Susan’s Comments (group member since Jun 24, 2023)

Susan’s comments from the Once Upon a Time... group.

Nightstand: Daemon Voices
Non-fic: Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës
Re-telling: just finished Nocturne
Audiobook: Jimmy The Kid This one is for my 2023 RAD (Read All the Dortmunders) challenge. (Stumblebum heist stories do make the household chores fly by.)

Hello, everyone--I'm Susan, and I love to travel with folk tales/fairy tales/myths as they shift and split and twist through time, from their earliest tellings through the latest translations, adaptations, lampoons, and mash-ups.

Favorite early storytellers (and re-tellers) include Ovid, Marie de France, Giambattista Basile, Shakespeare, and the Grimm sibs (of course); more recent obsessions are re-tellers Pamela Dean, Naomi Novik, Jo Walton, Henry Beard & Douglas Kenney, and Phillip Pullman. But that's leaving out far too many favorites.

I made my living as a performer, director, and playwright (mostly of adaptations and retellings).