Quote:DHBirr wrote:Quote:Bob Schroeck wrote:Robin McKinley's first published book was a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, with the quirk that the Beast's enormous library included books that, in the story's timeframe, hadn't yet been written. (Maybe he had a exchange deal with Unseen U?) The line that sticks with me is Beauty saying in amused puzzlement, "Rudyard Kipling. This is a name?"
Oh, funny crossoverish moment from the film: The little noise of delight Belle makes when the Beast (an educated man who values books, unlike his animated forebear) opens his library to her is just so Hermione I couldn't help laughing at it.
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