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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #70 – Ten Fairy Tale Retellings in Film

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Ten Fairy Tale Retellings in Film

 

Initial Thoughts:

Oh look, he’s diverged from the main topic again–what a surprise!

I actually don’t read many fairy tale retellings (or maybe I’m just unconsciously aware when I am). However, I have seen a good amount of films that can find its roots in Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen tales. Some are good, others are bad, and then there are the ones that are just there. i chose not to include strictly animated films (e.g. like Tangled or Coraline).

Blurb excerpts included just because.

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[Miscellaneous] Awards/Tags — The Secret Life of a Book Blogger Tag

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Miscellaneous is the tagline to store random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. They may involve tags, awards, challenges, and other book blogging nonsense.

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What’s Miscellaneous Today?
The Secret Life of a Book Blogger Tag

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #69 – Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Ten Characters Who Are
Fellow Book Nerds

Initial Thoughts:

Today’s prompt looks at characters who are book nerds and it ranks up there as one of the harder topics to find characters to fit seeing as how I rarely come across characters that concern themselves with the literature. And since I couldn’t fill this list with solely book-related characters, I’ll throw some television ones out there as well.

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