books by Catherynne Valente     books:       A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects Catherynne M. Valente Curiosities, 2008 A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyder. "Structured around a series of folktale motifs, Valente's eloquent second full-length poetry collection dissects the perceived roles of women in Earth's and otherworldly fable and myth.... ...             Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams4 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Prime Books, 2005 Wow. Catherynne M. Valente, Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams (Prime, 2005) Sometimes I feel as if I should have a "five-and-a-half star" ranking. I've given a lot of books five stars in the past couple of years-- more five-star reviews than I'd given out in the decade before, almost. (Blame my getting a library card again, and thus not being limited to my own books.) But there are some books that ...             Oracles: A Pilgrimage4 reviews Catherynne, M. Valente Prime, 2005 Hauntingly Beautiful I took this slim volume of poetry with me to the hospital earlier this week. Once I realised that the Toradol and morphine injections weren't making me horribly loopy, I picked it up to help pass the time. I devoured "Oracles: A Pilgrimage" in a single sitting. Ms. Valente's use of language ... it's like dancing with words. Of course, when the Oracle leads, we might waltz, tango, do a bit of ...             The Labyrinth9 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Prime Books, 2004 It is the world Sometimes when reviewing books reviewers use such dull and awkward phrases such as "incomparable", " a life-changing experience", "brilliant" and "an amazing debut from a writer to watch". They use such phrases either because they are ignorant sods whose minds function like computer programs running on cliches or they use such phrases because they are desparate and almost mute before the ...             The Orphan's Tales: In the Cities of Coin and Spice8 reviews Catherynne M. Valente, 2008 Story after Story after Story -- and all excellent This is another excellent set of stories - truly a modern Arabian nights - that you will read and treasure. Unlike her first book, which I greatly enjoyed and read in a few days, for this book, I took the time and treasured each story one by one. I really love the way the stories all relate and turn in upon one another. And the locations and characters are so magnificently original. A real ...             Cabinet Des FTes Prime Books, 2006             Jane Eyre (Illustrated) Charlotte Bronte Norilana Books, 2007 Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë is arguably the world's favorite love story, a romantic classic beloved by generations of readers. Jane Eyre is a young English governess who overcomes an abusive childhood and falls in love with her pupil's guardian, Mr. Rochester, the grim and charismatic master of Thornfield Hall -- a place of gothic mystery. She is quiet, small, mousy, downtrodden -- and yet indomitable and steadfast, fierce and ...             Apocrypha2 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Prime Books, 2005 The sea shrugs and is satisfied In language stark and intricate by turns, always unflinching, Catherynne M. Valente peels back the skin of the everyday to reveal the mythscape resonant beneath such disparate actions as crab fishing, cutting a peach, and catching a train. Some mythologies present themselves more readily than others: "The Dance of Uzume-no-Ama" narrates a Shinto solstice ritual, while "Achilles and ...             The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden25 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Spectra, 2006 Please excuse my spoiler I haven't read any fantasy quite like Catherynne M. Valente's The Orphan's Tales duology. This is the story of a young orphan girl who is shunned because of the dark smudges that appeared on her eyelids when she was a baby. She lives alone in a sultan's garden because people think she's a demon and nobody will claim her. However, one of the young sons of the sultan, a curious fellow, finds her in ...             The Grass-Cutting Sword4 reviews Catherynne M. Valente Prime Books, 2006 Japanese myth-punk This brief novel is a retelling of an old Japanese folktale. Susanoo-no-Mikoto, the god of wind and storms, has been banished from heaven by his sister the sun goddess Ama-Terasu for an admittedly horrible act of desecration. On earth, in his human form, he discovers that a dreadful, eight-headed serpent has been terrorizing the region, and has devoured the eight daughters of a humble peasant ...             Jane Eyre (Illustrated) Charlotte Bronte Norilana Books, 2007 Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë is arguably the world's favorite love story, a romantic classic beloved by generations of readers. Jane Eyre is a young English governess who overcomes an abusive childhood and falls in love with her pupil's guardian, Mr. Rochester, the grim and charismatic master of Thornfield Hall -- a place of gothic mystery. She is quiet, small, mousy, downtrodden -- and yet indomitable and steadfast, fierce and ...              search for books apocrypha, book, cabinet, cities, coin, cutting, dialects, dreams, eyre, folktales, fragile, ftes, garden, grass, grass-cutting, guide, hon, illustrated, jane, labyrinth, night, oracles, orphan, pilgrimage, spice, sword, tales, yume books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage: A Story we recommend Please excuse my spoiler leave a comment home  impressum - about us