Sometimes I will go months without finding a book that grips me, sometime a year. Imagine my extreme delight when I was able to stumble on TWO amazing books that I devoured in just days over the last few weeks. The second, This is Shyness, by Melbourne author, Leanne Hall leaves me almost wordless...
I really wanted to like this book - the blurb is so PROMISING! - and that I didn't was quite a disappointment for me. I liked the worldbuilding. Wolfboy was interesting - I want to know more about him and his condition, and the book only gave me little crumbs. I thought Wildgirl was... OK, although...
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh... this book is so damn weird. Like a really weird fairy tale with lots of crazy characters, googly eyes and a pink ukulele. This is Shyness, ensconced in eternal darkness because the sun has decided to take a break. A tourist, named Wildgirl, sits in a bar('The Diabetic'), bemoaning h...
3.5/5Couple the unresolved moments and the simplicity of telling in All I Ever Wanted with the oddness of Burn Bright, less the latter's more steam punk feel, then throw in some tarsiers. That's right... tarsiers! And you just might get a feel of how richly imaginative, yet definitely odd THIS IS SH...
Rating: 4.5 StarsThe human race is constantly trying to describe love and attraction, summing it up to be an un-explainable draw to a certain person or thing. I like to think simpler and call it love at first sight. Maybe it can only happen with people, maybe it can't happen with books, but that's w...
This Is Shyness is different, different as in unique as in you haven’t read anything like it. This books holds elements of contemporary set in a fantasy world of a world that is somewhat dystopian. You can’t genre-fy this darling! And you wouldn’t want to after you read it. Shyness deserves its own ...
2.5 - sadly not for me.The bizarre goodreads summary of this book combined with numerous (mostly positive) reviews left me feeling intrigued, excited and just a little bit apprehensive about starting This is Shyness. I can deal with a certain type and level of weirdness, Margo Lanagan is one writer ...
(Original review posted on my livejournal account.)Why I Read It: I had been reading good reviews of it everywhere it seemed. The clincher was the 9-star rating from The Book Smugglers though. So when my mom offered to buy me some books from Fish Pond World (this book is only available in Australia)...
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