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Little, Big
Little, Big | John Crowley
Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any map. In an impossible mansion full of her relatives, who all seem to have ties to another world not far away, Smoky fathers a family and tries to learn what tale he has found himself in -- and how it is to end.
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AllisonM89
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Yet again, I've finished reading this book. Yet again, I'm utterly enchanted by it. Yet again, I'm not really certain what it's about. But it's beautiful. And I'll continue to ponder the story for a long time to come....

#20in4 @Andrew65 Finished my fourth partially-read book this weekend. Decided to read the last chapter rather than listen to the audiobook (hence it taking much less than two hours to get through).

Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 10mo
Andrew65 Excellent 👏👏👏 10mo
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Minervasbutler
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Bizarre, whimsical, often very beautiful Tale which reminded me somewhat of Gaiman. I'm not entirely sure that I totally followed the plot or indeed that I was meant to. It was a bit of a slog at times but overall I enjoyed it.

vivastory I came across a mention of this while browsing the following last night & I def want to read it. Crowley sounds like such an interesting writer! 2y
Kammbia1 I attempted to read Little, Big years ago. I had read his novella, Engine Summer, that I really liked at the time. I need to try Little, Big again. It is considered a modern classic of fantasy that doesn‘t get mentioned a lot. 2y
Clare-Dragonfly I love this book! 2y
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Readergrrl
Little, Big | John Crowley
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I have wanted to read this book ever since I read Ka by John Crowley. Thank you so much, @Bookgoil for sending me this #JolabokaflodSwap gift. I‘m already “sampling” the truffles. My fave! Yum!!!

vivastory Wonderful! I've been meaning to read Crowley forever. 2y
Clare-Dragonfly I love this book! But I‘ve never read anything else by Crowley 😅 2y
Bookgoil Enjoy!!! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 2y
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Tineke
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Mehso-so

This was my #bookspin for September. I started it and I loved the start of the book, but a bit later in it was a bit slowgoing, a bit boring, a bit difficult and I knew someone who I wanted to send this book to. So I've decided to give this book to someone in New Zealand and maybe I will someday find this book again. I hope I'm not missing out on a great story though.
TBR since July 5th. 2015; 538 pages.
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks At least it's off the list!! 2y
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twohectobooks
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Mehso-so

Another success on my #tbrbingo!

Unfortunately I didn‘t like the book that much and would‘ve probably DNF‘d it if I hadn‘t purchased it. As is it‘s not going to stay in my collection. I‘m learning that I should really only purchase books I already know I love.

Anyway, this one starts off like it‘s going to be a slow burn family saga with fairies and tarot cards but then basically nothing happens till the end.

More thoughts in comments ⤵️

twohectobooks The ending ALMOST saves it. I kind of get what Crowley is doing here, which is portraying what it would really feel like to be a member of a family that‘s chosen by the fairies to take part in a grand tale. No one would really know what was going on and no one would really want to talk about it either. But I just don‘t think that the way it‘s done really works as a book. Or maybe it just wasn‘t for me. I usually love this sort of thing though? 3y
twohectobooks It reminded me a bit of Mythago Wood, which is better. Still bewildering, no fairies, but things actually happen. 3y
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AllisonM89
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Little, Big by Crowley
CS Lewis
Lady and the Tramp
Lit
Lullaby by Billy Joel

#ManicMonday #LetterL @JoScho

JoScho Lit 🖤 4y
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VioletBramble
Little, Big | John Crowley
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#screamathonphotochallenge
#tarotreading
In Little, Big the character Violet Bramble has a special deck of tarot cards that tell the members of the Drinkwater family “the story” as it unfolds.

edited to add:this tarot deck is The Herbal Tarot by Michael Tierra and Candis Cantin.

alisiakae 💜🔮 4y
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Rambo_Reads
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Happy Rugby World Cup day! I'm so excited for this to start - think I'm going to be a bit distracted from books for the next month! 🙊 🇮🇪
(I did manage to start Little Big today though)

VioletBramble I haven‘t seen that cover before. I‘m re-reading this- I‘m stretching it out for the whole year. It‘s one of my favorites, but definitely not for everyone. 4y
Rambo_Reads @VioletBramble I've heard good things about it! 4y
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Violetta
Little, Big | John Crowley
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#7days7covers #covercrush Day5

@eri.reads, mind showing your favorite covers once a day for 7 days without explanation and tagging different Littens each time? 🌸

GatheringBooks so much dynamism in this cover 5y
eri.reads Yes sure! Thanks for the tag! 5y
eri.reads BTW I ♥️ this cover! Wow! 5y
Violetta @eri.reads 🤗 5y
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MrBook
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Stop 8 on today‘s home-library tour!

Do you own or have you read any of these books?!

#MrBooksBooks

Lcsmcat The Smiley is amazing! 5y
Zelma Dorothy Must Die is fun but I wasn‘t compelled to keep reading the series. 5y
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vivastory I really liked 5y
LoverofLit Good as Gone was really great. And interesting setup for telling the story following two storylines. One from present forward and one from present backwards, and they eventually come together to answer the questions you're asking the whole book. 5y
RamsFan1963 One of my all time favorite books!! 5y
rubyslippersreads Dorothy Must Die was okay (I enjoyed the “Easter eggs” for fans of the movie and books). 5y
Paula3 I've read the Cousins O'Dwyer Series and this is the 2nd book in the trilogy. Good series 5y
TEArificbooks Read The Chalk Man 5y
rwmg Little, Big. On the strength of that I tried some of his other books but didn't really get on eith the novels, though the novellas were interesting 5y
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JLaurenceCohen
Little, Big | John Crowley

Little, Big is the multi-generational story of a family caught up in a mysterious magical world that they scarcely understand. The ending is worth the wild ride.

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twohectobooks
Little, Big | John Crowley
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So, uh, for the third month in a row I made zero progress on my #tbrbingo.

Next month is December, though, meaning Christmas holiday reading binge. I can do this! #12hppofxmas

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LitterRat
Little, Big | John Crowley

❤️ The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

VioletBramble Welcome to Litsy! As you can probably tell by my user name, this is one of my favorite books. 5y
LitterRat Thanks, V. Indeed, I got the name reference and figured, yeh, another die-hard fan like me. Not everyone gets it; they say, “faeries?..” and do an eye roll, even some fantasy readers with whom I‘ve tried to share. Perhaps the non-fans have been wearing mink coats...and thereby, you know, “..taking on the propensities of the animal.” ?I can‘t explain how well the story works, which is probably the sign of any good yarn. 5y
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Clare-Dragonfly
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Book: Little, Big
Author: Madeleine L‘Engle
Movie: Labyrinth
Food: Lemonade

#ManicMonday #LetterL

JoScho 💜💜💜 5y
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e-monk
Little, Big | John Crowley
Pickpick

Long live Smokey Barnacle!

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monalyisha
Little, Big | John Crowley
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#manicmonday

My #colorcollage choice was deeply inspired by my morning coffee (as are many things in my life ☕️).

The tagged book is a #chunkster that‘s been sitting on my TBR shelf forever!

The shoes are stupidly expensive so they‘ll remain a wishlist item for longer than that book will be sitting on my TBR, I imagine. 😉 They‘re from the Etsy shop Faerysteps.

The toy is Moxie‘s, made by fishcakes.net

Thanks for a fun prompt, @JoScho!

Stacy_31 Love your tat! It looks like Max‘s crown from Where the Wild Things Are. 6y
JoScho Love those boots! Thanks for playing 😊 6y
monalyisha @Stacy31 Good eye! It is, in fact, the crown from “Where the Wild Things Are”! 👹👑⛵️ 6y
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Suzze Garfield‘s 40th Anniversary is tomorrow! 6y
monalyisha @Suzze What a good thing to know! Thanks for sharing the knowledge! I just might have to eat some lasagna to celebrate. 😻 6y
Stacy_31 @monalyisha I love it even more now. Very cool. 👹👑❤️ 6y
monalyisha @Stacy_31 Thanks! It‘s actually a mother/daughter tattoo. We both got crowns (because we/girls “rule” 😉). I obviously went with a literary design. I‘m thinking of adding a few words below it, from a Mary Oliver poem. The poem is “The Summer Day.” The words are “one”, “wild”, & “precious.” The idea is that it‘d be my “wild wrist.” 😅 (edited) 6y
2BR02B Those boots are so fab. 💜 6y
Clare-Dragonfly That‘s one of my favorite books! I think my very first Litsy post is a quote from it. You should read it! 6y
monalyisha @Clare-Dragonfly It looks so good but it‘s just so big! 😅 Perhaps this year will be the year! 6y
Kaye 📋📁📂📰🗞📋📁📁🗞📰📁📂📁🗂📁🗂🗂📁📋🗞🗞📏📐📖📎🖇🔍🔎🔏🔏🔓🔓🔒🔐🆙🆗🆗2️⃣2️⃣📢📢🕑🕒🕓🕙🕕🕝🕛🕛 6y
monalyisha @Kaye is that a secret code? I‘ve never been any good at cryptography. 😅 6y
Kaye No I‘m trying to make colors for everyone that does this. Not exactly matching but there aren‘t many of those doodads that are the right color. 6y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Little, Big | John Crowley
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“She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.”

#sleep #QuotsyJan18

You should read this book. All the sentences are that good.

#Recommendsday

VioletBramble One of my favorites 6y
Cathythoughts Amazing pic ✨✨✨ 6y
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Mirandareads
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Pickpick

Beautiful and of course magical, this classic lived up to the hype I had heard about it and oh so much more. 💜

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Centique
Little, Big | John Crowley
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#tuneintonovember #odetosleep

There is a little girl called Lilac in this novel who is stolen by the fairies and sleeps for 25 years. Now that‘s some sleep!
This is a huge labyrinthine novel, beautifully written but at times I was quite lost. Probably the fairies at work again! And the amazing parts made up for that anyway 😊If you loved the fairy parts of Jonathan Strange this could be just what you need.

Cinfhen So I'm definitely taking a pass 😘😘😉😂 6y
Centique @Cinfhen I was writing this wondering if I could say “this is definitely not for @cinfhen” 😂😂👍😘 6y
Cinfhen Hahaha 😂😂😂 6y
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VioletBramble
Little, Big | John Crowley
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Day19 #riotgrams #opposites. The vastest point, the center, the infinity - Faery, where the gigantic heroes ride across endless landscapes and sail sea upon sea and there is no end to possibility - that circle is so tiny it has no doors at all. - Little,Big. This is one of my favorite, non-series, fantasy novels. I love it so much I took my user name, VioletBramble, from one of its characters.

rwmg I thought the name was familiar ☺ 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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#aQuoteaDay This is one of my favorites that I've committed to memory and I write on notepads during meetings to look like I'm paying attention.

So much information packed into this one perfect sentence.

Kammbia1 A cult classic! 7y
CherylDeFranceschi Love this book! 7y
RealBooks4ever 💜💜💜 7y
andrew61 A great quote! 7y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
Little, Big | John Crowley
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"She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious."

G'night folks. #aQuoteaDay

TobeyTheScavengerMonk The cover of my copy is so somber and sepia toned. This one I found online is soooo trippy. It makes it look like this quiet fairy tale is all about Daily Alice and Smokey Barnable just lounging around dropping acid. 7y
respekt1111 Great cover description! 😂 7y
CherylDeFranceschi That cover, though! Mine wasn't this cool at all! 7y
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Clare-Dragonfly
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Thanks to @BookishMarginalia for telling me about the Vanilla Pen app for making these cool images! I figured I'd try it out with my favorite quote from one of my favorite books.

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tambourine
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have been lugging this around with me for ages, i am determined to read it now. his prose is so beautiful and yet it won't stick in my head yet... but i will push on through.

swynn Have had that on my shelf forever and still haven't gotten around to it. 6y
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writersbone
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Around a year later and I'm starting to read "Little, Big" by John Crowley. Bought it as an ebook after being nearly impossible to find! Last year I read "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" - which I LOVE - and I saw some comparisons made to "Little, Big".

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Baileythebookworm
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Home from vacation, and rounding out the weekend with some excellent books

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