fairy tales Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/fairy-tales/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 05 Jan 2017 02:06:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg fairy tales Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/fairy-tales/ 32 32 38398750 A Wild Swan: And Other Tales https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/a-wild-swan-and-other-tales/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/11/a-wild-swan-and-other-tales/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2015 08:44:58 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=4713 When I think of Michael Cunningham many things about his writing come to mind: poetic, compelling… so many adjectives, and yet funny is not among them. Not that he is dark or his writing is without joy, but until I read his newest book, a series of short stories called A Wild Swan, he’d never made […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/09/bitter-greens/feed/ 3 3275 The Snow Queen https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/snow-queen/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/snow-queen/#comments Wed, 14 May 2014 07:29:41 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2855   People are more than you think they are. And they’re less, as well. The trick lies in negotiating your way between the two. Michael Cunningham’s new novel, The Snow Queen: A Novel, has an opalescent blue-green cover that shimmers with the same light Barrett Meeks sees above his head one stormy winter night in […]

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