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Recommended by: Meloukhia This is a fairy tale, but no child’s story. It starts with incest and pregnancy and abortion, and continues with gang rape. Then Liga is magically placed in a world that matches her heart’s desire, peaceful and safe. While examining the consequences of assault and the consequences of avoiding trauma, the story sings [...] Recommended by: A client. This children’s book was written in 1946 about a bear who emerges from peaceful hibernation to find that a factory has been built around his cave. The factory managers tell him to get to work. When he protests that he is a bear, one manager after another tells him he is [...] Subtitle: A sequel to A Little Princess Recommended by: Badgerbag My copy of A Little Princess (yes, I still have it) is dated 1982, but I think I read it before then from the library. As a young girl grieving, surviving and in need of rescue, I connected deeply with the story of young Sara Crewe and [...] Subtitle: And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors This is an anthology of fairy tales retold for adults, with the scary bits left in, and also the bits about resilience and survival. Yes, her father cut off her arms, but then the armless maiden rescues herself and her child through quick wits as well as magic. The stories vary [...] Subtitle: 10 Stories of the Human Heart Recommended by: laughingrat.dreamwidth.org Moto Hagio is one of the most renowned Japanese artists of shojo manga, high-quality comics for teen girls. She was one of only a few women in the genre in the seventies, and she continues creating art today. This is a chronological collection spanning 1977-2007. The elegant [...] Recommended by: jesse-the-k Starting out, this books feels like a lovely magical little airship, lifting off into possibilities. By the end, the airship is limply deflated on the ground. Detective novels aren’t my favorite genre so I haven’t read that many, but I don’t think it’s usual for clues to be Obviously Laid Out for the reader, [...] Recommended by: atdelphi This novel is an intricate work of art, assembled from one precise detail after another, illuminating the lives of a Chinese family of immigrants to Vancouver, B.C. in the 1930s and early 40s. The story is told in three sections, from the viewpoints of three children. First the girl, then the second-oldest adopted boy, [...] Recommended by: wordweaverlynn Joanna Russ died recently, and many people have been posting tributes to her visionary feminist writing. I had heard of her, but not read her books. Someone linked to her short story When It Changed (full version at the link) and I wanted to read more. Reading “The Female Man” is a bumpy [...] Illustrated by: Maurice Sendak Recommended by: rushthatspeaks In the afterword, written December 1966, W. H. Auden says, “To me, George MacDonald’s most extraordinary, and precious, gift is his ability, in all his stories, to create an atmosphere of goodness about which there is nothing phony or moralistic.” My experience of this brief book was the opposite. I saw [...] As much as I loved some of McKillip’s early books, I think I’ve aged out of her target audience. This book seemed put together from bits and pieces of past books, with many cookie-cutter characters and an emphasis on the young adults falling in love and pairing off at the end – heterosexually, of course. The [...] |
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