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While Disney has been in the habit of sanitizing and reducing the fairy tale into children’s entertainment with musical numbers, it has been through fantasy writers that they have retold with more complexity but also been deconstructed, and even subverted. From Angela Carter’sThe Bloody Chambert...
Right foot, left foot drag. One step at a time. The pain didn’t matter. It can’t matter. Jeannine had been walking for what felt like forever, almost in a trance, placing one bloody foot in front of the other. Moving forward was the only thing that mattered. Keep moving. Those w...
Readers: For more on Charles Dickens, clickhere. PEOPLEA Christmas Carol Mary Todd Lincoln: She Who Must Be Obeyed May 14, 2024 byLisa Waller Rogers Mary Todd Lincoln, ca. 1861 When Mary and Abraham Lincoln moved into the White House in 1861, Mary was 42 years old, a time when women ...
Add to Goodreads Purchase Book Synopsis By day, Tansy McCoy is a florist making charmed bouquets for the citizens of Junonia, capital of the Kingdom of Terranmar. By night, she’s an assassin and the keeper of the Dangerous Garden where deadly blooms grow. Together with the town tailor, ...
Mary Lincoln wanted the purple strings off Mary Taft’s bonnet and asked for them. Mary Taft was angry—she loved her bonnet with its pretty purple ribbon— but what could she do? Mary Taft’s husband was a government appointee. Mrs. Lincoln could get him fired and then how would they ...
In any case, I don’t write and post book reviews so often these days, but I thought doing one on Goodreads would allow me to repost it here to my blog, let my friend know, ‘I hear ya’, and write on a topic I’m interested in! Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang My rating: 2...
In one chamber he finds the perfectly preserved body of Yelaya, the famous oracle of the temple: It was no effigy of stone or metal or ivory. It was the actual body of a woman, and by what dark art the ancients had preserved that form unblemished for so many ages Conan could not ev...
Anyway, the novel lives on to some extent. An excellent new book recommendation website called shepherd.com – kind of a nicer, less weird and less vicious (and way more attractively designed) version of goodreads – recently contacted me, asking if I’d like to write something to promote ...
I picked up my phone to mark my latest book as “read” on Goodreads (gotta make that annual Goodreads challenge!) and dashed off a quick review. And it made me think—will this writer see this review? If I really like the book, should I post something on social media? Should I rec...