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I don't know if it was just that my mood wasn't lining up with the mood of this book, or if the writing problems from the first book got worse or annoyed me more, but I couldn't finish this one. I slogged through 95 pages, and tossed the book aside. ugh.
Every bit of action is described in such excruciating detail. It's completely unnecessary, and really slows down the book! I started reading only the first sentence of each paragraph, and was able to follow everything perfectly.
Although I liked the characters in the first book, in this one I found myself apathetic about them. I didn't really care if they died. Literally, a character died, and I didn't care. Not a twinge.
Somehow, being introduced to new characters and a new setting just felt like too much work. I didn't care enough to make the effort to remember all the new names. meh.
I won't be reading the rest of the series.
Every bit of action is described in such excruciating detail. It's completely unnecessary, and really slows down the book! I started reading only the first sentence of each paragraph, and was able to follow everything perfectly.
Although I liked the characters in the first book, in this one I found myself apathetic about them. I didn't really care if they died. Literally, a character died, and I didn't care. Not a twinge.
Somehow, being introduced to new characters and a new setting just felt like too much work. I didn't care enough to make the effort to remember all the new names. meh.
I won't be reading the rest of the series.
Such a cute book! The epistolary style and newspaper clippings make it fun and original. I feel like it was telling a story within a story about a story. The characters are sweet and whimsical, and the plot develops nicely. Lovely little story!
Rosalind sees a young man, Orlando, fighting in a wrestling match and falls in love. Orlando is equally smitten by her loveliness. Rosalind is banished from the court by her uncle who has usurped the dukedom. Rosalind's cousin, Celia, cannot bear to be parted from her, so the two ladies escape together searching for Rosalind's banished father in the Forest of Arden. Orlando is fleeing for his life, after his own brother has tried to have him killed, and he also escapes into the Forest of Arden. Hilarity ensues.
I always enjoy rereading this play, because a lot of Shakespeare's most famous lines come from this play, such as, "The world is but a stage...". I also enjoy the silly jokes and crazy circumstances of the courtship between Rosalind and Orlando. This play is just hilarious from start to finish!
Rosalind is kind of a nut. Instead of fleeing to her father's side and leaning on him for protection, she continues to dress up as a man, and keeps up the charade of her false identity for as long as she wants. I think maybe she enjoys the freedom of moving through the world as a man, and wants to try her wings a little. I also think she enjoys messing with people who think she is a man. She thinks it's just one big joke!
Rosalind has all the best scenes in this play. She gets Orlando to playact that he is wooing Rosalind to show how he would go about it, and she is going to "pretend" to be Rosalind to show him how fickle and difficult women can be, to supposedly dissuade him from his love. She also gets in the middle of a romance between two shepherds, interfering to encourage this young shepherdess that she should accept the love of this shepherd because she is too ugly to get many offers of marriage. But then the young shepherdess falls in love with Rosalind thinking she is a man! These misunderstandings lead to some of the most hilarious and clever lines in the entire play!
The whole play has a very playful and silly mood. People fall in love at the drop of a hat, they write reams of really bad poetry and sing it to each other, and then they fall just as quickly into melancholy if their love so much as sneezes in their general direction.
The writing is brilliant, of course. There is nothing serious or realistic about the story at all. It's like a weird dream where everything happens really quickly and without explanation. You just have to go with it and not try to make sense of it.
This play is just so witty and fun. It always makes me laugh every time I reread it. The dialogue is snappy and the plot flows along quickly. It is such an easy one to read because it really grabs your attention.
A clever and sweet little story! I thought that the letters and newspaper clippings would get old, but it manages to draw the reader in. The writing is snappy and the story develops beautifully.
This book was okay. I liked it pretty well considering that it's just a fluff read. The characters are one-dimensional, and the plot meanders around slowly and predictably. I liked the world-building with the idea of Sandmen putting people to sleep! The ending was rather abrupt, which I don't like.
All in all, a fun little read for those blah days.
All in all, a fun little read for those blah days.
This is a lovely story of a rebellious little gypsy girl struggling against prejudice, learning to function within a family, and finding healing for her wounded heart. I read it all in one sitting, I was so enchanted by the characters.
The writing style is definitely odd; it's disjointed sometimes and there are a million flashbacks, but the ideas stick together well. It has a flow to it that is quite unique.
This book has a wonderful message, and a moving plot!
The writing style is definitely odd; it's disjointed sometimes and there are a million flashbacks, but the ideas stick together well. It has a flow to it that is quite unique.
This book has a wonderful message, and a moving plot!
A great fairytale about a dragon and a boy who must learn to trust one another in their quest to restore a stolen sea. I love the snappy dialogue, the adventurous plot, and the depth of the characters! Great writing and a fun story!
Delightful Christmas story about a gravedigger(sexton) who is kidnapped by goblins and taught a few moral lessons. It's very short, only a few pages, and I feel like it could have been further developed.
I remember reading this story in an anthology of Christmas stories as a child, and there was an illustration of the goblin that gave me nightmares!
It's peculiar to read it again as an adult, and remember those strange feelings I had as a child of liking the story, but being frightened of it too.
It's certainly a haunting and bizarre story! I was especially struck as a child by the goblins repeating Gabriel Grub's name in a sing-song chant. It's just so creepy and strangely fascinating.
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I was disappointed that Grub doesn't return to the village, apologize to the boy he hurt, and repair his relationships with his neighbors. Not a particularly strong ending.
I remember reading this story in an anthology of Christmas stories as a child, and there was an illustration of the goblin that gave me nightmares!
It's peculiar to read it again as an adult, and remember those strange feelings I had as a child of liking the story, but being frightened of it too.
It's certainly a haunting and bizarre story! I was especially struck as a child by the goblins repeating Gabriel Grub's name in a sing-song chant. It's just so creepy and strangely fascinating.
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I was disappointed that Grub doesn't return to the village, apologize to the boy he hurt, and repair his relationships with his neighbors. Not a particularly strong ending.
I was captivated by all the little details of life at Versailles! The story of three little girls from widely different backgrounds becoming friends is full of pathos, but never sickly sweet. It was so interesting to see the characters of Marie Antoinette and her children come alive, and to see characters on both sides of the French Revolution fighting to protect those they love.
A well-told story with excellent writing!
A well-told story with excellent writing!
I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it. Meh. It was so lukewarm and blah the whole way through. I didn't care about the characters. Nothing really ever happens in the plot. The mystery is not mysterious. It's a nice little Christmas story, but not very well written. There's no spice to it!