mythology – One Book a Week

Awakening * Lee Savino

I wasn’t capable of love. Not until I met Cora. My angel. I’ve claimed every inch of her body and I only want more. I’m a man who craves control, but her power over me is absolute. She holds my heart in her hands. She can never find out. The demons in this city want to destroy her. It’s myContinue reading “Awakening * Lee Savino”

The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff Book Review

I was missing some key ingredient that would make me as whole and as normal as everyone else. I looked down at the grass so I wouldn’t have to look at Roswell. Then I told him the story in pieces. The open window, the screen, the crib and how Emma wasn’t afraid of me, howContinue reading “The Replacement – Brenna Yovanoff Book Review”

Heaven * George Herbert * The echo poem

O who will show me those delights on high? Echo. I. Thou Echo, thou art mortall, all men know. Echo. No. Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves? Echo. Leaves. And are there any leaves, that still abide? Echo. Continue reading “Heaven * George Herbert * The echo poem”

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Book Review

Do you remember the Illiad? Homer’s Oddyssey? Do you remember Odysseus who sailed the seas and fought monsters and escaped mermaids to return to his faithful wife who waited for him for more than 20 years? Well, this is not his story, it’s hers. It’s the story of Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautifulContinue reading “The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Book Review”

The Goddess Chronicle (Natsuo Kirino)

What would you do if you were dead and your husband killed you on a boat, trying to escape from a village who would not agree to your forbidden love story? What if your husband would return to the village to marry your sister?

The legend of Isis and Osiris

The lord of all the earth is born. In the beginning, there was the mighty god Ra and his wife Nut. Nut was in love with the god Geb. When Ra found out about this union he was furious. In his rage, he forbid Nut to have children on any of the 360 days thatContinue reading “The legend of Isis and Osiris”

The Illiad – Homer

One of the first epic masterpieces, written in the same period as the Trojan war, the Illiad depicts the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achiles. The poet invokes a muse to aid him in telling the story of the rage of Achilles, the greatest Greek hero to fight in the Trojan War. The narrative begins nineContinue reading “The Illiad – Homer”