Book of Enchantments

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Summary: An excelllent book, full of charms!
Review: The book of enchantments is a wondeful book, for both fans of the Enchanted Forest Series or people who haven't even read them. The book is filled with small short stories involving Unicorns that won't let dysfunctional princesses go, a garden of roses that each hold a future, and a giant blue chipmunk who gives gold acorns out. All of these stories and more are included, and each one holds a new and exciting plot. I found this book absolutely wonderful, as you never know what exactly will come next. I highly reccomend it to everyone!

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Summary: Fun light reading.
Review: The stories in this book are fun light reading. "Utensile Strength," particularly, amused me.

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Summary: terriffic
Review: These stories are amazing in thore varity. it really demosntrates the author's skill to be able to write equally well in so many different voices; listless modern teenager in roses by moonlight vs the humorous little girl in sixtytwo curses of calif whatsizface. great.

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Summary: Wrede does it again!
Review: This book has a nice collection of all different types of stories. Although my personal favorites are "Utensile Strength" and "The 62 Curses of Caliph Archenadd" (I think) all of the stories are fun to read, even the not-so-light-hearted ones like "The Rose Garden"(another favorite) and "Cruel Sisters". Although I didn't like it as much as the Enchanted Forest series, it's definitely a good read for fantasy fans of all types.

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Summary: Wrede does it again!
Review: This book has a nice collection of all different types of stories. Although my personal favorites are "Utensile Strength" and "The 62 Curses of Caliph Archenadd" (I think) all of the stories are fun to read, even the not-so-light-hearted ones like "The Rose Garden"(another favorite) and "Cruel Sisters". Although I didn't like it as much as the Enchanted Forest series, it's definitely a good read for fantasy fans of all types.

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Summary: Mystic to hillarious, and everything in between!
Review: This book is filled with lots of fun, but it also really makes you think. One of my favorite stories was "Roses by Moonlight," in which a young girl is taken to a magical rose garden and asked to choose her destiny. It has lots of depth, emotion, and a cool ending! But some of the other tales take a different turn, into the world of magic, and even comedy. Who says a book of short stories can't have everything?

Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens) once said, "if I had had the time, they all would have been short stories!" It is very true, short stories are among the most difficult to write, but Patricia C. Wrede definitely pulls it off nicely in her "Book of Enchantments."

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Summary: This book is very very very good!
Review: This book is funny and sad at the same time. Some stories like The Frying Pan Of Doom or The sixty-two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd are so funny you can't stop laughing. And some stories like Cruel Sisters are so sad but they are my favorite story in the whole book. Some are right in the middle like Roses by moonlight because this story is so true. All I'm saying is that if you want a good read then this is your book. It is a mix of stories. I've read it about 2,000,000,000 times.

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Summary: 5 stars++
Review: This book was great!!! It was charming, witty, fun, enjoyable, enchanting and I could go on and on. This is a definite must read!!!

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Summary: Very enjoyable
Review: This collection contains a variety of stories, so if all you're looking for is more "Enchanted Forest", then you may be disappointed. Or you may be pleasantly suprised. I think on the whole, though, the stories are suitable for an older, more mature reader than the EF books. The recipe is potentially very good, though I found it difficult to spread the batter over the required size shield, er, pan, and found that it needed to be baked for only 20-25 minutes. My personal favourites were "Forty Curses", "Cruel Sister" and "Utensile Strength."

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Summary: Patricia C. Wrede can write about more than dragons
Review: This is a delightful collection of stories by the author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. Each one is completely different than the last, and just as engaging. It is validating to see other types of stories by Ms. Wrede. I was sorry to see most of them end, and wished they could each be a whole book.