10. The Fractured Fairy Tales of Lynn Roberts: Ms. Roberts, along with her illustrator brother, give us three charming renditions of some old classics. Cinderella as an 1920’s flapper girl, Rapunzel as a long-haired hippie of the 1970’s and Little Red, a brave little guy who gets the wolf to burp out Grandma with ginger [...]

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I am a sucker for vampire novels (pardon the pun). I love them, pure and simple. Some are cliché and try too hard, e.g. Mary Janice Davidson’s “Undead” series. But some, like John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let The Right One In, are so subtle and so horrifying that it makes me shiver with [...]

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I read an interview with Stephenie Meyer, writer of the Twilight series, where she said something about how she had taken liberties with the classic vampire story because she was writing fiction and there are no hard-fast rules about what vampires can or cannot do. So she did things like make their skin glimmer in [...]

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