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Jen2
Hearts Unbroken | Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Pickpick

Wonderful!! Highly recommend.

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lynneamch
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A complex #LoveHatePairing of Elphaba and Glinda. Loved being able to take my older granddaughters to see Wicked on Broadway when each was a Senior in high school. Loved Part One of the movie version, too. May never read the book, though.
#FeelintheLove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs 🌟💚 🏰 6d
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Follow.my.read
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Perfect day to kick back and watch #Wicked. The book was better!

dabbe It always is, right? 🤩 1w
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JackOBotts
Mehso-so

⭐️⭐️⭐️
Finished my February book club pick. This was a slower read…I enjoyed the alternative view of Oz and the events leading up to Dorothy‘s arrival.

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Kshakal
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Seeing this again today… can‘t wait!!

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Cathyloves2read
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Pickpick

I had to re-read this book before I watch the movie. I had read it years ago, and remembered liking it. It was just as good as I remembered. It‘s a very intense, politically driven story. I think that parts of it can be interpreted differently, and it did leave me with a few questions. It wasn‘t until the very end that Dorothy and her crew appeared in the story. I do like the way that the loose ends seemed to come together at the end.

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SaraC24
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Mehso-so

This book was a good way to wrap up the series. I give it 3.5 pages out of 5. If you wanna hear my full review/rant here's a link to it:
https://youtu.be/7ClyWGuDmUw

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Cortg
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Pickpick

This has been on my TBR for 15 years! I‘ve read a couple other titles by Maguire and they‘ve been hit or miss for me. Once I got into the writing style of this I was hooked! The gaps in years between sections left holes in the story that I desperately want answers to. I may have to give Elphaba a go when it‘s published this spring. Maybe the others in the series? I was hoping to just read this and be done but I after finishing, I want more 😆

LibrarianRyan I have never seen that cover version!.

On a compleatly different note, if you like Oz things, After Oz was really interesting. It is what happens to Dorothy when she gets back to Kansas. No fantasy, but still a little crazy.
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Cortg @LibrarianRyan Thanks for the rec! I‘ll definitely check it out. And this is the 2009 reissue I found at a 2nd hand Habitat ReStore almost a decade ago 😂 (edited) 1mo
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Butterfinger
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Panpan

It took me 4 months to finish. It is an affront to my beloved childhood books. I can understand Maguire's need to explain evilness in some people. But, I don't understand his theory. Is he saying revenge is the cause of evil or how they were raised? I didn't have any sympathy for Elphaba, except when she was a baby and a child. I have read Glinda was the villain, but she is barely in the last half. Glinda is hated because of the shoes. SHOES!!!

Butterfinger I did like the two nannies. They broke up the solemnity. 1mo
wanderinglynn In my opinion, the Broadway adaptation is much better than the book. 1mo
rubyslippersreads @wanderinglynn I agree with you. 1mo
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Butterfinger @Texreader may I use this for ##LitsyAtoZ? I started it this past October. 1mo
Texreader @Butterfinger Absolutely! If you read it this year it counts!! 1mo
Lunakay I remember not liking it at all, but it's been too many years... all these retellings make me think that sometimes there is nothing wrong with a good old villain being evil... sort of the point 1mo
Butterfinger @wanderinglynn @rubyslippersreads @Lunakay I don't know who adapted the book to Broadway, but they must have been brilliant. I love the music. 1mo
rubyslippersreads @Lunakay Margaret Hamilton will always be the Wicked Witch of the West to me. 🧹 1mo
rubyslippersreads @Butterfinger @wanderinglynn @Lunakay I absolutely love the musical (the live version more than the movie, although I do ❤️ Jonathan Bailey. 😍) 1mo
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Andarna
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Half way through book 3 for the year. This is a re-read of WICKED. I read the original in 2001, before the musical and well before the movie based on the musical that was based on the book. I shall be adding the other books in this series to my reading list.

Blueberry I liked the book so much I didn't know if the movie would ruin it for me. I did not like the play. 1mo
Andarna Agreed except I liked the play ok but not the movie. 4w
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