Red Riding Hood, Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Cathrine Hardwicke

Grandma, what big eyes you have! The better to see you with my dear… Grandma, what big ears you have! The better to hear you with my dear… Grandma, what big teeth you have! The better to EAT YOU WITH my dear!

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's Red Riding Hood brings us down from the fairy tale world and back to where the original story of all of our beloved story time memories come from. Blakley-Cartwright puts a dark twist on the story of Little Red Riding Hood while also making it a love story. Valerie, Red Riding Hood, is caught in the middle of a love triangle she has a man who she is in love with, a man who is in love with her, and then the wolf who wants her. In her small village, terror strikes along with death as the werewolf attacks her sister, killing her as the first human victim. As the village wants revenge the hunt for the werewolf comes to the forefront of everyone's mind. The only problem for Valerie is that her and the werewolf have a bond that makes the werewolf want Valerie without remorse. Because of this Valerie has to make a decision of who to be married to or who to spend the rest of her life with. After I finished this…in one day, I wasn't quite sure how I felt about the book. It was great at bringing out the suspense and making the reader suspicious of all the characters to who the werewolf could possibly be, but in the end I was left unsatisfied and wanting to know more, and did not get my answers. I have not seen the movie, so I cannot make a comparison to the two, but it definitely grounds you to how the original fairy tales were told children, and not the sugar coated versions we tell today. Until next time. Keep Turning the Pages, 90s Born Reader

The Help Movie vs. Book

I already did a post talking about The Help and what the book is about, but this is one is to compare the movie and the book. Once again I read the book before I went to the movie, but this time with a bit more separation in between. I think that the makers of The Help the movie did a very good job of staying close to the book without it changing a lot of other notions. The only complaint that I had with the movie was that it took out some of the hard core matters that dealt with the African American community, like the murders, or Louvenia's grandson, but most importantly with Constantine's daughter. In the movie they made her black. That was a huge story in the book of how Constantine's daughter was born with white skin, and that's why she had to be sent away to Chicago. It was then her arrival to the Flinn's house where she confused everyone into thinking she was white was how Constantine lost her job. Of course all of that was in a nutshell, but in the book it is a pretty big deal, and it was a constant question on Skeeter's mind of why Constantine was fired, or quit as put by her mother. I was overall pleased with the movie, but it was just that giant miswrite that to me made it not an amazing movie, and one to truly rant and rave about. Until next time, Keep turning the pages 90s Born Reader

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