Beginning on or around December 1st, after finishing The Alchemist, I started reading this:
Uprooted, by Naomi Novik
“A very enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic . . . Naomi Novik skillfully takes the fairy-tale-turned-bildungsroman structure of her premise . . . and builds enough flesh on those bones to make a very different animal. . . . The vivid characters around her also echo their fairy-tale forebears, but are grounded in real-world ambivalence that makes this book feel quietly mature, its world lived-in.”—The New York Times Book Review.
I really liked this book! I finished it very quickly and turned to another fantasy, one that my sister loaned to me to read:
The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Marvelous and compulsively readable, Helene Wecker’s debut novel The Golem and the Jinni weaves strands of Yiddish and Middle Eastern literature, historical fiction and magical fable, into a wondrously inventive and unforgettable tale. ~Amazon.com
I liked this book also and now on to the next book in my fantasy series:
Haunting Bombay, by Shilpa Agarwal
“[An] intriguing debut novel…Agarwal seeks to give voice to the dispossessed through the supernatural.”—USA Today
I really enjoyed this book as well – this time the tale concerned a ghost and family secrets. Very interesting – and I also enjoyed getting a glimpse of another culture.
I finished this third and last December book at the start of the New Year. Happy Reading!