One of my favorite booksellers raved about “The Bear and the Nightingale” and chose it to be the featured for the month of January at my local independent bookstore. The high praise moved it up on my TBR pile. At the time of reading I was thoroughly captivated by this charming Russian fairytale but now that two weeks have passed and I’m sitting down to review, I find there isn’t much to say. The Bear and the Nightingale feels like a reimagining of an old […]
Another “Catcher in the Rye”
This book was painful. I’ve been hearing about Joy Williams frequently in my MFA and she shows up in almost every single faculty presentation. So I decided I should see what all the hype is about and I finally bit the bullet with “The Changeling”…I like Irish Fairy stories…I’m writing a novel threaded around the Changeling idea…it was just reprinted and has a pretty high star rating on Goodreads. Goodreads lies. This felt a lot like “Catcher in the Rye.” There was decent prose, there […]
A Refreshing New Take on an Old Classic
I don’t know why I put off reading this series for so long. It’s GOOD. Meyer is an excellent story-teller and like alwaysanswerb says, Meyer uses the Cinderella fairy tale as her basis, but the story is 100% her own. I think the thing that makes this absolutely brilliant is moving the plot into a super-advanced technological future where we can’t make any real ties to the bucolic setting of the original fairy tale. Cinder (Cinderella) is a cyborg living in “new” Beijing (the old […]