by Shonna | Oct 16, 2019 | Cinderella's Dress
This rarely happens! Scoop up this 1940s New York fairy tale while you can: Kindle (link is USA), Kobo, iBooks, Nook! *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
by Shonna | Oct 11, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Not having read The Glass Coffin before, I had expected a take on Snow White. What a pleasant surprise to read something so different from other fairy tales. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Glass Coffin The Glass Coffin just might be the closest example to modern...
by Shonna | Oct 9, 2019 | reading challenge
Some popular ones this week: 160: A Riddling Tale161: Snow-White and Rose-Red162: The Wise Servant163: The Glass Coffin
by Shonna | Oct 6, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
As we near the end of the #GRIMMread2019 challenges, I’ve started branching out and reading other books about the Grimms and their fairy tales. It seems a lot of modern literary criticism looks down on the Grimms—especially how they didn’t give credit by name to the...
by Shonna | Oct 5, 2019 | reading challenge
Super short stories to read: 156: The Hurds157: The Sparrow and His Four Children158: The Story of Schlauraffen Land159: The Ditmarsch Tale of Lies
by Shonna | Sep 29, 2019 | Lessons From Grimm
Where do kings get their wisdom? A council? Advisers? Their wives? If he’s a king with any wisdom to start with, he’ll get it from whoever is wise, no matter their status. Like a shepherd boy. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Shepherd Boy In one story this week, The...
by Shonna | Sep 27, 2019 | Fairy tales, reading challenge
I’ve been critical of many Grimm titles, but these sound interesting! 152: The Shepherd Boy153: The Star Money154: The Stolen Farthings155: Looking for a Bride
by Shonna | Sep 22, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
The Beam fairy tale by the Grimm Brothers is a terrible name for a story introducing us to our first magician in all of the tales we’ve read so far. But, the story itself is quite interesting. Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Beam The magician is actually an...
by Shonna | Sep 21, 2019 | reading challenge
Short stories this week: KHM 149: The BeamKHM 150: The Old Beggar Woman KHM 151: The Three Sluggards KHM 151a: The Twelve Idle Servants Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Old Beggar Woman Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The Three Sluggards Grimm’s Fairy Tales: The...
by Shonna | Sep 15, 2019 | Fairy tales, Lessons From Grimm
Plenty of characters in Grimm’s fairy tales get caught up in predicaments that they would like to get out of. And, more often than not, the way out is to trick someone by using a clever turn of phrase to make them think you’ve got something they want. Grimm’s...
