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November 22, 2023
Entertaining fairytales
This book was very enjoyable to read, with a bunch of entertaining fairytales. It started off very easy and got progressively harder (probably to lower intermediate level).
The vocab that you end up learning is not necessarily the most common vocab since the fairytales use some historical/fairy-tale specific vocab, but overall the book was helpful and improved my reading skills significantly.
Gripping and dark
The story was gripping and kept me coming back to read more. It also had me wanting to yell at the characters in an exasperated way at time.
The prose is in a very casual spoken form with a lot of colloquial phrases and partial sentences which made it much harder for me to understand, but that’s not a bad thing. More often than not I was confused not just because I didn’t know the words but because of the sentence structure, and so I definitely improved my reading ability a lot through this bo