Carol's Notebook

I don't remember where I saw this, but a couple of weeks ago, someone in the blogosphere did a post showing a series of images from place like Pinterest and Deviant Art, showing different scenes from Little Red Riding Hood and different ways of interpreting the story. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. I thought it was a great idea, so wanted to share some more visual interpretations of today's tale, "Rumpelstiltskin." Rumpelstiltskin by Ithelda from f-yeahfairytales Rumpelstiltskin by LILIAOSIPOVA Rumpelstiltskin by lukeradl Rumpelstiltskin by NicholasAx An interesting variety of styles. I think my favorite is actually the first, because for me it shows how ridiculous the King's demand was, and want a mean man he must have been. I get that the young woman didn't really have much of a choice in whether to marry him or not, but poor lady, to be married to a man who had no compunction about locking you in a room to perform an...

I had a great time at the Ohioana Book Festival on Saturday, my annual Mothers Day weekend outing. I attended several panel discussions, listened to some great authors, ate from a food truck for the first time, and met up briefly with Stacy from Stacy's Books and her mom. Stacy is just as sweet and nice as I expected. It was so nice to meet her in real life, since I feel like I already know her from reading her blog. And for lunch I had the Dak from Ajumama, a Korean street food truck. It's savory pancakes filled with sesame grilled chicken, soy bean sprouts, garlic chives, mushrooms, and zucchini. Delicious! The highlight of the day for me is always the panels. I attended five, and enjoyed and learned something from each of them. Fiction by Women Several of the writers on the roundtable discussed the importance of research, by actually traveling and talking to people, participatin in on-line groups, reading books, even ones that you may not find at...