More on fairy tales

I figured out the title of that collection I was trying to remember: Red as Blood: Or, Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, edited by Tanith Lee. Thank you to the one or three people on my flist that recommended Tanith Lee books, because that's how I figured it out. Unfortunately, our library doesn't carry that particular collection, but I did pick up her book White as Snow and am looking forward to it.

A good summary of the stories in Red as Blood: http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tla007.html#A.32
Some great reviews: http://www.amazon.ca/Red-Blood-Tales-Sisters-Grimmer/dp/customer-reviews/0879977906

Now that I've read The Djinn in the Nightengale's Eye (a collection of fairy stories from AS Byatt) I am also on a Byatt/Arabian Nights kick. I went to the library yesterday and picked up the following:

A.S. Byatt, Elementals
A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories
A.S. Byatt, The Biographer's Tale
Tanith Lee, White as Snow
Arabian Nights v. 1&2
Tales of India

I discovered that our local library has an amazing collection of fairy tales and the like from across the globe. This was ridicuously exciting to me--especially the anthropologist/archaeologist in me. I don't think there's any better way to learn about the cultures of locales past than through their stories.

Before I start my day...

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Daily Amusement...

This one's for realcdaae...

I'm reading the introduction to Tanith Lee's White as Snow with the introduction written by Terri Windling. Windling is mentioning short story adaptations and articles that people who enjoy these sorts of stories may like, and further goes on to mention a few websites worth checking out...

You'll find further information (and book recommendations) on three excellent fairy tale Web sites: Heidi Ann Heiner's "Surlalune Fairy Tale Pages" (members.aol.com/surlalune/frytales/), Kay E. Vandergrift's "Snow White Page" (www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/snowwhite.html), and Christine Daae's "Introduction to Fairy Tales" (www.darkgoddess.com/fairy/).

I loled...and ran immediately to post this ;-)

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