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Summary: Glittering Jewel
Review: This book is for everyone, a gorgeous collection of insightful stories that look deeply into the human spirit and teach readers to believe in themselves, seek freedom, and live life to the fullest. I'm mainly writing this review for someone who asked whether or not "Kissing the Witch" is just for gays. The answer is NO.When I first read about it, I too had the impression that it was only for gays and I wouldn't like it. After reading several great reviews of it, however, my curiousity got the best of me and I ordered it, half expecting to dislike it when it arrived. How wrong I was! This book is not anti-male or lesbian; in fact, only three of the stories even hint at homosexuality. The prose is beautiful and brutally honest at the same time and gives the reader vivid images of the characters and places. I highly recommend it to anyone with a tast for insightful stories and truly alive heroines!
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Summary: Everything old is new again
Review: 'Kissing the Witch' is a gorgeous, eccletic fusion of myth and magic. Emma Donoghue has taken familiar tales and given them a spin that leaves the reader spellbound. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, they are all there, in 'new skins', recorded in a tone that is both new and ancient.
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Summary: Everything old is new again
Review: 'Kissing the Witch' is a gorgeous, eccletic fusion of myth and magic. Emma Donoghue has taken familiar tales and given them a spin that leaves the reader spellbound. Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, they are all there, in 'new skins', recorded in a tone that is both new and ancient.
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Summary: A Must-Read for the Revisionist!
Review: A delightful way to relive fairytales that doesn't gloss them over. Donoghue does an amazing job of storyweaving which puts a moden spin on fairytales without relegating them to the modern world. All the fantasy but with strong women! A fabulous gift for any young women, or any woman who considered the tale of Prince Charming might actually come true.
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Summary: Fascinating, Interstitial Work
Review: A lyrical, inspiring book that turns fairy tales inside out and makes different meanings from their bones. Donoghue's prose is a sensual delight as she strings together stories like glittering beads, each one blending into the next in a work that is not quite collection, not quite novel. This form pushes the reader to experience the interwoven lives of the women in the tales--women that are sisters, mothers, enemies and lovers. A fascinating work of interstitial literature.
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Summary: Original perspective for the lover of fairy tales
Review: An original twist on 13 of Grimm's fairy tales. Some of the stories were somewhat disturbing, others every bit as grim as the original Grimm. Each will make you think and reflect upon its outcome.
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Summary: Fascinating, Interstitial Work
Review: Everyone should enjoy these "twists" on classic tales. I mean once I finished the first story I couldn't put the book down. Emma Donoghue does a fantasic job of reshaping these stories so that they not only portray new and enlightening points of view, but also keep there supernatural sort of air to them.The way the tales are connected at the end of each is phenominal.
This book, for sure, is a keeper. Although these are fairy tales,I think this book would be better appreciated by readers aleast in their teens; not necessarily because of content or any other related thing, but more for understanding... and therefore enjoyment. And EVERYONE should enjoy.
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Summary: Fantastic Fairy Tales
Review: Everyone should enjoy these "twists" on classic tales. I mean once I finished the first story I couldn't put the book down. Emma Donoghue does a fantasic job of reshaping these stories so that they not only portray new and enlightening points of view, but also keep there supernatural sort of air to them.The way the tales are connected at the end of each is phenominal.
This book, for sure, is a keeper. Although these are fairy tales,I think this book would be better appreciated by readers aleast in their teens; not necessarily because of content or any other related thing, but more for understanding... and therefore enjoyment. And EVERYONE should enjoy.
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Summary: Gorgeous.
Review: Fairytales are retold and rewoven in this collection of thirteen stories by Emma Donoghue. It begins with The Tale Of The Shoe, in which Cinderella ends up running off with her fairy godmother, and finishes with The Tale Of The Kiss, an original take on the theme of witches in fairytales and the story from which the collection gets its name. The language is smooth and sensual; the new perspective or new twist brought to the familiar tales is sometimes surprising, always innovative. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The truth of the fairy tale is the power of a woman.
Review: I impulsively picked up this book because of the name & cover design. I had no idea that it was directed at an adolescent audience until I was about to order one as a gift for one on my heroes. I read it through with delight and anticipation for each story to come. I think this is an excellent book for women of any age. It provides our younger siblings with an alternative to all things boys. Its life affirming with out sentimental illusions, and portrays the other side of the story, our side, with humor & accuracy seldom seen. It takes the fairy tale back from the Grimm brothers, and their superstitious fears about women with knowledge, self determination and freedom. I loved it and have a list a mile long of friends I'll be sharing it with.
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