Sydney White and Gregory Maguire
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meganbmooreI didn't really go in for most teenybopper movies even when I was one, but I thought I'd check Sydney White out because I like fairy tale adaptations. Like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, Snow White isn't a fairy tale I've ever been particularly fond of, always prefering story like The Snow Queen, East of the Sun West of the Moon, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Seven Swans, and even The Frog Prince. Like Ever After, though, it seems you can make me like the story if you rewrite it so that the heroine is the heroine of her own story instead of getting rescued by a prince she barely knows because she's pretty and pure and does chores.
This sets the story on a college campus where Sydney, a plumber's daughter, joines the sorority her mother was a member of only to be kicked out by Rachel Witchburn, who rules the campus, for not being "Sorority material." And because the guy Rachel likes likes Sydney. I may or may not love Rachel because she tried to run down the marching band. The seven dwarves are the seven campus dorks who live in a rundown cottage on campus, and who Sydney uses to try to overthrow the absolute rule of the campus sororities and fraternities.
By pur coincidence, I've also started to read Gregory Maquire's Mirror, Mirror, which is a retelling of Snow White set in Itally in the early 1500s, with Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked stepmother. I should be in love, but am actually a bit bored, I think mainly because there are already I think 4 narrative voices in 50 pages, and none really grab me, though I'm sticking with it, though it's mostly making me want to reread Cantarella. For fans of Maguire's: does it get more interesting when the lead grows up? Is this one of his better books? Well liked? Etc.
This sets the story on a college campus where Sydney, a plumber's daughter, joines the sorority her mother was a member of only to be kicked out by Rachel Witchburn, who rules the campus, for not being "Sorority material." And because the guy Rachel likes likes Sydney. I may or may not love Rachel because she tried to run down the marching band. The seven dwarves are the seven campus dorks who live in a rundown cottage on campus, and who Sydney uses to try to overthrow the absolute rule of the campus sororities and fraternities.
By pur coincidence, I've also started to read Gregory Maquire's Mirror, Mirror, which is a retelling of Snow White set in Itally in the early 1500s, with Lucrezia Borgia as the wicked stepmother. I should be in love, but am actually a bit bored, I think mainly because there are already I think 4 narrative voices in 50 pages, and none really grab me, though I'm sticking with it, though it's mostly making me want to reread Cantarella. For fans of Maguire's: does it get more interesting when the lead grows up? Is this one of his better books? Well liked? Etc.
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