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“Children long to be eaten. Everyone knows that.”

XO Orpheus: 50 New Myths by Kate Bernheimer (editor)

April 18, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos 2 Comments

Am I typing this up while wearing a tee featuring the cover of the d’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths? YOU KNOW IT! That strange tome of simplified myth and ultra-bright illustration cracked open a need in me when I was very young. I re-read that book countless times, and used it as the entry point into the larger world of mythology. Combined with a Catholic upbringing that was far more focused on the deaths of the saints than on anything else, you could saw I […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:25 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: adaptation, aimee bender, anansi, aztec mythology, galatea, greek mythology, Kate Bernheimer (editor), Literature, madline miller, Maile Meloy, My Mother She Killed Me My Father He Ate Me, mythology, norse mythology, orpheus, Persian mythology, Religion, retelling, ron currie jr, sheila heti, sigrid nunez, The Iliad, Victor LaValle ·
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Melancholy and Malevolent Creatures

Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender

August 19, 2020 by caragwapa Leave a Comment

I read a review of this book somewhere on the internet, a long time ago.  Maybe on Pajiba, maybe on Cannonball read, I don’t really remember.  But I did write the title and the author down in my little notebook, along with the dozens (maybe hundreds) of other books I plan on reading,  and movies and TV shows that I plan on seeing.  This year, before the world changed forever, a few friends came over to hang out and one of them brought the book […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, aimee bender, caragwapa, CBR 12, magical realism, short story collection

caragwapa's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, aimee bender, caragwapa, CBR 12, magical realism, short story collection ·
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