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“If this is the last decision I can ever make, at least it is my decision. Let me go, Alyosha. I am not afraid.”

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

September 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

One of our #CannonBookClub prompts asked if there’s any special power in taking a known story and envisioning it in a new way, and for me the answer is a resounding yes. Whether its something along the lines of Longbourn where characters who are merely set dressing in the original tale are given the limelight or something like The Bear and the Nightingale where history and folktales are put into a blender, metaphorically, and something new arrives there is more often than not an engaging […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: book club, CannonBookClub, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, fairytale adaptation, Katherine Arden, low fantasy, remade folktale, The Bear and the Nightingale

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:42 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: book club, CannonBookClub, cbr13bingo, faintingviolet, fairytale adaptation, Katherine Arden, low fantasy, remade folktale, The Bear and the Nightingale ·
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Book Club Discussion Post: The Bear and the Nightingale

September 17, 2021 by faintingviolet 6 Comments

Welcome to our Fairy tale Adaptations book club! This go round we’ve selected four books that showed their author’s take on various fairy tales and folktales. Each of our books below have their own Discussion Posts and don’t forget, we’ll be having our Zoom Book Club on Saturday September 18 at 7 pm EDT. Other Discussions The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson For those of you returning […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, History Tagged With: book club, CannonBookClub, Discussion Post, fairytale adaptations, Katherine Arden, Rumplestiltskin, The Bear and the Nightingale, the winter king, Twelve months

Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction, History · Tags: book club, CannonBookClub, Discussion Post, fairytale adaptations, Katherine Arden, Rumplestiltskin, The Bear and the Nightingale, the winter king, Twelve months ·
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Reminder – Fairy Tales and Adaptations #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!

September 10, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

We are just one week away from  our next meeting of our Cannonball Book Club! It will begin on Friday September 17th when we’ll have Discussion Posts  here for each of our selections, The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, Deerskin by Robin McKinley, Sea Witch by Sarah Henning, and Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson.   We will also be talking on our Social Media platforms, and of course in our Facebook group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, we’ll have some additional prompts […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: Alif the Unseen, CannonBookClub, Deerskin, sea witch, The Bear and the Nightingale

Genres: Book Club · Tags: Alif the Unseen, CannonBookClub, Deerskin, sea witch, The Bear and the Nightingale ·
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CannonBookClub Fairy Tales & Adaptations Announcement

August 1, 2021 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

Discussion posts are live, see below. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden Deerskin by Robin McKinley Sea Witch by Sarah Henning Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson Book Club Details Continuing our feel-good goals with #CannonBookClub in 2021 we’ve landed on Fairy Tales and Adaptations as our theme for our September meeting. With that in mind our Book Club team has decided on a shortlist of four books to choose from, highlighting different genres and original tales. September 17-18, 2021 Book Choices […]

Filed Under: Book Club Tagged With: adaptation, Alif the Unseen, book club, CannonBookClub, Deerskin, fairy tale, fairy tale retelling, Fairy Tales and Adaptations, G Willow Wilson, Katherine Arden, Robin McKinley, Sarah Henning, sea witch, The Bear and the Nightingale

Genres: Book Club · Tags: adaptation, Alif the Unseen, book club, CannonBookClub, Deerskin, fairy tale, fairy tale retelling, Fairy Tales and Adaptations, G Willow Wilson, Katherine Arden, Robin McKinley, Sarah Henning, sea witch, The Bear and the Nightingale ·
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The woods are lovely dark and deep

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

March 28, 2021 by Wanderlustful 4 Comments

In a dark medieval Russian forest, the tomboy daughter of the local chief, Vasya, just wants to continue with her wild and pagan ways- running through the woods, riding horses, communing with the minor domestic and farmyard gods. These ways put Vasya at odds with her stepmother as well as the Church, personified by the local priest.  The stepmother and the priest push Vasya’s father to marry her off, which bodes ill for the village as a whole- the bonds that keep evil forces at […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: fairytale, Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

Wanderlustful's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: fairytale, Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale ·
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But the Wind Goes Right Through You, It’s No Place for the Old

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

January 20, 2019 by JenCanRead 3 Comments

Okay, I’m going to be upfront here that this was a book club pick (my book club pick, actually), and we broke a cardinal rule: never read the first in a series. It’s incredibly difficult to judge character arcs and abandoned plot lines, because you know that the story is only just beginning. That also makes it difficult to write a fair review, but I will try. Do you love whimsical stories rooted in complicated family dynamics? Apparently I do, because I adored reading this […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale, winternight trilogy

JenCanRead's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Book Club, Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale, winternight trilogy ·
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