fables

Margaret Harmon’s 22 21st-century fables provide lessons about greed, hubris, jealousy, pride, procrastination, living through others, idealism, creativity, wasted opportunities, optimism vs pessimism, and the question of just what is success. Some are reminiscent of traditional fairy tales, especially three involving magic lamps and turbaned genies, “The Ingénue and the Genie,” “Freeing the Genie,” and “The Second-bestContinue reading “Book Review: The Genie Who Had Wishes of HIs Own”