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Cover of The Women of Troy

What’s Hecuba to him? or to her?

The Women of Troy by Pat Barker

January 23, 2022 by Dinah Lord 4 Comments

I devoured Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls just after Christmas, and was pleased to find that the sequel, The Women of Troy, was also available. And so what better way to start my Cannonball read this year (my first ever), than by a review of this fantastic book? You don’t need to have read Silence of the Girls (though you should, because it’s excellent) because Barker reiterates the important stuff which went down in that book which has its impact on this one, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #iliad, feminist retelling, Pat Barker, sequel

Dinah Lord's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #iliad, feminist retelling, Pat Barker, sequel ·
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“If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.”

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

February 23, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Never have truer words been spoken! This collection of short stories crept around my periphery for some time, and I am both overjoyed to have finally given in to it and disappointed in myself for not biting earlier. I came across it originally on a list of fairy-tale retellings on Autostraddle, and when it popped up again in the employee recommendations section of one of my favorite booksellers (Crow Bookshop in Burlington, what’s up!) I knew that it was meant to be. Still, it sat […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: Angela Carter, beauty and the beast, bluebeard, european folklore, fairy tale, feminist retelling, magical imagery, puss in boots, Red Riding Hood, retelling, vampires, violence, werewolf, witchcraft

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:19 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: Angela Carter, beauty and the beast, bluebeard, european folklore, fairy tale, feminist retelling, magical imagery, puss in boots, Red Riding Hood, retelling, vampires, violence, werewolf, witchcraft ·
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