What is the Enchanted Garden Book Club?

This is our quarterly book club to discuss fairy-tale retellings. Discussion months are March, June, September, and December. We choose titles in December for the following year. Elizabeth and Mary do individual reviews on their respective blogs, and do an in-depth discussion covering the questions below. We host more open discussions about the book on our Discord community and in our Facebook group. Join us on Discord or Facebook to discuss all things fairy-tale, as well as the current book club title.

​Our in-depth discussions cover six questions:

1. In what ways is the retelling similar to the original fairy tale?
2. How are the two stories different?
3. Did the retelling retain enough of the original to be satisfying? Why or why not?
4. What did the retelling do better than the original?
5. What gaps did the retelling fill in that were missing in the original?
6. Any additional thoughts about this book?

​Mirror, Mirror by Gregory Maguire

Fairy-Tale: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

​Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Fairy-Tale: Rumpelstiltskin

​Toads and Diamonds by Heather Tomlinson

Fairy-Tale: Diamonds and Toads

​Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Fairy-Tales: Hansel & Gretel, The Gingerbread Man

​Towering by Alex Flinn

Fairy-Tale: Rapunzel

​House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Fairy-Tale: Twelve Dancing Princesses

​The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher

Fairy-Tale: The Snow Queen

​Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Fairy-Tales: Beauty and the Beast; East of the Sun, West of the Moon; Tam Lin 

​Thorn by Intisar Khanani

Fairy-Tale: The Goose Girl

​Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

Fairy-Tale: The Wild Swans

​The Bone Spindle by Elizabeth Lim

Fairy-Tale: Sleeping Beauty