I stayed up till 1 last night to finish this book. I REGRET NOTHING.Recently I've taken quite a fancy to fairy tale re-tellings. You can go right ahead and blame Gail Carson Levine for that. The Book of Lost things belongs to that genre, albeit a bit LOT more darker.The book begins by introducing us...
Dear Bolt, This is going to be something of a "Dear John" letter. I'm sorry in advance, and I'm going to say right off the bat that while I don't think this was all you, or all me, I think we both had faults that led to this situation. I hope we can still be friends after, because I don't hate you. ...
Fugue state, formally Dissociative Fugue... usually involves unplanned travel or wandering, and is sometimes accompanied by the establishment of a new identity. Fugues are usually precipitated by a stressful episode.in world war 2-era england, young David loses his mother after a lingering illness a...
There are fantasies and there are fairy tales. I prefer fantasy and I prefer high fantasy. This is a fairy tale and makes a point of it. The book is actually more interesting before the fairy tale begins. The protagonist, David, is unhappy about the death of his mother. He is a child who had a parti...
I like the dark story, which is downright brutal at times, but would have enjoyed this more if I liked the main character David more. I actually found the parts of his life with his family before his grand adventure more telling and personal, so I felt like there was a distance for most of the book ...
One of my favorite books in recent times. I loved it. Couldn't stop reading it. I wish it was longer. It was so visual that I could imagine every scene being in a movie, which would be quiet amazing. The story had humor, horror, sadness. I had a feeling that the ending was going to be as it was, but...
The Book of Lost Things is the story of David, a young boy who is torn apart by grief when his mother dies; and whose grief soon turns to anger when his father later marries Rose, and give David a half-brother, Georgie. One night, after a particularly strong fight with Rose, David is transported to ...
David's mother passes away and after a while his father remarries a woman who gives birth to a son. David loves reading and fills his lonliness by reading.Once in the middle of a night he hears his mother's voice claiming that she is alive and needs to be saved.Following the voice,David enters a wor...
With all of the fairytale renditions that have become popular, this still stands out as my favorite. While each chapter centers around a particular fairytale, the story centers around a young boy named David. David, a very realistic hero in the story, struggles with his mother's death and turns to b...
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