false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165652591m/8089.jpg 8089 7 Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work—a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transforming power of love. 2321287 book 1 12 1998 Rose Daughter total:2799|5:573|4:987|3:894|2:278|1:67| 2799 10118 3695 250 2 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun Aug 12 23:07:35 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 23:07:35 -0700 2007 Rose Daughter tells the story of Beauty and the Beast, which she has already told before, and in my opinion, better, in Beauty. She claims she felt she had to retell the story when she learned more about roses, after cultivating them. Never have I read a book before where I felt so ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 07 03:59:22 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 17:53:29 -0800 2008 Beauty and the Beast tellings I like better. I liked the simplicity of Beauty, but Rose Daughter is a little more grown up, and there's a little more world building, and I went a little deeper into it than with Beauty because it had more depth to go into. I enjoyed a...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Jan 07 06:59:39 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 09:04:13 -0800 2009
I hadn't r...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 19:28:32 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 20:31:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 19:41:27 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 19:41:37 -0700 2007 Beauty and the Beast" once again. I liked this version better. The writing is beautiful and the story drew me in right away.

Beauty has few memories of her mother, who died when Beauty was very young. When her father's business f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Nov 04 14:29:44 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 00:49:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 30 13:13:50 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 13:22:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 22:52:20 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 22:54:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:09:28 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 14:14:39 -0800 2009 3
Rose Daughter, having been written 20 years after Beauty is another retelling of Beauty and th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 14:20:04 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 10:30:13 -0700 2009 1
I didn't like this book as much as I liked Beauty but then again I am partial to the idea of a Beauty stuck on books rather than a B...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 11:44:47 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 09:10:34 -0700 2009
It's an interesting contrast to _Beauty_, which I think is a much more straightforward rendition of the traditional fairy tale, even though _Rose Daughter_ has more...more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 11:20:33 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 12:39:26 -0700 2009 Beauty. However, I felt that the character of Beauty wasn't as defined as it could have been. After reading the whole book, the one thing that defined her in my mind...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Mar 24 13:19:17 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 13:23:44 -0700 2009
What I especial...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 08:23:52 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 14:32:01 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 01:13:35 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 01:23:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 09:23:55 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 12:25:06 -0700 2009 1
Mrs Greendown to Beauty
"Bless you. Maybe it's no wonder why they grow for you after all. You know- pansy for thoughtfulness, yew for sorrow, bay for glory, dock for tomorrow. Roses are for love. Not forget-me-not, honeysuckle, silly sweethearts' lo...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Feb 01 20:54:18 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 16:51:52 -0800 2009
I thought it was intriguing/strange that an author would write two versions of the same story. In this case McKinley wrote two versions of Beauty and the Beast...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 17 15:57:24 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 08 20:17:38 -0700 2009 5+ Beauty and the Beast. It is an interesting study in the maturation of a writer--and in shifting authorial attention, as roses have rather replaced horses in the preoccupations of b...more...]]> 3 0 false true Wed Oct 29 07:37:06 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 05 14:39:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false true Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 19:33:40 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 17:15:04 -0700 2008 Beauty and the Beast, and while there are some interesting new elements, and it feels more mature on the whole, the story is also somewhat plodding for the first two thirds and then impossibly rushed for the last third, and I wasn't quite sure wh...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=8089