Read any good fantasy recently? What book did you read that you'd like to recommend to others . . . and why did you like it? Be specific about the elements of fantasy or storytelling, world-building or magical aspects, or . . . ? that made the work stand out.
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Thanks, Wade, for that comment. I agree that we learn a sense of right-ness from the good vs. evil world of fantasy books, something that is larger than our personal, individual, often petty needs and desires, something worth striving for. Do you have a particular book to point to that you think do...
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Albert Einstein said: "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." Do you agree? Do you think this "intelligence" also includes values? What positive life lessons have you learned from your favorite fanta...
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Have you read Tuck Everlasting? “With the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. . . . It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.”—The Boston Globe. What do you think about the values expressed in this book?
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This is the place to talk about our criteria: what do you consider to be "good values" in a work of fantasy? I've got my concept of that: that the book encourages us to be a better person, and helps us understand how to do that in some way, large or small. What do you think?
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If you'd like to suggest a book for discussion, you can nominate it here. If it seems to meet our criteria (the book contains good values, is worthy of discussion, and is well-written), I'm happy to set up a Discussion thread for it!
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As group administrator, I'm just learning to navigate the new BookLikes groups functions . . . and don't see a way to edit the text of a posted Discussion. In my first Discussion posted, the publisher of the new edition of Momo is McSweeney's (which I slightly misspelled in my original posting). My ...
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Momo is a wonderful book, just reissued this fall by McSweweney's in a new English translation. “Wittily perceptive social criticism and haunting, surrealistic imagery. . . . This all-ages delight deserves rescue and is ideal for classroom (or bedtime) read-alouds—especially if the grown-ups pay at...
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