Kaikeyi has been on my TBR for ages but I’ve always put it off because I’ve not read the Ramayana and I wanted to read that first. But since I had a trip to India planned, I decided now was the time to read both books – and I did! For background, the Ramayana tells… Read More Book Review: Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
Hi, after writing this review, I found out that I have already read it way back in 2017! But apparently, my experience reading this the second time around is the same and I made many of the same points but in a different way. Still, I’ve not posted a review on this blog specifically so… Read More Book Review: Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling translated by Herbert A. Giles
While I was looking up Japanese history quite a while back, I came across the Shimane Kodai Bunka centre and its small online library. Apparently, the prefecture of Shimane provides a free PDF ebook (link to download page) called いずも神話/Izumo Shinwa and it’s perfect for people who are learning Japanese and/or who know Japanese and… Read More Reading in Japanese: いずも神話 Izumo Shinwa
I had this book on my TBR list for quite a while, so after I talked about it in my post on 7 Fantasy books based on 7 Different Mythologies and when I was at the library, I decided that it was time to bite the bullet and read it! (I have a terrible habit… Read More Book Review: The Girl Who Fell Beneath The Sea by Axie Oh
Hello hello Wyrd & Wonder friends! I have been following the event mostly through other people’s blog posts (and also because I have no ideas/no reading plan/am still waiting for Howl’s Moving Castle) but I could not resist today’s prompt, which was “mythology”. I love love love myths and folklore and fairy tales, so today,… Read More Wyrd & Wonder: 7 Fantasy Books Based on 7 Different Mythologies
As it happens, my IRL book club is the one that gave me a kick in the pants to start on all those Greek retellings that I’ve been seeing in the blogosphere by picking two of them as book club reads. Stone Blind is one of them and since it was listed first, I decided… Read More Book Review: Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
I bought this book because it looked old and it was about myths. And also because it was one euro. So far, I can’t tell if it’s really old (the translation first came out in 1949 but I don’t know when the book came out) but it’s definitely about Welsh myths, which are very interesting.… Read More Book Review: The Mabinogion translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones
My week is over and I think it went pretty well! So it’s back to regular programming, I hope. I first heard about this book when Zeezee reviewed it. Since I’ve not read much African and African-American-inspired fantasy and since I also enjoyed the Percy Jackson series, I thought I would enjoy this one. And… Read More Book Review: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
I saw this as I was walking out of the library and couldn’t resist adding it to the borrowed pile. I’ve read a few Merlin-based books when I was younger (T.A Barron’s Merlins series, basically) so the idea of reading about the history and many incarnations of Merlin throughout history was very appealing. The Book… Read More Book Review: The Book of Merlin by John Matthews
As you already know, I love myths and legends and I love collecting books about them. Plant Lore and Legend fills a gap in my collection, because I have nothing about this subject. Plant Lore and Legend is a slim book talking about the history of plants, including the lore and legends behind them. The… Read More Book Review: Plant Lore and Legend by Ruth Binney