Liz Gotauco – Cannonball Read 17

“The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue…”- Bruno Bettelheim

F*cked Up Fairy Tales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings, and Other Timeless Classics by Liz Gotauco

November 9, 2025 by bjornsnipe 3 Comments

This book goes to show fairy tales are timeless; the same crap you’re going through now in real life happened to people whose stories (most of the time) ended in “Happily Ever After.” It was highly enjoyable; I appreciated that Gotauco pulled out a list of stories that (for the most part) I had never read or heard of before, as well as one or two I’ve read different iterations of. Interesting (and showing the international collectedness she talks about) how many of the stories […]

Quick Questions with Cosbrarian: Fairy Tales Are F*cked Up

October 1, 2025 by katie71483 14 Comments

Thanks for joining us today, Cosbrarian! We’re so excited to talk about your book, but we’ll get to that in a minute. For those of the Cannonball Read community that are new, would you please tell us how you found us and how long you’ve been participating? I was invited to join Cannonball Read when I was a more active Facebook member on the Pajiba community group. That was back in 2019. I have participated for several years, though I took some time off around […]

Returning Fairytales to Their Roots – Stories that are NOT for Kids

F*cked Up Fairy Tales by Liz Gotauco

September 28, 2025 by Emmalita 2 Comments

When Liz Gotauco (aka cosbrarian) announced last year that her F*cked Up Fairytales with Liz video series was coming to us in book form, I got very excited. When the arc showed up on NetGalley, I smashed the request button hard. When the e-arc showed up on my kindle, I started to read it very slowly, because in 2025, joy should be savored. F*cked Up Fairytales: Sinful Cinderellas, Prince Alarmings and Other Timeless Classics is everything I hoped it would be. F*cked Up Fairy Tales […]

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