Jamie TraynorTraynoritibarenThenkalam Pudur, Tamil Nadu 627357, India
I picked this up on my last day during my last trip to Dewey Beach...for the long ride home. It looked interesting enough. I was defnitely right on that account. First of all, I love books that take a story I already know and fiddle with it. As long as it fiddles in a good way....you can always improve upon a story....just don't ruin it, you know? Anyway. This one takes a different look at The Wizard of Oz. And I actually liked it. Three (or 4? my memory is a little fuzzy) girls who don't really like each other have to band together to fight an evil witch who wants the silver shoes (and I liked that they went with the original silver). I wasn't so enchanted when the went down into the wormy world, but otherwise the book was pretty good.
Honest and satisfying, avoids sentiment, homily and backstory.
skipped the gym, cried profusely, and broke a wine glass in the process of finishing this book.
Flaubert's style is a lot steadier than most of the authors I've read. Couldn't really hold my attention... probably because I'm not used to the genre. (Classlit; 120 pages)
I can't believe Christopher Paolini was 15 when he wrote this! Brilliant!