May 17 2012
Dear Ms. Marriott, I’m always on the lookout for books featuring nonwhite characters so when I stumbled across your new novel on NetGalley, I had to request it. I know my previous encounter with your work was so-so but the experience certainly wasn’t enough to turn me off to the possibility of giving you another [...]
May 16 2012
Dear Ms. Huck, Your book “Princess Furball” was recommended to me by etv13, one of our readers here, after I posted a review of the movie “Donkey Skin.” I instantly fell in love with the name since I have two little Princess Furballs at home. Well, I finally got my own copy of the book [...]
Apr 29 2011
The Glass Slipper (1955) Genre: Ballet/Fairy Tale Grade: B- Somebody recommended this a while back as their favorite Cinderella film version. And since I can’t resist a challenge to find a rare film, off I went to look for it. And look for it. And finally find it through ebay as an import from SE [...]
Jan 7 2011
Tri orÃsky pro Popelku (Three Wishes for Cinderella, aka Three Nuts for Cinderella, aka Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel) (1973) Genre: Fairy Tale Grade: B Estara’s comment about this Czech/East German TV production got me interested in seeing it. But wishing to see it and actually getting my hands on a Region 1 NTSC copy proved [...]
Dec 3 2010
The Slipper and the Rose (1976) Genre: Fairy Tale/Musical/Romance Grade: B The first time I saw this musical version of Cinderella was a few years ago on the Disney Channel. I thought I’d watch it and laugh at Richard Chamberlain singing but ended up pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the movie. While it’s [...]
Nov 12 2010
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002) Genre: Revisionist Fairy Tale/Romance Grade: B- I want to go ahead and review this made-for-TV movie for one main reason and that is that it’s only available online two ways. One is to try and purchase a VHS tape made for promoting the film for (I think) the Emmys [...]
Oct 22 2010
Ever After (1998) Genre: Romance Grade: B A few weeks ago when I reviewed the Rodger’s and Hammerstein Cinderella musicals, I promised I’d be doing more Cinderella movies in the coming months. Here’s a different version of the fairy tale which is both more and less grounded in actual history but which I find charming [...]
Sep 24 2010
Cinderella (1957, 1965, 1997) Genre: Musical Fairy Tale Grades: B If, like me, you are of a certain age and watched US TV, you probably grew up watching the 1965 version of Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” Before VHS tapes or DVDs the only way to see it was the annual TV broadcast. Every year I’d [...]
Jul 29 2010
Dear Ms. James, When Jane sent me a batch of books for review, I was particularly excited to find A Kiss at Midnight in the pile. Over the years, I have come to expect interesting and realistically rendered characters from you; characters who often defy the clichés their roles in the plot force them into [...]
Jan 5 2010
Dear Ms. Andrews, On the Edge was the first of your books that I’ve read, but it will not be the last. Rose Drayton and her two young brothers, Jack and Georgie, live in the Edge, an area where two dimensions known as the Weird and the Broken overlap. In the Weird, people have magical [...]
Aug 4 2009
Dear Ms Jameson: Sarah from SmartBitches either tweeted or emailed me that she was reading some awesome book. I am always interested in awesome books so I emailed her and asked her for the name of said book. Bronwyn Jameson came the response and so off I went to Harlequin. I emailed her back and [...]
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