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How shiveringly beautiful is that quote, I ask you?? Because everyone knows that winter isn't really death, but really just a long cold sleep.
I loved this book! It's a bit like Alice, but more modern. And it's a bit like Neverwhere, but not as dark. Mostly it's just like itself, I suppose.
There is endless wordplay, such as a girl named Lye, who is made of soap, whose true name is T ...more
Autumn has a hungry heart—September is the beginning of death ...
How shiveringly beautiful is that quote, I ask you?? Because everyone knows that winter isn't really death, but really just a long cold sleep.
I loved this book! It's a bit like Alice, but more modern. And it's a bit like Neverwhere, but not as dark. Mostly it's just like itself, I suppose.
There is endless wordplay, such as a girl named Lye, who is made of soap, whose true name is T ...more
Definite points for creativity: as a kid I would have adored this solely for how vivid and creative and unusual and imaginative it is. On the other hand that sometimes makes it feel a bit too jumbled, as you whip from aesthetic to aesthetic, to one type of story after another. I think the author posted this story online as she was working on it, and it kind of shows. It coheres more as it progresses, though, and gets points for several interesting twists.
Poor September gets far more battered phy ...more
Poor September gets far more battered phy ...more
I get that people are attracted to this book because of its nostalgia and weirdness factors, but I just couldn't stay interested. After getting through like a third of it and identifying the witches from Macbeth, The Wizard of Oz elements, the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland elements, the Peter Pan elements, the Phantom Tollbooth elements, and the Wrinkle in Time elements, I was over it.
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