Die beiden sind wie Feuer und Wasser. Der eine kann nicht mit dem anderen und so ergibt sich so mancher herrlicher Schlagabtausch. Emma discovers an ancient tome in her boarding school's abandoned library and soon finds that everything written in it comes true. Whether she likes it or not, the things she writes can't be un-written (believe her, she's tried to cross them out), and while some situations she finds herself in are unbelievable (like the lion in the middle of the forest in Germany), some are very gruesome. When a flip comment affects the health of those around her she starts to take it more seriously. Darcy is in this one, and while Emma doesn't have any siblings, she does have best friends at boarding school that fill the Jane and Charlotte roles. Now that that is out of the way, I am able to mention that false retelling aside, this was a really wonderful book. I thought the main aspect of a magical book where what you write in it comes true was really original, and blended well with the other Austen-inspired storylines. I loved Emma as a character: her curiosity, determinism, and drive, which was occasionally pushed aside in favour of her choosing to make really dumb - but entertaining - decisions. She's 16, so she's allowed to make mistakes. The setting was gorgeous - a German castle turned into a boarding school, with creepy catacombs and hidden entrances. The writing itself was really lovely, and that's gotta be a bonus because this was translated from the original German. The narration was good as well, and I enjoyed listening to Erin Spencer deliver the story. Convinced that these visions are merely a side-effect of his injuries, he attempts to ignore them, just to learn that he might not be nearly as crazy as he first believed. The enemy is in fact real and even closer than he had imagined, and they will do whatever it takes to keep him from rediscovering the centuries lost starship.

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I bought my first Haruki Murakami book in a second-hand bookshop because I liked the cover, and I went on to do some work with him – things like that can happen and you think, ‘I’d never have gone on that route if it hadn’t happened like that.’ This book has been described as a Jane Austen inspired YA fantasy involving a magical book. It certainly has pride & prejudice and emma vibes. The author is German and so I was also interested in it because I love reading translated books for the different perspectives. Lieutenant Abigail Cage never expected she’d find herself in Hell. Being that she was a Highly Specialized Operational Combatant, she was one of the respected soldiers in all of the military. While now she is doing hard labor on the most miserable planet in all the universe. Not for long. Romance - For a classic romance retelling, this sure has less romance than I expected. It was good, I guess but nothing groundbreaking and swoooonworthy. (Though, it's enemies to lovers and guy falls first) There are two: The Sioux and then a sequel called The Gold Tip Pfitzer (1973). The Sioux is about this eccentric family of French origin who live in New Orleans. The mother is awfully protective of the son, and it could be mildly incestuous, you’re never quite sure, and everyone is dysfunctional, and they’re all extremely rich, and it’s very dark and very funny.Emma besucht das Internat auf Schloss Stolzenburg. Beim Aufräumen der Bibliothek stößt sie zufällig auf eine alte Chronik des Schlosses. Beim Lesen merkt sie jedoch, dass es sich um eine Art Tagebuch handelt und dass Eintragungen in das Buch in Erfüllung gehen. Emma benutzt dies natürlich auch gleich, um selbst einige Wünsche in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen. Anfangen möchte sie mit dem unmöglichen Darcy de Winter, der sich aufführt, als gehöre ihm das Schloss. Emma merkt jedoch bald, dass ihre "Wünsche" aber nicht richtig ausgeführt werden und sich auch unnatürliche Sachen zutragen. So macht sie sich daran, herauszufinden, was es denn mit dem Buch auf sich hat. Und mit dem Faun, von dem im Buch ständig die Rede ist. So empfand ich auch die Geschichte um das Buch herum schon spannend, diese Story wurde aber immer wieder durchbrochen von den anderen Elementen und hat mir die Geschichte ein bisschen kaputt gemacht. With a secondary character named Darcy De Winter, who is a rich snobby boy with a sister named Gina and who immediately dislikes our heroine, Emma, you would think that this book has something to do with a Pride and Prejudice retelling, right? Especially since the blurb says "Jane Austen reigns supreme" at the boarding school. There’s that sense of a communion down the ages, too. It makes you feel like you’re doing justice to a writer who has been wronged, overlooked, historically.

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What’s the prose like? The extracts I found put me in mind of something like A Confederacy of Dunces (1980). Presumably we get detailed portraits of Woolf and all his high-profile collaborators? He worked with Raymond Chandler, too.You're curious, right? Yeah.. Inside here, there is something mysterious, magical, murder? and ancient myths that kept me interested *gasp* and hooked me in this autumn feels, until I graduated with a happily weepy heart! LOL This world really is crazy, huh? He got caught in the middle of the war between good and evil (yep, an actual real thing), killed and then sent on his merry way down. Landon didn’t make it all the way, however. He got intercepted by Dante (yep, that Dante). It appears he had other things in store for Landon. Why do you think discovering a ‘lost classic’ tends to feel so much more significant, more moving, than simply discovering a great new book?

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However, once the magical book was introduced, this became its own story (just with elements of Austen). You’ve got this young doctor working in 18th-century Lymington. He is interested in philosophy and the way of the world at a time when most things were still unknown. Doctors didn’t know all the things they needed to know to cure people. He befriends an older doctor, and they meet regularly to have philosophical chats, and these philosophical chats are in the book. He is also introduced to a woman, who is probably in her 30s, who has bought a big house in Lymington. She suggests that they have a ‘conversation.’As it turns out, Emma hasn't seen anything yet. When she finds an old book in an abandoned library, things really start going Emma's way: anything she writes in the book comes true.

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The list is definitively not complete, it was missing four other books by Kate Novak (the rest of Finder's Stone trilogy and two other books), so I'm guessing it's very likely to be missing other books as well. It sounds like the sort of thing that a major publishing house these days would pass on – it’s seedy and weird. I have a degree of scepticism about the term ‘forgotten classic’. People often talk about a classic having been forgotten, when it has only ever been forgotten by major publishers. So it’s marketing. Stoner (1965) by John Williams is a good example. It was re-issued in 2013 as ‘one of the great forgotten novels of the past century’, but – though it was neglected – it wasn’t forgotten and people had been talking about it, and re-issues had been coming out, on and off down the decades. So there’s a difference between neglected and forgotten, and there’s also the question of by whom? Plot - I enjoyed the plot of this book, it was a perfect palette cleanser after reading dark books and epic fantasies. It was fun, fast-paced and short. I haven't read Pride and Prejudice, I think I would have enjoyed it more if I liked Pride and Prejudice.Even a minor detail is a clue—for instance, any physical feature or illustration. Try to bring up some associated memories: What did you do when reading that book? How old were you? Was it a gift, or did you borrow it? All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate.