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Thank You Candy ❤, it's such a huge topic exploring the twists and turns of the fairy tales. Looking at them so differently, to may be embrace the shadow of simply reading them for insights either or. You have helped me decide in March to celebrate end of winter to do some deep dives into the shadow aspects of fairy tales to let go and return back with new energies into Spring.Thank you. I am reading David Copperfield again. You have a wonderful way with words and inspiring too.❤

Gosh the telling of little red riding hood in the way that almost victim blames is so shocking but sadly not really cus I still see this rhetoric irl today. Shocking how se*ualised the story is as well tho

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Please see my correction in the responses below -- I feel absolutely terrible. I seriously maligned the man in the most awful way. He was a Freudian and he blamed mothers but I got it backwards -- he was a victim of fascism -- not a perpetrator. I feel as though I should light a candle for him and formally apologize. 😟

Love you talking about all off this. In the meanwhile havent started to reading here. Enjoying the books off Alana Fairchild. Like usual to many projects in my mind 😂

Firstly, that necklace is gorgeous and looks fabulous on you! 😍 I love that you’re creating a time line for, and reading multiple versions of, the Little Red Riding Hood story-that SO sounds like something I would do (in fact I have more or less done that with the tale of King Arthur and Camelot). 🙂 Oh my goodness, I had no idea about the lack of an ending in Red Riding Hood! I actually picked up an older copy at a used book sale a while ago but haven’t read it yet, so thanks for the warning! I adore The Company of Wolves and the film based on it, which I re-watch every year at Halloween time.

Absolutely loved this video, so interesting to hear your thoughts. My book wish list is growing fast 😂

Ooh so many thoughts Candy!! I love what you’re doing, it’s fascinating to hear all about it - I knew the original tales were much darker than we grew up hearing them as, but not quite that bad! I can post you For the Throne as whilst I enjoyed them, they won’t be a re-read for me 😊 Unlike the Lunar Chronicles - almost at the end of book 3 & still loving them! I’ve been listening through the library app but will definitely need to own these. It’s a shame you can’t see people’s choices for your reading challenge on StoryGraph, I assumed you could. I went with the Wren in the Holly Library by K.A. Linde, I got a cheap copy off WOB as I was completely drawn in by the cover 😂 Lacking any vampire books on my shelf (trying not to buy for this challenge) I went with it as it uses monster in the description. Made a good start of it yesterday & there are vampires in this world! 🥳 Not sure yet if any will feature in the story, but they’re there so I’ll take it 🤣 I was right there thinking I’d like to read that last Red Riding Hood story until you got to the (not) end - why would they do that! 🙈

I’m so glad you’ve made a follow up video on this - I loved the idea of this study when you first mentioned it! These stories are so much a part of my childhood (inner child work time!). Grimm’s fairytales was a staple - an early version that had been my mum’s childhood book - and I distinctly remember the part about the stones in the stomach! Your reviews of the retellings are really helpful as I was thinking of reading these. The Wolf Wilder story reminds me of the Wolfwatchers animated movie. Except that was set in Ireland and included some commentary on the loss of early pagan traditions there. (Was a brilliant movie btw and a real tear-jerker!). Many blessings 💖

I live about 2hrs away from where the Brothers Grimm collected and recorded the fairy tales. The background story I know for “Rotkäppchen” (Little Red Ridinghood) is that it originates during the time of Christianisation. People in Europe were Christianised via their secular leaders - because the Christian missionaries gave them a moral justification to grab the land, enrich themselves and make commoners tenant farmers under the guise of turning “heretics” towards future salvation . People were resistant. But the rulers needed physically fit people as peasants and soldiers. But they did not need the older people who could not work anymore and at the same time knew the old religion AND social order best. Therefore they made an example by going after the old. To protect the old, people sent them to hide into the forest and sent their very young children to bring them food, while everyone else was working. However, those in power (I think it was mostly the Merowinger Kings in the Grimms area) sent their soldiers into the forest to look for the hiding places. They would ingratiate themselves to the children to manipulate them into telling them the hiding places. Little Red Ridinghood is a story that warns children not to trust strangers, even if they seem to be nice. It essentially warns them of grooming. There are lots of variations. But in none of the versions I know, is the wolf supposed to be a real animal. It’s quite clear that the really dangerous animals in the dark woods are humans pretending to be nice.

So enjoyed your book discussion. The moral at the end of the Perrault version of Red Riding Hood is interesting. Aside from the obnoxious chauvinism of the "especially if she's pretty" comment, I think those kind of warnings probably were needed and hopefully helped children. It was a kind of stranger danger meant for children whose parents at that time weren't able to watch over them very carefully. I'm currently reading "Seeking Faery" by Emily Carding (she created Tarot of the Sidhe). I read "Uses of Enchantment" by Bruno Bettelheim years ago. He has since been outed as a Nazi sympathizer, but I remember finding his psychological observations about fairy tales very interesting.

I loved this video Candy! I did a whole section of a degree on Little Red Riding Hood, and created several installations, and made books. So much wealth to be found in the many layers of this story. Jack Zipes is brilliant! I recommend the poem by Ann Sexton in her book Transformations too. LRRH has always been my favourite fairy tale, but I also love Rapunzel... We need a fairy tale based book club! Thank you.

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Wow! You’ve accomplished so much study work for Little Red Riding Hood, I love it! I had been told repeatedly that the original fairy tales were much darker than the ones we’d been told, but I don’t recall that telling of Little Red Riding Hood 😮 I’m currently rereading Dracula and have just filmed a Fanguary video (which I might post tonight) I’m having a blast! 🧛🏻‍♂️ ❤

have you read bruno bettelheim's the uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales? I have it on my to be read shelf so will hopefully be getting to it this year but I realized the other day that my copy has an illustration from little red riding hood on the cover and I thought oh, I should have read it last month! (I read lucy cavendish's magickal faerytales, which was also on my to be read shelf). anyway, bettelheim's book is apparently analyzing fairy tales through a freudian lens and little red riding hood is one of the ten he goes into detailed analysis of. ps, I thought of you yesterday when I was buying books at the thrift store and paid $11 for only THREE books (with a 20% discount!). I was like, candy could have bought these for 2 pounds! I'm moving to the UK in a couple of years and can't wait. one was a penguin classics copy of frankenstein, because I just read dracula for your reading challenge and thought, well, I may as well read frankenstein as well! and one was a hardback copy of alice in wonderland illustrated by yayoi kusama - I have a copy of alice in wonderland already but absolutely could not resist.

For this month's challenge, I'm reading So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison--really enjoying it so far! It's a vampire novel that doesn't read like horror, and I love that it centers around a friendship between two women.

it's amazing how archetypal and rich these ancient stories are. I love red riding hood - I wrote a poem about it, with a theme that sort of anticipated the whole woman choosing a bear vs a man thing - red riding hood is very much connected to the woods and it's the woodcutters coming in that are the danger. my daughter is an artist and she illustrated it for me in a little book that is one of my most prized possessions. just the fact that there is so much in these stories to be mined even as times change, and the way that we still ensure our children are familiar with them.

Source material and re tellings are always interesting to read next to each other and use them as comparisons. You certainly are knocking your challenges out of the park! I do enjoy the way your talk about your books:)

Source material and re tellings are always interesting to read next to each other and use them as comparisons. You certainly are knocking your challenges out of the park!

What an interesting in-depth video! Loved listening to all these nitty-gritty details about different versions of it. The Donkey Skin.. yes, it's smt else. I remember reading it as child, and weirdly loving it (the version I had at least), even though I was creeped out by the beginning of the story. But the fact that the princess stood up, ie escaped and forged herself a new path, that was such a badass thing for me as a kid. Knowing what's right (and what's wrong), and acting upon it... it's not something lots of princesses do in fairytales. As for the challenge, I read "The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea" by Axie Oh for January. It's a retelling of Korean myth(s?), some of which rang a bell, but the main story was new to me. So this is where I admire you, Candy - for starting from the original(s), and then reading the retellings. I went in at the deep end, and I can't say I enjoyed it. Not as much as I had anticipated anyways. So sadly I'm not a fan of the book. And since it was such a slow burn I only managed to get 1 book read in January. 😔 Now, February is a different story, I'm doing my WITCH-UARY🧙‍♀️😇 iso Fang-uary, and I'm so incredibly excited. Started the Shadow Bright And Burning, and I've got a few books delivered in the coming days, so it'll be definitely more than 1 book for this month. Can't wait to read Nettle and Bone, In The Company of Witches, and Payback's a Witch.

Yay 🎉 fairytale retelling. What fun to revisit favorites. They are always a bit melancholy even when they were happy endings. Oh that wolf necklace is gorgeous. I love the in-depth study. ❤ isn’t it sad that back in history they looked upon children as just little adults not needing much protection. And the double meanings is interesting. I’m learning a lot! I love how you notice color and moons in books.

Finished watching your video, and now facebook just shown me a new oracle deck by Sharon Blackie and Amanda Clarke named The Fairytale Heroine. Talk about coincidences!!!!

It's always such a pleasure to listen to you talk about practically anything! This was a very interesting topic, but I feel like you could talk about the most boring thing in the world and make it a worthwhile watch with the way you choose your words and masterfully paint a picture with them. True artist through and through! All the best from Poland :)

Do you still use this deck often? A deck with this level of atypical imagery might not be lasting, I fear. I don't want to spend like 80 quid on a deck I only use for a few weeks or so. While one testimony doesn't define anything, I know, but I wanted your opinion as you feel so positive about the deck.

I feel so much better about my own paper and scrap stash now - I never thought to call it an apothecary. 😀

Just been binging your book case tours over the past few days and loved it! Do you happen to know The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Puttet? I wonder whether it’s a useful book to accompany the Hallowquest, once I restart it. It’s expensive though, so not one to order unless I’m sure about it.

You could probably write a much better book on garden witchery than the ones you’ve got there.

You could probably write a much better book on garden witchery than the ones you’ve got there.

Oooh! I happen to be reading the Mothman Prophecies--is that vampire-adjacent enough? 😆 It actually does speak to phenomena that's led to vampire lore. But anyway, you know how I feel about my vamps (and one in particular 😘), so your 'pile of possibilities' is fang-tastic--thank you! And good for you keeping to the reading pace that you *want* to do versus feel pressured to by online expectations. Books are for the soul and savouring. 🖤 Meanwhile, I'll be giving my nod to this theme via TV this month, hoping to start the Interview with the Vampire series and OF COURSE rewatching Buffy! ❤‍🔥

I'm halfway though dracula, which I've never read before (though I saw nosferatu recently) and I'm enjoying it. creepy though! a vampire book I read last year that's got quite a different spin on it and I really loved was the god of endings by jacqueline holland.

Sinking into a book.. yes 🙏🏻this is my style. I'm having an ongoing relationship with Frankenstein, which is lasting years. Funnily, i just stocked up on vampy books, and im reading Dracula without knowing about this tag, so I'm feeling the vibe. 🖤

Hello Candy, I'm also joining in this Vampire challenge reading a four-set of books by Geneva Lee called Filthy Rich Vampires. Never read these type of books before...a bit more modern day shall we say.

I’ve started Dracula for Fang February! I honestly can’t remember if I’ve read this before or not 😂. Some passages feel very familiar, but still I can’t be sure. I felt like this would be a safe selection since many vampire books are kinda steamy and romance heavy, which isn’t my jam. Im living the reading challenge so far!

Fanguary is so intriguing! I already locked in Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for my first read. It is a bit of a cyberpunky twist on Vampires. But I might also pick up Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson, a retelling about/of Dracula's Wives, if I have the time. Thank you so much for hosting this challenge! 😊

Oh I love the idea of the 1001 books book - I hate that it has American Psycho on the cover. For me that's one of the books I wish I HADN'T read before I die! I'll definitely keep an eye out for that one in the second hand shops. I love a list and some ticking off a list. The extra detail and chronological arrangement looks great.

I appreciate you giving suggestions for what we could choose to read for the prompts. I had my Anne Rice and Vampire phase about 20 years ago and I thought I might use my wildcard for this prompt. But when I looked up some of your suggestions, I came across an absolutely adorable graphic novel with a vampire, which I ordered for my daughter’s birthday 😅 Can you actually see which person adds which books to the challenge prompts on StoryGraph?

Ohhh i have read so many Vampire novels over the years ( commenting as i’m watching) Oh booktube gets you like that 😂 it will settle down 😊 Oh Anne Rice! Fabulous 🎉 she started off my Vampire reading journey. I have Dracul too OMG! Scarlet! I have read this is was great, i just bought book two 😊 House of night series is good too. What a great stash! 🎉

Let the right one in us such a good movie! I think the original one is better though. There's a Swedish one and an American one. And they made a TV series of it too (haven't seen that.) Didn't know there was a book. The night world books are likely not as popular since LJ Smith also did the vampire diaries, which is her popular series. I'm happy the theme is vampires, I had just picked up my Buffy the vampire slayer book "Halloween Rain" to finish (i started that in October.) And the vampire diaries book 1.

I would absolutely watch a video of you discussing just Dracula-especially because I’m reading it as well! I am halfway through. It’s a re-read - I wanted to refresh myself on the story in prep for seeing the Nosferatu film. THAT hasn’t happened yet but I’m thoroughly enjoying Dracula. I’d forgotten a lot from when I read it in high school. Also, I saw the movie adaptation of Let the Right One In- it was very unsettling.

The Historian is amazing.. One of the best. ♥♥

I loooved the Cambridge Companion to Gothic Literature. It’s good fun. 💜

Ooooh I like the look of the Dacre Stoker books. I’ll keep an eye out for them. I’m reading Hellsing, a manga series for teens. They are fun and mad😂 There’s 10 in the series but so quick to read I may manage all of them while I’m waiting for my daughter to finish The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay.

Hi candy, love vampire books.At the moment I’m reading the wild grove series. I’m on the 3d books. It’s about Druid and pagan path. Gods and goddesses, Macca, Ellen of the ways. All in the present day. ❤

I’m so ready for Fanguary! Oy, I keep forgetting to add my books to StoryGraph. I hear you: the only reason I read 2 books for the first prompt was because they were part of a series, and very easy reads. I’ll also be lucky if I read one vampire book in February, but that’s ok! ❤ I can’t believe you found Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction for such a bargain! Love it.

I joined your challenge a bit late in the month so I’m slightly behind, but I should be able to finish my January book (Wicked) by Feb 2, so not too bad. Additionally, even though I said I wouldn’t, I ended up joining Ben’s challenge as well. 😂 I decided to use his challenge to knock out as many as I can from the 1001 Books to Read Before etc. But I’m limiting myself to one book per month for each challenge which should be achievable for me without getting stressful. Above all I want to enjoy my reading experiences! For Fang-uary I’m reading “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” which is a ridiculous-sounding premise, I know, but I’ve heard that it’s really good! 🙂

Wasn't sure if I could commit to your challenge so I've decided to combine it with my 2025 goal of memorizing more poetry! A section from Byron's The Giaour for this month <3 🧛🏼‍♀

This may be a bit long and rambly. Sorry in advance! I'm happy to say I succeeded in January! I'm on Storygraph, and I'm the one who added The Wren in the Holly Library to the challenge book list. It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and I loved it! Also, I completely agree about not pressuring yourself to read more, more, more. Reading is by nature a slow activity. We have to take our time in moving our eyes over the words, taking in their meaning, and thinking about/imagining the images the author is trying to evoke. If you ever come across books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, I'd recommend checking them out. She has a lengthy series about Saint-Germain, a vampire who roams the world for millennia, searching for a place to belong. Her books are more historical fiction with a supernatural bent than horror. Each book takes place in a different historical period and different part of the world, and it's generally the humans who are the monsters. It's very gentle horror that immerses the reader in the time and place with lush detail. The books are stand-alone as well, so you can read them in any order.

oh so many books! LOL. i am also reading dracula for feb. never read it before. and i am reading interview with a vampire if i have time. i feel the same about not rushing. by the way, that book let the right one in is translated from swedish and, if you do watch the movie, i recommend the original swedish version. it is magnificent. scary, yes, but not scream scary just really good scary. is there such a thing? hihi. have a great feb reading month candy.

How is it February already?!! It’s the only month I didn’t have something on the shelf I could fit into, but I do have one that claims a “monster” so I might just go with that! Loving how many options you have 😂