An exciting bookmark: Re-enchantment, coming soon to abc.net.au/re-enchantment (the link isn’t dead, it’s just not live yet). It’s an interactive documentary about the hidden world of fairytales by Sarah Gibson. If you haven’t heard about it before, you heard about it first here.
-
Join 742 other subscribers.
Recent Comments
kathyprokhovnik on Paul Lynch’s Prophet Son… Jonathan on Paul Lynch’s Prophet Son… kathyprokhovnik on Paul Lynch’s Prophet Son… Jonathan on Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Ke… residentjudge on Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Ke… Jonathan on Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Ke… residentjudge on Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Ke… Top Posts
- About
- The Book Group and Shirley Hazzard's Transit of Venus
- Mick Herron's Standing by the Wall
- Goodbye Mollie
- Dorothy Hewett's Selected Poems
- Beyond White Guilt at Gleebooks
- Biff Ward's In My Mother's Hands
- SWF 2019: Friday
- Niall Williams's Time of the Child and the book group
- Erik Jensen's Prosperity Gospel
Currently reading & watching- Apple+: All of You (William Bridges 2024)
- Che dio perdona a tutti ... / Holy Cannoli (Pif 2026)
- La Bola Nega (Javier Ambrossi & Javier Calvo 2026)
- Slow Horses, Series 6 (Mick Heron 2026)
- Fierceland (Omar Musa 2025)
- Two Hundred Million Musketeers (Ender Başkan 2025)
- Delivery (Jo Langdon 2026)
- Are You My Mother? (Alison Bechdel 2013)
- Big Mistakes ( Dan Levy & Rachel Sennott 2026)
- Netflix: Until the T-Shirt Dries (Miku Ubukata 2026)
Tags
ABC Alison Croggon art Australian Women Writers Challenge children's literature comics David Brooks David Malouf doggerel Eileen Chong Evelyn Araluen First Nations history Jeff Sparrow Jennifer Maiden journals Marcel Proust memoir non-fiction Novel NSWPLA Overland Pam Brown phone photo poetry Quarterly Essay science fiction/fantasy Sydney Writers' Festival Toby Fitch translation-
Recent Posts
- How to End a Story, report 4
- Moreno Giovannoni’s Immigrants
- Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song at the Book group
- Bookblog #25: The Book Club (with addition)
- Florence Knapp’s Names
- Magdalena Ball’s High Wire Step
- The Travelling Soul
- Eunice Andrada’s Kontra
- Shida Bazyar’s Nights are Quiet in Tehran at the Book Club
- Ann Patchett’s Whistler at the Book Club
- Gillian Rubinstein’s Screaming and Euphoria
- D G Lloyd’s Still alive in Dubbo
- Brian Purcell’s Leaving
- Click Here for What We Do, Pam Brown
- Lee Lai’s Cannon
Archives



Now this looks exciting. I am (finally!) reading AS Byatt’s The Children’s Book, which is about fairytales, among other things, and it’s made me more interested in them again. Joyce Carol Oates has written some for adults too.
LikeLike
An unfinished version was on show at UTS one evening last year, M-H, complete with many technical hitches. It’s beautifully designed, and I don’t know that I’ve seen anything that invites participation in quite the same way – though of course I know almost nothing about online games.
LikeLike