Among Others
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient...
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Startling, unusual, and yet irresistibly readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429991520 (1429991526)
ASIN: B0044781T2
Publish date: January 18th 2011
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This book's protagonist is a big sci-fi/fantasy reader and I am absolutely not. I probably have not read a single one of the books discussed, which means that I didn't follow the characters' discussions of those books, either. I'm sure that this would have been a richer experience for me if that wer...
I haven't given this a starred rating because I can't decide how I feel about it. I liked some parts and didn't like others. I don't know if I liked this book or the book I thought it should have been.[Originally read May 16-23, 2013.]
Klappentext: Morwenna ist auf der Flucht vor der Erinnerung an den Tod ihrer Zwillingsschwester. Nun muss sie auch noch ihre Heimat, das märchenhafte Wales, verlassen und damit ihre einzigen Freunde. In einem Mädcheninternat hofft sie, wieder zu sich selbst zu finden, doch die Schülerinnen machen es...
Among Others is a book about reading. It's also about a fifteen-year-old woman named Morwenna Phelps, a twin who lost her sister about a year ago, who has been taken in by her father and his sisters, and who is sent to a boarding school. A reader of fantasy and science fiction, she finds solace and ...
Set in the 1970s, this is Mori’s story. She and her twin sister grew up in Wales with a mum who dabbled in magic. They could talk to fairies and had little magics of their own. But their mother seeks greater power and an accident leaves Mori crippled and her twin gone. So Mori makes the hard but nec...
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