Tag Archives: Literature
The Children of Odin – The Book of Northern Myths
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have developed a keen interest in myths and fairy tales. Natural I suppose with my history background as myths are the past handed down in storytelling form; not in the modern … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien, Literature, Neil Gaiman, Norse mythology, Padraic Colum, young adult fiction
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The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller
Cover via Amazon Laura Miller had a problem. When she was young she was absolutely captivated and enthralled with the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. Given a copy of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by a … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis, fairy tales, Fiction, Laura Miller, Literature, young adult fiction
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Interesting posts from Dan Green: The Pedagogical Habit and The Existing Public Sphere.
More on ideas and literature
Alan Jacobs concludes his review of Neal Stephenson‘s latest novel Anathem with this: But this is the problem with all of Stephenson’s books of the past decade, starting with Cryptonomicon (1999): He has more energy than his readers are likely … Continue reading
Debating Dostoevsky and literature
If for some odd reason you read this blog but have yet to read Dan Green’s post on Dostoevsky and the resulting commentary – including James Wood and others – please do so as soon as you are able. Intelligent, … Continue reading