Once Upon a Time Fragments

2014-03-17T14:03:27-04:00

In which I chatter about Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief, the Mythlopedia series, the third in Bill Willingham's Fables series, and make hasty notes about my other reading for the un-challenge. The Lightning Thief is intended to be larger than life. Percy Jackson is not a normal boy. He is

Once Upon a Time Fragments2014-03-17T14:03:27-04:00

Fairy Tales, Fantasies and Myths: Bound to Last

2014-03-17T13:59:47-04:00

Isn't it funny what reading in a group does to your bookish brain? I'd been happily reading along in Sean Manning's Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book, dipping in and out, choosing random essays depending entirely on my mood. But then came Once Upon a Time

Fairy Tales, Fantasies and Myths: Bound to Last2014-03-17T13:59:47-04:00

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011)

2020-10-22T12:27:00-04:00

Of course there are readers who gravitate towards fiction set in ancient times, with their battered Mary Renault and Robert Graves paperbacks, their beloved Rosemary Sutcliffe childhood favourites still lining their shelves. Harper Collins, 2012 But just as there were many readers who would never pick up a western but

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles (2011)2020-10-22T12:27:00-04:00

Once Upon a Time: Shorts and Screen

2014-03-15T19:59:42-04:00

The weeks for Carl's un-Challenge are slipping past. We're almost a third of the way into the event now, and of course it's mostly about the books, but there are quests for Short Stories and for the Screen as well. Screen: Okay, I admit it. Whenever a book appears in

Once Upon a Time: Shorts and Screen2014-03-15T19:59:42-04:00

A Literary Three-Way: About a Boy? (I)

2014-03-15T20:13:12-04:00

In eleventh-grade English class, we studied "Oedipus Rex" and I fell in love with the idea that a story so old could still be compelling. But the idea of reading these classic texts outside a classroom seemed unthinkable. You know how some books become all-the-more intimidating the longer you leave

A Literary Three-Way: About a Boy? (I)2014-03-15T20:13:12-04:00
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