2 stars personal feeling3 stars for writing/ style Written quite well, I feel, but it not touch me. I found it to have a smidgeon of that ancient folktale-like quality I associate with DiCamillo's works - a true story, but it never connected to me. I was never invested in the characters, swept away ...
A beautifully poetic tale of one plain girl and some very dark shadows.The one and only Caroline Richmond recommended this book to me. I now owe her a book suggestion and am fearful she will have to wait a very long time for me to find a book that lives up to this one.It may be impossible for me to ...
Sometimes you come across a book that you weren’t particularly keen to read but it blows you away with the sheer beauty of the story contained within its pages. The synopsis of Plain Kate doesn’t set it apart from the rest of the books in the genre. It doesn’t add anything to it that is wholly uniqu...
Most fantasy books for young readers are quite light: they're some kind of wish-fulfillment. Even when difficult tasks and harrowing adventures come up, they're leavened by whimsy. Here the only whimsy is the voice of Taggle, the cat who is Kate's only companion.Not this one. Generally, I wouldn...
Kate is a carver in a world where knives are thought to hold magic. She carves charms, and she carves masterfully, and she insists it has nothing to do with magic, but there are plagues and bad harvests, and people are always eager to find witches to blame, to burn. An attack while she sleeps lead...
read the full review on my blog, a href="http://holes-in-my-brain.blogspot.com/2010/12/br-plain-kate.html">holes In My brainThe way PLAIN KATE ended was way different than what I was expecting when I first picked up the novel. Initially, the reading experience was disengaging; I couldn’t really get ...
12/25/2010 ** I have no idea why I requested this book from the library. I must have seen it reference on some blog & thought it sounded interesting; besides, there's a talking cat - how could I resist!I read two chapters over breakfast today (instead of washing dishes - no competition). I was def...
...hope will break the heart better than any sorrow...Plain Kate is the type of book I wish I could have read when I was younger. As much as I loved Kate and her world now, I think it would have absolutely worked its way into me when I was a kid. At the same time, though, there's so much to the st...
by Erin BowI don’t normally post on the weekends, but my Plain Kate review kept getting pushed back and I wanted to make sure it got done now, as opposed to, say, Monday.Opening line: “A long time ago, in a market town by a looping river, there lived an orphan girl called Plain Kate.”Kate is the dau...
The most amazing, beautiful fantasy I have read in a long time. No epic love triangle, no self depreciating lead, simply a beautiful and heartbreaking fairy tale.
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