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Thinks and Things
Thinksandthings can hear people's thoughts and turn them into things. However, the world isn't ready for a farm of Grandma clones or an introduced to the Durtle. The Fixer repairs the damage the thinks have caused. But when a fairytale witch escapes to Suburbia and a carousel lion comes to life, the Fixer has to work fast before these things unfold irreversibly, while tracking Thinksandthings.
- GenresFantasy
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First published January 1, 2009
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September 8, 2010
I won this book in a blog contest. It's self-published and so the author was trying to get the word out for it.
It's a fantasy story about a world similar to ours (exactly like?) except that there's a person called Thinksandthings who wander the earth listening to people's thoughts and turning those thoughts into real things. Good things can come out of it (airplanes, TV, etc), but sometimes things go wrong (kids believing in fairytale witches, for example), so the Fixer goes around correcting the wrong things Thinksandthings creates.
The story was creative and interesting. The writing leaves the readers to fill in some of the blanks for themselves. It sort of reminded me of the sort of book I'd read in school and then analyze, but not the boring sort like The Great Gatsby (sorry Fitzgerald fans). We'll definitely keep this on our shelf for our kids when they get older and can read. Because of the short chapters, it also makes a great read-aloud book. Because some of the mess ups can be morbid, you might want to wait until a child or older, perhaps pre-teen, to read it to them.
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It's a fantasy story about a world similar to ours (exactly like?) except that there's a person called Thinksandthings who wander the earth listening to people's thoughts and turning those thoughts into real things. Good things can come out of it (airplanes, TV, etc), but sometimes things go wrong (kids believing in fairytale witches, for example), so the Fixer goes around correcting the wrong things Thinksandthings creates.
The story was creative and interesting. The writing leaves the readers to fill in some of the blanks for themselves. It sort of reminded me of the sort of book I'd read in school and then analyze, but not the boring sort like The Great Gatsby (sorry Fitzgerald fans). We'll definitely keep this on our shelf for our kids when they get older and can read. Because of the short chapters, it also makes a great read-aloud book. Because some of the mess ups can be morbid, you might want to wait until a child or older, perhaps pre-teen, to read it to them.
Support a new author and read it!
September 2, 2019
This book way okay. The vignettes were interesting, but it took a long time for the connection between them to occur. Also, there were a ton of punctuation, spelling, and grammar problems that really detracted from the quality of the story.
August 29, 2014
There were some really nice thoughts.
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