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Medea vs. Jason

Kirby Manga Mania Volume 2, by Hirokazu Hikawa, translated by Amanda Haley – More gag-based adventures of the round pink hero, each with a theme of sorts but not much of a plot, instead mostly just consisting of Kirby goofing … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Comics, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, jules verne, Kirby, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Video Games | Tagged amanda haley, atalanta, captain nemo, circe, coo the owl, dream land, euripides, gooey, hirokazu hikawa, jason and the argonauts, john m. ford, kine the ocean sunfish, king aeetes of colchis, king dedede, kirby manga mania, kracko, medea, meta knight, mr. tick-tock, rabbits, rick the hamster, the dragon waiting, the mysterious island, the witch of colchis, uncle wiggily longears, uncle wiggily's story book, vampires, witches, wizards |

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 |

Losing Control of the Narrative

Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, by Lin Carter – I believe this was Carter’s first published book, a sword-and-sorcery tale about another barbarian warrior in the same vein as Conan, whom he’d also go on to write. Set in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, edgar rice burroughs, Fairy Tales, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Religion, seanan mcguire, Technology | Tagged aarne-thompson index, airships, colonialism, conan the barbarian, david innes, demons, dinosaurs, elves, gr-gr-gr, hooja the sly one, ice age, indexing, laurence sterne, lemuria, lin carter, mother goose, pellucidar, snow white, the life and opinions of tristram shandy gentleman, the pied piper of hamelin, thongor, thongor and the wizard of lemuria, tristram shandy, wizards |

Winning the Battle, Losing the Warlock

I’ve finished a few fairly short books within the last week or so, and here are some reviews. The Sword of Rhiannon, by Leigh Brackett – This is a pretty quick read that kind of mixes genres, although I suppose … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Catholicism, Celtic, Christianity, edgar rice burroughs, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, incryptid, Magic, Mythology, Names, Norse, Plays, Religion, seanan mcguire, Star Wars, Technology, William Shakespeare | Tagged afterlife, banshees, bluebeard, dogs, gardner fox, ghost roads, ghosts, hedgehogs, john bellairs, kyrik warlock warrior, leigh brackett, lust-stone, mars, mary dunlavy, michael scot, moddey dhoo, prospero, rhiannon, roger bacon, sparrow hill road, swords, t. kingfisher, the empire strikes back, the face in the frost, the seventh bride, the sword of rhiannon, the tempest, time travel, ursula vernon, valkyries, weapons, wizards |

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 |

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 |

The Cauldron of Story

There’s sort of a recurring theme to a few of the books I’ve read recently, so I’ll expound on that in these three reviews. Tales from the Perilous Realm, by J.R.R. Tolkien – This volume collects some of Tolkien’s short … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, British, C.S. Lewis, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Fairy Tales, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Neil Gaiman, Norse, Nursery Rhymes, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged alan lee, bilbo baggins, blunderbuss, bombadil goes boating, chrysophylax dives, dogs, dragonrouge, dragons, elric of melnibone, epic pooh, farmer giles of ham, fastitocalon, giants, hey diddle diddle, his dark materials, hobbits, lady of abundance, leaf by niggle, lin carter, lord of the rings, man in the moon, melnibone, middle-earth, moon, multiverse, on fairy-stories, philip pullman, roverandum, sexual harassment, smith of wootton major, spiders, tales from the perilous realm, terra magica, the adventures of tom bombadil, the fortress of the pearl, the hobbit, the last battle, the man in the moon, the man in the moon stayed up too late, the marvelous land of oz, the sailor on the seas of fate, the weird of the white wolf, the well at the world's end, tom bombadil, tom shippey, voluspa, weapons, william morris, wizards, wood between the worlds |

Yarthly Matters

The First Kothar the Barbarian Megapack, by Gardner F. Fox – This collects three different volumes, Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman (itself originally published as three short stories), Kothar of the Magic Sword, and Kothar and the Demon Queen. The author is … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Celtic, Christianity, Comics, Etymology, Games, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged a voyage to the moon, antillia, arimaspoi, atlantis, birds, carta marina, comical history of the states and empires of the moon, cumberia, cynocephali, cyrano de bergerac, demons, edward brooke-hitching, el dorado, elijah, frostfire, garden of eden, gardner fox, hy brasil, justice league of america, kothar and the demon queen, kothar barbarian swordsman, kothar of the magic sword, kothar the barbarian, lemuria, lich, michael wolgemut, moon, nuremberg chronicle, olaus magnus, prester john, satire, st. brendan the navigator, sun, swords, tammaso campanella, the city of the sun, the first kothar the barbarian megapack, the phantom atlas, the states and empires of the sun, ultima thule, voyages to the moon and the sun, waq-waq tree, weapons, wilhelm pleydenwurff, wizards, yarth |

I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Lost in the Moment and Found, by Seanan McGuire – The books in this series change between being about the magical lands in which various children find themselves and about how they deal with their experiences afterwards. As with some … Continue reading →

Posted in Arabian, Art, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Christianity, Diana Wynne Jones, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Ray Powell, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire, Toys, Wayward Children | Tagged a.s. byatt, andrew lang, arabian nights, avalon, bible, blaise, brothers grimm, cugel the clever, cugel's saga, dragon's breath, dragons, epic of gilgamesh, epitaph, geoffrey of monmouth, gode's story, graeae, guinevere, howl's moving castle, in an absent dream, jack vance, jane yolen, jinn, johnny gruelle, king arthur, king solomon, lost in the moment and found, merlin, merlin's booke, moon, nimue, prince prigio, queen of sheba, raggedy andy, raggedy ann, st. paul, sword of the rightful king, the canterbury tales, the djinn in the nightingale's eye, the dragon's boy, the dying earth, the eldest princess, the glass coffin, the magical land of noom, the raggedys in oz, the sword and the stone, the young merlin trilogy, three thousand years of longing, wizards |

Live or Dai, Make Your Choice

Here are two reviews, with several SPOILERS. Saw X – After the last movie in the series didn’t use Tobin Bell as John Kramer at all (except in a photograph), this one is all about him. And instead of using … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Dragon Quest, Focus on the Foes, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Television, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged anime, brokeena, dai no daibouken, hulu, manga, matoriv, morality, saw x, the adventure of dai, tobin bell, wizards |