Mea wrote:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne Valente
It is wonderful. It's so fantastic and creative with so many cool magical ideas and images. It's like a fairytale, of course - think written in the style of Chronicles of Narnia or Alice in Wonderland, but more whimsical. But at the same time, it's a really deep book, touching on so many important themes of friendship and loss and fate and destiny. I have actually cried several times reading the first book and the second two. (It's a trilogy, and the second two are just as good as the first.)
I know @BlueAfrica was raving about it before, and it made me pick it up and read it, so I'll just say: you all should read it too.
@Mea, it's actually a series of five (pentology?). I accidentally read the fifth book before the fourth, but I'm working on the fourth now "The Boy Who Lost Fairyland" (it starts out reading as like a tangential tale that also takes place in Fairyland, but it connects with the main story eventually). It's a short book, but I'm getting through it very slowly, partially because I'm tired from other things and partially because I don't want it to end (even though I know how the whole story ends because I read the last book).
So yes, I'm jumping on the Fairyland fan train. Even though I got them from the library, I absolutely intend to buy copies at some point because I will definitely want to reread.
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