“She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like…” — The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making 📚 log(book)

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She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.

Cover of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

by Catherynne M. Valente · published 2011 · read 2016-10-20

★★★★☆

This is a very nice little book, filled with Faerie and language that is exceedingly ornate but never quite pretentious. And it's a modern fairy tale at that - September, the protagonist, didn't grow too close to my heart, but the narrator did, and that is good enough.