Thanks, fantasyfan! I recently read
The Book of Dust and saw this collection was available. I will definitely check it out now that I have your testimonial. I saw this statement in an NPR interview.
Quote:
On how rewriting fairy tales has influenced The Book of Dust, his upcoming sequel to the His Dark Materials series
"[The Grimm fairy tales] move very quickly. There's not an ounce of narrative fat in them. They go very, very swiftly from event to event. And another thing is you see very few adverbs in them, so I'm trying to cut down on my adverbs. You choose the right verb, and you don't need an adverb to qualify it."
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