A teenage girl is self-righteously angry but also rather hilariously dumb. The two brothers of the family - one an attention starved young man that would do anything to please and the other surprisingly like Tabitha. It comes as no surprise that Maguire has things to say that can only be said through telling a different type of story. It could have been really good if he had just developed it some more and used some of the interesting characters he introduced only to ignore for the rest of the book.I swear Maguire has some other people writing stuff and putting his name on it. It's just too juvenile and negative. tags: unrequited-love. I was a little nostalgic for one of those pleasures Kindle has robbed me of: Finishing a paperback on a trip and being happy to leave it behind as a surprise for the next guest to inherit your hotel room ...or for the housekeeper, or the barista making my coffee each morning.I think my 3-star rating of this book may be a bit generous as I sit down to write this review. Brilliant change of pace for Maguire and it is both touching and funny. Two storylines are woven together. New characters were being introduced as far as halfway into the book who had little or nothing to do with the storyline. And so I was left feeling a little unfinished.Get specific details about this product from customers who own it.Here at Walmart.com, we are committed to protecting your privacy. Doesn't always make for the most exciting/edge-of-your-seat read, but still pretty good.Greg Maguire is channeling Christopher Moore and doing a better job than Moore.
Wicked, of course, but I think that Ugly Stepsister was monumentally good. There's a lot of humor and a fair bit of tragedy, but not a whole lot of story. How would you enumerate or characterize them, and who --- if any --- is the person whose experiences most closely accord with experiences of your own? A change of pace, as Maguire admits in the forward, from his earlier books, including "Wicked" and "After Alice."
"I think my 3-star rating of this book may be a bit generous as I sit down to write this review. [A] funny and warmhearted exploration of the sacred and the profane.”bestseller Gregory Maguire—who re-imagined the land of Oz and all its fabled inhabitants in his monumental series, The Wicked Years—brings us “A delight…. Let's see. There also seems to be several different stories taking place at the same time. (Ha! There are a couple of sentences here and there that are funny, but most of it is complete rubbish. With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Queen of Heaven (Latin: Regina Caeli) is a title given to the Virgin Mary, by Christians mainly of the Catholic Church and, to a lesser extent, in Anglicanism, Lutheranism, and Eastern Orthodoxy.The title is a consequence of the First Council of Ephesus in the fifth century, in which Mary was proclaimed "Theotokos", a title rendered in Latin as Mater Dei, in English "Mother of God". Well, the only place they can find is a nunnery.

One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. On page 332: "Hogan picked his nose and flicked it at Kirk's bouffant, where it stuck and hung like a little worm." I loved the Catholics of Our Lady in (sort of) cahoots with members of the Pentecostal Radical Radiants, but my favorites were the 70+ yo nuns, led by Sister Mother Clare; Jeremy, tSo who is the next Queen of Heaven? He lives in Concord, Massachusetts.Welcome back. Although this is a departure for Maguire, and for those of you who know him from his WICKED books, it was still a great read and refreshing to see him step away from the familiar magical realism into more conventional realism. Leontina sneaks into the Catholic church one morning to "borrow" some cream and gets knocked out by a falling virgin Mary statue. He alone rules in heaven. The characters were all normal small-town people dealing with maybe not-so-normal problems, like a woman being hit on the head by a Virgin Mary statue and going into a sort of coma. We start out with the rebellious teenage girl (Tabitha) and her super religious mother (Leontina - a Pentacostal). At first I was a little thrown off because this book is not what I expected and is quite a bit different from his other books like Wicked where he takes a fairy tale and changes it into something very different. The way we meet them is rather interesting. "While I was reading this, I was really enjoying it, but now that I look back, I can't quite figure out what it was trying to do. Let's see. But I ended up a bit disappointed. But back to the Catholics. This is where things really get interesting as Leontina seems to have lost her mind and is left at home with her three children to care for her. Buy Now Buy Used. My favorite was Jeremy, the gay choir director, and his two friends are trying to find a place to practice for an AIDS benefit concert. Next we meet the Catholics (they share a parking lot with the mother's chuch). A true look in the mirror for today's myth believers and skeptics alike.


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