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Bookshelf: Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest
Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest is Percy Jackson written for adults with ironic senses of humor. Helen is a minotauress, with the usual challenges: she’s big, she’s awkward, she breaks things, she sheds. Troy is her annoyingly perfect (although, … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Lee Martinez, Bob Dylan, Helen & Troy's Epic Road Quest, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan
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Bookshelf: Mythos and Cosmos
John Lundwall’s Mythos and Cosmos stands in a line of brilliant and essential books that pierce through the fog of modernity to ask the question: what were our ancestors thinking? In particular, Lundwall examines the connections among mythology, liturgy, and … Continue reading
What Is Steampunk? (The Clockwork Dark)
I’m reading The Nine Pound Hammer by John Claude Bemis, and finding it noteworthy. Here’s my note. This is the first book in a middle reader series that markets itself as steampunk (the series title is The Clockwork Dark, “clockwork” … Continue reading
The Lure of the Secret World
I think one of the things I find most attractive in any novel is the feeling that it is telling me secrets about the world I live in. You see this simply and pretty clearly in a lot of middle … Continue reading
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Tagged Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Michael Chabon, Rick Riordan, Thomas Pynchon, Umberto Eco
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