Fierce Fairytales
Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
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Nikita Gill
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Nikita Gill
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Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.
Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: Beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.
But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Through her gorgeous reimagining of fairytale classics and spellbinding original tales, she dismantles the old-fashioned tropes that have been ingrained in our minds. In this audiobook, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.
Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation.
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In the hands of Sophocles, the master dramatist, the anguished tale of a man fated to kill his father and marry his mother retains its power to shock and move beyond any Freudian reference.
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Great Production...Questionable Translation
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The Tiger's Daughter
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The Hokkaran Empire has conquered every land within their bold reach - but failed to notice a lurking darkness festering within the people. Now their border walls begin to crumble, and villages fall to demons swarming out of the forests. Away on the silver steppes, the remaining tribes of nomadic Qorin retreat and protect their own, having bartered a treaty with the empire, exchanging inheritance through the dynasties. It is up to two young warriors, raised together across borders since their prophesied birth, to save the world from the encroaching demons.
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Writing format that didn't work for this book
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The poems of the Poetic Edda have waited a long time for a modern English translation that would do them justice. Here it is at last (Odin be praised!) and well worth the wait. These amazing texts from a 13th-century Icelandic manuscript are of huge historical, mythological, and literary importance, containing the lion's share of information that survives today about the gods and heroes of pre-Christian Scandinavians, their unique vision of the beginning and end of the world, etc.
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Butchery of the language
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Familiar and unique--a breath of fresh air
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For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal - kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom. But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic.
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A truly unique and beautiful tale....
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Japanese Fairy Tales
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Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.
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Nice book, wish the narrator spoke Japanese better
- By Ben on 01-31-17
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Twelve tales, 12 dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life...and death.
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The Book & the Narrator
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Mythology
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Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company, in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the world and established itself as a perennial best-seller in its various available formats. Mythology succeeds like no other audiobook in bringing to life for the modern listener the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture - the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.
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Good reading of classical myths
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Stillness as a virtue is a foreign concept in our society, but there is wisdom in God's own rhythm of work and rest. Jesus practiced sabbath among those who had turned it into a dismal thing, a day for murmuring and finger-wagging, and he reminded them of the day's true purpose: liberation - to heal, to feed, to rescue, to celebrate, to lavish and relish life abundant. With this audiobook, Buchanan reminds us of this and gives practical advice for restoring the sabbath in our lives.
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- By Kris on 02-23-20
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- Book collector
- 03-21-20
phenomenal
everything about this collection is stunning, but to also hear it in the authors own voice and at her own pace was the icing on the cake. loved every bit of this!
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- Jessica Swan
- 06-14-19
New Favorite Poetry!
If you are tired of the old archetypal stories of damsels in distress and princess locked in towers, or witches cast as evil, then this book is for you! Each poem/story is poignant and powerful, rewriting the stories of the past and making way for a new paradigm to emerge in the collective consciousness.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-10-23
Really lovely
I'd walk & listen & mentally dog-ear many pages with love the pictures she painted with words.
If you love fractured fairy tales, this is a good one. I loved alternative viewpoints and the readers cadence.
it takes a minute to understand the structure of the book. I do wish it maybe read the number, but I also think it could be distracting because their so short.
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- Cyd
- 10-16-24
Powerful
Within the first couple chapters I had to pause the book. Words hit home and left me feeling raw in a way that I felt a little less worthless.
This whole book is a reminder that we exist outside of our relationships to men. That there is more to us than that.
Often I would have to pause to just breathe and sit with this newly spun idea of an old tale.
It is a book I will register to.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-15-21
A great read!
I loved this book so much I went out and bought it. It has healed my heart, and dried my tears! So worth the listen & buy!
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- Lillian L Cisneros
- 09-25-22
Beautifully written!
Its amazing! Its a modern retelling of fairytales as poetry. It makes you sad, makes you motivated, and makes you think. It took me a little to get through the audiobook but it was definitely worth it and it was a good read. I’m glad that i did not DNF this book. It was really good and the narrator kept you listening, thinking, and gave you a new mindset for the fairy tails
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- EJ
- 12-26-23
Utterly Amazing
This was a fantastic retelling of the fairy tales we’re spoon fed from birth. Take everything you were told, shake it up, and tell it how it actually went. Hot damn, this was amazing.
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- Wendy Ann
- 09-24-18
Simply Magical
I was completely enchanted listening to "Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul" by Nikita Gill. Her dark and haunting reimaginings of classic fairytales transform princesses and damsels in distress into strong, ferocious, sylvan beings infused with wild, arcane power and the primeval magic of womanhood. I LOVED it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-19-22
Magical.
Nikita Gill fuses myth, magic, allegory. I will listen to this often. Looking forward to your next batch of poems.
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- Amy
- 09-24-18
creative
Loved hearing the author's voice but some stories could've been read more lively. stories were creative and thoughtful.
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