Alex is currently reading

The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Fairyland, #2)

by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 5th time

read in September, 2017

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Alex said: " Absolutely gorgeous, and wonderful. This book goes past the fairy tales and into the old mythologies. Favoring Greek and Roman, but still dabbles in others. We have a labyrinth, and an underworld, and all sorts of wonders. But this book has surprises Absolutely gorgeous, and wonderful. This book goes past the fairy tales and into the old mythologies. Favoring Greek and Roman, but still dabbles in others. We have a labyrinth, and an underworld, and all sorts of wonders. But this book has surprises. What September does in fairyland is starting to affect the real world. We knew that she lost her shadow in the first book, and when she got home it was still missing. But who is to notice a shadow missing? And what happens with other things in our world go missing, bigger things, very important things? Can September clean up her mess?
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This is one of those books that gets better everytime you read it, and the more you know about the end game of the series the more your heart sings and sighs with all the little hints that you are given. See the end for one of the most perfect quotes and read this book for wonderful quotes about books, quests, hearts, love -- just everything that makes my heart sing and sigh
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Round 2--I like this book more the second time around, and I think that is going to be the theme of the rest of the series. I really loved the library, and the bold Saturday, and the story that is being told with the Marques. I love that just because we defeated the villain in the first book doesn't mean that she is going away. I hope that she does keep coming back.
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This book has some of the best paragraphs involving books, secrets, hearts, tea, coffee, love, first kisses. Absolutely everything, like seriously just the sweetest, heart swelling paragraphs.

I honestly fell in love with this book, the whole idea of a Theseus type quest, just made me laugh and smile and make sure I got a hold of someone who could love it as much as I did.

Also I found it interesting how much was taken from the little mini story -Girl who ruled fairyland- and think that people will need to read it to fully enjoy this book.

BUT something that I didn't really like about this book was the sheer amount of crazy everything that it had in it. There were shadow creatures, kangaroos who can't remember anything, going into a tunnel into a book, into a tunnel in the book, a dancing onion, glass forest, deer women, AHHHHHHHH too much absurdity for the sake of being absurd.

But it came together in a book that will make you sigh and demanding giant chunks of the book to be in your heart forever.

---like this little love read it and sigh ----- This quote is one of the most perfect quotes ever written-- it's just perfect.

And when you speak of tea or coffee or wine or any of our liquid spells, the drink must be matched perfectly with the drinker to get the best effect. If the match is a good one, the coffee will get to know you a little while you drink it, to know you and love you and cheer for your victories, lend you bravery and daring. The tea will want you to do well, will stand guard before your fear and sorrow. Afternoon tea is really a kind of séance. And at the end of it all, the grounds—or leaves!—left in the bottom of your little cup are not really prophecies but your teatime trying to talk to you, to tell you something secret and dear, just between the two of you. ...more "

Sep 25, 2017 10:43AM · see review

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Call of the Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #2)

by R.J. Barker (Goodreads Author)

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Reading for the 2nd time

read in November, 2022

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The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

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Jun 24, 2022 09:44AM

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: elections, hg2g, politics, rulers

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