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A boy who runs to book's world to escape his new life, his new step mother and half brother. He doesn't have a bad life but he misses his old one shared between him, his father and his late mother.
There are creatures who crawl into children troubled nightmares and call them. David is no exception and hear her mother calling from sunken garden to rescue her. one night David disappointed in his father and step mother make his mind and walks into the sunken garden, but after he goes in the whole he ...more
There are creatures who crawl into children troubled nightmares and call them. David is no exception and hear her mother calling from sunken garden to rescue her. one night David disappointed in his father and step mother make his mind and walks into the sunken garden, but after he goes in the whole he ...more
When I read a summary of this book (young boy's only remaining parent remarries in a setting of war-torn Europe; parents have new child together; boy, feeling neglected, escapes first into his beloved fairy tales and then literally into another world) I couldn't figure out how it wasn't Pan's Labyrinth. But while conceptually the two sound identical, The Book of Lost Things really is its own story and won me over quickly. In this book, the boy becomes trapped in a world of fractured fairy tales,
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If you ever wished that you could walk through the wardrobe into another land or receive an invitation by owl to Hogwarts, this book is for you. This tale is more for adults than for young children. It has many themes from old fairy tales and mythology, which involve violence, death, and loss. I blazed through it and thoroughly enjoyed it.
It was okay.... I just feel like I have read this story so many times. It's definitely atmospheric with vividly drawn images and I liked the way the ending brought everything back together. I didn't understand why it was set in the 1940s and I had trouble believing David as a real kid - I couldn't figure out how old he was supposed to be. He sometimes seemed very young and sometimes had an adult maturity. Looking forward to talking about this one with the book club to see what everyone else thou
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Sep 08, 2012
Ehrrin
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Recommended by Nicole.
I can see how this book wouldn't be some folks' cup of tea, but I absolutely loved it. It was dark and twisted and truly eerie at times, with a wonderful resolution. Yes, it's kind of predictable in parts, but what good fairy tale isn't? What I loved the most about it is how it's clearly a fairy tale from the very beginning -- even when the boy is in 1940's London, you can just tell that magical and frightening things are going to happen. Stories live to be told, and I'm so glad that this one wa
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Marissa
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