The title of this review is a small jab at myself. It took me until the end of The Painted Fairytale, a beautiful new book by Lara d’Entremont, to realize that the book was just that, a fairy tale. This realization prompted me to think more about fairy tales and how to define them. And…
I’ve been working on a novel for about two years. I have 10 completed chapters, which amounts to some 20,000 words. If you had told me a couple years ago that I could write 20,000 words of the same story, I would have scoffed at you—ha!—but I’ve learned so much in those two years that…
I’ve read quite a few books that have made me cry. (Here are the books I can immediately recall, although I know there are many more: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien; Love You Forever by Robert Munsch; An Island Story by H.E. Marshall, specifically “The Story of St. Alban”; The Warden and…
