Tag: Grimm Tales

• 5 Classics for December

  In this series, I recommend five classics each month that remind me of that particular time of the year. For those of us who celebrate Christmas, December is a magical (and somewhat stressful) month of sweet treats and shopping and music and decorating and, ideally, laughter. It’s also obviously the last month of the year,…

  holly

  December 22, 2019

  Bookish

  A Christmas Carol, Classic, Classic Literature, December, Far from the Madding Crowd, Grimm Tales, I Capture the Castle, Les Miserables, Philip Pullman

• Top Ten Tuesday: Short Stories that Exceed Tall Expectations

  Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday theme (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share our favorite short story collections. While I usually prefer reading novels over short stories, I have enjoyed several fantastic collections. Here are a few of my favorites! Apparently I haven’t read enough short story collections to fill…

  holly

  July 17, 2018

  Top Ten Tuesday

  B.J. Novak, Big Woods, Edgar Allan Poe, Grimm Tales, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kate Chopin, Philip Pullman, Short Stories, Top Ten Tuesday, William Faulkner

• GRIMM TALES: FOR YOUNG AND OLD by Philip Pullman | Review

  To be honest, my only real interaction with fairy tales prior to reading Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales: For Young and Old was from watching Disney movies and reading a plethora of retellings over the years. For some reason I never actually made a point to read the Grimms’ tales themselves, or even anything remotely similar. It wasn’t…

  holly

  July 5, 2018

  Books

  Book Review, books, fairy tales, Grimm Tales, Philip Pullman, Review