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[endofmarch]

February books:

★ - didn't like it
★ ★ - it was okay
★ ★ ★ - liked it
★ ★ ★ ★ - really liked it
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - it was amazing!

Comments

[androidlusts]

OMG how I loved the orphans Tales books. They were amazing how each story blended into the next and everything interconnected. I think I need to find them in Hard back.

[endofmarch]

I know!
I was totally blown away by the sheer craft of the stories. Secondary characters becoming main characters in other tales, all of them intertwining to make a whole, little pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
Now that's something :)

[androidlusts]

the author is truly amazing. I don't think I've ever read a book of short stories where characters weave in and out of other stories . Now you've inspires me to go re read them .

[endofmarch]

Oh you should, and do re-read them one after the other. I read the second one a year after the first one (and didn't have the first one with me) and I regretted not being able to go check on some details that I had forgotten.
It's just so full of characters and details, that they truly deserved to be read as one big book.

[willowings]

i've been wanting to read the penderwicks on gardam street for a while now. i'm glad to hear it was amazing! :)

[endofmarch]

Yes! I liked it a lot!
DO you mind ebooks? I used to mind, but where I am right now, sometimes I have no choice but to read ebooks if I want to read something.
Anyway, if you don't mind I could send you the Penderwicks book...
Hope you are well!

[willowings]

no i don't mind ebooks. that would be so wonderful mj! thank you so much sweetie. =)

[endofmarch]

Oh great!
There you go, it's in pdf format. Tell me what you think once you're done!
http://www.mediafire.com/?24jzmjnwonj

[endofmarch]

flb' books are very hit or miss with me, so far anyway. I won't deny that her prose is absolutely beautiful, and I love it, but sometimes I find that it's also the problem. She makes everything sound pretty, including depression, eating disorders and abuse etc. And that's the main problem I had with Echo. She glamorizes everything

[dylansdream]

I just finished The Forgotten Garden myself. I thought it was wonderful!

[endofmarch]

Wasn't it?
I was so sad for Eliza and all that happened. I thought it was well but not overly written. I loved the fairy tales too!

[dylansdream]

I thought the fairytales were wonderful.
It was terrible about Eliza, of course, I predicted the entire ending, really. Though I did think that there were loose ends not entirely tied up. I would have liked to have heard more about Georgianna and the relationship she had with her brother and her lover and that whole situation. It was breeze over a bit, I thought.
Have you read her other book The House at Riverton? It was quite wonderful as well.

[endofmarch]

At one point I thought the story would take a much darker tone, like incest or something, with the way the father was obsessed with Georgianna and then Eliza, bu still it was pretty terrible the way they treated her.
I agree there could have been more details, though. I loved they way that the three main characters were written. All three women, I felt, were three-dimensional characters that I could relate and sympathized with.
I haven't read her other book, but I'll put it on my to-read list.
Do you have a goodreads?

[fidealdh]

I'm sorry to add to this post when it is so late, but I had to say I have never read any of Tanith Lee's work but have always wanted to. I plan on buying one of her books for my long summer off and was wondering if you recommend a particular one to start with?