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Journal Entry 1 by  terrafreaky from Olathe, Kansas USA on Saturday, October 25, 2008
 Thank you for stopping by to make an entry on this book. If you're new to Bookcrossing - welcome!
Once you have one of "my" books in your hands, please know that you are free to do with it as you please. Keep it forever, throw it in your to be read stack, give it to a friend, trade it on a swap site, wild release it, etc. All I ask is that you make a journal entry to let me know what type of adventure the book is on. I enjoy reading updates on the books I've read.
Bought today at the SA. Part of two giant bags of 64 books which cost me a whopping grand total of $7.
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11-1-08, putting in the US IYT VBB.
Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales. This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. Yolen takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust--a far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping Beauty legend, realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very few clues she has to her grandmother's past. To discover the facts behind Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's most engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters. By interpolating Gemma's vivid and imaginative story into the larger narrative, Yolen has created an engrossing novel. She handles a difficult subject with finesse in a book that should be required reading for anyone who is tempted to dismiss fantasy as a frivolous genre.
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Journal Entry 2 by terrafreaky at Bookobsessed.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 10, 2008
Released 3 yrs ago (11/10/2008 UTC) at Bookobsessed.com, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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CATCHING UP ON OLD CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES
Thank you for picking up this book. I'd love to see an entry telling me that it is safe with you. Do with it as you please... read it (or not!), give it to a friend, keep it, leave it in the "wild" for someone else to find - it's up to you! Enjoy!
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Journal Entry 4 by sarradee from Dallas, Texas USA on Saturday, January 24, 2009
This book was a lot harder to read than I thought it would be, the scenes depicting the Holocaust were just horrible. It was very interesting how the author intertwined the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty into the story.
Mailed off yesterday as it was chosen in the VBB.
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BRIAR ROSE
