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Mannetje, mannetje Timpe Te,botje, botje in de zee,mijn vrouwtje die heet Ilsebil,ze wil niet zoals ik wil.Van de Visser en Zijn Vrouw in De Sprookjes van Grimm,Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1984O man of the sea! Come listen to me,For Alice my wife,The plague of my life,Hath sent me to beg a boon of thee!The Fisherman and His Wife in Grimms' Fairy Tales.Puffin Books, 1971Before I started this blogging lark, if you'd come to me and said 'Listen in three years you will read a short story anthology fill...
A beautiful book I will cherish forever in my book collection. And one I know I will be re-reading again and again.Especially, my favorite of the 33 stories within, *The Skin of Her Skin* by Camille Alexa. And though I'm sure I will expand on it later, in brief I will tell you that my Leisa-boo and I now make use of the word bjarga on as many occasions as possible! Just because we both love to say it!:)*I hope to write a better, longer review, eventually.
I needed a break from reading the intense Mazalan series, and thought that I might as well give Fish by Carrie Cuinn a try since I saw it on one of my friend's "to-read" bookshelves.This book basically contains an entire series of anthologies about fish. It's a simple and broad theme, really, but one that I found to be effective.Some of the anthologies include the classic tale of the fisherman and his wife, magical fishes and a self-absorbed eel. Basically, everything fish. It has mythology, fai...
Very proud of this collection, coming soon from Dagan Books. Fish stories, beautiful ones, from beautiful authors. Fantasy, science fiction, fairy tales, contemporary--it's all magic, though.
Review to come, but my general opinion of Dagan Books remains: there's not a single prompt or concept they can't develop into a brilliant book. Effortless, dream-like, diverse and exquisite. Edit: Here is the LONG, LONG review of the anthology. After reading Cthulhurotica, the first editorial work by Carrie Cuinn I had encountered, I knew I had found an editor I’d follow into any and every project she would involve herself in. Why? It’s fairly simple. Cuinn doesn’t edit, but rather throws hersel...
Many of these stories are slight and insubstantial, but many are also wonderfully strange and rich, covering a myriad ways to interpret the theme of fish. I realised, while reading it, just how many of the stories I read and was told as a child actually involved fish, and the sea.
