However, I digress.īefore I get into all of that, let’s look at the actual book first. In this regard, I was a little disappointed since “ The Orphan’s Tales” didn’t exactly enchant me in the way I expected, since I felt that none of the individual stories came that close to measuring up to the timelessness of any of the aforesaid classics.
Valente has an education in Classical Studies (emphasis in Ancient Greek Linguistics) poetry & short fiction published in various online/print magazines, journals & anthologies and a bibliography comprised of a chapbook “ Music of a Proto-Suicide” (2004), three poetry collections ( Apocrypha, Oracles: A Pilgrimage, The Descent of Inanna), and four novels ( The Labyrinth, Yume no Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword) including “ The Orphan’s Tales: In The Night Garden”, winner of the 2006 Tiptree Award and illustrated by artist Michael Kaluta (Lucifer, The Books of Magic, Vampirella, Metropolis).ĭescribed as “ A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up Readers” and “ the Arabian Nights for our time”, I guess I was expecting to be swept away much like I was when reading such classics as Grimms’ Fairy Tales (the non-Disney versions of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, etc.), Homer’s “ Iliad” & the “ Odyssey”, and the aforementioned “ Arabian Nights”, most notably such favorites as Aladdin, The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. Valente, but thanks to Jay Tomio of The Bodhisattva,, etc., not only was I introduced to the author, but I became intrigued enough to pick up her latest novel “ The Orphan’s Tales: In The Night Garden” (2006). Until a few months ago, I had never heard of Catherynne M. "Necroscope: The Touch" by Brian Lumley.David Anthony Durham's "Walk Through Darkness" Opt.“The Orphan’s Tales: In The Night Garden” by Cathe.Rest In Peace, Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007).Official Press Release from Henry Holt Books: In M.
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