A Review of Gossip from the Forest, by Sara Maitland
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Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara Maitland
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book. Beautifully written, well-researched, and an engaging and compelling voice kept me reading as Maitland travels through British forests through different seasons as she explores "the forest's role as the source of [Britain's] earliest and most vital cultural forms, the fairytale." Yes, these are British fairytales and these are British forests, yet, they are ours, too--these are universal stories and they are the stories many of our ancestors brought to American from Britain, with the memories of those forests. Her retellings of such stories as "Thubling," Hansel and Gretel," "Rumpelstiltskin," and others are magical. I wanted to walk these forest paths with her.
I stumbled upon this book whilst browsing in Blackwell's in Oxford, thinking I could read it on the plane home. What a fortunate stumble that was.
Highly recommended.
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Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Forests and Fairytales by Sara MaitlandMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this book. Beautifully written, well-researched, and an engaging and compelling voice kept me reading as Maitland travels through British forests through different seasons as she explores "the forest's role as the source of [Britain's] earliest and most vital cultural forms, the fairytale." Yes, these are British fairytales and these are British forests, yet, they are ours, too--these are universal stories and they are the stories many of our ancestors brought to American from Britain, with the memories of those forests. Her retellings of such stories as "Thubling," Hansel and Gretel," "Rumpelstiltskin," and others are magical. I wanted to walk these forest paths with her.
I stumbled upon this book whilst browsing in Blackwell's in Oxford, thinking I could read it on the plane home. What a fortunate stumble that was.
Highly recommended.
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