pickKatherine Rundell has been one of my favourite authors for SO LONG and I hadn‘t read one of her books in a while so I thought “maybe I‘ve outgrown her”. NOPE. Still love it. Lover her writing style and the way her characters truly seem alive. It took me a while to get through due to outside circumstances but each time I picked it up again it was so easy to get into it again and I‘m overall so glad that I stuck with it!
4⭐️
“It is so difficult, to be alive. It is so difficult, and it is so beautiful.”
Christopher turned; and the iron spike in his heart unfurled, and became a victory flag.
pickThis is a beautiful story of magical creatures and places mixed with coming of age feelings that children work through like grief, loss, friendship and love. Mal and Christopher form the heart of this story whilst magical creatures spin around them flying them to a heart wrenching finale. Young and old will love this tale.
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Together, longing to turn back, knowing they must go forward, they stepped inside.
It meant this feeling. It meant burning to keep watch, for that which needed to be watched. It meant burning to keep it safe. It meant a ferocious and careful love.
There was a look in Irian‘s face of recognition: the joy of one at sea, who looks up and sees land ahead. It was the face of somebody who has suddenly felt, for the first time, the precise shape and weight of their own swiftly beating heart.
“You should have more respect for fear. It‘s the engine in all your human history, fear. Fear, married to greed, married to power.”
“This is the thing my blood keens for — to protect something worth protecting.”
pickMassive day of strikes here in N Ireland! It was great to see people uniting to support one another, and it was also great to have a little time to curl up with this fantastic book! I highly recommend it; probably best for ages 10- 14. However, really anyone could enjoy it. It's still super snowy and icy here, so wrapping up with hot choco and good books for the foreseeable future 💕
“How much of us is what we know and what we‘ve seen?”
Christopher waited. When Irian said no more, he said: “Well?”
“There‘s no answer, only the question.”
“Do not wait for people to be faultless before you allow yourself to adore them. Adore them anyway.”
“Stop expecting life to get easier. It never does; that is not where its goodness lies.”
“I have a headache the size of a western island. But I will not have it said that I don‘t feed my illegal stowaways.”
pickFinished last night in bed 🛌 would have devoured it quicker if it hadn‘t been for pesky work 😆fantastic book 📖 I‘m sure it‘ll be made into a film 🎥 Rundell is a fellow at Oxford like Lewis and toilken she is a gifted story teller , this is the best children‘s book Iv read since Harry Potter ! Its a must
Happy 😃 what day of the week is it 😆finally catching up on this beautiful 🤩 edition of impossible creatures I can see the comparisons to pullmans Lara‘s Oxford. And yes 👍 Iv had a few quality streets if you don‘t have those in USA 🇺🇸 Australia 🇦🇺 Canada 🇨🇦 Europe they are one of your 5a day easential food groups in December 😂and the most amazing 🤩tin of sweets 🍬/chocs which you can also have personalised with your favs 😋
pickThe archipelago, a hidden place, a magnificent place, a place where magical creatures live. But something is happening and some of the magical creatures are going extinct. Enter Chris and the flying girl, Mal. They go on a quest to save the animals and on their way they pick unlikely allies.
The first in what is supposed to be a new fantasy series and I‘m ready for the next book in this series.
Bonus day of reading in the sun. Not sure this has ever happened in October before. Very odd.
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