#gregory frost

[hedgehogreads]

You remember the story I told you about the witch called Circe? She lived on an island alone, but men wandered there all the time, pretending to be blown off course. She turned every one of them into pigs, but they kept coming. Just to nibble at her painted toes a while before the slaughter. Well, turning men into pigs is no particular feat. The real exercise is getting pigs to write checks.

-- Gregory Frost, "The Root of the Matter", from Snow White, Blood Red

[ayanos-pl]

『BABELZINE Vol.3 』（週末翻訳クラブ　バベルうお）読了。グレゴリイ・フロスト、藤川新京訳「マキラドーラの聖母」（2002）は読み応えがあった。メキシコの米国資本の工場でひとりの工員が聖母マリアを幻視したという噂を聞きつけた主人公は潜入取材を試みる。

[wearethekat]

October Book Reviews: Fitcher’s Brides by Gregory Frost

To be honest, I picked this one based solely on its Tom Canty cover (love a good Tom Canty cover). This is part of a fairy tale retelling series, with each entry by a different author (another book from the series people may recognize is Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin). Fitcher’s Brides is based on Bluebeard, with a few other parallel fairy tales roped in to mix it up-- but set in 1840s upstate New York, with Bluebeard as an apocalyptic preacher. 

I think changing the setting for this story was a good choice that put an interesting angle on a familiar tale. I was less impressed by the way this book is deeply weird about sex, due to the way Bluebeard’s hold over his wives was portrayed as strangely hallucinatory and psychosexual. Overall, interesting but not my cup of tea. 

[the-final-sentence]

Her tower, when we finally returned to it, had collapsed into a heap of broken stone and glass and dust.

Gregory Frost, from “The Root of the Matter”

[butterflies-behind-her-skull]

They all had guns, honey.

The Dingus -- Gregory Frost 

[josephconrads]

Title: Lyrec

Author: Gregory Frost

Rating: 3 out of 5

Review: While overall I found this quite lacking, there were some enjoyable moments. I wanted to try fantasy from a new author and the concept of Lyrec was intriguing. Yet the concept and the execution were two entirely different things as for most of the novel I found that it was dragging on and on. Certain scenes were necessary only to introduce characters yet the plot wouldn’t have changed much at all if these characters were excluded. Truly all I wanted at times was for the plot to progress or at least something interesting to happen, sometimes that seemed like to much to ask.

[butterflies-behind-her-skull]

Her lips curled. "Oh, yes, I know. I have no illusions."

The Dingus -- Gregory Frost

[butterflies-behind-her-skull]

I understand. I even share your sentiment.

The Dingus -- Gregory Frost