The Snow Queen

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Genre: Short stories, Fantasy, Fairy Tales
Original publication date: January 1844
Book description: The Snow Queen is a story about the strength and endurance of childhood friendship. Gerda's search for her playmate Kay–who was abducted by the Snow Queen and taken to her frozen palace

 Thoughts:
It has a bunch of stories really. It begins with the two friends growing apart due to a shard of ice that fills little Kay's heart. 
The adventures are pretty much all experienced by Greta, she is a lovely girl and wonderful friend. 
The stories are very short and some are more interesting than others like it happens with most of the short stories collections I experience. 
But it is an enjoyable ad quick read.


This book was picked from Scribd simply because it fits the them of Believathon, even if I did not choose it for any prompt when I built my initial TBR.
So I picked a book I could finish quickly and move on my way as I have been stuck on reading the same books for a long time lately so it feels so great to just finish a book in a day, even if the book is a short story collection. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The mysterious affair at Styles

Image
Author: Agatha Christie Series: Hercule Poirot #1 Original publication date: October 1920 Book description:  Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorpe, and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. Making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case. Thoughts: It is a very fast-paced mystery.  It starts very well with a cutout mystery, with a very strong theory people have. You as a reader think there is another thing going on because there are a few people here and their minds are already set on who the guilty party is regardless of lack of investigation. The detective here is a funny little character, who is making questions no one thought to ask, about things that do not seem to matter and yet they ar...
Read more

My Tips for Working from Home

Image
So at the moment, there is a huge advantage that many job responsibilities can be carried out from anywhere as long as you have your computer; this is specifically handy with the present pandemic situation where different places are requiring or advising to work from home when possible.  I have been working from home for a very little time, only a week maybe. So I have been trying to get comfortable with that. My work is convenient for work from home, I only need a computer, internet, headset, and relative noise-free space. So it is simple to get to do it, but the reality of it turned out not to be as awesome as I expected.  There are several types of people  -Workaholic, some tend to overwork because you are not getting a very clear stop work signal. -Work too little, you get distracted easily or you feel like you don't want to do it or end up doing much less productive. The ideal is to have a balance, we are meant to do the same progress and work done as if yo...
Read more

Fifteen Thousands Useful Phrases

Image
by Greenville Kleiser Audiobook  Book description: This serves as a handbook of pertinent expressions, stricking similes and terms for embellishing speech and literature.  Genre:  I picked this book up obviously to try ti enrich my vocabulary. I had no idea of what it was about. It is esscentially a list of words that can be used in conjunction in order to better describe. I will never really use them in conversations but it gives you a nice few examples. I picked it up mainly because it helps with pronounciation. In that aspect it was a great book. It is obviously slow moving in the aspect that I was trying to say the words correctly and it gets annoying at times. My best advice is to take it slow and do a few minutes per day, reading along and trying to pronounce correctly which is the greatest benefit of this audiook.  I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars because I really liked the audiobook and it was great help but to tell the truth I just felt like it was t...
Read more

The Two princess of Bamarre

Image
Author: Gail Carson Levine Genre: Fantasy Series: The two princesses of Bamarre #1 Original publication date: March 2001 Book description:  Twelve-year-old Addie admires her older sister Meryl, who aspires to rid the kingdom of Bamarre of gryphons, specters, and ogres. Addie, on the other hand, is fearful even of spiders and depends on Meryl for courage and protection. Waving her sword Bloodbiter, the older girl declaims in the garden from the heroic epic of Drualt to a thrilled audience of Addie, their governess, and the young sorcerer Rhys. But when Meryl falls ill with the dreaded Gray Death, Addie must gather her courage and set off alone on a quest to find the cure and save her beloved sister. Addie takes the seven-league boots and magic spyglass left to her by her mother and the enchanted tablecloth and cloak given to her by Rhys - along with a shy declaration of his love. She prevails in encounters with tricky specters (spiders too) and outwits a wickedly personable dr...
Read more

2020 Buddy Reads

Image
So there is a buddy readathon for the next year that is being hosted by Elliot and her husband over at Elliot Brooks YouTube channel. I will leave the announcement video and the list of the books. Not sure if I will participate, but I'm really interested. So I think I will follow their buddy read. I already have Byzan so I might as well use it. I simply downloaded it but didn't really use it. List of books: All the Light We Cannot See: https://amzn.to/2Qar4g1   Geekerella: https://amzn.to/2MoLd10   Vengeful: https://amzn.to/2ZqN2jn   The Night Circus: https://amzn.to/2ZhYRbp   The Book Thief: https://amzn.to/2Slp9bg   Rage of Dragons: https://amzn.to/34LqPNW   The Last Kingdom: https://amzn.to/399vbSv Sailor Moon: https://amzn.to/2PPjxnT   Bandits: https://amzn.to/391n6Pr   City of Girls: https://amzn.to/2Mlm3Ae The Nightengalw: https://amzn.to/34PnYmX   Salt to the Sea: https://amzn.to/2rlOGWP   Be...
Read more