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I have one more shift to get through and then it‘s a much overdue 5 day weekend off! Gee I wonder what my plans are going to be? 🧐

It has been a darksome year.

This series has some of the most lyrical writing I have encountered in a middle grade / young adult fantasy writing. The author weaves together fairytales and adventure in a tale that completely hooked me as I was definitely invested in the ending.
Read as my #doublespin for August.
@TheAromaofBooks
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Just as lovely as the first Fairyland book. Valente's brilliance shines through the narrative.

#bookspinbingo @thearomaofbooks
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This book is everything tbh.

#BeatleMaynia #IfIFell

Well sure, beneath Fairyland wouldn't be the first place I'd wanna go if I visited, but if that was my only choice...I'd revel it up. 🤷‍♂️

@Eggs

I‘m taking some liberties with the #booked2019 challenge of reading a book that reminds you of a happy place. Fairy tales in general make me happy - adventures, heroes/heroines, talking animals, and happily ever afters make my cynical heart happy. Valente‘s fairyland is darker but her writing is gorgeous and whimsical; she‘s one of my favorite authors and I would definitely love to visit her Fairyland if I could.

#QuotsyOct18 Day 31: She had me at bowls full of #Candy. The whiskey is a pleasant topping. 🤣🧚🏼‍♀️📚

Just finished my reread of book one and I started book two. I am loving Scribd. Will probably keep my subscription after the trial is over.

#ReadingResolutions Day 24: 2016 marked the end of Valente‘s #BookSeries. I still contend that among all the five books in the series, it was in the first book that Valente truly revealed her soul, being the most raw and vulnerable. The rest of the books in the series revealed her craftsmanship in worldbuilding and storytelling, as she experimented with form and structure, character and depth. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-ejP

I thought the book was okay and I loved the parties.

#quotsyaug18 #sour

I loved the first book of this series so much I had to get the second one right away and I also requested that my local library get the audio version of it as well! I don‘t understand why they have the audio of all the other ones in the series except the 2nd one. That seemed weird to me. Has that ever happened to anyone else with a series at their library? I‘m so excited to read this tho!

I am reading The girl who fell beneath fairyland and led the revels there and so far loving it!!

I love these books. I understand that I'm 34 years old and they are written for children but I feel like they were written for smart and bookish children, the kind of child I was and therefore my inner child still is. This book was so well written, so layered (just like Fairyland-Below, ha) and completely immersive.

Hooray, it's time for me to read another children's book!💜

"For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them."

The youngest and I started this lovely book last night. We adored the first volume and can't wait to get lost in Fairyland again 🙂 #fairytales

From the mouths of babes comes the greatest wisdom sometimes. I love little September!

It‘s nap time mommy! Stop reading that book!! #catsoflitsy

Yes, yes it is!!

Brilliant explanation of A Market. “You see, a Marketplace is like a lithe, hungry dog. It can sense when you need something and have even the littlest bit of money, just like a dog knows when a plump little rabbit is wriggling her nose in the forest. They can smell it when you have a great deal of money and very little sense, or when you need something very specific, but might be enticed by something enchanting and just beyond your reach.”

Truer words were never spoken! And my fave example...the beautiful Georgia O‘Keefe!

I just love her writing!

I adore this series and the amazing illustrations!

#RiotGrams #Purple
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Valente. 😍

She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wicked and unkind parts, but often brave or wild or colorful parts, cunning or powerful or even marvelous, beautiful parts, just locked up away at the bottom of their hearts. They do this because they are afraid of the world and of being stared at, or relied upon to do feats of bravery or boldness.

The kids and I agree that whatever system of measurement Belinda Cabbage is using it isn't the metric system! It's not so much all the extra information we object to, but a 13 year old being only 120-odd cm. That would make her barely the size of my 7 year old!

A-HA! A floating red hat with two feathers is the only visible part of a type of creature called a "lutin". So I had to ask the author again. (Don't you just love authors who are super active on Twitter?)
Within minutes I had the reply: Indeed ;)

And there we have it! The book with the girl on the moon and the floating red hat isn't real. Yet. And Valente's Fairyland started out as an imaginary place in one of her other books, Palimpsest, which I must now read! Thank you @RaimeyGallant for suggesting I tweet the author!

Can anyone tell me what book this might be? It would have to be from 1945 or earlier, likely French. September's father is busy "liberating French villages" and has sent her a book she can't read, with illustrations of a girl on the moon, catching stars and conversing with a floating red hat that has two feathers. Is September mistaking The Little Prince for a girl? (Was there a floating hat in that book?)

#plans #quotsy #quotsynov17

This is a bit long, but Valente's sentences are 🔥🔥🔥

#mask #QuotsyNov17

Rereading the series.

This 2nd book is very Tim Burton-y (see character: Halloween, the Hollow Queen). While still good, I prefer the 1st. The resolution in this one comes too suddenly & wraps up too tidily. But I'll forgive Valente anything for introducing me to wet magic (the magic of coffee & tea). I love the moral complexities presented (re: freedom & individuality). The message that we need to embrace our wildness & darkness is well-heard.

"A labyrinth, when big enough, is just the world."

"The gloaming moonlight made her feel heavy and sharp all at once."

I went to the library as I usually do when life gets too much or too sad.

#libraryhaul

What...Is this nonsense? I read the first book in the series digitally and really enjoyed it but to buy them digitally seemed like it wasn't worth it when I could buy the paperbacks for basically the same price. Anyway bought them last week on Amazon...And the first one is not the same size.

I adored The Fell Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, so it was a really tall order for this to measure up. It's a little bleaker than its predecessor, but it won me over in the end.

Reading complications -.-

I put off reading this book for a while because I was afraid it couldn't possibly be as beautiful and heartbreaking as the first in the series, but luckily I was totally wrong.

Part 1 of my #bookhaul from the Big Bad Wolf book sale, an annual book sale here in Kuala Lumpur. Couldn't find the first (two?) books in the Fairyland series but it's possible that I was seeing too many books by that point, felt like James Stewart in Vertigo lol. But had to grab the third anyway. The other three I was super pleased to find, especially the Angela Carter book at such an affordable price.

... Samstag: mit meinem Knie mag ich nicht tanzen, aber mit September geht es in die/ der Unterwelt... "Ell und Samstag, deren Schatten brannten vor Magie und ungezähmter, selbstvergessener Freude,"

In freudiger Erwartung mit September an einem grauen Herbstabend die liebliche Glimmer wiederzutreffen

Now, secrets are delicate things. They can fill you up with sweetness and leave you like a cat who has found a particularly fat sparrow to eat and did not get clawed or bitten even once while she was about it. But they can also get stuck inside you, and very slowly boil up your bones for their bitter soup. Then the secret has you, not the other way around.

I cannot even run into the Dollar Tree for bandaids without buying a book- I may have a problem 😞 But how pretty is this? 😍😍 #bookscore