![]() ![]() ![]() Evil stepmother curses brothers to spend eternity as swans by day, men at night. The original tale from the Brothers Grimm is a familar one. The story I chose was “The Swan Brothers” by Shelley Jackson. (Pictured here with “ Hopeless, Maine” a graphic novel by Tom and Nimue Brown. If I read them all at one time, I will over due it, and not appreciate the flavors and nuances. ![]() The book, to me, was like a box of chocolates. I will confess – I have not read them all. Its an amazing selection of contemporary authors with a magical foreword by Gregory Maguire, author of “Wicked”. This month’s book was “My Mother she killed me, my father he ate me” forty new fairy tales, edited by Kate Bernheimer. But this month the selection was so… diverse, enchanting, haunting, original, epic in scope… ![]()
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