I was doing research for my book, and I wanted to be all deep and symbolic, so I was going to use Grimms' Fairy Tales Classics to play some relevance and then I remember how I remember that the stigma around it was that it was too dark for children, so I read through some, and they were quite interesting. There was a version of the Princess and the Frog or Frog Prince I'm not sure where the princess threw the frog across the floor and he turned back into a prince. It might have been another writer's perspective, but I felt the need to share.
Another version of Briar Rose was something. It was just something.
Which also lead me to Bluebeard.
And I can honestly, I would not be worse off as a child by reading these stories, and that says a lot.
But that's not even the most ironic part. I got immersed in reading the stories then I found a few Italian fairy tale classics and then that led me to Reggie and Ronnie Kray. And also to the fact there was an Italian-Canadian crime family.











