Snow White – Cannonball Read 17

Read this book to find out what “uh” is a euphemism for! CBRBINGO – Red

Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher

July 23, 2025 by narfna 2 Comments

Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the audio ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. The dark fairytale vibes of this were just what I needed yesterday when I flew through this audiobook. Especially since the audiobook I had been listening to previously is the epitome of a three-star read. Such a genuine pleasure to read a T. Kingfisher book after that, rich in atmosphere, fun dialogue, and characters that are easy to like and follow. Plus, her fairytale retellings (of which […]

Two books I had not intended on reviewing together

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

December 30, 2020 by crystalclear Leave a Comment

The Belles By Dhonielle Clayton In this world, most people are born unattractive – they have grey skin, red eyes, and straw-like hair. There are a few who are not so, and who look like what we think of as regular people. These people are called Belles, and they have the power, somehow, of making other people “beautiful.” They can change someone’s skin color, eye color, hair color and texture and length, and even change bone structure and muscle. But these changes are like […]

How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Snow White by Donald Barthelme

December 25, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There’s time in this novel that I really liked what I was reading, and then the rug is pulled out from under me in a way that I felt frustrated and annoyed. I think that seems to be something of the point here, or at least a point here, a book that actively resists your own reading. What we are reading is a remix of the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves fairy tale but told through a completely decontextualized and deconstructed set of writing […]

A new version of a classic short story from Neil Gaiman

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman

November 16, 2019 by MarkAbaddon Leave a Comment

I admit it, I am a Neil Gaiman fanboy. There are two shelves in my library devoted to his works and this short story, Snow Glass, Apples, sits among the greatest pieces he has created. So what is it about? Take the story of Snow White, keep all of the elements of the story we are familiar with (the stepmother, the dwarves, the stepmother’s attempt to kill Snow White, the Forest, etc.), then invert some, distort others and create a whole new perspective on a […]

Two Snow Whites, and two bingo squares!

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm by by Randall Jarrell (Translator), Nancy Ekholm Burkert (Illustrator)

Snow White in New York by Fiona French

September 28, 2019 by kfishgirl Leave a Comment

So my sister is getting her Master’s degree in Art Education. She’s currently in a class about picture books (or something along those lines). Her homework for this week was to compare three different versions of a picture book, so since I thought at least two of the three books would work for me for bingo squares, I joined her in reading the books for her homework. We got my nine year old niece involved too. She actually read the books aloud to us, which […]

“I like stories where women save themselves.”

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

April 24, 2019 by cosbrarian Leave a Comment

Gaiman smushes the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty together in this gorgeously illustrated novella. The setting of the book is sometime after Snow White is awakened from her coffin and at the 100 year mark after Sleeping Beauty’s curse set in. But the stakes are raised when the sleeping sickness that has fallen on the princess and her kingdom is spreading out further and further as the curse lingers. Several of the dwarves bring this to their queen, and conveniently she is looking […]

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