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> 44 Beauty is a much better retelling (from the same author), in my opinion. While I like Rose Daughter well enough, I don't think it's one of McKinley's best.
I've just read Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. It was okay, but didn't blow me away like Sunshine did. There was much too much of Beauty and her family and how they were so happy in their cottage in the woods, and not nearly enough interaction between Beauty and the Beast for it to be ...
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
I have Rose (wrong touchstone) on my list of poetry reads for 2010. Thanks to your great review I'm going to make sure I read it near the start of the year.
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
65. Rose by Li-Young Lee
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
I am currently reading Daughter by Ishabel Moore. It's really, really good. It's about a 15-year old who recently finds out her mother has Alzheimer. It's a really tragic, fascinating story, making you realize we're all lucky to be born without any disabilities!
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... including reworking various folktales, including Robin Hood (Outlaws of Sherwood), Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and Rose Daughter ), Sleeping Beauty (Spindle's End), and the more obscure Deerskin that tackles incest. She also has young adult books with female protagonists set in her ...
... Duyn, vol that won the Pulitzer in 1991. a good day to die - Jim Harrison, the rebel angels, the pianist, thriller rose by Cruz, some books i've read lib. copies of - shadow of the silk road, the history of love - a second copy to give to a friend, a philosophical investigation , ...
... Duyn, vol that won the Pulitzer in 1991. a good day to die - Jim Harrison, the rebel angels, the pianist, thriller rose by Cruz, several books i've read lib. copies of - shadow of the silk road, the history of love, a second copy to give to a friend of a philosophical investigation ...
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zorah Neale Hurston
A Touch of Mistletoe by Barbara Comyns
Field and Hedgerow by Richard Jeffries
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
I did not find Beauty (Robin McKinley) to be as memorable as the author’s later retelling of the same story in Rose Daughter . I remember moderately liking this story, but finding the ending completely unsatisfactory: Beauty’s insecurity stemming from the Beast’s transformation – she ...
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
I've not read Rose Daughter , but I have read The Red Tent
I haven't read Bad Boys - Palatini but I have read Rose Daughter .
I finished Rose Daughter recently and I really loved the ending.
... is an admission I haven't made since I was eleven. I'll be waiting for Tied up with Strings, the next installment.
34. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. I read and loved Beauty years ago, and the original folk tale has over the years fascinated me in its many permutations. I didn't ...
... Diesel.
71.A Daughter's a Daughter and other Novels- these stories are so so sad. Just in time for Mother's Day though, A Daughter's a Daughter shows what happens when a daughter tries to ruin her mother's love interest and happiness. Unfinished Portrait was pretty good Celia has to come ...
... .youtube.com/watch?v=Ejxw-oRHjQQ
I plan to collect all of his books..
and look forward to the movie they are making from Daughter
I expect to love this book ( it cam from Alibris)
I feel like Christmas~! Aerrin99 in Book talk : Fairytale related books (Apr 19, 2009, 9:51pm)
Robin McKinley has several lovely retellings of fairtales -
Beauty and Rose Daughter are two different takes on Beauty and the Beast. Spindle's End is Sleeping Beauty, and Deerskin is a take on a slightly more sinister fairy tale. I don't remember the latter two very well, but I ...
I finished The Thief Lord today and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'll probably concentrate more on Rose Daughter , but I could be reading any number of books by tomorrow.
... sure that they will have the same titles as the original stories. The novel-length ones I'm thinking of at the moment are Rose Daughter , Beauty, Zel, Briar Rose, or Rapunzel's Revenge, but there are also The Goose Girl and Tam Lin for a couple that do retain the original titles.
...
... interesting way, the author’s pop culture references were sometimes a bit cringe-worthy, and will probably date badly.
Rose Daughter (by Robin McKinley) is a beautiful retelling of The Beauty and the Beast . McKinley’s focus on relationship building is what appealed to me the most, ...
... books are my very favorite McKinleys. That said, reading her two different retellings of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty and Rose Daughter , written at very different times of her life with different emphases, is well worth the effort. Both are beautifully done, and people argue vehemently about ...
... I have to for school. LAME.
I'm also reading a couple other books too. Mostly The Book Thief, Black Powder War, and Rose Daughter .
... The Door in the Hedge, Susan Cooper's Tam Lin, Donna Napoli's Zel. McKinley also re-re-told Beauty and the Beast in Rose Daughter . Even Neil Gaiman's Stardust probably qualifies in this category.
... most to the original story. I loved it when I first read it, when I was 10 or 11, which is the age that it is aimed for. Rose Daughter , which is her other retelling of Beauty and the Beast, is much more complex and mature, more typical of her other books. I definitely wouldn't write her off ...
... tmacott:
Giant's Bread 1930
Unfinished Portrait 1934
Absent in the Spring 1944
The Rose and the Yew Tree 1948
A Daughter's a Daughter 1952
The Burden 1956
I've never read any of these although there are only a handful of her mysteries that I haven't read at least once. I ...
... the whole feel of the book. Now there is a book where the ending is /not/ like a fairytale.
I like Beauty more than Rose Daughter , though I have to admit neither of them are among my favorites. I just couldn't get in to Rose Daughter, and Beauty can be kind of boring - I enjoy re-reading ...
... or teens, and she's somewhat appalled when they get marketed/shelved in those areas. I don't think she's said the same of Rose Daughter , but I do agree that it has a lot of complexity, moreso than several of her others which are marketed to a young age group.
I haven't read Rose Daughter , but I definitely agree with you about Deerskin. Not for kids.
Re: 23 & 24
Honestly, despite McKinley's reputation as a YA author, I don't think Rose Daughter and Deerskin are YA books. Both have difficult passages, even for adults to get through, and while they certainly can be read by younger audiences, I don't think that's who she was aiming at with ...
... all the good reviews it got.
I plan on reading her Damar books as soon as possible, as well as Sunshine and a bit later Rose Daughter to compare.
... haven't read it since high school; instead I've been watching the BBC miniseries compulsively. And my treadmill-book is Rose Daughter , which I got from the SantaThing exchange, but which I'm not all that far into since I absolutely hate exercise.
#23 - I haven't read Mystic and Rider, ...
... the story is not as often done in comparison with something like, say, a straight-up Cinderella story).
And regarding Rose Daughter I agree with foggi -- it's not "sex with an animal" -- the idea is that he has changed, but she loves him for who he is, as he is, so he doesn't revert to the ...
#11 -- To me, it seems like the Beast becomes less of a beast, and more of a very big, very hairy man at the end of Rose Daughter , though the transformation is sort of subtle, as if it happens off the page while Beauty is talking to the greenwitch. I gather this from the way he is treated by Beau ...
... state! Marrying him when he was still a beast kind of seems like giving up. Of course, it's been awhile since I read Rose Daughter ... I always reach for Beauty first. So I'm probably oversimplifying things.
wisewoman -- That's funny; I have also read both Beauty and Rose Daughter and I prefer Rose Daughter for exactly the reason that you dislike it above. I don't actually think that Rose Daughter is YA -- I think it is darker and more complex because McKinley had an older audience in mind when ...
wisewoman -- That's funny; I have also read both Beauty and Rose Daughter and I prefer Rose Daughter for exactly the reason that you dislike it above. I don't actually think that Rose Daughter is YA -- I think it is darker and more complex because McKinley had an older audience in mind when ...
wisewoman -- That's funny; I have also read both Beauty and Rose Daughter and I prefer Rose Daughter for exactly the reason that you dislike it above. I don't actually think that Rose Daughter is YA -- I think it is darker and more complex because McKinley had an older audience in mind when ...
wisewoman -- That's funny; I have also read both Beauty and Rose Daughter and I prefer Rose Daughter for exactly the reason that you dislike it above. I don't actually think that Rose Daughter is YA -- I think it is darker and more complex because McKinley had an older audience in mind when ...
... or bewildering circumstances, in the end, it is her choice that is the most important thing.
Speaking of Beauty and Rose Daughter , I was surprised when Rose Daughter came out, that she would retell the same story. While I like Rose Daughter, I definitely prefer Beauty. Has anybody else ...
I will totally second (or third) your views of Beauty. I have read it several times, as well as McKinley's Rose Daughter and Spindle's End. I have introduced many students to her. And I see on Amazon that there are other retellings of classics out there, so I must buy more.
I just finished Beast (touchstones weren't working)
I'm trying to decide if I want to read Rose Daughter or Forever in Blue next.
I suppose I could start both.
My review of Rose Daughter is here . There were... a lot of roses.
ejd0626, how about The Bluegrass Conspiracy by Sally Denton for you?
Whoever's choosing for me, please pick from my TBR tag .
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Child of the Hunt by Christopher Golden
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
Child of Time by George Mann
... ere .
fyrefly98, you have some great books on your list. I'm going with a sentimental favorite - will you please read Rose Daughter ? I'm a sucker for Robin McKinley and hope you enjoy it.
Whoever picks for me, please choose from my TBRV list. I'm trying to pare it down - sorry it's so ...
You might check out the Fairy Tales Retold group for some ideas. Robin McKinley has a number of good ones, including Rose Daughter , Deerskin and Spindle's End; so does Juliet Marillier (Daughter of the Forest, Wildwood Dancing.) Angela Carter's book The Bloody Chamber might ...
I will put in a nudge for Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley or The Book Thief b Markus Zusak. The former is a retelling of "Beauty and the Beast," featuring a Beauty who can stand on her own two feet and two equally capable sisters. The Book Thief takes place in Germany during the Holocaust. ...
89 Foggi
I haven't read those ones yet. I own Rose Daughter so I'll probably start that one soon.
I also started Dragon Keeper last night.
... sounds like a definite book to put on the too read list. I'm sure you're familiar with Robin McKinley. Her book Rose Daughter is a gorgeous retelling of "Beauty and the Beast." Rose Daughter is actually her second reworking of "Beauty and the Beast." Her earlier work Beauty is ...
... read, I really don't know where I'll go next. Right now I'm tending the roses in the glasshouse at the Beast's palace in Rose Daughter . I'm kinda eying Flora's Dare for my next read -- so look for me in Califa in the next couple of days!
... I'm really looking forward to reading Graceling -- I've heard good stuff about it.
Edit: Oh, right now I'm rereading Rose Daughter , because I wasn't in the mood to start something new.
... have ever read...that story just burrowed into my brain. I had never encountered it until I read SF writer Charles Harness' The Rose , which is a surreal rumination on the "art as sacrificial gift of love" aspect of the fable.
... the story in her Deerskin, but the way it was written it felt like I was wading through treacle. I tried reading her Rose Daughter a little while after and again while I liked the story itself the style just didn't agree with me. It's a shame because those reactions have made me shy away ...
... bringing it to my attention! Have you read any books by his wife, Robin McKinley? Of course you just bought one of them, Rose Daughter . I love The Blue Sword particularly.
...
Dragon Rider
Grim Grotto
Deathly Hallows (for $3!!)
Heidi
Jurassic Park
Le Petit Prince
The Lost World
Rose Daughter
The Tears of the Salamander
Ptolemy's Gate
I got all of those for about $10 because the booksale in my town is really cheap (I think the most ...
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham
Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
Daisy by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Flower by Irene N. Watts
If your choice is between Beauty: a retelling of the story of Beauty and The Beast or Rose Daughter , read Beauty. Maybe it's girlish of me, but I loved the dress descriptions, and Greatheart. I also really wanted the Beast's library!
Between The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown... I ...
Both of these books are amazing. I loved Beauty but Rose Daughter has something to it that the other doesn't. I relate more to the character from Beauty, but the castle and grounds in Rose Daughter is more fantastical than any other one. By all means, read both - it won't take that long!
Like wisewoman, I much prefer Beauty. As much as I love Robin Mckinley's books (she is one of my favorite authors), Rose Daughter has always felt like it has too many unrelated ideas thrown together and they just don't all fit. The writing is beautiful, but the story never made much sense ...
Beauty was first and a wonderful story, one I've loved for years. The best version of this story I'd ever read. Then Rose Daughter was written, by a more mature McKinley who is now questioning some of the fairy tale tropes--and I love it too. By all means, read them both.
The Box With Red Wheels by Maud Fuller Petersham
Red Mars by Kim Stanley robinson
Rose by Martin Cruz Smith
Cow Creek Water and Brick Red Earth by Helen Stewart
Snow white and Rose Red by Patricia Wrede
I'm reading rose daughter
... interesting was the take on a future society in which how much 'face' you have is all important (as in prestige).
20. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley ****
This is the second version McKinley wrote of Beauty and the Beast, 20 years after the first one and completely unrelated (except for ...
I"ve just finished Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. This is the second version she wrote of Beauty and the Beast, 20 years after the first one and completely unrelated (except for the Beauty and the Beast theme). I liked the first one so much I didn't think McKinley could change the story and I ...
... immediately delete it from my player.
Since starting Wide Sargasso Sea, I read Extras by Scott Westerfeld and started Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley. I'm only into Rose Daughter for a few pages but I really like McKinley's writing and am looking forward to sinking into this without WSS ...
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The Poisonwood Bible
The Glass Bead Game
How Soccer Explains the World
Lucifer's Shadow
The Dante Club
Rose Daughter
Funny in Farsi
QB VII
Counselors
Troubling a Star
War Story
Death in the Andes
Empire of the Ants
Gone for Soldiers
...
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I'd like to make all the titles conform, for my own edification (and ...
... - Amazon Link
2. Rose Daughter - Amazon Link
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... was reprinted in the middle 1970s, I was able to build up a reasonable selection of his work, both old and new. Try to find The Rose , The Ring of Ritornel or Redworld.
... guilty since I have so many un-read new books.
Instead of reading one of my comfort books, Beauty, I decided to read Rose Daughter , since it's the newer re-telling of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley. Surprisingly, it did the trick, as the story, while vastly different from the ...
6. Rose Daughter
7. Beauty (re-read)
I finished Rose Daughter and Breath by Donna Jo Napoli.
Rose Daughter was good. There were a few parts that felt really unimportant and boring near the beginning but it got better after a couple of chapters. it didn't end the way I expected it to though.
How about something my Robin McKinley - I'd like to do either Beauty or Rose Daughter (both are retellings of Beauty and the Beast)
#185/186/189 - I loved Beauty by McKinley, but I haven't read Rose Daughter yet. (It's now on my Amazon wish list.) I enjoyed Spindle's End and The Outlaws of Sherwood quite a bit as well, but not nearly as much as Beauty. Please let us know what you think of it, Letta.
... though if that bothered you in Sunshine, you'll probably want to give Dragonhaven a miss, as well. However, I thought Rose Daughter was pretty good -- worth rereading. McKinley is one of my favorite authors, but her latest stuff has tended to ramble all over creation. I always recommend ...
I haven't finished Fairest yet, but I started reading Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley.
... Jo, I would've been in trouble)
The Beast, both from the Disney version (but only if he stays a beast) and from McKinley's Rose Daughter (case in point--and not, I would argue, YA, though it is often placed on those shelves)
Edmond Dantes of The Count of Monte Cristo
Eric from The Phantom of ...
... Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Beautiful Joe by Marshall Saunders, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley, and everything else Alcott, Austen, and McKillip ever wrote. Oh, and all the story books K. Y. Craft ever illustrated. Okay, I think that's ...
Beauty , Spindle's End, Rose Daughter , Deerskin, A Knot in the Grain, and A Door in the Hedge are all excellent. The last two are short story or novelette collections.
Also her other books are great.
... been more forgiving about some of these issues. But I don't think I would have liked it any better. Sadly, this just bumped Rose Daughter out of the 'least favorite McKinley' spot on my list. For all its flaws, Rose Daughter is still beautifully written. Dragonhaven feels more like a first ...
... well-suited to the Harry Potter books, which juggle dozens of slackly integrated characters and set-pieces.
84. Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
A cozy and cheerful book, covering the same material as the author's Beauty but dense with details about roses and sisterhood, and ...
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Well...I didn't like this much better than the last time I read it. This has got to be my least favorite of all of Robin McKinley's books. It just doesn't quite fit together; it seems like either there are a lot of unrelated ideas sort of ...
... another. Very well written YA fiction (note to self: find his adult fiction, I know he wrote some).
I just finished Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley (which I didn't like much better than the last time I read it) and now I'm onto The Blue Sword. I need to get back to new reads, but ...
... that sucked me into becoming a romance reader. Not to mention her beauty and the beast story, Beauty, not the revised Rose Daughter . I couldn't stand that one. I think if I hadn't read the first version, I would have liked it just fine, though.
Today I read Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark ...
... stuff is fantastic, though I would not recommend Deerskin. She also wrote a great retelling of Beauty and the Beast - The Rose Daughter , Robin Hood - The Outlaws of Sherwood, and Sleeping Beauty - Spindle's End.
Enjoy!
... ghter
A Girl of the Limberlost
Close Company: stories of mothers and daughters by Christine Park & Caroline Heaton
Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley
The Outlaws of Sherwood
The Door in the Hedge
Juniper
Rose Daughter
Plum Lovin'
Tales from The jungle book
Rowan
A little sideways, but still related:
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Gardner's Art Through the Ages
A history of dyed textiles: dyes, fibres, ...
My father is in the Navy
Where's Mom Now That I Need Her?
Wise Child
Rose Daughter
Bloodchild and Other Stories: Second Edition
Heir to the Empire
Magician's Ward
Black Beauty
Professional Goldsmithing
The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
Redwall
The Blue Sword
Rose daughter
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Amber Spyglass
The Golden Compass
Silver Wire Jewelry
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
The Blue Sword
Nine Princes in Amber
Rose Daughter
The Shockwave Rider
Rose Daughter
Juniper
Morning Star
Plum Lovin'
Rowan
The Scarlet Pimpernel
... of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Outlaws of Sherwood
Deerskin
The Hero and the Crown
The Blue Sword
Rose Daughter
And if you ever feel like the short stories, too...
A Knot in the Grain
Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits
The Door in the Hedge
There are a ...
... text from her to me. I am such a nyerd. Despite being in Morocco for the last week and a half, I managed to finish Rose Daughter , and then moved on and finished Beauty and Deerskin.
I'm gearin' up for the new one.
I think I am also going to go back and reread all my Steven Go ...
I really like almost everything Robin McKinley has written. And what I don't like, I don't think is bad (Rose Daughter , for instance); it's just not to my taste.
But that depends on the definition of "great", of course.
Pink: Rose Daughter
Red: Redwall, The Ruby in the Smoke, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Mars Plus
Orange: The Amber Spyglass
Yellow: Sunshine, Lioness Rampant, The Morning Star
Green: Accommodating Brocolli in the Cemetary
Blue: The Blue Sword, Many Waters
Violet: Plum Lov ...
... was her first book, it was written before the disney film!
She's written another book on the Beauty and the Beast tale Rose Daughter which I also enjoyed and Spindle's End which is based on the sleeping beauty story.
... in fantasy fiction. I've enjoyed all of McKinley's novels--she does some wonderful fairy tale retellings, including Rose Daughter , which isn't necessarily for kids, but is a wonderful read for anyone interested in the story of Beauty and the Beast.
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A beautiful book of poems by Li-Young Lee, an immigrant to America with his father (who had been a political prisoner in Indonesia under Sukarno's regime). Many of the ...
