Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

quick aside:  Dang does my current default icon look good against the Halloween-type bar LJ just put at the top.

Anyway...

I managed to break this down into 5 sessions over 2 days...considering the extremely high level of anticipation I had for this book, that's a lot of self control.

For those who read my LJ who aren't familiar with "Fables,"  it's a comic book series about fairy tales.  But not the disney kind...these are the story Anderson and the Grimms cleaned up for their books.  In essence, all the fairy tales in the world happened.  Not always the way we know them, but they happened, across hundreds of worlds over hundreds of years.  If the characters were adults when their story happened, they stayed that age.  If they were children, they aged to a comfy 20-30-something and stayed there.  Unless, of course, their story involved a certain blue fairy casting a spell to make them a "real boy," in which case they spent centuries pre-puberty and sullen about eternal childhood.

At some point, a powerful foe, whom they call "The Adversary," started taking over the various worlds and countries...small ones, at first, but he grew increasingly more and more greedy, and by the time they knew what a threat he was, it was too late.  Those who managed to escape eventually made their way to a world the adversary didn't know about, one with no magic save that which they brought with them, our world, which they called "Mundy."  When they were sure no one else was coming through, they shut off all the gates and hoped the adversary never found their way to Mundy.

Along the way, they set up their own government in what was then New Amsterdam, though eventually, all the non-human fables had to go to a compound in  upper New York called "The Farm," because talking animals running around didn't fit with the chief Fabletown law...don't let mundies know about us."  As the series begins, King Cole is the Mayor, Snow White is the assistant mayor, the Big Bad Wolf is the Sheriff, Prince Charming has slept his way through Europe and is returning to Fabletown to try to bum money off his ex-wives, the Frog prince is the Janitor, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears are staging a rebellion at The Farm.  Things have changed since then.

"1001 Nights of Snowfall" takes place in the earlier days of Fabletown, when Snow White is assistant to the then-assistant mayor, and is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Arabian fables, where she ends up in the clutches of a certain sultan...

( babblings go here )

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall

quick aside:  Dang does my current default icon look good against the Halloween-type bar LJ just put at the top.

Anyway...

I managed to break this down into 5 sessions over 2 days...considering the extremely high level of anticipation I had for this book, that's a lot of self control.

For those who read my LJ who aren't familiar with "Fables,"  it's a comic book series about fairy tales.  But not the disney kind...these are the story Anderson and the Grimms cleaned up for their books.  In essence, all the fairy tales in the world happened.  Not always the way we know them, but they happened, across hundreds of worlds over hundreds of years.  If the characters were adults when their story happened, they stayed that age.  If they were children, they aged to a comfy 20-30-something and stayed there.  Unless, of course, their story involved a certain blue fairy casting a spell to make them a "real boy," in which case they spent centuries pre-puberty and sullen about eternal childhood.

At some point, a powerful foe, whom they call "The Adversary," started taking over the various worlds and countries...small ones, at first, but he grew increasingly more and more greedy, and by the time they knew what a threat he was, it was too late.  Those who managed to escape eventually made their way to a world the adversary didn't know about, one with no magic save that which they brought with them, our world, which they called "Mundy."  When they were sure no one else was coming through, they shut off all the gates and hoped the adversary never found their way to Mundy.

Along the way, they set up their own government in what was then New Amsterdam, though eventually, all the non-human fables had to go to a compound in  upper New York called "The Farm," because talking animals running around didn't fit with the chief Fabletown law...don't let mundies know about us."  As the series begins, King Cole is the Mayor, Snow White is the assistant mayor, the Big Bad Wolf is the Sheriff, Prince Charming has slept his way through Europe and is returning to Fabletown to try to bum money off his ex-wives, the Frog prince is the Janitor, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears are staging a rebellion at The Farm.  Things have changed since then.

"1001 Nights of Snowfall" takes place in the earlier days of Fabletown, when Snow White is assistant to the then-assistant mayor, and is sent on a diplomatic mission to the Arabian fables, where she ends up in the clutches of a certain sultan...

( babblings go here )