One of our #CannonBookClub prompts asked if there’s any special power in taking a known story and envisioning it in a new way, and for me the answer is a resounding yes. Whether its something along the lines of Longbourn where characters who are merely set dressing in the original tale are given the limelight or something like The Bear and the Nightingale where history and folktales are put into a blender, metaphorically, and something new arrives there is more often than not an engaging […]
“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.”
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
