A memory trip! I didn't remember these stories to be so cruel and so full of violence.. although they all have a happy ending.I couldn't read this book straight through, because then I got bored to see the same elements come by again and again (the wicked parents, the enchanted prince or princess, t...
Review originally posted here.I requested this book from NetGalley early in October. I knew thought I didn't have a chance at being accepted (because the bigger publishers usually reject me [this isn't me looking for sympathy, it's just that I get denied all the time]), but figured I'd try anyway f...
While Reading:By this point, it is probably no secret that I love fairy tales. I mean seriously love them. Their history, their back story, their evolution. I find it all so fascinating.Phillip Pullman is an author that I quite admire as well. When I discovered that he was taking over and retelling ...
This is our current bedtime read. I keep forgetting that my son is having a different childhood than I had, and that he didn't spend asthmatic afternoons stuck in bed with books. So he's not as fairy-tale literate as I was at his age. Also, he's old enough to be interested in the origin story of the...
What is it about being sick and wanting to read Grimm's fairy tales? First me back when I was a kid, and now my son. This volume is getting us through what looks like a bad case of bronchitis.
Over the years, I've read a considerable amount of fairytales so I was familiar with most of the stories in this collection (in one form or another). However I was surprised at how dark some of the themes were, especially if they were intended for children. Good always seems to prevail but not in th...
It's one of those times when you can't help feeling a bit too harsh when reviewing a classic. I know I shouldn't expect the best narrative from a book written 200 years back, specially when it's basically a compilation of folktales told by peasants and such. The other aspect I didn't like about the ...
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