#gregory maguire

What I’m reading at the moment….. definitely my favourite author! Just love his work! 

Your Fave Is Catholic: Gregory Maguire

Known for: Beloved author of adult literature, children’s literature, short stories, & non-fiction, he is best known for being the author of Wicked: the Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, as well as other Oz related follow-up books such as Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, & Out of Oz, which take the classic Oz books by L. Frank Baum as well as the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz & retell them from a new perspective & in a very adult way. He initially started his career writing stories for children, & while he still writes for children, he found major success writing novels for adults starting in the 1990s. Other notable books he has written include Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost, Mirror, Mirror, The Next Queen of Heaven, & many more. Besides writing books, he also occasionally does book reviews for the Sunday New York Times.

Evidence of Faith:According to a Vice interview in which Gregory discusses his book After Alice (which is a new look at Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice books), he was asked if his book was touching on social themes found in the original Alice books, & in his response he directly states that he is Catholic. He brings this up to connect how in Catholic school, he learned about Dante’s Divine Comedy & found similarities to the underground depiction of Hell & the Greek afterlife of Hades to Alice’s journey underground. He also answers the question with YES, & also compares it to the Underground Railroad, which happened during the same period when the Alice books were written. In this same interview, he also further shares his Catholic life when he tells of an anecdote where his strict Catholic babysitter flipped out over the overtly sexual content of his first adult novel.

JUST found out about this yesterday!! How did he write an entire book and I didn’t even know another sequel was coming?! I’m SO excited. I needed to know more about what happened to Rain. She was one of my favorite characters in the series. Looks like now we get to find out!

Moodboard: A Taurus Winter Book List. 

• The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 
  
• Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire.  
  
• The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. 
  
• D (A Tale of Two Worlds): A Novel by Michel Faber. 
• The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada. 

Moodboard: An Aries Winter Book List. 

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson.
• Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire. 
  
• The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner. 
• The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  

Moodboard: A Capricorn Winter Book List. 

• There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. 
• Requiem by Anna Akhmatova.
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. 
• Mr. Salary by Sally Rooney. 
• A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire. 

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pinkbowjournal:

Moodboard: A Taurus Winter Book List. 

• The Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann 
  
• Hiddensee by Gregory Maguire.  
  
• The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. 
  
• D (A Tale of Two Worlds): A Novel by Michel Faber. 
• The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada. 

pinkbowjournal:

Moodboard: An Aries Winter Book List. 

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
• Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson.
• Egg & Spoon by Gregory Maguire. 
  
• The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner. 
• The Kit-Bag by Algernon Blackwood 
  

pinkbowjournal:

Moodboard: A Capricorn Winter Book List. 

• There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya. 
• Requiem by Anna Akhmatova.
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. 
• Mr. Salary by Sally Rooney. 
• A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire.