Jak and the Wormhole

Heroes can be found in the most unlikely of places. Perhaps we all have it within us to do great things, but may simply lack the circumstances or the reason to be heroic.

The Three Little Sontarans

Brilliant. Exactly what I expected from a book called 'Time Lord Fairy Tales'.

The Twins in the Woods

I have a stack of fairy tales, Grimm's, Anderson's, various other collections. Haven't read all of them, some are very familiar, others just plain weird. So I don't know the origins of this one. Not Hansel and Gretel, not The Two Sisters.

No matter, it's a great story. Somewhere nice.

Cinderella and the Magic Box

I have never liked Cinderella (Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine being the exception), she doesn't do anything, things just happen to her. Until this one. I was a bit apprehensive at the beginning but it got very good very quickly.

Frozen Beauty

This one is also really good, really clever (as I'm suspecting they all will be). However, I was completely distracted by the idea of space travel normally taking centuries and arriving at your destination and waking up and everything could have changed.

The Garden of Statues

This book is beautiful, the contents intriguing; and this story, which could have been really obvious, was not.

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'Where is she?' Tarmin yelled at the statue. 'What have you done with her?'

Of course, the statue did not reply.

Once Upon A Time, season 2

Ah, Hook...

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 131

The night of the solstice,
the hinge of the year when things do not fit together as well as they should.

This is a beautiful, beautiful line. I’d noted it down without helpful accompanying information like book or author, and spent a while thinking it might have been Neil Gaiman.

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 129

But those eyes are all you will be able to glimpse of the forest assassins as they cluster invisibly around your smell of meat as you go the woods unwisely late.

I’m staying home.

Tangled (2010)

My friend enjoyed it.

My sister (21 now) loved every bit of it.

Friend's husband groaned aloud when Rapunzel broke into song. This was also funny.

And I cried at the end, just a little: it was a lovely, quiet, understated family reunion. That Flynn Rider reminded me of someone...

Instructions

Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that
witches are often betrayed by their appetites;
dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always;
hearts can be well hidden,
and you betray them with your tongue.

Trust dreams.
Trust your heart, and trust your story.

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 140

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

Nearly finished now. The Werewolf freaked me out as much as the cat in Neil Gaiman's Feeders and Eaters, which was lots. I'm glad they're short stories, not sure I could stay through a book. Beautiful but most macabre.

M*A*S*H, episode 4.6

Potter: Any luck?
BJ: Just woods and more woods.
Hawkeye: I met a little girl with a basket for her grandma.
B: Wearing a red riding hood?
H: Actually she was with seven little dwarves.
B: She's in the wrong woods.
H: Or the wrong story.

The Bloody Chamber (and other stories), page 74.5

I'm exactly halfway through this collection; reading the last paragraphs of The Tiger's Bride. They'll linger. Puss-in-Boots waits.

It's definitely odd, but not as weird as I'd thought. Too much Neil Gaiman perhaps.

This may, of course, all change.
That's the beauty of reviewing this way.