Another for halloween bingo! You would think this would be for the witches square, but with only one short story of a witch, I will use this for genre: horror. The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told is a short story collection of reimagined fairy tales in modernized settings with a twist. Many of the ...
SPOILERS!!!2/2 - This is a book of short stories, fairy tales retold into realistic (the first one was, at least) stories of modern life. As each story is individual I will review them individually.The first story was The Witch and it was a retelling of Hansel and Gretel with the witch played by an ...
We all know at least one of the classic fairy tales. Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel & Gretel, and others, both just as well known and less well known, such as the tale of Bluebeard. Stories that all take place once upon a time, in a faraway land. "In a time when wishes came true" as I believe the...
I started this book with high hopes but it's just continuing to go in a million different directions and my head is spinning from trying to keep up with all the characters and how they all interact. Not my kind of book so I won't be finishing this one.
I received this book in a goodreads first reads giveaway.A surprisingly optimistic story, for a novel that begins with a school shooting. Lots of very distinct/memorable/sometimes eccentric characters, even the minor ones. My only real issue is that I felt the epilogue was maybe a bit too tidy.
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/03/year-we-left-home.htmlThe Year We Left Home is the story of one family and the story of our country over a span of thirty years as seen through the eyes of these individuals. It is an episodic novel. Each chapter is tol...
WHY: "an American Alice Munro” (The Wall Street Journal), and “one of our most lucid and insightful writers” (San Francisco Chronicle). Her peers have been no less vocal, from Jennifer Egan (“bracing . . . boldly unconventional”) to David Sedaris (“if there are ‘Jean Thompson characters,’ they’re us...
3.5 I wanted to like this more but I agree with what Judy below had to say. Alot of the stories had no follow thru so I felt very unsatisfied in the end.
3.5 I wanted to like this more but I agree with what Judy below had to say. Alot of the stories had no follow thru so I felt very unsatisfied in the end.
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