For some reason I love retellings of The Goose Girl, though I’ve never been much of a fan of the original. Of course there’s Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, which is the first book of hers I read. That was way back in 2012, and I didn’t write a review anywhere at the time, so I have to depend on my memory to tell you why I loved it. What I remember: girl friendships are very important (that’s your surprised face, right?) in counterpoint to female betrayal; Hale’s prose, which is just lovely no matter what she writes; Ani has a lot of agency and it’s agency that makes sense…