current reading.

Beauty
A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

by Robin McKinley

i really like this one. her first retelling of the fairy tale is definitely different than her second (Rose Daughter). in the foreword to the second, she says she was never intending to come back to the tale. Rose Daughter is much more, well, fairy tale in nature. more fanciful, more flowy. Beauty is told first-person and is much more down-to-earth in style. i may have to buy this one as well. assuming it's still in print anymore.