For more reviews, check out my blog: Craft-CycleOverall, this was an interesting book. As others have said, it is very whimsical and fantastical in its events, characters, and descriptions. Similar in style to The Wizard of Oz series and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, this is the story of a littl...
September gets taken to Fairyland after wishing that her life wasn't so boring. While she is there, she experiences many things but soon wishes to return home.
There was so much to love here! The narrative style is just perfect. It was done similar to the way the Great Gatsby is narrated except that the tone was much more upbeat and playful. The tone was more like Flynn Ryder telling his kids the story about how he met Rapunzel in Tangled. The beginning i...
Just not my cup of tea. I can't even really articulate why, strangely. But if you want a few awesome stories based on fairy tales, I can recommend these: [bc:Uprooted|22544764|Uprooted|Naomi Novik|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1420795060s/22544764.jpg|41876730][bc:Enchantress from the Stars|1450946|...
But what September chiefly noticed were their hats.Any child knows what a witch looks like. The warts are important, yes, the hooked nose, the cruel smile. But it's the hat that cinches it: pointy and black with a wide rim. Plenty of people have warts and hooked noses and cruel smiles but are not wi...
A Fairytale for Lovers of FairytalesIf I.Q. were a measure of strength of imagination, Catherynne Valente would most certainly be the Albert Einstein of writers. There was more imagination on display in that book than in any other book I've ever come across. I felt like I was reading a Tim Burton mo...
I've heard a lot of good things about this book, and it deserves all of them. It's a fairytale about a girl named September, who is whisked off to Fairyland as so many children are, only to find that Fairyland has become a place of tyranny and bureaucracy under the rule of the dastardly Marquess. ...
Well I liked it, I really did. It's full of beautiful words and sparkly ideas and there is a plot in there as well. It's somewhat related to the plots of Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz but I think that doesn't matter. It's the words and images and ideas that count.Unfortunately I had a reading...
I enjoyed Alice in Wonderland, Spirited Away (anything from Studio Ghibli), The Neverending Story, the tales of H.C. Andersen and so much more. But I struggled through The Girl Who Circumnavigated and had to force myself to finish it. Verdict: I don't care. I do not care about September nor Fairylan...
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