Read for the Once Upon a Time VII Reading Challenge. This collection of short stories owes much to fairy tales – sometimes obviously, but other times a little less so. Some of my favorites include “The Princess, the Cat, and the Unicorn”, which has a rather amusing twist on the typical unicorn tale, “Cruel Sisters”, […]
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This is the very first of the Other Tales of Valdemar series, where Mercedes Lackey opened up the world to other authors, and once I started it, I remembered I had in fact read it before, so it is a reread, though I had no memory of some of the stories, while remembering others. Like
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The three stories in this book are based on Matisse paintings – the names and some sketches appear in the books. All three stories are rich in imagery, clearly because of the source. My favorite is the middle story – Art Work – which is the tale of Debbie and Robin. Debbie has given up
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Challenge. This book combines three novellas of some sort of romantic fantasy. Rachel Lee’s ‘Drusilla’s Dream’ is a fun little little story that manages to combine a night shift data entry job with a good, old-fashioned quest by a princess to find the Behemoth that can save her
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Read for the Once Upon a Time Reading Challenge. Believe it or not, I bought this book in hardcover, when it first came out. (That would be 2008.) And unlike every other Harry Potter book, I didn’t read it immediately. It’s been sitting on a shelf mocking me, so in the grand spirit of the
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. I picked this book up from the bargain bin because there were so many stories by authors I love: Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, Patricia K. McKillip, to name a few. The book did not disappoint. The theme is obvious, but the variety of stories that came out
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Read for the Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenge. This anthology has a wide ranging selection of stories held together only in that they needed to involved elves. Some were funny, some more serious, and one so awful I couldn’t finish it. A few highlights: “The Phaerie Bride” – a great twist on the
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite and Once Upon a Time V Reading Challenges. I’ve read a fair amount of Charles de Lint’s work, and I think at this point, I can safely say that my favorite books of his are his short stories collections of Newford tales. The beauty of the world he’s created
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Originally published in 1995 as The Merlin Chronicles, and republished in its current form in 2009, this is indeed a full-sized book of stories centering around King Arthur’s wizard Merlin. And, because Merlin is often linked to Vivian/Nimue, the Lady of the Lake, she features quite prominently in many of the stories as well. She’s
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Read for the 2010 TBR Reading Lite Reading Challenge. This short story collection centers around dreams – either real or figurative. It’s made up of mostly fantasy stories, with a few scifi stories thrown in for good measure. My favorites included “Dreamfisher” – an interesting idea born from a throwaway comment in Herodotus’ Histories; “Marty
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