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I recently read a book called The Feathered Man by Jeremy de Quidt. So good. It looks like a children's book, but I'm not sure it really is. More like a Victorian thriller with fantasy elements. In other words, my favorite kind of book ever. The writing is really atmospheric without ever being flowery, and some scenes are just ridiculously scary. So don't be fooled by the illustrated cover. Don't not read it because...[read on]About The Peculiar:
Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.Learn more about the book and author at Stefan Bachmann's website and blog.
In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings—Peculiars—and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them.
One day a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress comes gliding down Old Crow Alley. Bartholomew watches her through his window. Who is she?What does she want? And when Bartholomew witnesses the lady whisking away, in a whirling ring of feathers, the boy who lives across the alley—Bartholomew forgets the rules and gets himself noticed.
First he's noticed by the lady in plum herself, then by something darkly magical and mysterious, by Jack Box and the Raggedy Man, by the powerful Mr. Lickerish . . . and by Arthur Jelliby, a young man trying to slip through the world unnoticed, too, and who, against all odds, offers Bartholomew friendship and a way to belong.
My Book, The Movie: The Peculiar.
Writers Read: Stefan Bachmann.
--Marshal Zeringue
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