Geeky Book Club: Geekerella

Geeky Book Club: Geekerella

Full disclosure, I am a lover of fairytales and their retellings. I have read THOUSANDS of versions of them. There is something so interesting to me about taking the same old story we know and love and twisting it into something new. Sometimes the results are wonderful, other times, not so much.

I had heard about Geekerella by Ashley Poston back when it came out last April, but hadn’t had a chance to pick myself up a copy. Then, while staying with one of my best friends, I noticed it on her bookshelf, and being the AMAZING person she is, she gave me the go ahead to raid her bookshelves whenever I like. Clearly this was one of the first one I pilfered. Click below for my thoughts.

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First Looks: Disney’s Live Action Cinderella Gets A Trailer

First Looks: Disney’s Live Action Cinderella Gets A Trailer

I’m a sucker for fairytales. I LOVE to see/read different interpretations of them. Go through my book collection and you are bound to find tons of fairytales retold. My theory is that there are around 5 original stories in the universe and everything else is more or less a retelling. Hell, even Shakespeare ripped from the Greeks.

Disney is once again retelling a classic tale, they do that quite a bit you know, but this time they are doing it live action style. Directed Kenneth Branagh  Disney’s new live-action Cinderella, stars Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, and Richard Madden.

Click below to check out the trailer.

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