I loved this book..The book was way better than the movie :) ( )

If this is possible, I think I loved this book more rereading it as a pseudoadult than I did when I was seven. ( )

I think I need a "needs more lesbians" shelf, but if I added that I'd have to go back and retag like 98% of the books I've reviewed, so that seems like more trouble than it's worth. Still. Needs more lesbians.

No, for real, I'm sticking to an earlier statement: children's fantasy is so much better than adult fantasy. All the magic books and nice giants and well-meaning fairies and no rape. Yaay! It's a bit sad that I have to feel that way, but let's not dwell on that ...

I saw this movie a few years back, after hearing way too many good things about it which obviously disappointed me. I don't remember that much from it, but the book does differ quite a lot from the movie, from what I remember. As always, the book is better, but I do feel like giving the movie a new chance after reading this.

It's a bit slow though. Certain passages are just letters between the characters, time passes in a way that I had trouble accepting. Most of the plot takes place during well over a year, but I doesn't feel like it, it feels like maybe a few weeks. "Six months passed and they sucked" is hard to sort of take in.

But it was cute. I'm always a slut for fairy tale retellings. ( )

I LOVE Ella Enchanted. Other than the American Girl books, it was the favorite book of my childhood. When I was home sick in elementary school, this is the book I made mom and dad read to me. When I wanted to find a costume for Halloween, I wanted to be Ella. When I grew up and got married, I wanted it to be to Prince Char. When Laura was making me crazy, I called her Hattie. When I wanted a book to make me happy and cheer me up, I reread Ella Enchanted.
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I had the same copy of Ella Enchanted since it was first published in paperback for the school market in 1998 when I was 8 and in 3rd grade and it finally suffered its last spine crease this summer and I was forced to buy a new copy. So I bought two! One for me and one to read to Ben’s little sister because I’ll be darned if she misses out on Gail Carson Levine’s literary greatness! If you are looking for an excellent book for the upper elementary school age girl in your life, look no further than Ella! And please, if you haven’t already, don’t watch the movie. ( )

Entertaining and funny at times, but in the end it was just ok. It has some fat phobia that seems to be common in old middle grade books for some reason. ( )