The Brothers Grimm didn’t water down their fairy tales when they wrote them; modern society has done that. In their original form, they are full of violence, blood, and gore. Times were different when the Brothers Grimm wrote their fairy tales, and yes, they were intended to be read to children. But Once Upon a Fairy…
If you’ve ever had the longing to get lost in a fairy tale like a child, this is the book you’ve been waiting for. I began The Glass Castle one evening and stayed up until the wee hours of the morning reading it until I couldn’t hold my Kindle up any longer. I finished it…
Seumas MacManus retells fifteen marvelous Irish folk tales that are full of adventure. The similarities between many of these folk tales and a lot of the fairy tales I was already familiar with astounded me. These tales have not been watered down any, so some of them are violent and bloody. A lot of these tales…
The great thing about fairy tales? Anyone can connect with them. They’re highly accessible. The only price of admission is being human. There’s a reason we give fairy tales to children. It’s about all they can connect with. They haven’t yet been told how to “get” Sartre, or Barthes, or any other tricky-to-pronounce French author.…
What if you could travel to the land where the dead resided? Would you go there and try to bring back your loved ones who have passed on? From the title of the book, I thought it would be about a girl who died and then came back from the dead. But I was wrong.…
