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Dec 04, 2012
Katy
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Very well written book on the fairy tale of the Changeling. It addresses the questions of most humans about our humanity, who am I? where did I come from? Very good.
The Stolen Child
By William Butler Yeats
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the worl ...more
The Stolen Child
By William Butler Yeats
WHERE dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the worl ...more
I don't know what it is about this book. I have tried three times to read it, and I can't do it. I should love it, but I find it boring for some reason. The central characters don't seem real.
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One of the most interesting and unusual books I’ve read this year, or for a while; and I’m not altogether sure why. At first blush it seems very similar to Delia Sherman’s Changeling. Both that book and this one are about babies or children switched by the faeries. But Sherman’s book is a quest book written for YAs and this—this is a fairly straight ahead coming of age/ search for identity novel with a faery twist.
One summer day when Henry Day is 7 years old he runs away from home and hides in a ...more
One summer day when Henry Day is 7 years old he runs away from home and hides in a ...more
I enjoyed it for the most part, but it seemed.....lacking somehow. I don't know. It was one of those "hobgoblin/changeling-replaces-human-child" stories that I tend to like. I preferred Tamara Thorne's Bad Things, which I read a few years ago.
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I read this when I was sixteen, and enjoyed it very much. The narration is smooth and enthralling, and I loved the touches of fantasy. I highly recommend it.
Feb 03, 2009
Shellie (Layers of Thought)
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it was ok
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