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Ebook About "A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers, and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."—Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost BoysLOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER! Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut.In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place.Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.Lush and richly imagined, a tale of impossible journeys, unforgettable love, and the enduring power of stories await in Alix E. Harrow's spellbinding debut--step inside and discover its magic. Praise for The Ten Thousand Doors of January:"One for the favorites shelf... Here is a book to make you happy when you gently close it. Here you will find wonder and questions and an unceasingly gorgeous love of words which compasses even the shape a letter makes against a page."―NPR Books"Devastatingly good, a sharp, delicate nested tale of worlds within worlds, stories within stories, and the realm-cracking power of words."―Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author "A love letter to imagination, adventure, the written word, and the power of many kinds of love."―KirkusFor more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Once and Future Witches.Book The Ten Thousand Doors of January Review :
I confess to being an escape reader most of the time. I need to read plots and characters in words made up by somebody else to drown out my own thoughts, which are usually grim these past few years. Sometimes my escape read has a really great plot or appealing characters; sometimes it's well written. I rarely find a book that has a superior plot and also exceptional, superior writing. I can think of only three such that I've read in this past year: Diane Setterfield's ONCE UPON A RIVER, Lyndsay Faye's THE PARAGON HOTEL, and Natt och Dag's THE WOLF AND THE WATCHMAN.And now we have this debut novel by Alix Harrow. It is everything I look for in fiction. Beautiful writing; clever, unique plot; interesting characters; a world I can lose myself in. You can read this on many levels. If all you want is a thumping good fantasy/adventure, it's here for you. If you want a coming-of-age tale, it's here. If you want a love story, there's some of that also. And if you want an allegorical commentary on society and its biases, injustices and strictures, look no further.This is January Scaller's story and it begins in 1901 in Vermont when she is seven. January, the daughter of a black father, Julian Scaller, and a white mother whose name and existence are unknown to her and us at the beginning, is the ward of wealthy collector Cornelius Locke, her father's employer. Julian is sent off around the world to find treasures and valuable artifacts for Mr. Locke, while January lives a lonely life, rather like Locke's curious pet, possession, or curiosity as a mixed-race girl.She is pampered, as a rich man's ward, but her life is contained and confined. When she discovers her first magic Door at the age of seven, she enters the threshold of a new world for a brief moment, until she hears Locke calling to her and she passes out of that world again, but not before picking up a silver coin she will keep hidden.This is not the kind of behavior Locke prescribes and January is required to behave appropriately until, at the age of 17, she discovers a leather-bound journal, THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS. There's a whole world, or perhaps one should say "worlds", out there just waiting to be discovered and explored if one can only find the Door to enter them. "Because there are ten thousand stories about ten thousand doors and we know them as well as our names. They lead to Faerie, to Valhalla, Atlantis and Lemuria, Heaven and Hell, to all the directions a compass could never take you, to 'elsewhere'".And "certain words written by certain people" hold power. This "word magic" can open doors, to effect change, to free and open minds. Is January one of those "certain people"? Perhaps it "isn't healthy for young girls to grow up with their heads full of doors and other worlds."So January breaks away from her confines and sets out on her quest. To find her father. To learn about her mother. To know things. To be free. To find a place to belong. And we readers go along for the ride.As I said earlier, you can choose to read this as a rollicking fantasy/adventure, with certain people searching for Doors and new worlds and other more powerful people looking to stop them and close all those Doors, because Doors "overturn order" and "instigate all sorts of trouble and disruptions."Or you can read this as a coming-of-age story about a girl who needs to find out more about her father and mother in order to understand herself.Then there's the fantasy's allegorical level with social commentary about racism and classism, about the rich and powerful oppressing the less powerful, about the need for freedom and change, and about the power of the written word in all of this.But, most of all for me, there was the simple delight of reading an excellently written book. A book I savored and read slowly, quite the change from my usual race to a book's finish line denouement. Brief summary and review, no spoilers.This story mainly takes place in the first few years of the 20th Century and at the start of the book it is 1901. The setting (for most part) is the Eastern Seaboard where Mr. Cornelius Locke is the multi-millionaire owner of several estates and the head of the New England Archaeological Society.The story is told from the point-of-view of his charge, little January Scaller. January is obviously a mixed-race child but she knows little of her background. She is a small child at the start of the book but we follow her and her adventures as she goes through her teenage years. . We also know very little about January’s background other than her father - a black man - who has been hired by Mr. Locke to go out into the world and collect objects of interest for Mr. Locke’s museum. January only sees him on occasion but longs to see him more often.January is a wonderful character; adventurous, precocious and obviously gifted in ways that are unclear at the start of the story. We know that January has the ability to go through “Doors” that lead into other mystical and miraculous places. (This is no spoiler, you know from the very start.) Also important is a small book/diary called The Thousand Doors -something January finds early on which proves to be key to the plot.What is not clear is the nature of these “Doors” - their origin, why they exist and how you gain entry.I’m a little concerned about giving away any spoilers because I think it’s important to know “what happens next” when the author wants you to, to get the most enjoyment out of the book. What I will be able to say is that we follow January as she finds out about her own origins and background and those of these mysterious “Doors.” There is a resolution to the story and by the end, we get the answers to most of our questions.Saying that, I had mixed reactions to the story. On the one hand it was incredibly imaginative and unique and boy do I give it credit for that. The concept of the Doors and the way they are used in the story is great.The prose is for the most part pretty great if you like whimsical, which I do. At the same time it felt like every paragraph had to be particularly clever and for the reader, it gets a little exhausting. So much so I was tempted to skim a few parts 1/3 of the way through.However, once I got to the halfway section I could not put it down which is high praise.Examples of overworked writing:“Word-magic comes at a cost, you see, as power always does. Words draw their vitality from their writers, and thus the strength of the a word is limited by the strength of its human vessel. Acts of word-magic leave their workers ill and drained and they more ambitious their working - the more it defies the warp and weft of the world as it is - the higher the toll. Most everyday sorts of word-workers lack the force of will to risk more than an occasional nosebleed and a day spent in bed, but. More gifted persons must spend years in careful study and training, learning restraint and balance, lest they drain away their very lives.”Now this isn’t necessarily bad, it’s even a bit charming it just gets a little tedious as a reader to continually read paragraphs like this one after the other.An example of wonderful prose:“There was only one remarkable fact about the family: when Adelaide Lee was born, every last living Larson was female. Through poor luck, heart failure, and cowardice, their husbands and sons had left behind a collection of hard-jawed women who looked so similar to one another it was like seeing a single woman’s life spread out in every possible stage.”I really do recommend this book. This is a talented writer who has written a truly imaginative novel and that is saying something in this time and age when stories all seem so similar.I will definitely go out and get her next book.Recommended. Read Online The Ten Thousand Doors of January Download The Ten Thousand Doors of January The Ten Thousand Doors of January PDF The Ten Thousand Doors of January Mobi Free Reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January Download Free Pdf The Ten Thousand Doors of January PDF Online The Ten Thousand Doors of January Mobi Online The Ten Thousand Doors of January Reading Online The Ten Thousand Doors of January Read Online Alix E. Harrow Download Alix E. Harrow Alix E. Harrow PDF Alix E. Harrow Mobi Free Reading Alix E. 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