The Borrowed Rose: Beauty and the Beast Book Recommendations and Retellings

I see you there.  I think you love Beauty and the Beast tales just as much as I do.  They are fun, challenge the status quo, and scratch that inner call-of-the-wild itch we don't want to admit.   I read an interesting book that well articulated why I appreciate a Beauty and the Beast story over other selections.  Why I gravitate towards a werewolf or shifter romance for an easy weekend read. Hey you!  I'm not the only one!  Beauty and the Beast is a tale as old as time (see what I did there), showing up throughout the ages in various forms and myths.  The oldest version is likely " Cupid and Psyche " from the second century AD.  "The Woman Who Married a Snake" was another early version in Indian culture, shared orally and finally appearing in print in 500 AD (p 15).  Each age and culture has it's version of Beauty and her Beast.  And it turns out we love it just as much in today's culture. In The Meanings of "Beauty & the Bea...

Fans of the most excellent 1987 CBS TV show Beauty & the Beast know what an auspicious day this is. Happy Birthday, Vincent! Today is Vincent's birthday!  BATB fanatics unite on January 12! Now Friends, I did not create this picture.  It's care of Pinterest, and I wasn't able to find an artist to attribute credit.  But I am wildly amused that one exists! CBS' Beauty & the Beast show was one of the first shows I just had to watch as a geeky young lady (the affliction began early), and I would schedule around a busy (not so much) middle school social calendar.  I loved Vincent's quiet nobility and the hopeless attraction between Catherine & Vincent.  Which ended up being not so hopeless, if you catch my drift.  It was steampunk before steampunk was a thing.  It was fantasy television when it wasn't cool (except for Land of the Lost which every kid should have watched on principle alone #survivalskills).  For two legit years...