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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
1. The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars by Steven Brust
2. Jack, the Giant Killer by Charles De Lint
3. The Nightingale by Kara Dalkey
4. Snow White And Rose Red (Fairy Tales) by Patricia Wrede
5. Tam Lin: Fairy Tales #2 (Fairy Tales) by Pamela Dean
6. Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
7. White As Snow (Fairy Tales) by Tanith Lee
8. Fitcher's Brides (Fairy Tales) by Gregory Frost
I remember 1-5 very strongly. (I may own all of those.) 6, 7 - I think I've read. And I'm really not sure about 8.
I haven't read 8 and I am not sure about 7. I have more new books I have read in the category lately. Fairest by Gail Cason levine ( she wrote Ella Enchanted ). a retelling of Snow White. I enjoied it - but I kept pictureing the scenes as Movies. It feels like it was written fro the movies. I liked Golden by Cameron Dokey better. It is a retelling of Rapunzel and written more seriously , if that makes sense. Posion by Chris Wooding was excellent. cruel stepmom, changeling , quest, evil whitch house, - lots of grimm's brother type pieces, with a really different ending. Sort of a comming of age tale. and Valiant by Holly Black was pretty good - a bit grittier, life on the streets and drugs, but some interesting twist on various facts about fairie.
Apparently, Fitcher's Brides is a retelling of the Bluebeard story.
Thanks for the list, sumi. I tried to read Fitcher's Brides, but I just couldn't get into it. My favorites were 1, 2 and 5. I don't think I read 7. I haven't read Golden or Poison. I'll have to check those out.
I enjoyed Valiant.
When I was 12 my mother, exasperated at my stack of library books, asked me, "WHEN are you going to outgrow fairy tales?" I haven't yet.
I just read Mercedes Lackey's Fairy Godmother, which is not really a retelling as such, but is heavily informed by fairy tales. I enjoyed it quite a bit. My favorite fairy tale reworking is probably Beauty by Sheri S Tepper - several tales linked together into an epic.
I think my favorite fairy tale retelling of all time is Deerskin by Robin McKinley.
I didn't like Fairy Godmother which is odd, because I consider Mercedes Lakey's one of the better story tellers. DH tries not to read her - and then finds himself sucked in to her books.
Has anyone here read the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine? Is it any good? I went to get book 2 of the Dresden files at the bookstore today, and they were all out of it, so I picked up Ill Wind, the first book of the Weather Warden series instead. It had been advertised at the back of the Dresden books.
no but I just requested it from the library...
sj, I've gotten a lot of recommendations for that series, and I read the first 3. By the third one I was ready to throw it across the room and haven't picked one up since. I've been told I'm in the minority, though.
I'd be interested in hearing what you both think of it.