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by Theodora Goss, Terri Windling
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The Reading Jackalope
The Reading Jackalope rated it 10 years ago
Lessons with Miss Grey - The last in the book, and a really good one. We have two sets of reoccurring characters, Miss Grey who appeared in two other stories in this collection and Rosa and Emma who appeared in The Wings of Meister Wilhelm. I really liked this one a lot, and it was a good story to e...
altheaann
altheaann rated it 12 years ago
This is the kind of mythopoeic fiction I like. A collection of quite short stories, but they pack a lot in to their brief length. "The Rose in Twelve Petals"A fractured retelling of 'Sleeping Beauty' (or, 'Briar Rose'), in a dozen brief vignettes, set in a more concrete version of Europe than the...
By Singing Light
By Singing Light rated it 15 years ago
I really enjoyed some of these stories and was less wild about some of the others. One of these was the first story, “The Rose in Twelve Petals”, which I found a tad heavy-handed for my taste. (You can read it here and decide for yourself.)Favorites:* “The Rapid Advance of Sorrow“. It felt topical, ...
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