Showing posts with label fairytales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fairytales. Show all posts
Friday, 1 November 2024

Fiday Five: Books Read in October

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Medusa  by Jessie Burton (Bloomsbury) -  Supposedly a feminist retelling of the Greek myth from Medusa's perspective, this is fairly sim...
Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Bedtime stories: Witches Abroad

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Witches Abroad  by Terry Pratchett Corgi Books Pp.286 This, the twelfth novel in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, is the second that revo...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Thorny Issues: Briar Rose

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Briar  Rose  by Jane Yolen Tor Pp. 281 Jane Yolen’s Briar Rose is one of a series of re-told fairy-tales created by Terri Windling, who sta...
Friday, 5 August 2022

Friday Five: Books Read in July

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By sheer coincidence it appears that I have read five books in July, and that red features quite prominently in the covers. Here, then, are ...
Monday, 9 November 2020

The Sting in the (Fairy) Tale: The Bee and the Orange Tree

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The Bee and the Orange Tree by Melissa Ashley Affirm Press P. 362 Think ‘fairy tales’, and the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault are prob...
Friday, 25 January 2019

Sense and Sensitivity

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Once Upon a Mattress Ickle Pickle Productions Belconnen Theatre January 2019 In the programme notes, the mission stateme...
Monday, 6 October 2008

Grimm Stuff

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Grimm Stuff is an exhibition on at the National Library Gallery until 8th November, and it’s well worth seeing. Don’t worry; I’m not going ...