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Category Archives: Reading Lists
New Books for the New Year
Happy New Year! And I hope the first Monday of 2016 is treating you well. Though I didn’t get as many books read as I would have liked over the festive period (reading was replaced with eating, running and spending … Continue reading
A Round-Up of the Best YA and Children’s Literature of 2015
The Guardian has written a round-up of the best children’s literature of 2015 (including YA literature). It’s worth looking through for the tales that have Gothic or lupine tropes. There are a few that sprung out for me: Deep Water … Continue reading
The best recent science fiction and horror – A roundup from The Guardian
Just to keep your reading list growing, here’s a round-up from The Guardian on the latest and greatest publications in science fiction and horror.
Posted in Books and Articles, Reading Lists, Reviews
Tagged Gothic novel, horrid novels, horror, science fiction
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10 Books That Will Change How You Think About Fairy Tales
And more on fairy tales. Some of the books on this list will be familiar (including The Bloody Chamber); some less so. There are books on the fairy tale, and reworkings of fairy tale themes and new fairy tales–for young … Continue reading
Michael Dirda reviews five fairy-tale books
A review of new books on the fairy tale by Marina Warner and Jack Zipes (including the first translation into English of the first edition of Grimm’s Tales), but also of two books from Princeton University Press’s Oddly Modern Fairy … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Fairy tales, Grimm brothers, Jack Zipes, Marina Warner, Wolves
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