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A Modern Tale of Faerie
Author: Holly Black
ISBN: 0689860420 DDC: 813.6
Read for the Once Upon A Time challenge.
See also: LibraryThing ; About Holly Black ; Stainless Steel Droppings ; Book~Adorer ; The page wanderer
Other OUAT challangees: bottle of shine ; Stephanie’s books ; Cafe Shree

Kaye took another drag on her cigarette and dropped it into her mother’s beer bottle

Our hero, Kaye, has always seen faeries and their ilk. Her mother dismisses these characters as imaginary friends and Kaye has always accepted her weirdness makes her difference from other people her own age. But when she moves back home and meets up with her old friends she realises just how different she is from her few friends.

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A good while ago Carl launched his second Once Upon a Time reading challenge. And I think I’ve finally made my decision and a going to go with the second option:

Quest the Second
Read at least one book from each of the four categories. In this quest you will be reading 4 books total: one fantasy, one folklore, one fairy tale, and one mythology.

• Fantasy - Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint, and it turns out that this is the first in the Newford series, which is nice.
• Folklore - The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce. The tooth fairy counts as a character from folklore right?
• Fairy Tale - Tithe by Holly Black. It is subtitled a modern faerie tale so it must fit.
• Mythology - this one I have yet to decide on. I’ve one or two in mind, but I’m not certain exactly what I’ll be reading.

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