Lisa’s Comments (group member since Aug 16, 2014)

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

I still have no idea what is causing the apathy in Eldon. (view spoiler)[I have just gotten to the part where they meet the man from the hidden village in the mountains where the mirror was taken long ago. It might provide a means to break the "curse", but since the mirror was stolen very long ago, it doesn't seem that is the cause of the apathy. (hide spoiler)]
Celine's gift from her godmother is evidencing in multiple ways.

I also still find it funny that the title is The Snow Queen when it is really a tale, as Cheryl said, of innocent love and the trials that Gerda went through to bring her best friend back to himself.

This is fascinating that such a short tale could have so many variations again. My version definitely isn't really what I would consider Christian themed at all. The one that created the mirror is called an evil wizard that was a demon. He had a school to teach others to become evil, most of the students being imps. The mirror itself was the one that spread its evil due to laughing so hard that it shattered and was spread throughout the world.

Very true, Adriel. In a version I read before it was the shards of the Snow Queen’s mirror that made people evil, but in the version I read this time the cold spreading seems to be related to the mirror shards, but that isn’t associated with the queen herself.

Hope you get to feeling better, Gem!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...
Says that it is retold by Ken Setterington and Art by Nelly & Ernst Hofer

So it had been a very long time since I read The Snow Queen (like over 30 years) but there were several things in it that I didn't remember at all, which surprised me.

Thank you, Kyle! That is a great summary.

Cheryl, I could only find the audiobook on Hoopla from my libraries too, but since I had Amazon credit I chose to actually buy this one or my kindle. I think listening to it would be fine, though. I have read many retellings of various fairy tales, but most of them seem to be other than Anderson's for some reason.

Cool, Cheryl. That's kind of what I think too. I can't imagine how they could change this one too much. But then again, I didn't expect there to be differences in The Nutcracker either.

Oops - just realized that we had two different discussion feeds - one for the Snow Queen and another for A Crown of Snow and Ice. Anyway, although I could have read it from my Anderson anthology, I chose the second version shown in the above illustrations from my library. I am curious as to if there will be differences in the versions as there was in The Nutcracker.

Shanna is picking up my copy of The Snow Queen from the library later on today. As it is a Hans Christian Anderson tale, I could have read it from my anthology, but in order to save the weight on my hands, I chose a version from the library that is only The Snow Queen. It might be interesting to see if this is like The Nutcracker and varies by the version chosen.

LOL. It still amazed me how quickly you read, Kyle! I too wondered, but upon checking found that as Kyle said, they are in the same general world, there doesn't seem to be much overlap, as each are the retelling of a different fairy tale. I totally plan on reading them all, but not in order.

Glad you are enjoying it, Gem! That seemed to be the general opinion of us all.

Inigo is my second favorite and I definitely love his relationship with Fezzik.

Kyle, I was the same way. I actually left it sitting for a week before I decided that I would go ahead and read Buttercup's Baby. Honestly, I would have been just as happy not reading it, as it was kind of disappointing.
My favorite character is also Fezzik. He is just so utterly lovable. He is so very humble, always thinking he is not smart enough to do things himself, yet he is the most loyal and steadfast of them all. How many times does he come to the rescue without any direction as to how from any of the others?! I have seen where some say he was the "brawn" or "muscle" of the group, but I disagree. Yes, he was strong, of course, but he is the heart of the group, the moral compass.

Exactly! Even though I knew those places didn't actually exist, I still double checked that fact more than once. I knew what a florin and guilder were, but that still didn't have me doubting that the countries could be real, or could have been real and had their names changed. After all, towns and countries are named in odd fashions at times, especially some of the European ones.

Awesome!

Cheryl, you have a very valid point. Part of that is the timeframe all of those were written as well, probably. But I totally agree, the writing is just too clever and enjoyable not to want to read it.

Throughout the entire book (I have finished The Princess Bride part and am getting ready to start Buttercup's Baby), Buttercup was kind of an irritating character. She swings back and forth between being confident to the point of overbearingly entitled to acting like a complete doormat. I didn't like his treatment of her at that point either, but think it was only the act he put on as the pirate. He acts very similar close to the end of the book to fool the prince. However, he took it too far with her. That kind of behavior is never acceptable.