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title: "The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales Hardcover – October 18, 2016"
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# The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales Hardcover – October 18, 2016

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    Ick
  

*by E***U on Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2020*

When they say fairy tales retold, they don’t mean “Rapunzel in middle school” or “Cinderella in cyberpunk“. This is more “crank up the maturity by adding sex, drugs, and woman abuse” type of retelling. The themes are skewed toward “men are the devil, women are helpless”. The writing is parched and lifeless and bleak. “The man put a seed in her belly. She lay there while he lay on top of her and did his thing.” And I mean literally using the terms “did his thing”.Everything screams “I AM WOMAN” and “my character is defined by my womanhood. Whether I spread my legs and let a man on top of me or a take a lover (male or female because love should be free) or I’m a woman in a man’s role. I scream womanness and I have no point beyond that but to be a woman and exist in relationship to men.”I get that lots of fairy tales are about women suffering due to the actions of men. But when you’re revamping those tales for current sensibilities, they don’t all have to turn it on the same head. Viewing everything from the same lens is dull. Plus it makes everyone unlikable. And I certainly don’t want to read about it over and over.Especially the female authors. They treat their stories like they’re an artsy short film–all experimental and pretentious. Some of them call it “playing with form”. I call it choosing form over function. Construct over content. Should a collection of short stories really be your experimental ground?Oh, and two of the stories are of the “set in a world from another story I wrote” variety, and I HATE that. Making your short story as if it’s an advertisement for your other book series. No wonder short stories fell out of favor.

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    Dark Twists of Fairy Tale Empowerment
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2016*

This book was a great gift to myself. I'm thrilled by the creative approaches to to the classic fairy tales. As I read, I can feel the stories supplant some of the cultural narratives in my consciousness related to gender (as great feminist literature does). The introduction by Dominik Parison and Navah Wolf talks about how the classic wooded environments, which represented mystery and fear in the days of old fairy tales, have been replaced with various other environments the authors explore. While I have not read the whole book yet, the stories I have experienced took my breath away, particularly the first by Seanan McGuire, "In the Desert Like a Bone," which she positions as a retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood story and which contains a dark twist of empowerment. I wish this some of these stories had existed when I was younger--as dark as they can sometimes be (just as the original fairy tales were). They would have given me a profound sense of hope and will that I needed at the time. I have kept all my childhood fairy tale books, just as  markers of a time and influence on the shaping of a feminine identity that continues to transform over time. I'm convinced that the woods still are, in childhood consciousness, a place of mystery and fear, the place beyond which they are told they should not roam, in a world that can be devouring. Many women have been "devoured" there and are seeking to become whole again. Instead of cautionary tales, this book is full of character-building triumphs. It's also physically beautiful, with raised artwork on the cover. It looks, feels, and smells like an old book, and it will stay on my shelf for a long time. I will also give it as gifts to women in my family.

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    My love of short stories and fairy tales ushered me to ...
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2017*

I found this book after stumbling upon the whimsical Icelandic illustrator, Stella Björg (check out her mythical sea creatures alphabet, "Here Be Monsters", they're magical), and read that she drew the little vignettes at the beginning of each story in this book. My love of short stories and fairy tales ushered me to buy this book, so glad I was led to it!  My favourite was "Seasons of Glass and Iron" by Amal El-Mohtar. You bet yer bum I'll be scouring the interwebs to find more of her work. There were a couple of duds (sorry...), but overall I rather enjoyed reading these tales, and wished some were longer.

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