Welcome to our Fairy tale Adaptations book club! This go round we’ve selected four books that showed their author’s take on various fairy tales and folktales. Each of our books below have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our Zoom Book Club on Saturday September 18 at 7 pm EDT. Other Discussions The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson For those of you returning […]
Still just OK the second time around
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
CBR 13 Bingo Square: Landscape Genuine question: It seemed when Cannonball Book Club was announced The Bear and the Nightingale was presented as a reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin, as that was the fairytale linked to for reading the original. I don’t see a comparison? Is there something I’m missing? Or was I incorrect in that the two were paired together in that way? Would love to know how others interpret as this feels more like “Cinderella” crossed with “The Twelve Months”. For Cannonball Book Club, I had […]
CannonBookClub Fairy Tales & Adaptations Announcement!
September #CannonBookClub is here. Discussion posts are live! The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Book Club Details Continuing our feel-good goals with #CannonBookClub in 2021 we’ve landed on Fairy Tales and Adaptations as our theme for our September meeting. With that in mind our Book Club team has decided on a shortlist of four books to choose from, highlighting different genres and original tales. September 17-18, 2021 […]
The woods are lovely dark and deep
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
In a dark medieval Russian forest, the tomboy daughter of the local chief, Vasya, just wants to continue with her wild and pagan ways- running through the woods, riding horses, communing with the minor domestic and farmyard gods. These ways put Vasya at odds with her stepmother as well as the Church, personified by the local priest. The stepmother and the priest push Vasya’s father to marry her off, which bodes ill for the village as a whole- the bonds that keep evil forces at […]
“Now I am beyond prophecy.”
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
Everyone on this site who recommended the Winternight Trilogy: thank youuuuuuu! I devoured these books. Like, ignore dinner, stay up til 3 am, read all lunch break. Try to read slowly to savor, but can’t because it just is so good. Continue to recommend to everyone who would listen. I think it’s so rare to find a trilogy that reads so well, for so long. I can’t wait to read it again! So, back up, these are the second and third book of Katherine Arden’s […]