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Oh my, this is hilarious 😂

This charming little book is a modern fairytale. One day Mary meets a small golden snake called Lanmo, and they become friends. As the years pass, life becomes hard for Mary. The city grows colder and darker. Wars start, bombs fall and eventually Mary and her parents are forced to flee their home. Lanmo tries to keep them safe.

Thanks again for this lovely gift Helen, I read it with a cup of your Morrocan tea 🤍

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This was a delightful surprise - mainly because it is just the sort of thing I usually dislike. A small but perfectly formed story about friendship & love. Simple yet exquisitely crafted, to cram so much emotion & meaning into such a short work is no small talent. And the ending was just perfection. Don't know if it's due to the weird time we're living through but the whole thing just hit hard - in the best possible way.

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This bittersweet little book was part of my #reposed book subscription package this month.

It‘s a short fable about a beautiful golden snake who befriends a little girl. Beautifully written, it made me happy and sad.

It‘s supposedly reminiscent of The Little Prince and, indeed, Kennedy thanks Saint-Exupéry in her acknowledgments.

This little book has a lot of heart! Beautiful tale of friendship, love, mortality and morality. It really reminded me of The Book Thief in a lot of ways. Highly recommend for a quick, thought provoking read.

This little book has a lot of heart! Beautiful tale of friendship, love, mortality and morality. It really reminded me of The Book Thief in a lot of ways. Highly recommend for a quick, thought provoking read.

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Some books I‘m sorely tempted by! Have you read any of them? Tagging each title (either above or in the comments below) for further inspection. I read the first few pages of each on Amazon & they all seem great!

(Don‘t let the Litsy ratings immediately deter you; one or two have a pretty low “score” but only the smallest handful of reviews, so it‘s not really a fair assessment).

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Sorry...this one is not for me! I had high hopes with the first couple pages, but the narrative just didn‘t grasp me. I read about half of the book; it‘s time to move on to something else to read.

Such a reflective statement! ❤️

A little golden snake befriends a little girl who teaches him about love.

Lanmo, a golden snake, is a magical and powerful reaper. He travels all over ushering humans out of the world, with his white fangs. He can travel in a flash and is also a shapeshifter. He never really paid much attention to humans until he met a little girl named Mary. Mary is a clever and kindhearted little girl. See the rest of this review at: https://goo.gl/xRE1uR

Loving this book!

This was so problematic for me, mostly caused by the fable format whose habitual simplicity of language and lesson can easily become a simplistic and dogmatic vision of the world. That certainly happens here, where apparently there are no grey areas. Wealthy People are Bad. Attractive Girls are Bullies and Uninteresting. Schools only want Right Answers. I know that these are deliberate exaggerations by Kennedy but it leaves me totally cold.

One day, while taking tiny steps in her garden Mary meets Lanmo, a beautiful golden snake with ruby red eyes. They become friends and he keeps her safe. Lanmo has to leave Mary at times to visit other humans and travels the world, he is death.

The story is so beautifully written, sad and heartwarming. A modern classic and a must read.

thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair and honest review

“‘No,‘ said the teacher. ‘We should be proving that we are clever so that the National Test Assessors can assess us, and when we have been assessed we can move on to our next assessment.‘”.....I think this sums up school quite well !

“‘Yes,‘ said the snake, ‘I am a snake.‘ And he smiled for an instant as much as someone can with no lips and flickered out an elegant bright red tongue that was forked at the end and licked the air around it. ‘You taste of sweets and soap and being good.‘”.....so cute

Just starting this.....from #netgalley

The little snake, a grim reaper of sorts, meets and befriends a young girl. The snake, Lanmo, vows to protect the girl, Mary, and in the spirit of friendship, both of them look out for each other. Over Mary's life, we see how Mary's fortunes fall and watch as Lanmo finds himself with fewer reapings to perform as humans take each others' lives more and more often. This bittersweet fable had me weeping by the end. #netgalley