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November 6, 2019
Lessons From Grimm: Pourquoi Tales
Many of Grimm’s animal fairy tales are pourquoi tales (pourquoi is French for why). Pourquoi tales tell the origin story of how something in nature came to look or act the way it does. In last week’s story, The Willow Wren, we have a story where the birds are trying to determine who will be […]
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October 29, 2019
Lessons from Grimm: Forest Dwellings
It’s night, you’re tired and hungry, and you see a light coming from a hut in the forest. Do you go in? If you are a fairy tale character, of course you go in! Why wouldn’t you seek lodging with a stranger living deep in the woods? It worked out well for Snow White… However, […]
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October 25, 2019
GRIMMread2019 Week 43 Challenge and Linky Party (The Hut in the Forest + more)
I haven’t had a chance to look ahead at these stories yet. Some interesting titles here, so I’m hopeful for some good reading: 168: Lean Lisa 169: The Hut in the Forest 170: Sharing Joy and Sorrow 171: The Willow Wren
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October 19, 2019
Lessons from Grimm: The Underdog
One thing the Grimm fairy tales do very well is create empathy for the underdog. The discharged soldier is not just out of work, but he is also extremely poor, starving, without prospects, and lying by the side of the road. The picked-on brother is always the youngest and a simpleton, the butt of everyone’s […]
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October 18, 2019
GRIMMread2019 Week 42 Challenge and Linky Party (The Griffin + more)
After a long run of short stories, we’ve got some hefty fairy tales to read this week: 164: Lazy Henry 165: The Griffin 166: Strong Hans 167: The Peasant in Heaven
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October 16, 2019
Cinderella’s Dress on Sale!
This rarely happens! Scoop up this 1940s New York fairy tale while you can: Kindle (link is USA), Kobo, iBooks, Nook!
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October 11, 2019
Lessons from Grimm: Modern Fantasy
Not having read The Glass Coffin before, I had expected a take on Snow White. What a pleasant surprise to read something so different from other fairy tales. The Glass Coffin just might be the closest example to modern fantasy than any of the Grimm’s fairy tales that we’ve read so far. The imagery in […]
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October 9, 2019
GRIMMread2019 Week 41 Challenge and Linky Party (The Glass Coffin + more)
Some popular ones this week: 160: A Riddling Tale 161: Snow-White and Rose-Red 162: The Wise Servant 163: The Glass Coffin
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October 6, 2019
Lessons from Grimm: Matters of the Heart
As we near the end of the #GRIMMread2019 challenges, I’ve started branching out and reading other books about the Grimms and their fairy tales. It seems a lot of modern literary criticism looks down on the Grimms—especially how they didn’t give credit by name to the women who gave them stories for the collection (never […]
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October 5, 2019
GRIMMread2019 Week 40 Challenge and Linky Party (The Hurds + more)
Super short stories to read: 156: The Hurds 157: The Sparrow and His Four Children 158: The Story of Schlauraffen Land 159: The Ditmarsch Tale of Lies
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