The Wedding Party:. Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to Read. Rate this book. From Daniel M. Lavery comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales.
Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.
Readers of The Toast will instantly recognize Lavery's boisterous good humor and uber-nerd swagger: those new to Lavery's oeuvre will delight in his unique spin on fiction, where something a bit mischievous and unsettling is always at work just beneath the surface.
Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, as we tuck ourselves in for the night.
Bedtime will never be the same. Short Stories Fantasy Horror Fiction More Details. Mallory Ortberg 3 books followers. Search review text. Emily May. Let's call it a 2. With this one, though, I'm leaning more towards declaring it a negative reading experience. There were just too many nonsensical things, too many abrupt and weird endings, too many stories that felt pointless. The first is a retelling of The Velveteen Rabbit and it is the stuff of nightmares. Gone is the sob-inducing rabbit of the original and, in his place, is one seriously murderous bunny.
In the excitement of looking at all the new presents the Velveteen Rabbit was put aside, and he learned for the first time what it was to be ignored, and he did not forget it. The story arc was the most satisfying, and I couldn't look away right from the horrific opening to the very end. This is a Little Mermaid retelling and the narrator had such a snarky, weird and strangely likable voice.
It's a perfectly dark and gory opening to the collection. She had kissed him, and she had kept his lungs from getting wet; this made him hers according to the laws of most commonsensical people.
Some others read well and were engaging, but felt like they were building towards something important only to peter out at the end. You think something dramatic or twisty is going to happen and you wait and wait and it ends with the characters sat around drinking tea or whatever. The titular "The Merry Spinster" is like this-- an enjoyable Beauty and the Beast retelling that gets to the end and I had no idea what the point was.
Pretty much all the others did nothing for me. I was intrigued by the gender fluid Cinderella retelling in "The Thankless Child" but I genuinely have no idea what the hell that story was even about. Overall, The Merry Spinster was pretty disappointing. Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube. It was an important task of kingship, determining when brothers and sons were no longer necessary.
Before the war they used to say such things about her Daniel M. Also by Daniel M. This is my own interpretation, inspired by Daniel M. The first edition of the novel was published in March 13th , and was written by Mallory Ortberg. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this short stories, fantasy story are ,.
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