✨🌹📚☕As Old As Time 🐦Lost In A Book☕📚🌹✨
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1/?: La Belle et la Bête Originally By: Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (Published 1740) → Retold By: Disney (Released 1991/1997/2017),
Jean Cocteau (Released 1946),
Once Upon A Time (Released 2011), Christophe Gans (2014),
Liz Braswell (Published 2016), and
Jennifer Donnelly (Published 2017).
↳ “Stories about heroes who overcame their deepest sorrows...”
{Bookish (adj.); devoted to reading and studying rather than worldly interests.}
Belle + Books
rebloggable link on tumblr
When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle dreamed about. The money to buy all the books she ever wanted from all over the world - and a place to keep them.
As Old As Time by Liz Braswell, Twisted Tales #3, page 134 of paperback edition
There is a bit where Belle reads to the teacups and I’m all for more attention to the neglected cup children.
[see this post about the talking teacups]
Belle's library in As Old As Time by Liz Braswell, Twisted Tales #3, based on the animated Disney film:
Gullivers Travels, by Jonathan Swift
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
"...everything that Galileo Galilei ever wrote..." (pp. 222)
Beowulf
Fairy Tales, including "Jack and the Beanstalk", "Little Red Riding Hood", "Baba Yaga", "Hamsel and Gretel", and "Bluebeard"
(Belle would know everything written by Charles Perrault)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract and Emile
Voltaire - Candide
Belle also mentions this book on surgery
Anachronistic intertextual references in this book include:
Crossing the Water, by Sylvia Plath
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
"Here there be Tygers" - two short stories with the same name by Stephen King and Ray Bradbury
Belle's library in Lost in a Book, by Jennifer Donnelly, based on the 2017 live action Disney movie:
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Fairie Queene by Edmund Spenser
Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello by Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare's Sonnets (Sonnet #116 is referenced)
Greek Myths (Persephone and Hades)
Aesop's Fables - "Androcles and the Lion"
Charles Perrault's Tale of Times Past