The second candle is A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge, a British children's and YA author, not very well known in the US. The novel is hard to summarize because of its wild inventiveness. The protagonist is an outsider in a vast underground city finding her way through a complex, decadent society built on artifice. Put aside any stereotypes of children's/YA fantasy you may have.

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The third candle is Engine Summer, by John Crowley. A beautiful, tender, complex novel that I wanted to reread immediately after finishing (if you know the book, you will understand why). It will leave you wondering what it's like to get a visit from Dr. Boots.

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The second candle is A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge, a British children's and YA author, not very well known in the US. The novel is hard to summarize because of its wild inventiveness. The protagonist is an outsider in a vast underground city finding her way through a complex, decadent society built on artifice. Put aside any stereotypes of children's/YA fantasy you may have.

#BookishHanukkah #Chanukkah #Hanukkah #bookstodon #firstcandle @bookstodonmy #BookishAdvent

The second candle is A Face Like Glass, by Frances Hardinge, a British children's and YA author, not very well known in the US. The novel is hard to summarize because of its wild inventiveness. The protagonist is an outsider in a vast underground city finding her way through a complex, decadent society built on artifice. Put aside any stereotypes of children's/YA fiction you may have.

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The first candle is a book I read in my teens, not long after it first came out: The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston. It's a memoir, but it includes long excursions into myth, folklore, and family stories. It moves around in time and space. It flows seamlessly from the mundane to the supernatural. It blew my mind.

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'O God, by whose word all things are sanctified, pour forth Thy blessing upon this wreath, and grant that we who use it may prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ and may receive from Thee abundant graces. Who livest and reignest forever. Amen.' #AdventSunday #firstcandle

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Good Sunday morning. Today is the First Sunday of Advent. It’s the first Sunday of preparation. It’s the Sunday of Hope.
May Almighty God give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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