June 23, 2004
Maid of the North
I've been reading folk tales for class this week and finished a collection of them, Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World this evening after getting home from a full day at The Tech. They were all interesting and gave me a good feel for some of the typical folk tale formulas (and it was fun to have some intelligent, brave, strong heroines instead of just damsels in distress).
For my next written assignment, I'll be working on The Tale of the Firebird, and I checked out a whole stack of other Russian folk tales today from the Campbell library to compare it to. The stack's too big to take on the plane though, so that project will have to wait until I'm back from CT.
But Julia lent me the most wonderful looking dragon book today, so after packing I think I'll treat myself to reading that one next... (Plus it turns out that the SJ Library's summer reading theme is "Catch a Dragon by the Tale" and they have a whole list of fun looking dragon books to check out...)