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Absolutely magical.
A good friend recommended this book to me and my only regret is that I waited so long to actually read it. In all honesty it is probably not something I would have picked up on my own, and that would have been a shame. The only downside (in my opinion) was the back and forth in time. I realize this was the way the author decided to tell the story, and maybe the only issue was that I listened to it as an audio book (but Jim Dale read it and he is amazing at narrating books). Ma ...more
A good friend recommended this book to me and my only regret is that I waited so long to actually read it. In all honesty it is probably not something I would have picked up on my own, and that would have been a shame. The only downside (in my opinion) was the back and forth in time. I realize this was the way the author decided to tell the story, and maybe the only issue was that I listened to it as an audio book (but Jim Dale read it and he is amazing at narrating books). Ma ...more
"You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul..."
This is a book that stays with you, even when you are doing something other than reading, even when you have closed the covers on the final page.
It is rare that a book makes me so desperately want to be a part of its world. But this is one of those books. It left me longing to wander among the tents, along the paths, to visit the Ice Garden, to climb through the Cloud Maze, to eat the caramel apples and drink the hot chocolate.
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This is a book that stays with you, even when you are doing something other than reading, even when you have closed the covers on the final page.
It is rare that a book makes me so desperately want to be a part of its world. But this is one of those books. It left me longing to wander among the tents, along the paths, to visit the Ice Garden, to climb through the Cloud Maze, to eat the caramel apples and drink the hot chocolate.
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I fall in love all over again every time I revisit this book.
I could not finish this. I was listening to it on audio and got 1/2 way through. It is sooo boring and slow and the narrator was putting me to sleep.
I loved this book. The imagery is mesmerizing, and the story makes one wish our world contained a bit more magic. More than that, this book offers a hope that maybe there is more magic in our world after all, and we just aren't paying attention when we ought to be to see it. The circus in this story is the same sort of creepy, otherworldly dreamland as I loved in Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, only with different magic. If only real circuses could be more like these imaginary on
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I had been meaning to read this book for years. I had my copy on the TBR shelf for a long time. When I heard the story was mostly written during nanowrimo I had to finally read it. The story is about a game with our main characters Celia and Marco the main play pieces. Everyone in the story is a player in this game. The story reminds me of a lyrical game of chess. The writing is beautiful. The only problem is the story was slow in places. I found myself skim reading to get to the next part. This
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297 pages in one sitting. Only Erin Morgenstern has this power.
Oct 10, 2011
Steph
marked it as life-library
Sep 11, 2017
Becki Mussa
marked it as to-read
Nov 21, 2017
Courtney
marked it as to-read
Jun 15, 2019
Kristen
marked it as to-read
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Sep 28, 2019
Valerie
marked it as to-read
Feb 15, 2021
Heather P
marked it as to-read
