roshani chokshi – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Tag Archives: roshani chokshi

When Are They Going to Get to Canterbury?

The Spirit Glass, by Roshani Chokshi – The author of the Aru Shah series now turns to Philippine mythology, and she has that kind of ancestry as well as Indian. Corazon Lopez is from a family of babaylans, basically the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Fairy Tales, Gender, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, incryptid, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philippine, Piers Anthony, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Xanth | Tagged alice price-healy, aru shah, babaylans, backpacking through bedlam, binidbuds, chanticleer, chaos, cryptozoology, demons, dragons, eugene j. crook, genghis khan, geoffrey chaucer, heaven cent, mercury, patient griselda, persephone, philosopher's stone, pluto, prosperpina, puns, reynard the fox, ronald l. ecker, roshani chokshi, sarah zellaby, shamans, skeleton key, the canterbury tales, the mysteries of the stolen god and where his waffles went, the spirit glass, theseus, thomas healy, verity price |

Uh-Oh, There’s That Bear Again

One subject I’d been meaning to address for a while but had forgotten about was Jambavan, the King of the Bears in Hindu mythology, who made a significant appearance in Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality. At least, he’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Language, Mythology, Names, Religion | Tagged arcturus, aru shah, aru shah and the nectar of immortality, baloo, bears, bootes, brahma, constellations, hanuman, jambavan, jambavati, krishna, mahabharata, monkeys, prasena, rama, ramayana, ravana, rikshas, roshani chokshi, rudyard kipling, sloth bears, sun wukong, taboo, the jungle book, ursa major, ursa minor, vishnu |

Mythical, Miraculous, and Medieval

The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste – I’d been interested in reading this since I found out what Jumbies were, which is basically evil spirits in Caribbean folklore. In this book, Corinne La Mer lives on an island with her widower … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Carribean, Catholicism, Christianity, Fairy Tales, France, Hinduism, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mayan, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged adam gidwitz, apsaras, aru shah, aru shah and the nectar of immortality, bears, brothers grimm, cinderella, dogs, dragons, gandharvas, ixtab, jambavan, jumbies, king louis ix, kubera, menaka, nagas, pandavas, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, st. martha, talmud, tarasque, the canterbury tales, the inquisitor's tale, the jumbies, the magic orange tree, tracey baptiste, tumburu, vishakanyas |

Get Off Your Ass

This might well be my last book review post of the year. I got an overview of the books I read in 2021 on Goodreads a few weeks ago, but I have no idea why they didn’t save it until … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Authors, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Celtic, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Egyptian, Hinduism, Korean, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Mayan, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Navajo, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Roman, seanan mcguire, Semitic, Voodoo, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, aliens, anunnaki, apsaras, apuleius, aru shah, beware the grove of true love, bruto and the freaky flower, calamity juice, carlo collodi, carlos hernandez, chupacabra, cupid and psyche, dalgyal gwisin, demons, don quixote, donkeys, dushyanti, ellen d. finkelpearl, erzulie, fairies, fionn mac cumhaill, ghosts, gilgamesh, graci kim, gum baby, isis, j.c. cervantes, kwame mbalia, miguel de cervantes, my life as a child outlaw, my night at the gifted carnival, nymphs, pandavas, paola santiago, paola santiago and the forest of nightmares, peter singer, pinocchio, rebecca roanhorse, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, sal and gabi, sarwat chadda, shaggy man, shakuntala, sikander aziz, tehlor kay mejia, the adventures of pinocchio, the cave of doom, the cursed carnival and other calamities, the demon drum, the golden ass, the gum baby files, the initiation, the last fallen star, the loneliest demon, the road to oz, the winter long, tristan strong, urvashi, witches, yoon ha lee, zane obispo |

Pandering to Pandavas

I’d been interested in the story of the Mahabharata, even more so since reading the Aru Shah books, in which the Pandavas are reincarnated as teenage girls. So I checked out an abridged edition translated by William Buck. While much … Continue reading →

Posted in Board Games, Book Reviews, Dice, Dragon Quest, Families, Games, Hinduism, History, India, Magic, Mythology, Pachisi, Philosophy, Poetry, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged arjuna, aru shah, ashvins, bhagavad gita, bhima, dharma, dharma raja, dhritarashta, dragon quest xi, draupadi, duryodhana, gambling, ganesh, hastinapura, indra, karna, kauravas, krishna, kunti, kurukshetra war, luminary, madri, mahabharata, mohandas gandhi, moses, nakula, pandavas, pandu, remus, rick riordan presents, romulus, roshani chokshi, sahadeva, sargon, surya, vayu, vichitravirya, vyasa, william buck, yudhisthira |

A Demon Spurned

I haven’t written a dedicated mythology post in a while, and I recently finished the second Aru Shah book, so I thought I might do something with one of its characters. One of the main villains in the story was … Continue reading →

Posted in Families, Hinduism, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion | Tagged aru shah, aru shah and the song of death, asuras, brahma, danavas, demons, devas, giants, indra, kaikesi, kumbhakarna, laxmana, meenakshi, pandava quartet, rakshasas, rama, ramayana, ravana, roshani chokshi, saraswati, sita, surpanakha, vibhishana, vidyutjihva, vishrava |

Winter Woes

Aru Shah and the Song of Death, by Roshani Chokshi – The second book in this foray into Hindu mythology sees Aru blamed for the theft of the love god’s Kamadeva’s bow and arrow, and are tasked with proving their … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Corporations, Dreams, Hinduism, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Monsters, Mythology, Religion, Rick Riordan | Tagged aru shah, aru shah and the song of death, asuras, carmen miranda, durvasa, early riser, kamadeva, nagas, orson welles, pandava quartet, rick riordan presents, roshani chokshi, surpanakha, takshaka |

Chitragupta’s Record Collection

I enjoy reading fiction based on classical mythology, and one bonus of such books is that they often give me new mythological figures or stories to further research. In this case, the first Aru Shah book introduced me to Chitragupta, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hinduism, Holidays, Mythology, Religion | Tagged akashic records, aru shah and the end of time, brahma, chitragupta, chitragupta puja, chitrigupta, dharma, dharma raja, forgiveness, kayastha, kayasthas, nandini aravati, roshani chokshi, saudas, scribes, shobhvati, shraddhadeva manu, writing, yama |

Mythology Today

A Local Habitation, by Seanan McGuire – The second of the October Daye novels has Toby, at the behest of her lord Duke Sylvester, investigating a fairy-run computer company in Fremont, which in Faerie is a buffer zone between two … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, Hinduism, Mythology, Religion, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire | Tagged a local habitation, aru shah and the end of time, chitrigupta, demons, dharma raja, dryads, fairies, hanuman, indra, lady of the lake, luidaeg, mahabarata, nymphs, october daye, pandava quartet, roshani chokshi, shakuni, suyodhana, urvashi, witches |