This was a interesting premise. Four siblings go to see a gypsy psychic who can tell you that day you die. They range in ages of 7 to 13. That's pretty crazy and pretty young to be receiving information like that. However, was the gypsy right in her prophecies or do the persons who are told this pro...
I loved the feeling that this book provoked in me and in the characters. The characters believed that they knew their death dates, yet in the back of their minds there was a part of them that hoped that the fortune teller was wrong. I enjoyed following the lives of these young characters as they mat...
Would you live your life any differently if you knew when you were going to die? Four siblings are told when they are going to die by a gypsy fortune teller, but not told how. The story unfolds as we go through each ones life and find out how they handle the news. I enjoyed the Writers style. The bo...
The novel begins in 1969 with Gold family--Saul, Gertie, and their 4 children Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon--living in New York City. One afternoon the 4 kids go to see a psychic who will tell them the dates of their deaths. And from there we follow each of the kids' lives. How accurate was the p...
Title: The Anatomy of Dreams Who wrote it: Chloe Krug Benjamin Plot in a Box: The Anatomy of Dreams is told from the perspective of Sylvie Patterson, beginning with her teenage years at Mills, a boarding school in Eureka, California, following her to age thirty. While at Mills, she meets G...
Title: The Anatomy of Dreams Who wrote it: Chloe Krug Benjamin Plot in a Box: The Anatomy of Dreams is told from the perspective of Sylvie Patterson, beginning with her teenage years at Mills, a boarding school in Eureka, California, following her to age thirty. While at Mills, she meets G...
(I got this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.)I liked the concepts in this book, but found the execution wanting.The story bounces between a few time periods, allowing us to see what's happening in two "levels of present" (the first one being Madison, where Sylvie and Gave me...
We spend a lot of time thinking about sleep, mostly about how none of us get enough of it. We rarely think about what happens between the time we drift off and when the alarm rudely snatches us into the waking world. Some lucky (or unlucky) people can remember their dreams. Chloe Krug Benjamin's The...
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