Monthly Archives: January 2024

Devouring the Devoted

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Nathan

There’s a mention in the Canterbury Tales, specifically in the enovy after the Clerk’s Tale, of something called the Chichevache, which according to the glossary is a monster that only eats patient and faithful wives, like Griselda in the story. … Continue reading →

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When Are They Going to Get to Canterbury?

Posted on January 27, 2024 by Nathan

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 →

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Coming Home to Roost

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Nathan

SPOILER WARNING! Also, watch out for rotten eggs. Marriage Story – I think the only thing I really knew about this movie before watching it was a picture of Adam Driver yelling, which became a meme template. But anyway, Driver plays … Continue reading →

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A Grandia Adventure

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Nathan

Grandia – I’m not sure I’d heard of this game until pretty recently, but it’s a pretty whimsical turn-based role-playing game, so it’s the kind of thing I’m interested in. It was originally released for the Sega Saturn in 1997, … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Keep a Good Dog Down

Posted on January 15, 2024 by Nathan

These are the movies we watched this weekend. There are SPOILERS for all three. Pontypool – The movie is named after the village in Ontario where it takes place, although I’m not sure how much of the actual place is … Continue reading →

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I See Noom and Noom Sees Me

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Nathan

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 →

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Coming of Age, with Monsters

Posted on January 9, 2024 by Nathan

SPOILER WARNING for three different movies. Anna and the Apocalypse – This is a Christmas movie of sorts, and we meant to watch it before the big day, but we ended up watching it on the fourth night instead. And … Continue reading →

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Sympathy for Sympathetic Magic

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Nathan

Into the Windwracked Wilds, by A. Deborah Baker – The third book in the Up-and-Under series sees Avery, Ziv, the Crow Girl, and the Drowned Girl Niamh continuing their journey. This includes their getting swallowed by a mosasaur, who is … Continue reading →

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Tying Knots and Killing Tots

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Nathan

I’ve been thinking a bit recently about the Gordian Knot. The basic story is that, in 333 BCE, Alexander the Great came to Gordion, the capital of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey, a place famous for its Smurf hats. He’d heard … Continue reading →

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Exhausted from Oversleep

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Nathan

Beth has given me a few eBooks from Amelia Carruthers’ Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World series as gifts, although I don’t think I’ve written about any of them yet. They each contain multiple versions of a well-known fairy … Continue reading →

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