[Mercedes-Lackey] Re: The Halls have reopened ----Party!

[mdennis460 at aol.com]

nice to see some traffic on this list.  i like to read the older books on occasion, especially the valdemar series.  like many i especially like the Vanyel trilogy, but of the most recent work i think i like the 50 kingdoms best so far.  liked vetchs story to begin with but thought the last volume was hard to follow and the ending was rather abrupt.  
 
this is from mercedes lackey's index page on her website.  anyone see anything that they are especially looking forward to??  i am anxious to see Fortune's Fool coming out in a few days--  hooray my wait is almost over!
New books
Scheduled for 2007:
Welcome, New Students Arcanium 101
Scheduled for 2007:
The Phoenyx Unchained Obsidian Mountain 4
Scheduled for 2007:
Gwenhwyfar, the White Phantom
Scheduled for 2007:
Reserved For The Cat
Elemental Masters
Scheduled for 2007:
5/01/07 When Darkness Falls PB
Scheduled for 2007:
3/01/07 Fortune's Fool HB
Scheduled for 2007:
2/01/07 By Slanderous Tongues HB
Scheduled for 2007:
1/01/07 Bedlam's Edge PB
 
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: layla_voll at hotmail.com
To: tiffanie_gray at sbcglobal.net; mercedes-lackey at lists.herald.co.uk
Sent: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Mercedes-Lackey] Re: The Halls have reopened ----Party!


 
> For those who have read the Re-told fairy tales....Could you identify > which tale it came from? How many correspondences did you find? 
> 
> Dax the Eternal 
 
I was just thinking about that, because my mother and I were discussing The Wizard of London: she said she wasn't familiar with the underlying fairy tale to begin with, so it meant she read it slightly differently than the others (she wasn't looking for the correspondences). 
 
I didn't figure out what "Serpent's Shadow" was based on until almost the very end, although it seems as if there are more correspondences in the details there than with any other: the seven familiars, the kiss at the end, the evil female relatives, even the apple. On the other hand, the *plot* wasn't as similar: I thought the issues of Maia trying to become a practitioner in London, and Peter teaching Maia how to control her power were great, and not particularly related to the original story. 
 
On the other hand, with "Phoenix and Ashes" and "Gates of Sleep," the basic story is the same but the details seem to differ more. I especially liked how "Phoenix and Ashes" dealt with something that had always bothered me about Cinderella -- that is, why didn't anyone else from their previous life seem to notice that the man's daughter had been reduced to servant status? 
 
By the way, I have to admit that I enjoyed Disney's recent direct to DVD "Cinderella III," in which the stepmother goes back in time to fix the shoe to fit one of her daughters, so it's up to Cinderella to save the day. 
Layla  
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