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Come, Thou Tortoise

Jessica Grant

Hardcover | Pages: 412 pages

Rating: 3.94 | 3461 Users | 472 Reviews

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Title	:	Come, Thou Tortoise
Author	:	Jessica Grant
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 412 pages
Published	:	March 10th 2009 by Knopf Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary

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A delightfully offbeat story that features an opinionated tortoise and an IQ-challenged narrator who find themselves in the middle of a life-changing mystery.

Audrey (a.k.a. Oddly) Flowers is living quietly in Oregon with Winnifred, her tortoise, when she finds out her dear father has been knocked into a coma back in Newfoundland. Despite her fear of flying, she goes to him, but not before she reluctantly dumps Winnifred with her unreliable friends. Poor Winnifred.

When Audrey disarms an Air Marshal en route to St. John’s we begin to realize there’s something, well, odd about her. And we soon know that Audrey’s quest to discover who her father really was—and reunite with Winnifred—will be an adventure like no other.

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Original Title:	Come, Thou Tortoise
ISBN:	0307397548 (ISBN13: 9780307397546)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/70531/come-thou-tortoise-by-jessica-grant
Literary Awards:	Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award Nominee (2010), Amazon.ca First Novel Award (2009), OLA Evergreen Award (2010)

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It was really good! Very sweet, and the main character is endearing. I'm glad I was slow on the uptake and figured out the mystery only a few pages before Audrey did.My only small, teeny-tiny complaint is a bit of an affectation in the writing style where she never uses question marks to indicate questions. She also doesn't use quotations for when people are speaking, but I think I've seen this in other "modern" writers. I dimly recall Miriam Toews doing the same thing in The Flying Troutmans.

I've never read a punnier book. Even the tortoise (a tortoise, not a turtle -- that's like comparing me to a mermaid) had puns. When his papier-mâché castle is aflame, he drops a piece of lettuce outside his terrarium with a plea of 'kelp, kelp'.If puns aren't your thing, I promise, you will still find delight in this book. I absolutely adored Audley ("Oddly"), Winnifred and Uncle Thoby. They will live in my heart for a long time. Jessica Grant takes readers into a special world with this book

This book became one of my favourites of 2010, and if there's one book I would recommend to you right now, it would be this one. Quirky, clever, hilarious, original, poignant, touching, flat-out brilliant all comes to mind in describing Come, Thou Tortoise. It was a random purchase for me, bought on a whim - I didn't know anything about it but I've always loved tortoises and it sounded interesting. Only goes to show how spontaneous book buying, with no research, can reap great rewards!Such a

I really disliked this book. Like, a lot. I tried to get into it, I tried to find it charming and delightful, as so many of the blurbsters seem to have. In the end, it drove me crazy almost end to end. For every moment where I gave a slight smile, there were many more where I was nearly incoherent with irritation.Note: The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I came to this decision here.In the meantime, you can read the

I wish I could give this 4.5 stars. I can't give it 5 stars because I can't rank it amongst my all-time favourite books, but I really enjoyed it. It took me a few chapters to get into it, because it's hard for me to get used to books that don't use quotations in conversations. But once I got used to that, I realized the author's use of this tool really helped to get into the head of the protagonist. One of the main reasons I enjoyed this book so much is because the characters are all so lovable,

This book became one of my favourites of 2010, and if there's one book I would recommend to you right now, it would be this one. Quirky, clever, hilarious, original, poignant, touching, flat-out brilliant all comes to mind in describing Come, Thou Tortoise. It was a random purchase for me, bought on a whim - I didn't know anything about it but I've always loved tortoises and it sounded interesting. Only goes to show how spontaneous book buying, with no research, can reap great rewards!Such a

"It is surprisingly easy to lose your front tooth." For those of you who know me, you understand that I could not agree more. Then when the author followed up that line with, "He said the reason it was important to read was so I'd get all the jokes out there in the world," she had my undivided attention.This book isn't easily summarized (happily)--so you really should just pick it up and start in--and then thank yourself for enjoying a true original. I love that this book enjoys playing around