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kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
4.0
This is a rather nice collection of criticism based on retellings of fairy tales. I found the essay on McKinley as well as the one on the Fables comice books to be the two most interesting. But the essays are very good and even when about works you haven't read, they make you want to read them.
I really want to read Yolen's Peter Pan.
I really want to read Yolen's Peter Pan.
torts's review
4.0
The essays about books I'd read and loved...I loved. The others, I basically skipped. Sometimes it was a bit tiresome to read so much intellectual jargon, but the critics' perspectives were always so insightful and interesting (and, did I mention already, about stories and authors I love?) that it kind of made it worth plugging onward.
Definitely full of ideas (and stories, and essays...) I'd love to revisit. Some sooner and some later...but mostly I just want to own this book and refer to it when I want to feel that rush of "yes! this!" and "let me join you!"
Definitely full of ideas (and stories, and essays...) I'd love to revisit. Some sooner and some later...but mostly I just want to own this book and refer to it when I want to feel that rush of "yes! this!" and "let me join you!"
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