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3.42 AVERAGE
3.42 AVERAGE
A friend sent me the Fairy Tales for Twenty-Somethings blog (http://fairytalesfor20somethings.tumblr.com/) last year, and I was immediately hooked. I thought it was the funniest, cleverest, and most touching blog I'd seen in ages. (I even submitted an entry for a contest the author was running, and although I didn't win, he emailed me to say that my entry had made him laugh! I had to include this not-so-humble-brag anecdote to show just how much I enjoy Manley's work).
Manley takes the fairy tale characters we know and love and puts them in the modern age, with modern problems. The Frog Prince can't seem to get a date, Rapunzel sheds the locks that shackle her for a pixie cut, and the Little Mermaid feels like a fish out of water (ha, ha) in many social situations on land, missing her ocean home. While funny, these short tales and accompanying illustrations (which follow a few characters in linear stories throughout the book), they are also filled with some nostalgia for the good old days, as well the longing for those sometimes hard to reach feelings of acceptance, understanding, and love.
You'll laugh, you might feel like crying, and you might think "I get you" as you read about Chicken Little's anxiety disorder, or hope for the best as Beauty and the Beast's struggle to stay together despite their differences, or cheer on the Ugly Duckling as she comes into her own. If you're a lover of fairy tales, funny comics, or a twenty-something hoping to get some semblence of a handle on life, Adventures in Tumblr-land will be an enjoyable read.
Manley takes the fairy tale characters we know and love and puts them in the modern age, with modern problems. The Frog Prince can't seem to get a date, Rapunzel sheds the locks that shackle her for a pixie cut, and the Little Mermaid feels like a fish out of water (ha, ha) in many social situations on land, missing her ocean home. While funny, these short tales and accompanying illustrations (which follow a few characters in linear stories throughout the book), they are also filled with some nostalgia for the good old days, as well the longing for those sometimes hard to reach feelings of acceptance, understanding, and love.
You'll laugh, you might feel like crying, and you might think "I get you" as you read about Chicken Little's anxiety disorder, or hope for the best as Beauty and the Beast's struggle to stay together despite their differences, or cheer on the Ugly Duckling as she comes into her own. If you're a lover of fairy tales, funny comics, or a twenty-something hoping to get some semblence of a handle on life, Adventures in Tumblr-land will be an enjoyable read.
GO BUY THIS BOOK ASAP, IT IS HYSTERICAL AND HEART WARMING ALL AT ONCE!
Writing this review on the internet I’m suddenly exceedingly self-conscious, so one could determine from that how very good a book this is.
Heh! It seems like a lot of people didn't get this, but it cracked me up. If you've seen its online origin, http://fairytalesfor20somethings.tumblr.com/, you know you're in for tales twisted by social media malaise. This will date quickly, but it's painfully funny right now, especially if you spend too much time online.
One note, because I wrote down the page numbers of my favorites: the page numbers are ALL off. They are out of order and some repeat. Printing mistake!
"Though Sleeping Beauty would sleep the whole day away, she could never fall asleep at night.
At night she just sat refreshing her email inbox over and over, each time seeming to prove just how much nobody in the world was thinking about her at that moment.
Except Obama. Obama emailed her, like, every ten minutes."
"Pinocchio's conscience finally broke down and told him, 'You can't keep lying. It's obviously not working for you.'
Pinocchio countered, 'What if I put all my lies on Wikipedia? Would that make them true?'
After careful consideration, his conscience replied, 'Only if you source them properly.'"
One note, because I wrote down the page numbers of my favorites: the page numbers are ALL off. They are out of order and some repeat. Printing mistake!
"Though Sleeping Beauty would sleep the whole day away, she could never fall asleep at night.
At night she just sat refreshing her email inbox over and over, each time seeming to prove just how much nobody in the world was thinking about her at that moment.
Except Obama. Obama emailed her, like, every ten minutes."
"Pinocchio's conscience finally broke down and told him, 'You can't keep lying. It's obviously not working for you.'
Pinocchio countered, 'What if I put all my lies on Wikipedia? Would that make them true?'
After careful consideration, his conscience replied, 'Only if you source them properly.'"
This was cute! It had a lot to say about millennial culture, the current state of the economy, and progressively moving forward in a tech-savvy, digital age.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
I read about this book in Readers Digest. I figured it would be funny. I was wrong. My favorite part was the ending. I liked how all the stories got their ending, and it was the nicest part of the story.
dark
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
lighthearted
fast-paced