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Wight Supremacy

Gods Behaving Badly, by Marie Phillips – This book involves the Greek gods living in a single house in London with diminished powers. Sound familiar? Okay, I don’t know that I’ve read anything with that specific scenario, but I’ve come … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Reviews, Greek Mythology, Humor, Mythology | Tagged aphrodite, apollo, artemis, charon, dionysus, eros, gods behaving badly, hollow city, library of souls, marie phillips, miss peregrine's home for peculiar children, ransom riggs, wights, zeus |

Coping with Totalitarianism

The Table of Less Valued Knights, by Marie Phillips – There have been many parodies of the King Arthur mythos, but this one covers some ground that I hadn’t seen before. It introduces another table at Camelot for the knights … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Arthurian Legend, Book Reviews, British, Chinese, Christianity, Current Events, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Humor, Mythology, Politics, Religion | Tagged grace lin, king arthur, lady of the lake, margaret atwood, marie phillips, starry river of the sky, the handmaid's tale, the table of less valued knights, theocracy, when the sea turned to silver, where the mountain meets the moon |