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ladysprite ([personal profile] ladysprite) wrote2010-07-08 12:32 pm
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This Is My Band Wagon. I Like To Jump On It.

Okay. Playing along because I've enjoyed coming up with questions for other folks, and imagining what my own answers would be, and because all the cool kids are doing it....

Fill in the blank.

"Hey LadySprite, what is your favorite____?"

And I will answer. Possibly creatively, and within the limits of what I feel like sharing with the world at large, but I will answer.
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[identity profile] ladysprite.livejournal.com 2010-07-08 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Easy - Donkeyskin.

I had a book of Perreault fairy tales when I was little, and for some reason this one just resonated with me, and I read it again and again and again. This was probably helped, at least in part, by the absolutely gorgeous illustrations of the princess's dress the color of the wind - I blame that at least in part for my participation in the SCA.

Even now, though, it still grabs me in ways that others don't, and when I'm reading retellings I search for versions of it.

[identity profile] rickvs.livejournal.com 2010-07-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
The version of this that appeared in Jim Henson's "The Storyteller" was called "Sapsorrow", and while it wasn't my favorite of the series, it was more than watchable. If you've not seen it, please contact me offjournal and I think I can arrange it, at "rick_vs (at) yahoo (dot) com"

[identity profile] ladysprite.livejournal.com 2010-07-09 10:56 am (UTC)(link)
The Storyteller was such an amazing - and underrecognized - series! I have it on DVD, thank heavens - but it's wonderful to find someone else who knows it!

[identity profile] rickvs.livejournal.com 2010-07-09 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've been finding a lot of little hidden gems on Netflix lately. I think if I had to choose between instant streaming and a flying car, I'd ride a bicycle to work.

[identity profile] auntiemame67.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I am guessing you have read Robin McKinley's Deerskin, then? I can only read it every year or so, as I start crying early on, and just keep on crying till I finish the book. Which can be a areally good emotional cleansing, but I end up crying myself into a stuffy, sore nose and headache :).

My other favorite is The Juniper Tree, but for sheer blood-and-thunder reasons.
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