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“Children long to be eaten. Everyone knows that.”

XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (editor)

April 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Am I typing this up while wearing a tee featuring the cover of the d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths? YOU KNOW IT! That strange tome of simplified myth and ultra-bright illustration cracked open a need in me when I was very young. I re-read that book countless times, and used it as the entry point into the larger world of mythology. Combined with a Catholic upbringing that was far more focused on the deaths of the saints than on anything else, you could saw I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle ·
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Henry James would not have understood what a smart house is.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

March 3, 2022 by narfna 7 Comments

I read the first third of this in my paperback copy, then switched over to the audio to see if I could jump start my interest in it again. It worked! For a while, at least. It helped me get through the book, anyway. I liked the audio version better. I was super into this book at first, but as soon as the main character reached the house in the country, something about it lost me. It probably also didn’t help that I was traveling […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: audiobooks, imogen church, mystery, narfna, retelling, Ruth Ware, Suspense, The Turn of the Screw

narfna's CBR14 Review No:35 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: audiobooks, imogen church, mystery, narfna, retelling, Ruth Ware, Suspense, The Turn of the Screw ·
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Colorful and Challenging Times in Olympus

Lore Olympus volume 1 by Rachel Smythe

December 15, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

It seems like one of the favorite Greek myths to retell right now is the story of Hades and Persephone. I know of at least two currently underway on Webtoons: Punderworld and Lore Olympus. The latter recently came out in hard copy book form for the first 25 chapters and also won Goodreads’ Best Graphic Novel or Comic of 2021. I was a little surprised to see it on display at the library (I figured it would be checked out with a waiting list), so […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance Tagged With: greek mythology, Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe, retelling, Romance

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:102 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Romance · Tags: greek mythology, Lore Olympus, Rachel Smythe, retelling, Romance ·
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a mermaid’s tail made of donkey skin (a dual cbr13bingo and #cannonbookclub adventure!)

Deerskin by Robin McKinley

Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

September 9, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

well, not exactly. What we have here are two retellings of classic fairy tales: Charles Perrault’s deeply upsetting Donkeyskin (recently reviewed by our very own BlackRaven) and Hans Christian Andersen’s  also unsettling The Little Mermaid. Both of these entries are picks for our upcoming #cannonbookclub event- and I’ll be discussing Deerskin further during our Zoom- but in the meantime, let these two help you choose your pick(s)! Also- both of these tales of girls on the cusp of womanhood have been reclaimed and retold by women. […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: backstory, Billie Fulford-Brown, book club, CannonBookClub, cbr13bingo, charles perrault, dogs, donkeyskin, fairy tale, fairy tale retelling, hans christian anderson, high fantasy, Home, Love, magic, mermaids, mythology, retelling, Robin McKinley, Romance, Sarah Henning, Scribd, the little mermaid, trauma, Xe Sands

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:78 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: backstory, Billie Fulford-Brown, book club, CannonBookClub, cbr13bingo, charles perrault, dogs, donkeyskin, fairy tale, fairy tale retelling, hans christian anderson, high fantasy, Home, Love, magic, mermaids, mythology, retelling, Robin McKinley, Romance, Sarah Henning, Scribd, the little mermaid, trauma, Xe Sands ·
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You don’t need to remember very much of The Great Gatsby to appreciate retellings

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

June 21, 2021 by wicherwill 3 Comments

So here’s the thing: I’m not like, super into The Great Gatsby. I read it in school, and like everyone else I’ve gone to a thousand Great Gatsby parties (hopefully we’re all done with them still, because otherwise the thematic appropriateness means we’ll be flappering well into the mid-20s). But from what I remember, this book nails the overall ~*mood*~ of the book, which I feel is best summarized by one of my favorite words: insouciance. Everyone is always bright and fragile and brittle and shiny […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: LGBTQ, Nghi Vo, retelling

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:102 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: LGBTQ, Nghi Vo, retelling ·
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One of many literature romance novels I will read this year

Love at First by Kate Clayborn

April 26, 2021 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

So this is obviously a Romeo and Juliet re-telling, except as it were the real R&J couple are Will (Romeo’s) parents. That’s not a spoiler–I don’t mean it in the “they were foes and died tragically in a murder/suicide,” because it’s more the sentiment, like the outlines of their romance. The very first review of this book perfectly captured something I also wished–that Will and Nora had actually met in the first part of the book, such that their/Will’s instant connection was based on more than a […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Kate Clayborn, retelling, Romeo and Juliet

wicherwill's CBR13 Review No:69 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Kate Clayborn, retelling, Romeo and Juliet ·
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