my niece started watching these
Grimm’s fairy tales on YouTube
Japanese animation, Mandarin dubbed
then I hopped on
like we watched it together
whenever time allows
and at one point of time
even if she wasn’t’ around
I watched it all by myself too
I am not sure
if it is out of craving for the stories or
I merely miss the time I spent with her
when she was away
some stories are pretty entertaining
especially those which
involved animals
so not too long ago
I started digging the books as well
copy-right-free Gutenberg version are
handily available and read
frankly speaking
this is the first time I pick this up
such a good stuff which is way too long overdue
all my life this is the very first time
I am reading Grimm’s unabridged version
and it wasn’t too long ago since
I got to know that
they are brothers instead of a person
I read one story with my niece
made her read a couple of pages and
explained it in Mandarin
that story was Golden Bird
then I lost patience and skipped her reading part
I retold the story in Mandarin to her instead
somehow it doesn’t make sense to
read fairy tales at the age
you cease believing in fairy tales
but somehow it is a good read
to put yourself to bed with fairy tales
however to be read with cautions
some stories are pretty gross
yeah the last story I read yesterday was
The Robber Bridegroom which
touches on cannibalism
oh man, but my eyelids were about to close
doesn’t allow for another story
so I fell asleep feeling rather odd
in short, not all are the happily-ever-after
prince-princess type of stories
and those exactly are the one which interest me
Mon Ami, those about human nature
