Though the title makes it sound like it’s a collection of new stories, The Starlit Woods is a collection of re-told fairy tales. I had a different perception going into the book, though being a fan of retold fairy tales I didn’t mind that the stories were retellings and not completely original stories. This is a really good collection of stories and while there were a couple I wasn’t fond of, most were very compelling. I decided to check this book out because the list […]
Not just Coyote
So it turns out that I have downloaded/bought about eleventybillion titles for my Kindle and read less than half of them (I don’t feel too guilty about this, because books and also because a lot of them were freebies). Despite that lack of guilt, I’ve decided I need to go through and, well, make my way through all of them. At least in this case it wasn’t a total mistake.
“M is for Magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly.”
As I was wandering through my library looking for a new audiobook for my commute home, I decided to check out the YA section. I was looking for something easy and fun. We don’t have many audiobooks for that section (we’re trying to get kids to actually read!) but I was pleased to find this. A book by Neil Gaiman? Nice! Read by Neil Gaiman? Sweet! Is this meant for young children? No, I don’t think so. But older ones could get something out of […]
“It’s a tree. Trees have great grip. Their whole body is made for gripping.”
I am not one, normally, for short story collections. Inevitably there are some which are too long, and some which are too short. And some that are just, well, terrible. My True Love Gave To Me is no exception to these general rules of short story collections. I should backtrack to say that I enjoyed the majority of the stories in this collection. The authors in question are generally well liked and reviewed (as best I can tell/remember I have only read one of the […]