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4.5 stars

52 week challenge: A fantasy (11)

I loved this book even more that I‘d expected to. It‘s an unforgettable tale of love, loss, regret, & remorse, seen through two very different perspectives who cannot understand each other, though, in some way, they are the same.

Full review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2718095247

Aniday, Chavisory, & Luchog are #uniquecharacternames #literaryluck @vkois88 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

“Another day brings a different promise.” ~The Stolen Child/Keith Donohue

Picture taken outside Walworth-Seely Public Library a couple years ago.

The most merciless thing in the world is love. When love flees, all that remains is memory to compensate. ~The Stolen Child/Keith Donohue

“Besides, it is a lonesome life,” said Chavisory.

“True,” Speck agreed. “But you can be lonely with a dozen friends beside you.”

“Shut up, man. It‘s possible. But they‘re afraid of people, that much I know.”

“The whosits?”

“The changelings. That‘s why you never see them.”

“Why are they so afraid of us? Seems like we should be afraid of them?”

“Used to be that way, man, but people stopped believing in myths and fairy tales.”

~The Stolen Child/Keith Donohue

For our first Valentine‘s Day together as a married couple, my husband & I played a little book game. We went out and bought 3 secondhand books for each other with no clues to go on other than what we know of each other. We recorded the exchange last night to capture our natural reactions. This will be a new tradition!

Pictured: The Stolen Child, The Last Dickens, and Handle With Care.

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Haunting, beautiful, strange, and a bit unsettling—this was a unique story. It follows two boys: one is a changeling who steals away the other so he can take his place. It‘s fascinating to see each story unfold, as both boys struggle with loss and displacement. Themes of childhood, memory, and loneliness run throughout—melancholy, but gorgeously written.

I‘m sitting in my reading nook, reading the tagged book and enjoying this beautiful view of the crescent moon out of my window. A lovely evening indeed!

I‘ve always been fascinated by changeling stories, and I love the William Butler Yeats poem by the same title:
“Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

...which is why I originally picked this up (don‘t remember where or when!). It‘s still on the TBR, and I might just have to sneak it into the “read sooner” pile.
#child #readingresolutions

Creeped me out big time. I read it half #terrified, anxiety knotting in my stomach. It probably didn't help that I 100% believe in #fairies.
(Read back in 2001)

I just finished this amazing book - then went and put everything this author has written 'on hold' at my library. Like The Time Traveler's Wife, and The Night Circus this story of going to stay with me for a long time...

More faerie book recommendations from the internet (that I happened to have upstairs in my library. 😝)

Follows the lives of a changeling and the child whose place the changeling took, in alternating chapters.
I enjoyed this one a good deal, although I don't think it will stay with me for long. The stories were well constructed, and nicely tied together, but it seemed to drag along in a few places.

I'm really not in the bad mood you might suspect due to my choices for #thisshouldbeamovie -- Donohue & Shepard. Also: Despite the famous protests of author Salinger and playwright Albee, I'd like for their work to be better known to audiences who might not pick up their books. I would love to see Holden come to the big screen, and as for Albee... even though it was widely condemned, I'd love to see an auteur Tiny Alice.

As for #booksaboutinnocence, I'd pick this one. A child was kidnapped and a changeling replaced him, living his life. The story was told in both perspective, the stealer's and the stolen's. They both lived other people's lives and found the meaning of life there. #augustofpages

Wonderfully eerie story.... Changelings.... One of those heartbreaking stories told in such a way that you empathize with all the characters, even as they hurt one another....

I loved this book! I'm a huge fan of fairytale retellings, and this took on the changeling myth in a fascinating way. Donohue's writing was beautiful. The change in narrator for each chapter flowed seamlessly. Definitely recommend!