Borne
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Paperback, new.
The book's journey continues by its finder's cooperation and creativity. By making a journal entry on this book, you can add to the book's story as it travels from reader to reader around the world.
The book's journey continues by its finder's cooperation and creativity. By making a journal entry on this book, you can add to the book's story as it travels from reader to reader around the world.
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The book's journey continues by its finder's cooperation and creativity. By making a journal entry on this book, you can add to the book's story as it travels from reader to reader around the world.
Enjoy your reading!
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Спасибо, что нашли время зайти на сайт и сделать запись в журнале! Напишите, когда и где вы нашли книгу.
Перед тем, как попасть к Вам, она побывала в других уголках света. История ее путешествий записана на сайте, и теперь к ней добавился еще один пункт. Я очень рада, что она нашла нового читателя в Вашем лице.
The book's journey continues by its finder's cooperation and creativity. By making a journal entry on this book, you can add to the book's story as it travels from reader to reader around the world.
Enjoy your reading!
Привет!
Спасибо, что нашли время зайти на сайт и сделать запись в журнале! Напишите, когда и где вы нашли книгу.
Перед тем, как попасть к Вам, она побывала в других уголках света. История ее путешествий записана на сайте, и теперь к ней добавился еще один пункт. Я очень рада, что она нашла нового читателя в Вашем лице.
This arrived today. Thank you! I'm mostly familiar with VanderMeer's short stories and anthology editing, so I'm curious to see what a novel-length work is like.
This one took me a while to get into. I debated giving up a couple times, because I just wasn't meshing with it. However, eventually I was getting more caught up in the world and curious about how all these strange components were going to interact with each other.
To be brutally honest, I didn't like Vandermeer's human characters. They felt unrealistic and lacked some kind of emotional connection that would lift them up from being a list of character traits fulfilling a plot function. There was so much elaborate styling in his prose that the blandness and unfulfilled potential of the characters felt like a particular oversight.
The biggest frustration I had was that the book felt lopsided, with so much development to fancy descriptions, deliberately snarling plot lines, and elaborate world-building, that the basics of character and pacing got forgotten.
To be brutally honest, I didn't like Vandermeer's human characters. They felt unrealistic and lacked some kind of emotional connection that would lift them up from being a list of character traits fulfilling a plot function. There was so much elaborate styling in his prose that the blandness and unfulfilled potential of the characters felt like a particular oversight.
The biggest frustration I had was that the book felt lopsided, with so much development to fancy descriptions, deliberately snarling plot lines, and elaborate world-building, that the basics of character and pacing got forgotten.
One of the starting books for the Otherworldly Shrinking Bookbox
Taken out of the otherworldly box.
Journal Entry 8 by AlterEgoZoe at Ann St. Park LFL in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania USA on Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Released 7 mos ago (9/13/2023 UTC) at Ann St. Park LFL in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
"Did you carve this?"
Tas did not turn. "Yes," he said, reluctantly. "I have to leave it."
"But, Tas, why?"
Tas squared his shoulders as though firming some resolve. But still he did not turn. "Because the shepherd said that it could only be used once. Thats why I can't get the pipe to play that song-or any song. I've used the magic." He took a deep breath and went on. "And he said that once I found the magic I had the pass the pipe on." he paused and then he did turn, a scamp's humor in his long brown eyes. "It's going to be a long winter. I'm going to leave it here for someone else to find." "Snowsong" by Nancy Varian Berberick
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