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Dinosaurs and Dragons

Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, by James Gurney – I seem to remember reading something about this book around when it first came out in the early nineties, in National Geographic or something. I was interested, but I didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Board Games, Book Reviews, Chess, Comics, edgar rice burroughs, Final Fantasy, Games, History, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Plays, Poetry, Poul Anderson, Technology, Video Games, William Shakespeare, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a land apart from time, a midsummer night's dream, a midsummer tempest, a winter's tale, a.a. milne, ariel, bad sir brian botany, barsoom, black mages, caliban, dejah thoris, dinosaurs, dinotopia, dragonrouge, dragons, elemental fiends, emperor mateus, english civil war, fairies, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iii, gorbash, gordon r. dickson, james gurney, jennifer ward, jetan, john carter, kathans, king charles i, light warriors, lin carter, mars, memory of heroes, oberon, ogres, operation chaos, prospero, rykors, sandmirks, takashi umemura, terra magica, the chessmen of mars, the dragon and the george, the tempest, three hearts and three lions, thuvia maid of mars, titania, when we were very young, white mages, wolves |

Some Pig

Alice Through the Needle’s Eye: The Further Adventures of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, by Gilbert Adair – I had first heard of this in an essay, which I think was about Oz. I didn’t think of looking for it until recently, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Dreams, Drugs, Games, Gender, Humor, Language, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Magnus Chase, Mathematics, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Rick Riordan | Tagged 9 from the nine worlds, alice in puzzle-land, alice through the needle's eye, alice's adventures in wonderland, alligators, alphabet, alviss, baldur, charlotte's web, dr. possum, dragons, dwarves, e.b. white, flump, frigg, gilbert adair, grampus, greer fitting, howard roger garis, humpty dumpty, jack and jill, jenny thorne, logic, martin gardner, nidhogg, nurse jane fuzzy-wuzzy, pigs, puzzles, ragnarok, ratatoskr, rats, raymond smullyan, red queen, sir john tenniel, skillery scallery alligator, spiders, stephen king, the dark tower, the drawing of the three, thor, through the looking-glass, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's airship, uncle wiggily's automobile, uncle wiggily's fortune, valkyries, vanir, white queen |

Rakevat’s Rules of Chaos

Pahua and the Dragon’s Secret, by Lori M. Lee – In the second book of this series, Pahua Moua, the reincarnation of the great Hmong warrior Shee Yee, wants to enroll in a school for shamans. In order to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Discworld, Douglas Adams, Food, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hmong, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Relationships, Rick Riordan, Technology, Terry Pratchett, Video Games | Tagged aliens, ankh-morpork, arthur rackham, bad prince charlie, bookshops and bonedust, coffee, dragons, dwarves, elves, eurovision, gnomes, goblins, homunculus, john moore, legends and lattes, lori m. lee, metagalactic grand prix, necromancers, nine goblins, octopath traveler, orcs, pahua and the dragon's secret, rattkins, rick riordan presents, skeletons, space oddity, space opera, succubus, t. kingfisher, tapenti, travis baldree, trolls, unicorns, ursula vernon, wizards |

Illumi-Naughty

In the Cities of Coin and Spice, by Catherynne M. Valente – The second book in the Orphan’s Tales series continues with more diverse but connected stories, with a lot of shifting back and forth when different narrators interrupt, very … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Conspiracy Theories, Daniel Handler, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Japanese, Magic, Mathematics, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, William Shakespeare | Tagged abuse, adam weishaupt, ambrose bierce, arabian nights, atlantis, bad prince charlie, discordianism, dragons, firebird, h.p. lovecraft, hamlet, homophobia, illuminati, in the cities of coin and spice, jinn, john dillinger, john moore, lemony snicket, leviathan, numerology, president george washington, racism, robert anton wilson, robert chambers, robert shea, sirens, the illuminatus trilogy, the king in yellow, the orphan's tales, weapons of mass destruction |

Dark Tower versus White Tower

The Gunslinger, by Stephen King – This is only the second King book I’ve read, the first being The Stand. And I believe the Man in Black in this series is the same as Randall Flagg from that book. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, African, Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Comics, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Vietnamese | Tagged aliens, amy chu, apes, ares, bigfoot, bigfoot dreams, cap'n bill, cats, chasing the moon, childe roland to the dark tower came, children of ragnarok, cindy and cragg, divine misfortune, dragons, eleggua, emperor mollusk versus the sinister brain, fairies, gil's all fright diner, gorillas, greyback in blue, igbo, impundulu, janet k. lee, king anko, margaret atwood, maya and the rising dark, mermaids, monster, my dinner with ares, ogbunabali, orishas, pixies, pizza, pizza madness, ragnarok, rena barron, robert browning, robert jordan, robots versus slime monsters, sasquatch, saturn, sea serpents, sea sirens, stephen king, the automatic detective, the dark tower, the great hunt, the gunslinger, the handmaid's tale, the sea fairies, the stand, the wheel of time, trot griffiths, work ethic |

Advertising Darwin’s Dreams of Blake

The Black Company, by Glen Cook – This is a story of an elite mercenary unit in a fantasy land ruled by an evil wizard and his enigmatic wife. It’s told from the point of view of the group’s historian, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Christianity, Gnosticism, Humor, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion, Technology | Tagged albion, basilisk, bible, bowlahoola, brownies, charlie holmberg, demiurge, demons, dragons, elementals, giants, glen cook, golgonooza, industrial revolution, nikolai ivanovich lobachevsky, operation chaos, philosopher's stone, Poul Anderson, salamanders, satan, still the sun, the black company, the complete illuminated books, tom lehrer, urizen, werewolves, william blake, witches, wizards |

The Big Four

I looked up the Four Immortals from Vietnamese mythology, who were mentioned in Van Hoang’s Girl Giant and the Monkey King, and I noticed that the Wikipedia page doesn’t have a whole lot of information. A few other sites did … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Feminism, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Taoism, Vietnamese | Tagged chu dong tu, dragons, four immortals, giants, girl giant and the monkey king, horses, irrigation, jade emperor, lieu hanh, monsoons, my nuong, ngoc hoang, phat quang, son thanh, son tinh, thanh giong, thuy tinh, tien dung, trieu quang phuc, van hoang |

All Zamonian Stories End Tragically

Have I been reading too much recently? I checked three books out from the library last week, and have already finished all of them. Then again, none of them were that long. I have a bad habit of often looking … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Alchemy, Art, Astronomy, Authors, Book Reviews, Dragon Quest, Egyptian, Humor, Jainism, janelle monae, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Philosophy, Prejudice, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Technology, Video Games | Tagged alaya dawn johnson, athanasius kircher, cats, danny lore, dirty computer, dragon quest viii, dragons, echo the crat, edward brooke-hitching, eve l. ewing, i'm afraid you've got dragons, john herschel, magonia, mars, moon, nevermind, percival lowell, peter s. beagle, planets, prince charmles, save changes, seshet, sheree renee thomas, succubus ghoolion, sun, the alchemaster's apprentice, the last unicorn, the memory librarian, the memory librarian and other stories of dirty computer, the sky atlas, time travel, timebox, timebox altar(ed), walter moers, wizards, yohanca delgado, zamonia |

This Planet Has a Moon Problem

The way things worked out, I ended up finishing several books around the same time, so here’s a series of reviews. It Waits in the Forest, by Sarah Dass – It’s another Rick Riordan Presents book, although I think its almost-eighteen … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemical Journeys, Alchemy, Arabian, Authors, Caribbean, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, incryptid, Islam, Japanese, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Piers Anthony, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Technology, up-and-under, Xanth | Tagged a. deborah baker, alif the unseen, amtor, arabian nights, artemis, barsoom, bucks, change, christina rossetti, cuckoos, diana, dragons, emerald city, g. willow wilson, goblin market, h.g. wells, impossible city, it waits in the forest, jinn, john wyndham, johrlac, mani, mars, moon, pellucidar, pirates of venus, rick riordan presents, sarah dass, six crystal princesses, tarzan, the midwich cuckoos, the war of the worlds, tidal creatures, tsukuyomi, venus, village of the damned |

Famous Monsters of Bookland

The Folded World, by Catherynne M. Valente – The sequel to The Habitation of the Blessed has John‘s daughter arrive in Pentexore to tell the inhabitants about the Crusades, and John’s subjects go off to fight in Jerusalem for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Christianity, Crusades, Families, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, incryptid, Islam, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Russian, seanan mcguire, Television | Tagged a dance with dragons, a dirge for prester john, a drop of venom, a song of ice and fire, abuse, aftermarket afterlife, alexander the great, antimony price, arthur harrington, baba yaga, bran stark, cryptids, dragons, dreaming of you in freefall, finding baba yaga, george r.r. martin, ghosts, jane yolen, john de mandeville, koschei the deathless, mary dunlavy, medusa, moxy früvous, nagas, pentexore, perseus, prester john, rick riordan presents, sajni patel, saladin, sarah zellaby, the folded world, the habitation of the blessed, vasilisa the fair, verity price, witches |