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AbmostFiction (32 KP) rated Strange the Dreamer in Books

Jul 23, 2017  
Strange the Dreamer
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Young Adult (YA)
10
9.0 (19 Ratings)
Book Rating
Delicious descriptions (2 more)
Fantastical setting
Well written
Some slow pacing (0 more)
On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Her skin was blue, her blood was red.
From the from the opening to the last page this story sucked me in and didn't let me go. Granted it was slow at times but the descriptions were so intoxicating. It could easily have been too poetic or too much but the author always seemed to toe the line just right. Recommended if you're in the mood for a dreamy romantic fantasy.

"'You're a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable,' she pleaded. 'Something beautiful and full of monsters.'
'Beautiful and full of monsters?'
'All the best stories are.'"
  
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AbmostFiction (32 KP) Jul 25, 2017

Me neither. It completely sucked me in and has not let me go!
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BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) Jul 26, 2017

I read it only a month or so ago and I already want to re-read it!
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Jean Reno recommended Life Is Beautiful (1979) in Movies (curated)

 
Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Life Is Beautiful (1979)
1979 | Action
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"A movie I like very much by Roberto Benigni. It’s a way of talking about a very serious matter through a comic form. A touching form. That was a new way of speaking of a moment in the history of humanity. Very painful. [Having worked with him on The Tiger and the Snow], Benigni is somebody who [writes] the script and he is somebody who [interprets] the script, but he will let you very free. He is not a dictator. Basically, he is a poet. Somebody who sees the world through his own eyes in a poetic way. [The Tiger and the Snow] is a movie I like because he wanted to talk about the war through his eyes, and it is a very honest movie. Very"

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