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1QueenOfDenmark
Didn't quite make it to 75 books in 2011 (unless you count all the children's books I read to BRE, in which case I had this challenge all sewn up by the end of January) but I am off to a good start for 2012.
1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
2. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
2QueenOfDenmark
1. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This one was very good, in a 'similar to I Am Number Four' in terms of bits of plot but vastly superior and much better written' kind of a way.
And it has such wonderfully creepy and odd vintage photographs to go with it.
When Jacob is sixteen he witnesses the final stages of a terrible and confusing family tragedy and as part of his emotional recovery he is taken to the remote island off the coast of Wales where his grandfather was evacuated to during WW2.
Jacob searches for and finds the ruins of the children's home, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and discovers that, impossible as it may seem, Miss Peregrine and some of the children his grandfather spoke about may still be alive and living on the island. And that they were more than peculiar, they were gifted and dangerous in unimaginable ways.
The ending has been left open for a sequel and apparently this first book is being considered as a film by Tim Burton.
It wasn't the horror story I was hoping for (a Graham Masterson style home full of mad ghosts) but it was a very good and very thought provoking book and the photographs alone made it fascinating (the author used vintage photographs, most of which have something odd or seemingly supernatural about them, to develop the plot and characters of the story).
I gave this book: 4 1/2 stars
This one was very good, in a 'similar to I Am Number Four' in terms of bits of plot but vastly superior and much better written' kind of a way.
And it has such wonderfully creepy and odd vintage photographs to go with it.
When Jacob is sixteen he witnesses the final stages of a terrible and confusing family tragedy and as part of his emotional recovery he is taken to the remote island off the coast of Wales where his grandfather was evacuated to during WW2.
Jacob searches for and finds the ruins of the children's home, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and discovers that, impossible as it may seem, Miss Peregrine and some of the children his grandfather spoke about may still be alive and living on the island. And that they were more than peculiar, they were gifted and dangerous in unimaginable ways.
The ending has been left open for a sequel and apparently this first book is being considered as a film by Tim Burton.
It wasn't the horror story I was hoping for (a Graham Masterson style home full of mad ghosts) but it was a very good and very thought provoking book and the photographs alone made it fascinating (the author used vintage photographs, most of which have something odd or seemingly supernatural about them, to develop the plot and characters of the story).
I gave this book: 4 1/2 stars
3QueenOfDenmark
2. Conference at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Lovely follow-up to Cold Comfort Farm, not quite as good as the first book but still very nice to catch up with Flora and the Starkadders.
When Flora receives an invitation to return to Cold Comfort Farm for a conference being held by the pretentious International Thinkers Group she can't resist returning to see how the Starkadder's have progressed since her last visit.
Unfortunately things have not progressed as they should. The farm has been turned into a twee conference centre, most of the Starkadders are gone and the remaining one (Reuben) has sworn an oath preventing him from asking for their return to save the farm. Flora sees at once that she must do something to set things right once more.
It's not quite as lovely and funny as the first book, but I was still delighted to find it following it's release by Vintage Classics.
I gave this book: 3 1/2 stars
Lovely follow-up to Cold Comfort Farm, not quite as good as the first book but still very nice to catch up with Flora and the Starkadders.
When Flora receives an invitation to return to Cold Comfort Farm for a conference being held by the pretentious International Thinkers Group she can't resist returning to see how the Starkadder's have progressed since her last visit.
Unfortunately things have not progressed as they should. The farm has been turned into a twee conference centre, most of the Starkadders are gone and the remaining one (Reuben) has sworn an oath preventing him from asking for their return to save the farm. Flora sees at once that she must do something to set things right once more.
It's not quite as lovely and funny as the first book, but I was still delighted to find it following it's release by Vintage Classics.
I gave this book: 3 1/2 stars
4divinenanny
Happy New Year! And two great reviews to start the year off with. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is on my wish list already, and after this review will stay there for sure. Until I find it in a store...
5souloftherose
Happy New Year! I got Miss Peregrine out of the library - it was a very strange read and I was glad it was less of a horror story because I don't cope very well with being scared. Great to hear Tim Burton is considering making a film of it!
And I've been eyeing the Vintage rereleases of Stella Gibbons books for a while now - they have such beautiful covers don't they?
And I've been eyeing the Vintage rereleases of Stella Gibbons books for a while now - they have such beautiful covers don't they?
7drneutron
Ummmm, this thread's in the 2011 group. I'll link to it in the 2012 THreadbook if you like, but a bunch of folks probably won't see it over here. :)
8QueenOfDenmark
Thanks Drneutron, I've started this thread again in the right group.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/130327
http://www.librarything.com/topic/130327
