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[manufiya]

[exgolddustwoman]

[exgolddustwoman]

When the pages come to life; books turn into magical portals. 

[manufiya]

Wonder Review

10 kind stars out of 5

Being on display can be hard. But for August Pullman, this is his daily life: the display, the 24/7 spotlight where all and sundry are gaping at him. And the way Auggie deals with it is both heartbreaking and heartwarming at once.

He keeps walking on eggshells, carefully sliding between the slippery edge of reality and ignorance. Because pretending is the best antidote to depression or self-loathing.

The author has done a bonzer job on sketching well fleshed out characters. Each character is unique and has a completely different take on life (that reflects in the way they treat August). And it's just so easy to connect with each character. I suppose the author's words cast a spell on me.

The plot is a meshwork of narratives so that the reader can get the big picture comprised of multiple perspectives. I bet the novel would have lost a bit of its charm had it used only one voice and made it's reader view the picture through just one lens. So, I really loved the interlaced voices that were the heart of the plot.

All in all, the book with its beautiful message is worth a read. Highly recommended.

[needsmorestartrek-blog]

A few examples of various cover art from the novel Spock, Messiah!

First released by Bantam in 1976, this is known as one of the all time worst Trek novels and for good reason. Despite this, it has a certain retro charm and popularity with novel nerds (such as myself.) Much like many of the earliest novels, this is but merely a product of its time and now seems irrelevant especially with so much established canon since the initial run of TOS.

[keykingdom]

Pros and Cons of Book Fame

It’s both wonderful and heartbreaking to see such a magnificent and heartfelt novel ( The Fault In Our Stars ) being devoured by the common masses. I always reveled in keeping my novels to myself and my friends, forming our own opinions and sharing our deep connections with our varied heroes and villains. When something becomes “mainstream,” I find it’s quaint treasure lost in the surging fickleness known as the current trend.

Not that all this publicity for TFIOS is all bad, it’s great to see people taking a passion in literature and learning to appreciate the book instead of the movie.

I just pray that the whole modern culture curse doesn’t victimize this glorious novel, for if some goof describes this masterpiece as simply “a sad story about people with cancer,” I’ll be forced to board up all the Barnes & Nobles in the world and give all the cool, intelligent people a secret password to enter the now exclusive right to read and appreciate books.

The movie was superb, and that’s definitely not an easy task. My biggest fear about great novels and their authors is that their fame eclipses their value and meaning, like all conventions of pop culture eventually fall victim to. This book is far too deep, too real, too hopeful, and too memorable to be cast away after this craze has passed.

I am a teen who adores books, despite my knack for not finishing series or dropping a book all together because the plot bores me. I believe everyone had their own take on a story and that’s what makes them great, no one has the same concept of the novel in their head. Anyone can read an assortment of words, but only really creative and intuitive people can create a world inside their mind as they embark on a new world, full of new characters to envision and new plots to imagine.

Only in books can you erase all the loneliness inside you and focus of someone else’s life, and sometimes there’s magic !!!