I don't often buy a book based solely on a review. For me, usually it's word or mouth or the recommendation of a friend, and then I might search out reviews before I buy.
But I still read lots of reviews (and write a few too!) and yesterday I read one on the Readings web site that had me adding the book to my shopping cart immediately.
Here is the full review by bookseller Deborah Crabtree for The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness and here is the extract that sealed my purchase!
Love and loss are central to The Crane Wife, as is art and greed and the power of story. There is a truth to Ness’s writing even amid the strangeness of the world he creates, and such artistry and sensitivity to his storytelling that I longed to stay in that world well after the novel ended and I will return to it again. This book will break hearts.
I want to read the book (desperately) and I want to write reviews like that (just as desperately!)
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In Kate DiCamillo’s The Tale of Despereaux, the mouse Despereaux would rather read books than eat them. When he is sentenced to the dungeon, Gregory the rat jailer, offers to save him. "Why would you save me?" Despereaux asks. Gregory answers, "Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story. Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light." This blog is about my personal experience with the light in children's literature.
By: Sandy Fussell,
on 4/10/2013
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