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 […]
Novik spun gold with her creative re-working
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Couldn’t help myself with the title for the review 🙂 Mysterious Galaxy recommened Naomi Novik’s His Majesty’s Dragon, first in the Temeraire series, way back when it came out in 2006. I instantly fell in love with concept, the dragons during the Napoleonic wars. However, somewhere around book 5 I lost interest and never finished the series. Then I sort of forgot about her as an author. In the past few years Novik’s name kept popping up for Uprooted and Spinning Silver and I was intrigued. […]
“The fairy silver brought you a monster of fire for a husband, and me a monster of ice.” (Bingo)
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
#CBR11 Bingo: Listicle (on a bunch of best of 2018 lists, including NPR, Bustle and Bookbub). Would also work for “Award Winner”, as it’s won a Locus Award, and ALA Award and an Audie, or “Remix”, as it’s a fairy tale retelling. Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of Jewish moneylenders, but her father is a dreadful one, who doesn’t have the heart to actually claim back the debts that the villagers owe, even when his daughter is starving and the long, cold winters are making his wife sicker and […]