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Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale | Marina Warner
Explores classical and modern fairy tales to argue that fairy tales are a mirror of human understanding and culture.
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lowellette
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Mehso-so

It took 6 years for me to finish this short little book. The language is so academic that I kept sneaking in other books. Then I would return it to the library unfinished. Then I would be drawn to it again, start from the beginning, and the cycle would continue. This time I did finish and it did get me thinking more about the role of stories in our lives. To finishing more books in 2021!

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Linsy
Fairy Tale | Marina Warner
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#24in48 was such a great boost to my reading last weekend, I‘m doing my own mini-#readathon this #weekend to keep up my momentum. For my #12in2, I‘m hoping to finish the tagged book, What Alice Forgot and, if I have time, re-read The Husband‘s Secret. I‘m on a bit of a Liane Moriarty kick! 🧡

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Clare-Dragonfly
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Christmas book and bookish stuff haul!

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Linsy
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“Baba Yaga the ogress rides in a flying mortar and pestle, and uses the skulls of her victims for lamps.”

#babayaga #witchyreads #fairytale

Erofan

Baba Yaga is a character who scares children in Russia! 😨😂
6y
Linsy @Erofan After this description, I can understand why! 😱 6y
sudi That is a scary picture 😨😨😨 6y
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Linsy
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I love this little book! #forest #coolbooks #fairytales

Meeko93 Oh it looks good! 6y
RadicalReader @Linsy gorgeous book cover 6y
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Linsy
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Thank you all so much for making my first #photochallenge a success! I had so much fun this month, I want to do it again. I realize most of us — including me — have depleted our #OldCoolBooks collections, so I thought I‘d start a recurring #CoolBooks challenge. For the first month, the theme I picked is #fairytales, as that‘s where many of us started our own reading journeys.

Thank you for being your awesome selves, Littens! 😘😘😘

Linsy P.S. Unfortunately, I don‘t have prizes for this one, but I‘ll be posting last months winners shortly! (edited) 6y
Kalalalatja Oooh, a fairytale photo challenge - count me in! 6y
llwheeler Great theme! 6y
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BookwormAHN Love the challenge 😸 6y
CarolynM Your May challenge was a lot of fun. Thank you! 6y
TK-421 I didn't get to post every day, but I loved your #OldCoolBooks challenge! Thanks for hosting! Looking forward to the fairytale photo challenge 😊 6y
ReadZenRites Fun!😁🌸💕 6y
batsy Love this image! 6y
BookishMe Awesome prompts! 👏🏽👏🏽 6y
Linsy @Kalalalatja Yay! Happy to have you!! 😚 6y
Linsy @TK-421 I‘m glad you enjoyed it! I think that‘s what makes these photo challenges great, you don‘t have to post every day. And if you don‘t, you have lots of fun pictures from others to catch up on! 💖 6y
Linsy @BookishMe Thanks! I had fun creating them! ☺️ 6y
DebinHawaii Looks like another fun challenge. I'll try to join in this one too. 💜 6y
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Once upon a time

Meeko93 7y
TommieMarie74 I love this one!!! 7y
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PagesOfKate
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Four small but perfectly formed books that make great #stockingstuffers #jingleshelves

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I wish there were readers in my family to gift these to!! 📚😊 7y
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Sarah83
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@scripturient Do you know that there is another steampunk festival at Zeche Zollern this weekend? 😉

scripturient Oh, I didn't see your post before now. Looks lovely! 7y
Sarah83 @scripturient I will post some pictures later. It is also tomorrow. 6 Euro entrance and you don't need to buy them before. 🖒 It is pretty cool, even though I liked Bochum more. 😉 7y
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MrBook
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#TBRtemptation post! I really like this cover. What's a fairy tale? Where do they come from? What do they mean? What do they communicate about morality, sexuality, society, etc.? Entangled with folklore & myth. Inspiration comes from the supernatural, imagination, nature, psychology, feminism. MW explores different manifestations on the page, the stage, the screen. Her goal: to show the genre's importance in identity. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

Lindy I only got halfway through this before having to return it to the library because I was leaving town.... sometime last year. The second half is on my TBR; it's really good! 8y
CrowCAH Awesome book art cover!!! 8y
TheKidUpstairs Putting on my TBR on the strength of the cover alone! 8y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 8y
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Madsthebookslayer
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Ready to begin my fairy tale research! #amreading #amwriting ❤📚

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Suzze
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Look what came in the mail! My first Once Upon a Time Book Club box. I haven't even opened it yet. I am very excited for this reading experience!

Lacythebookworm What's inside?!? 😊 8y
Joybishoptx I can't wait to hear what you think! I've been toying with getting this one. 8y
Suzze @Lacythebookworm I haven't opened it yet, and I don't want to spoil it for anyone. I think if you go to #onceuponabook someone might have posted it. 8y
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Suzze @Joybishoptx I decided to try it, as I can cancel if I don't like it. I'm thinking positive though, it sounds like it will be fun. 8y
Mommamanzi I LOVED last months! 8y
Cinfhen Box is gorgeous 💝 8y
Suzze @Mommamanzi Oh, goody! I see a list of dates for discussions. Does this mean I should try to finish the book before they start? 8y
Mommamanzi Yes I did! 8y
Suzze @Mommamanzi Thanks! I'll be sure to read it next. 8y
Melissa_J I just subscribed so will get my first package next month. I'm so excited!!! 8y
Suzze @Melissa_J It looks like such fun! 8y
MeganAnn Just got my first box on Friday! Looking forward to reading this one and seeing what you think of it! 😊❤️ 8y
Tnovo I haven't heard of this book club before....must check it out! Feel like I have been living under a bookshelf before Litsy 😉📚 8y
Suzze @Tnovo But you had a lot more $$$ in your pocket. 😁😁😁📚📚📚 8y
MaleficentBookDragon This is my first box too. 8y
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Pickpick

Sigh. So good. A great little primer for _From the Beast to the Blonde_.

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Lindy
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Genevieve Breillat's movie Barbe-bleue [...] ends with a tableau of the bride contemplating Bluebeard's head on a platter, a victorious Salome with the head of John the Baptist. This revenge eludes the protagonist of E L James' sadomasochistic sensation Fifty Shades of Grey; in this case, the author chooses to let Bluebeard have his way.

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Lindy
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'A fairy tale,' Angela Carter once remarked, 'is a story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.'

pppooraikul It sounds so interesting. Is it an analysis of each fairy tale? I'm thinking about reading this one. What do you say? 8y
Lindy @pppooraikul It's an analysis of fairy tales in general, as a form of literature. I recommend it. 8y
pppooraikul Added to my TBR. Thanks! 😉 8y
brendanmleonard Angels Carter ❤️ 8y
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Lindy
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By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, it would have already been impossible for Hansel & Gretel to walk more than 4 miles through any English wood without bursting back out into open fields. The landscape of forests is symbolic: 'The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.' -Francis Spufford

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Lindy
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CS Lewis pointed out that fairy tales don't need to be especially well written to be unforgettable. Many of the most powerful tales are terse to the point of blankness, brimful of inconsistencies, & plotted with baffling lack of logic (why would a father decide to murder his 12 sons in favour of his daughter? why would another father cut off his daughter's hands?).

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Lindy
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Coleridge praised 'motiveless malignancy' in narrative; it certainly excites a frisson, that mixture of cold fear and thrilling transgressive pleasure that is the characteristic smoky aroma given off by fairy tales.

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Lindy
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In the 15th century, Paracelsus first classified elemental beings: he called them gnomes (earth), sylphs (air), salamanders (fire), and undines (water). Each was destined to spark the narrative imagination to such an extent they now appear generic fairytale characters.

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Lindy
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Tolkien: "Speaking of the history of stories and especially of fairy-stories we may say that the Pot of Soup, the Cauldron of Story, has always been boiling, and to it have continually been added new bits, dainty and undainty."