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Mirrors that don’t reflect reality

December 29, 2018 by teresaelectro 3 Comments

I received Boy, Snow, Bird from an earlier CBR book exchange, but it had been collecting dust for a few years. I finally had a reason to pick it back up when my Mocha Girls Read book club selected it for a fairytale’s retold theme. Helen Oyeyemi’s novel is a VERY loose version of Snow White set in the 1950s. Boy Novak runs away to a small town to escape her abusive father. She meets a man named Arturo who isn’t quite a prince, but he […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 1950s, book club read, Boy Snow Bird, fairy tale retelling, Helen Oyeyemi, magical realism, mirrors, Race, Race relations, snow white fairy tale

teresaelectro's CBR10 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 1950s, book club read, Boy Snow Bird, fairy tale retelling, Helen Oyeyemi, magical realism, mirrors, Race, Race relations, snow white fairy tale ·
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You are entering the Red Zone. Proceed at own risk. When in doubt, run.

July 23, 2016 by borisanne 4 Comments

I consider myself very lucky that I discovered Justin Cronin’s “The Passage” series only last summer, so the wait for City of Mirrors was much less painful and dramatic than it would have been if I’d been reading in real time: The Passage was published in 2010 and The Twelve in 2012. City of Mirrors came out four weeks ago. That’s not on a George R. R. Martin level, but still could have been a brutal wait for me. Whew! I love this series. I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: #fate, CBR8, Cronin, dystopia, faith, fantasy, first colony, Justin Cronin, kerrville, military, mirrors, new south wales, New York City, north america, nosferatu, post apocalypse, science, science fiction, south america, survival, the passage, vampires, virus

borisanne's CBR8 Review No:30 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction · Tags: #fate, CBR8, Cronin, dystopia, faith, fantasy, first colony, Justin Cronin, kerrville, military, mirrors, new south wales, New York City, north america, nosferatu, post apocalypse, science, science fiction, south america, survival, the passage, vampires, virus ·
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“I’ll Get You, My Pretty!” ~ Boy, Snow, Bird

March 22, 2014 by ElCicco 3 Comments

This highly acclaimed new novel by Helen Oyeyemi has been called a modern retake on the fairy tale of Snow White. In fact, it is a fairy tale that deals with tropes common to many fairy tales: wicked stepmothers, abandonment, evil forces that prey on innocent young girls, curses. But the overriding theme is female beauty, particularly society’s predilection for whiteness. We imagine beauty as powerful and empowering to those who possess it, but it frequently engenders fear and malevolence in others, resulting in endangerment […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, beauty, Boy Snow Bird, curses, diary tales, ElCicco, Helen Oyeyemi, mirrors, Snow White, whiteness, wicked stepmother

ElCicco's CBR6 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, beauty, Boy Snow Bird, curses, diary tales, ElCicco, Helen Oyeyemi, mirrors, Snow White, whiteness, wicked stepmother ·
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