My mother and I ate them all week, licking them like paletas, and tried to save some in our freezer. Families who'd become enemies over fence lines and tree roots suddenly burst into each other's kitchens, trading long-secret recipes for tomato sauce or spice cookies.Īnother year, it was icicles that tasted like rose candies. One year, the glimmer stirred the air between neighbors who hated each other. Both for the wavering light that hovered above the water, and because it seemed like the right word for the flicker of magic that came with it. That was what they called the strangeness that settled onto our town for a week each October, a glimmer. And probably, that was true.īut growing up in Briar Meadow meant I measured mine by the glimmer that appeared over the reservoir every year. M Y MOTHER TOLD ME ONCE that being an Oliva meant measuring our lives in lengths of red thread.
I had forgotten just how much I enjoyed her writing until I sat down with DARK AND DEEPEST RED and got sucked in on page one. This isn't my first time reading McLemore, and it's far from the last.
So instead, I want to talk about what I like so far, and why it's already a brilliant new tale full of originality, while still retaining elements of the original source.įirst, the prose. I had hoped to have a review for you today to celebrate the Macmillan Fierce Reads FRTBR launch this week, where we can help promote the Fierce Reads titles we love each week, with rotating titles, but I haven't been reading much, and am only 60 pages in.
I bought it when it came out in January, and only have time to fit it in my schedule now. When I found out that Anna-Marie McLemore, whose work I've soaked up in the past, had written an adaptation entitled DARK AND DEEPEST RED, was inspired by The Red Shoes, which I've never seen retold in a novel before, I was so intrigued and knew I had to own it IMMEDIATELY. It's a darker, grislier tale, not a nice fluffy one easy for Disney to adapt, and so a lot of people aren't familiar with it despite all the puns and depictions they might have seen in passing when watching movies and TV shows. There is a lovely Oscar winning adaptation from 1948 that can be purchased from the prestigious Criterion Collection, which I enjoy watching on occasion. What are some of your favorite fairy tales? For me, one of my favorites has always been the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Red Shoes. Fans of mermaids, dragons, unicorns, and other mythical creatures?Įnjoy when a beloved classic tale is retold?Ī Twist in the Tail Thursdays features all this and more!
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