Margo Lanagan
Hardcover | Pages: 436 pages Rating: 3.57 | 5515 Users | 1308 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Tender Morsels |
| ISBN: | 0375848118 (ISBN13: 9780375848117) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2009), Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2008), Ditmar Award for Best Novel (2009), Michael L. Printz Award Nominee (2009), Sakura Medal Nominee for High School Book (2010) James Tiptree Jr. Award Honor List (2008) |
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Tender Morsels is a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga’s refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?Describe Regarding Books Tender Morsels
| Title | : | Tender Morsels |
| Author | : | Margo Lanagan |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 436 pages |
| Published | : | October 14th 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf (first published October 14th 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Fairy Tales. Retellings |
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Wow. That was harsh. No, worse than harsh, that was brutal. I am wretched, shattered, ausgespielt even. Have to give credit to the Germans for such an onomatopoeic word for how this feels. Yay, Germans.Its 4:30 am, Im on my 5th cup of coffee and trying to counteract the caffeine shakes with graham crackers, my eyes are bleary, words blurring, my jaw is clenched, throat sore and theres a hollow space above my rib cage, I think thats my soul. Wow. I did not think that this was going to be likeOnce upon a time, the skeleton of this story was called Snow-White and Rose-Red. Like all fairy tales, it left much unexplained. Too much. Well, Margo Lanagan took those bones and added muscle and guts, bracing the loose joints of the plot with her characters' emotions, motivations, and histories. That's the secret of successful retellings: fleshing out the gaps that relied almost entirely on the readers' willful ignorance or suspension of belief, yet still leaving room for the existence of
I want to recommend this book to survivors, but I must clarify lest they pick it up thinking my recommendation means it is safe to read. Do not read this without a support system in place, if you have even ever once had a flashback. The book starts out with an accurate and well-described incest and rape situation involving a young teen and her widower father. It is realistic, not otherworldly, though set in the Middle Ages somewhere. He soon dies, but it's still a very realistic treatment of the
Yes, the first 50 pages are exceptionally brutal. I was reading them on the subway during rush hour and my hands were shaking. Yes, there are a lot of different voicesa third-person narrative interspersed with three (maybe four?) first-person accounts of strange occurrences that intrude upon the third-person sections. But I never really lost the thread of the story. And yes, there are some scenes that dance on the edge of bestiality, when a female bear somehow becomes a convincingly appropriate
This has gotten fantastic reviews, but I think it's horribly overwritten. In addition, the only people reading this, as far as I can tell, are librarians. I've talked three teens into checking it out, and the farthest any of them made was halfway through.
3.5 stars After I read Margo Lanagans Black Juice, I thought that Margo Lanagans Tender Morsels was going to be a horrible read. However, I was quite impressed with how improved the plot and characters are in this book are from Black Juice. Tender Morsels is a Printz Honor Book by Margo Lanagan and it is about how a suffering woman named Liga is mysteriously sent to a world where everything is perfect and friendly and raises her two daughters, Branza and Urdda, in this heaven. However, when
what an interesting book. i imagine 50 or 100 years from now, if liberal arts education is not laughed off university campuses, students of English lit might actually be studying this one.it's that layered, yep.about halfway through i realized i was reading something i have run across so rarely: a book where men don't actually matter much. i've read a zillion books where women were just plot devices, getting things kicked off or causing a plot twist. in these cases the men of the story were
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