Balanced

Now that my Fans and Blog Posts have the same number again, we can all rest...wait, what is this??! now I have one more post than fans again? Bah. Someone will have to bring a friend.

This week's reading was the rather uninspiring Legends of the Rhine, which was a bunch of German folk-hero stories, some of which were downright cruel.

Not that that stopped a reviewer from commenting how great a book it would be to read to children. Because what child doesn't LOVE a tale about starving people being burned alive by a cruel bishop, who then gets attacked and killed by mice? I mean, that's prime bed-time-story material Right There.

The adultery stories, too, are likely to strike a beneficial chord in your child's psyche. ...Although, I suppose that does depend on the parents.

There was a rather interesting version of the Elves and the Shoemaker near the back, though. 'The Goblins,' I think it was called. They lived in darkness because they'd turn to stone in light, but liked coming out to help the various workmen in the town. Until a wife realized what was going on, and set a trap with pease [sic], which caused them to stumble and tumble all over, and was great fun for the wife. Even if they immediately left town thereafter and haven't been seen since. LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU; don't trip the help.