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pato_myers's review against another edition
4.0
Well written and this does a pretty good job of being objective even though it does go into the human, cultural, emotional, and class elements and uses letters which obligates the inclusion of personal opinion.
aleatha's review against another edition
4.0
Ingenious and lovely weaving of fairy tales with biographies of the Grimm family and the women and girls who collected stories for Jacob and Wilhelm.
mandimsadler's review against another edition
3.0
This history was brief (thankfully) and engaging enough. The historical info was woven neatly throughout with Grimm's actual fairy tale summaries, which was a nice touch. The key info (that the brothers actually got their stories from aristocratic female friends) was really new to me and I'm glad someone wrote a book about it. I fell asleep reading this though, and it took me longer than I wanted to spend to get through the whole thing.
jillclifton's review
informative
medium-paced
5.0
Informative and interesting book about the sources of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales. I’m glad these women are being recognized.
misssusan's review
3.0
Interesting! Really light though, I enjoyed myself but wanted more. 3.5 stars
szeglin's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting information on why the Grimm brothers collected fairy tales--and how they went about collecting the stories. Serves as inspiration to re-read the classic tales.
libkatem's review against another edition
4.0
I didn't know much about the Brothers Grimm going into this, only the mythology around them; they traveled around Germany gathering folk stories and publishing them. Wrongy wrong wrong. Thanks, Paradiz, I can add all this to my self important "fun facts". Jacob Grimm was in fact a librarian (adding to my list of famous librarians, alongside Casanova, Clara Breed, Gratia Countryman, and Batgirl), and Wilhelm was a sickly scholar. And the fairy stories they gathered were usually courtesy of the ladies in their lives, usually friends of the family. Not that these women were ever credited because hurray for misogyny! It is interesting that these women's voices become the voices of the German Volk. Take of that what you will.
I like you, Paradiz. Good job!
I like you, Paradiz. Good job!
eemms's review against another edition
4.0
Got more into it by the end - easy to read history of the Grimm brothers (indeed, the whole family), how their era and background influenced their story collection, and also a running account of all the women who contributed the stories themselves. I still wish there had been more on the literary history of the stories themselves - there are a few notes about the French origins of a few, and a passing mention of the changes made to bring medieval stories in line with contemporary mores, and I was hoping for more of that when I started the book.
annsantori's review against another edition
3.0
*POPSUGAR 2017 Reading Challenge: "A book with a subtitle."*