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Just finished my last book of 2016 and am heading off to the Vegas Strip to ring in 2017 with a bunch of drunks, tourists, and strangers. Happy New Year!

I am not impressed with the new Goodreads layout. It's too hard to see friends' activity. This looks more like 2007 MySpace.

Gah, is this book over yet? The last 150 pages better be good. I could have read a lot of other stuff in the time I spent on this one.

Hansel and Grettel - just as we all know and love it, except that Gretel gets an extra "t" in her name

Snow-White and Rose Red - :) someday I'm going to play my own red and white rosebushes and put a little bear and gnome statue there

Little Thumb - the smallest member of a poor family arranges for the murder of the daughters of a kind woman who helps him & his siblings, then steals her cash.

The Forty Thieves - screw Ali Baba, this is all Morgiana's story. Too bad she's a slave and WTF with boiling men alive in oil?

The History of Whittington - a street urchin adopts a homeless cat and gets nicely rewarded. I am loving the Humane Society theme here.

The Wonderful Sheep - Madame d'Aulnoy clearly hated children. She may very well be the original evil witch of fairy tales. Boo.

The Water-Lily, The Gold-Spinners - a prince doesn't give up on the woman he loves, even after death. Awwww.

The Story of Pretty Goldilocks - no bears in this one. A pretty but picky princess puts a princely pauper into a pickle of tests. His kindness to animals helps him win her heart, for whatever it's worth.