Welcome to Litsy!

I took a day off today just because, and celebrated with possibly the biggest croissant in town, a second cake (because why not), and finishing this wonderful book from @erzascarletbookgasm ❤️

These tales take well known fairytales and flip them on their head. We get a tale from Rumpelstiltskin‘s perspective, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and the title story, 7 Wild Swans. Very well done, I enjoyed them a lot!

#CurrentlyReading 🕯📖

Dear Jessie, thank you so much for the #birthdaybooks ❤️ I finally got around to picking them up from the PO today. I‘m really excited for the tagged book, it has been on my tbr for ages! I already own and have read the Pinborough book (and really liked it!), but then I can #PayItForward to someone else, who hopefully will like it too!

Thank you my friend!

This book just wasn't for me.
It's too bitter and cynical for my taste, and the author seems to have a very dim view of marriage and relationships. It's kind of like reading the literary equivalent of an Alanis Morrissete album.

Picked up a couple of finds at the bookstore. #shakespeare #shortstories

On to my second book for the @24in48 readathon. A quick read filled with clever retellings of classic fairy tales. Enjoying this with a cup of tea. #24in48 #readathon #currentread

Just started this collection of Fairytale Retellings with my beautiful bookmark from @Sarah83
The illustrations are beautiful but I didn‘t like the first story... let‘s see if the next ones are more enjoyable for me

Seriously though: who lets me wait on my own, next to a bookshop for half an hour? Well, my train apparently. I don't think I need to tell you what happend😅 (how could I ever leave such a pretty book behind anyways)

Love the unruly braided font #tbr #forfontssake #anditsAugust

Some classics children's tales with darker twists and turns 😱It was my favorite book in April.

#sizzlinsummerbooks #retelling

I loved, loved, LOVE this book

#booklove #review

https://sillschrijft.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/sill-leest-a-wild-swan/

Beautifull illustrations in #awildswan #love ❤

"Happy endings. Too many to count."

Good reading month! A Wild Swan is my favorite book in April. It's collection of well known fairytales, but with dark twists (and with beautiful illustrations). Thank you @TheLondonBookworm for recommendation😘

#aprilbookshowers #bestofapril

I'm starting my #deweysreadthon (2 hours delay) with this fairy tales book.

#readathon #springcleaningreadathon

#signedsunday the dustjacket is embossed with a wing design, Yukio Shimizu's ink drawings ore beautiful, and it is signed. One of the more beautiful books on my #favoriteauthors bookshelf.

It's been a couple months since I was able to do one of these monthly challenges, and I've missed it, so I'm excited to join in again! #marchintoreading #marchTBR @RealLifeReading

I just started this. Super clever so far!

These shorts are all brilliant studies in empathy and the dark twists of the psyche. He picks the fairytale characters we think we know (or the footnotes, the ones we overlook) and redraws them. Beauty thinks she‘s got game, Rumpelstiltskin just wants to be a father. The brother left with a swan's wing for an arm struggles after the fairytale ends. It‘s sure dark. But Cunningham is sharp, and knows better than to let the light go out completely.

Magic is sometimes all about knowing where the secret door is, and how to open it.

Here in the city lives a prince whose left arm is like any other man's and whose right arm is a swan's wing.

Beautiful. Cunningham adapts and interprets these fairy tales with a modern, sly edge and acres of respect for the traditions behind them. I couldn't be happier to have started my reading year with it.

"Only Beauty knew that the beat would track them down, and murder them. Only Beauty understood what a single rose might signify, what's acts a rose could inspire, if you lived without hope."

If you're looking for a re-imagined set of fairytales, look no further!

'Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed; the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured or a curse.'

The stories were/are good but it's the illustrations that really make this book wonderful.

#FairyTaleRetellings
This is the only Michael Cunningham I have read. I loved the elegant writing and the wonderful images. I look forward to spending more time with his work.

#fairytaleretelling This book is a collection of short stories all based on fairy tales. I always enjoy Michael Cunningham's writing and liked all the stories in this collection. #photoadaynov16

I actually finished a book!! One of my cats has vanished so my mind has been too distracted to concentrate and I was in a slump of sorts to begin with. I guess a shorter work was a good plan. This is a collection of adult fairy tales based on the collections we are familiar with as children. It was a very dark take on them, but I enjoyed them and great art, too. This is worth checking out!

Dark and modern fairy tale retellings. I like the blend of traditional stories with contemporary details. Beautiful artwork too.

Thrilled to have a copy of this collection (now in paperback). Such a gorgeous book. Short pices with a dark, adult fairy tale feel. The art 💕

A quick and good read! The graphics are amazing and the stories will make you rethink all our treasured fairytales and folklore. Reality can be harsh sometimes. You'll see what I mean when you read it. #LateNightLitsy

I really enjoyed this book. I loved this take on the fairy tales chosen and how he brought them into our world and our time but yet kept them true to the original. If you like different telling a of fairy tales I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved this take on the fairy tales chosen and how he brought them into our world and our time but yet kept them true to the original. If you like different telling a of fairy tales I highly recommend this book.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved this take on the fairy tales chosen and how he brought them into our world and our time but yet kept them true to the original. If you like different telling a of fairy tales I highly recommend this book.

Picked up a few more books today...

I love fairytales. I love dark and twisty. I love a dark and twisty take on fairytales.

New twists on familiar tales. Michael Cunningham did an excellent job presenting fairy tales in a new light