![]() Learn from my mistake: don’t read this book fast. ![]() ![]() Too much chocolate on an empty stomach makes anyone feel yucky. I read this as fast as I could (which wasn’t very), treating it like a plot based story. This is a book that should be hoarded, should be meted out slowly, like Chocolate during a time of rationing. ![]() Nested tale by nested tale, the mythology of the world grows and breathes to the point where you don’t know where reality ends, nor does it matter. “ Have truer words every been spoken? Does it matter where you crack open your book of fairy tales? the witch always shows up eventually, right?Īnd this book does have a witch, and a wizard, and pirates and monsters and griffins and eggs and firebirds and a tree-woman and a ship-tree and Stars that are Gods. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end. Not only did everything come together at the end, but so did the magical sentence “Stories are like prayers. Why I read it: have really, really enjoyed other novels by this authorĪ cross between a book of Grimm’s fairy tales and 1001 Arabian Nights, The Orphans Tales: In the Night Garden, winner of the 2006 Tiptree Award, is unlike anything you have ever read.Īt the very beginning, a unnamed girl who lives in a garden tells a boy she must tell her stories backwards, and that was always in the back of my mind as I read. ![]() The Orphans Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. ![]()
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