![]() ![]() It might also be a case of fairy tales tending to be relatively contemporary in the versions I read (Grimms are only 200 years old), versus myths that for me either came in forms too heady for a kid in their original versions or watered down in retellings by contemporary atuhors, so I wanted a more fully realized version of everything. ![]() The difference I think is that I took a class in college reading myth as literature, and even though in a lot of ways fairy tales are no different (and I love the Grimms for example), what I usually felt about myths is that the stories I knew of them never told me enough, while I generally felt more satisfied with the fairy tales in their telling. I tend to shy away from modern retellings of fairy tales for reasons I’ve discussed in other reviews, but I really enjoy retellings of myths (though I like the straight retellings of them within their own context more than modern renderings of them in contemporary contexts). ![]() “Sing, Muse, he sings, and the edge in his voice makes it clear that this is not a request.” ![]()
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