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I'm skipping Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady by Vernon Lee despite the fact that it seems to be about a magical (cursed?) tapestry, and I am on record as loving magical fiber art stories. It's my first DNF of this collection, I just can't get into it.
Speaking of magical fiber art stories, Susanna Clarke gives us two in The Laries Of Grace Adieu, which is maybe a perfect anthology.
— May 02, 2024 01:57PM
Speaking of magical fiber art stories, Susanna Clarke gives us two in The Laries Of Grace Adieu, which is maybe a perfect anthology.
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Katie P
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I'm a simple woman -- to me, if it's in space, it's sci-fi.
— Dec 29, 2024 06:10PM
Katie P
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Strong stories in this section:
"The Little Room" by Madeleine Yale Wynne
"The Plattner Story" by H.G. Wells
" The Princess Baladina - Her Adventure" by Willa Cather
"The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
"Iktomi Tales" by Zitkala-Ša.
"The Little Room" is my favorite here (might as well have been written to pander to my interests), but I love that Baladina is an awful child that doesn't learn anything.
— May 05, 2024 07:02PM
"The Little Room" by Madeleine Yale Wynne
"The Plattner Story" by H.G. Wells
" The Princess Baladina - Her Adventure" by Willa Cather
"The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame
"Iktomi Tales" by Zitkala-Ša.
"The Little Room" is my favorite here (might as well have been written to pander to my interests), but I love that Baladina is an awful child that doesn't learn anything.
Katie P
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Wait I meant to put that last update for Monkey, not for this
— Feb 07, 2024 12:53PM
Katie P
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might dnf this one because it's long, but I do love how weird it is.
— Feb 07, 2024 12:52PM
Katie P
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"The Remarkable Rocket" Oscar Wilde
"The Ensouled Violin" H.P. Blavatskaya
"The Death of Odjigh" and "The Terrestrial Fire" Marcel Schwob
Filing "The Ensouled Violin" under stories that make you ask big questions, like "why would someone write this?"
— Jan 20, 2024 02:12PM
"The Ensouled Violin" H.P. Blavatskaya
"The Death of Odjigh" and "The Terrestrial Fire" Marcel Schwob
Filing "The Ensouled Violin" under stories that make you ask big questions, like "why would someone write this?"
Katie P
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"Furnica, or Queen of the Ants" by Carmen Sylva
"The Story of Iván the Fool" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chestnutt
"The Bee-Man of Orn" by Frank R. Stockton
The Tolstoy story was funny, but "The Queen of the Ants" was exactly my sort of thing. Going on my list of fairytales to tell kids to freak them out.
— Jan 12, 2024 11:46AM
"The Story of Iván the Fool" by Leo Tolstoy
"The Goophered Grapevine" by Charles W. Chestnutt
"The Bee-Man of Orn" by Frank R. Stockton
The Tolstoy story was funny, but "The Queen of the Ants" was exactly my sort of thing. Going on my list of fairytales to tell kids to freak them out.
Katie P
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Goblin Market (Christina Rosetti)
The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Legend of the Pale Maiden (Aleksis Kivi)
Looking Glass House (Lewis Carroll)
I don't think Alice is a very responsible cat owner.
— Jan 09, 2024 06:51AM
The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Legend of the Pale Maiden (Aleksis Kivi)
Looking Glass House (Lewis Carroll)
I don't think Alice is a very responsible cat owner.
Katie P
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Tartarus of Maids by Herman Melville - lots of metaphors about the harms of industry
The Magic Mirror by George MacDonald - a guy falls in love with an unavailable woman (she's stuck in a mirror)
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien - a guy falls in love with an unavailable woman (she's microscopic)
— Jan 02, 2024 12:25PM
The Magic Mirror by George MacDonald - a guy falls in love with an unavailable woman (she's stuck in a mirror)
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien - a guy falls in love with an unavailable woman (she's microscopic)
Katie P
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"Feathertop" by Nathaniel Hawthorne:
"girl in a straw hat / with her arms stretched out in a cornfield / that is a scarecrow."
"Mister Zacharius" by Jules Verne.
If instead of creating a person, Victor Frankenstein gets a god complex over making nice watches and almost sells his daughter to the devil (?) over it.
"The Frost King" by Louisa May Alcott
Fairy teaches snow miser love.
— Dec 30, 2023 08:11PM
"girl in a straw hat / with her arms stretched out in a cornfield / that is a scarecrow."
"Mister Zacharius" by Jules Verne.
If instead of creating a person, Victor Frankenstein gets a god complex over making nice watches and almost sells his daughter to the devil (?) over it.
"The Frost King" by Louisa May Alcott
Fairy teaches snow miser love.
