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And a little bit of that. Let’s start off with a local band — local in northwest England, that is. We have a new release from Bill Malkin and The Band Wagon, Those Glory Days. Next we have a book by Stan Nicholls and Joe Flood that falls just short of being . . . → Read More: Little Bit of This. . . . Kimberly Bates wrote this review. The prospect of an adult discussion of some of my favorite childhood authors has great appeal, if only because it legitimates my occasional re-reading of Alan Garner and Lloyd Alexander as an adult. Although my adult self wishes to quarrel with certain aspects of their interpretation of the Mabinogi . . . → Read More: Donna R. White: A Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature Whilst there are many good books on the fey folk, most only cover the good aspects of them. Our library is full of books that would lead one to believe that the fey are really nice folk who help out with chores and generally are easy to get along with. But what if the . . . → Read More: Diane Purkiss: At The Bottom Of The Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things Reprinted from Folk Tales. Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English was published in 1910. This is a collection of tales told in both English and Gaelic. My Gaelic isn’t good enough to read the Gaelic versions, but here’s a short tale, “Torr-a-Bhuilg,” in English from this remarkable collection to . . . → Read More: James MacDougall and George Calder: Folk Tales and Fairy Lore in Gaelic and English Well, more books and music, and that should be enough. Hi, it’s me again, and we’ve got some really interesting things for you today. From the folklore of the Levant East comes Ron J. Suresha’s The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin, a retelling of tales of the Middle Eastern Wise Fool. And . . . → Read More: More of Everything I have gone out and seen the lands of Faery, And have found sorrow and peace and beauty there, And have not known one from the other, but found each Lovely and gracious alike, delicate and fair. “Dreams within Dreams” by Fiona Macleod Open your eyes to the world around you. There are . . . → Read More: Fey Folklore The subtitle calls The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin a collection of “stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero.” Nasruddin, though, is more than simply Persian — he’s an avatar of the Wise Fool found in folklore everywhere. In this case, as editor/author Ron Suresha notes, the Middle . . . → Read More: Ron J. Suresha: The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin “Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.” This is my month for folktale retellings, it seems. Immediately after finishing Jones’ Arabian fantasy, Desert of Souls, I plunged into Valente’s Deathless, a very . . . → Read More: Catherynne M. Valente: Deathless |
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