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Glad I read this--you can feel Selznick putting his heart & soul into this book, infusing it with his love of art and understanding of the challenges human beings face growing up and making peace with who they are. Also so much about creativity and why humans create. A beautiful book.
I LOVE LOVED Wonderstruck by this author and I love the way he tells a story with pictures alone. This book was super disappointing because I felt like he kept repeating himself. He tells the story through pictures and then describes it again a couple of times in written word. It was an okay book, but not as easy to read or as interesting as Wonderstruck. The mystery had great build up but then was a bit disappointing as well.
As usual, Brian Selznick has brought together the story of a shipwreck in 1766, a family with generations of actors, a directionless boy and his unknown uncle, a mysterious house, and a supportive network of strangers and made them into a cohesive, sad, but uplifting story. The Marvels made me think about family, ancestry, destiny, the nature of storytelling, the fast pace of our "upgrade" society, and the way humans give items meaning. It's a gorgeous book, with 400 pages of pencil-drawn pictur
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I liked this one at least as much as I loved Hugo Cabret. And that says a lot.
Excellent book about family, found family, and history. Can fiction create a family?
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