Recent birthday acquisitions:
📖 The Mystery of King Arthur by Elizabeth Jenkins
📖 The Arthurian Legends: An Illustrated Anthology, Selected and Introduced by Richard Barber
📖 Robin Hood and the White Cat
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pickBook #16 of 2024: “The Celtic Twilight” by WB Yeats
This had a few poems but was mostly stories about the Sidhe collected from Irish people across the country. I‘ll come back to it again later when I have time to do some more research into the people, places, and legends referenced. And, maybe, take a trip to all the places Yeats identifies as doors to the dim world.
Recent acquisitions:
📖 Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W. B. Yeats
📖 England at Large by Ethel Mannin
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pickI enjoyed reading the accounts that Yeats has collected from his fellow irishmen. I have always been fascinated by the far and reading these accounts was enlightening.
Planning to start this today:) it‘s a lovely cold and wet day, just perfect for reading and drinking hot tea and coffee.
Went to the Coney Island Mermaid Parade yesterday!! Here‘s me doing a hobby of mine - dressing and swimming as a mermaid!
We couldn‘t go in the water because of the lightning (see top left) but we got to get photos on the beach!
@CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian 🧜♀️ photo for you!!
pickA maiden loses a shoe, another moves in with a beast. We all know these tales…but who told them? In a spellbinding brew of literary history and travel writing, through their adventurous lives, unique settings, and, of course, the tales themselves, meet 7 “fairy tellers”: the young Syrian traveler who took Aladdin to Paris, the “ugly duckling” of “Ugly Duckling” fame, the widow behind “Beauty and the Beast,” the wife behind Wilhelm Grimm, and more!
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pickThis was an informative look at the history and mythology surrounding Aphrodite/Venus - from her ancient Mesopotamian ancestor Ishtar, to Inanna and Astarte, and finally her Greek and Roman forms. While a little academically dry in tone, which caused me to switch to audiobook, it is a fascinating history of a goddess who is so much more than modern patriarchy gives her credit for being.
