BRIAR ROSE
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I'm not sure yet if Sci-Fi/Fantasy is the best place for this book, so it might change. I picked it up used from the library to be read and released.
The Fairy Tale series, of which this book is number 6, challenges authors to take an old fairy tale and retell it. The reader is reminded that fairy tales, in their original incarnations, are not for children. Yolen takes La Belle au Bois Dormant -- Sleeping Beauty of the Wood -- and gives back a story of a young woman whose grandmother dies shortly after the beginning of the book. All her life, her grandmother has told her the story of Sleeping Beauty of the Wood but no details of her past. As she grows older and retreats into her memories, she begins insisting that she is Briar Rose. Her death brings to light a box she has kept hidden for years, stuffed with old newspaper clippings and photographs which no one in the family can identify. Her youngest granddaughter has promised her grandmother she will find out the full story, and finds herself making a trip to Poland to visit where her grandmother was during World War II.
Read this one in one sitting today. The back says it won the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, but it didn't read like a juvenile book. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Read this one in one sitting today. The back says it won the ALA Best Book for Young Adults, but it didn't read like a juvenile book. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Going with me to the Meetup tonight to possibly be passed on.
I got the book at my first meet, March, 2004, from crankydragon. Enjoyed the book, and especially loved the bibliographic info in the back, guiding the reader to more folk tales that are brought into our own world and time.
I loved the way the story grew, organically, with Becca's search alternating with chapters that portrayed scenes of her Grandmother telling her the core tale, while Becca was a child. Then, when she found one who held the key to the story, his version of the past answers further questions.
The characters are well worth meeting.
I may seek out more of this series.
Thanks, crankydragon!
I loved the way the story grew, organically, with Becca's search alternating with chapters that portrayed scenes of her Grandmother telling her the core tale, while Becca was a child. Then, when she found one who held the key to the story, his version of the past answers further questions.
The characters are well worth meeting.
I may seek out more of this series.
Thanks, crankydragon!
A friend of mine got the book from Crankydragon when we went to a bookcrossing meeting, read it and then gave it to me. I am reading it now and then will give to another friend or release it.
Isis77 is my barber. Her barber shop has a book exchange, where crankydragon leaves bookcrossing books that are traveling. When I got my hair cut on Friday, March 19, I left BRIAR ROSE there, specifically for Isis77 to catch and see what she thinks of it. I'm pretty sure she will enjoy it and I'm eager to see where it goes next.
A Great story. I am giving the book to another friend in the Journal Group Nate-Bask and I are in, it may get passed around the group for a while before it goes into the wild.
I really liked this story. I love historical fiction anyway, and I'd been looking for this book for a very long time since I read "Snow White and Rose Red" in the same series.
It may be a long time before I can release this one! I just love it too much and I want to start collecting these books in this series. These are keeper stories to me.
It may be a long time before I can release this one! I just love it too much and I want to start collecting these books in this series. These are keeper stories to me.
PS: I'll see if I can find a book in my own collection of equal value that I can release to replace this one, seeing as how I really want to add it to my personal library. A gift demands a gift, after all!
