reading all books referenced on Gilmore girls

Matchless by Gregory Maguire "I think I'll tryyyyyy Defyiiiiiiiiing Gravity..." Okay. Ignore me. I love me some Gregory Maguire. He's built his writing career doing interesting, dark (even sometimes darker than the original. Those Grimm brothers be fucked up... amirite?) reimaginings of classic children's stories. One of his books even inspired a long-running, award-winning Broadway musical. I picked up Maguire's reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match G

As the mother of an almost-two year old, I find my living room reverberating with the sweet melody of Barney's Don Knott-esque voice, by O the Owl's inability to relate to people outside of a book, and and by Husband's rants that the gang at Chuggington Station are all so useless that they should be sent to the junkyard and made into razor blades. And seeing as Lorelai started walking at 10 months, sometimes the only time I'm guaranteed not to have to run interference between

I'm sure this pun is completely fresh. Well, as Phoebe would say... Anyway, in my Pinterest travels (in between looking at candy cane dip ideas and tutorials on how to make that Christmas tree skirt I bought the fabric for yesterday), I came across this gem: You probably know Gregory Maguire as the author behind fairy-tales-turned-on-their-heads such as the Wicked series, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and Mirror Mirror. I just loved this quote from him and felt the nee