Among Others (Thorndike Mini-Collections)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781410476050 (1410476057)
ASIN: 1410476057
Publish date: 2015-02-04
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 483
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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