Day Fourteen~Post About a Favorite Book

For the last thirty day challenge I did this was actually one of the days. I felt highly tempted to cheat and use that post for this. I know I have made up my own rules thus far by simply ignoring the subconscious guidelines that my mind wants me to follow because technically there are no strict rules at all. Something about using an old post felt wrong though.

Keep in mind that this is a favorite book. I have dozens of favorite books, that, depending on my mood, fluctuate for being my all time favorite.

Even though I do not like Edith Pattou's other works, I love East. It is based after the Norwegian folk tale, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon." It is about a young woman, Rose, who falls in love with a polar bear, but then the polar bear is taken away by the evil troll queen and then Rose must travel to Antarctica to save him. Mmm, when put that way, it sounds campy.

I first came across it when I was twelve. The library were I live does a summer reading program for kids and teens. If you read three hours, you got to choose from a selection of free books. I ultimately choose East because it looked the friendliest. The books for the teens, and then the younger kids were in separate places, and that was the first year I was choosing from the teen section. All the other covers looked a bit...scary, and not like something a twelve year old should be reading. Luckily, East was as friendly as it looked, and had no content in it that made me put it down.

I quite literally fell in love with the book. The story has the magical fairytale feeling to it, but the world has just enough detail and reality to get away with it. The author manages to create this beautiful fairytale land, with the events being set in the real world. Parts of the story taking place in Norway, Paris, and even Antarctica I know it is hard to have fantasies set in this world, and still have the magic not seem out of place. This book blends the real and fairytale world till they seem apart of each other.