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Musing Monday

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It’s time for Musing Mondays, a meme from The Purple Booker!

Please note that Musing Monday has moved from Books and a Beat.

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer and then supplies a random question:

  • I’m currently reading…
  • Up next I think I’ll read…
  • I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
  • I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I can’t wait to get a copy of…
  • I wish I could read ___, but…
  • I blogged about ____ this past week…
I can’t wait to get a copy of….

Well, it’s not a COPY exactly, but I’m waiting impatiently for my March FAIRYLOOT box – it’s purple! – and my March Meraki Candles box! They are both (over) due! People are already posting them on instagram and I’m having a little trouble avoiding them…
I hope they both turn up today – that would be fantastic!

We’re going to be a week behind each musing monday as we sadly can’t post on the day anymore but we’re loving the random questions and we will try and get round everyone’s posts when we can!

LAST WEEKS RANDOM QUESTION: What do think of fairy tales in general? The book versions and their film counter parts?

I LOVE them! Not the originals so much, the ones I’ve read have been short and kind of empty, but I love the full bodied ones, and I adore a well structured retelling like noone’s business! I do generally like the endings to be the same – happy and all as it should be etc – but all the different settings are just so much fun!
If it’s imbedded in sound reason you can pretty much do anything and it will be fantastic!

I love the films too. I like the updates – how they made Cinderella clever and unfailingly kind and Belle strong and caring. Often to have a “strong” female, the feminine traits are removed, but not here and that’s a pretty powerful message.
I hope they keep going! And I also hope what I heard of the live action of Mulan is false – no songs and a girly kung-fu flick?! I’m down with the Kung-Fu, but ‘girly’? What is this?
And OH BOY do I need a live action “Make a Man Out of You”.
Get on that Disney.
And don’t loose the whole message about how it wasn’t until she stopped pretending to be manly and was just herself that she succeeded, that’s a powerful message for both girls AND boys.

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