by Emma Donoghue
So I guess I knew who Emma Donoghue was before she was "cool" (i.e., pre-ROOM), since this book has been on my shelf FOREVER ... but I didn't actually read it till after I'd read her more recent stuff. I'm generally 10-20 years behind on my TBR, though, so this is not at all unusual.Having read her ...
"Climbing to the witch’s cave one day, I called out, Who were you before you came to live here? And she said, Will I tell you my own story? It is a tale of a kiss." I had heard of Emma Donoghue mostly because people kept talking about her novel Room. This, however, was the first encounter I ha...
People that love The Bloody Chamber, this is for you!Want to squeeze those good ol' fairy tales into juicy new perspectives? Emma Donoghue (well-known for the still-to-read-by-me Room) does a terrific job at this. She breaks with heternormativity and patriarchy by providing alternative readings of s...
Read it b/c it's a monthly book in a GR group. The premise is similar to CMV's Orphan's Tales as both are nested fairy tales that heavily feature cross-generation collaboration of women, while the minimalistic language reminds me more of the YA works of Francesca Lia Block. It may seem less original...
This book would have gotten 5 out of 5 but there were one or two stories that I just could not fully understand.
Donoghue's feminist retellings of fairy tales is not as original as it would have been when first published, but the beauty and power of her prose is undiminished. The short first-person accounts flow fluidly (sometimes more fluidly than logically) from one to the next, connected by overlapping char...
The book begins with "The Tale of the Shoe," told by Cinderella. Her fairy godmother gives her everything she needs to dance with a prince--but in the end, she realizes she'd rather have the fairy godmother. At Cinderella's urging, the godmother tells her own story, which prompts the next story, a...
I was wavering on the edge of giving it a four. It was certainly a very entertaining read, and thought-provoking and pretty. It would have been a four if the last story had connected up to the first. I like my poetry cyclical, I guess.The reason it could never be a five is because I found it biased ...
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