The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins: “I am going to read--Puss in Boots, and Jack and the Bean-stalk, and anything else I can find that doesn’t march with the age we live in.”
Becoming by Michelle Obama: “He was like the little boy from "Jack and the Beanstalk," I teased, who trades his family's livelihood for a handful of magic beans, believing with his whole heart that they will yield something, even if no one else does.”