{"id":142,"date":"2015-04-10T22:44:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-04-10T22:44:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T22:44:28","slug":"clever-maids-the-secret-history-of-the-grimm-fairy-tales-by-valerie-paradiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clevermaids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clevermaids-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clevermaids-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clevermaids.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>: Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz<br \/>\n<strong>Scored a<\/strong>: A<br \/>\n<strong>Status<\/strong>: Finished!<\/p>\n<p>A bit of non-fiction this time! This took me a while to get through and held up the book backlog, which ended in two books being read in the same night once I finished, but it wasn&#8217;t because it was a bad book. In fact, I found it eminently readable and interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Summary: This book focuses on the women that the Brothers Grimm collected the stories for their famous collections from.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was fascinating. A history of the Brothers, a history of the women who crossed into their lives to work as story think tanks (not peasants like it&#8217;s often implied they went around collecting the stories from) and even the history of Germany during their time.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Paradiz has an engaging writing style, and I found the book moved swiftly when I had a moment to read. She&#8217;d toss in all sorts of trivia while she was at it (such as the explanation during Jacob&#8217;s letters to Wilhelm that they should remain together and eschew all else that some scholars thought they might be incestuous) to the discoveries of new sources of stories. I got excited every time they discovered a new treasure trove of story-telling sisters.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a damned shame these women didn&#8217;t get the credit they deserved, and I&#8217;m glad Valerie Paradiz brought them to light for me to learn about. She even tied some of it into the fairy-tales that made the brothers famous which was a pretty nice touch.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m still incredibly curious to find out what it was Ferdinand Grimm <em>did<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely worth a purchase if you&#8217;re interested in this slice of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz Scored a: A Status: Finished! A bit of non-fiction this time! This took me a while to get through and held up the book backlog, which ended in two books being read in the same night once I finished, but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales by Valerie Paradiz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[12,36,22],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fairytale","category-review","tag-fairytale-2","tag-nonfiction","tag-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybookreport.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}