It's covering the same territory as Mircea Eliade's History of Religious Ideas, but she says in 5 pages what takes him 100....
“[O]nce you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.” Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth really good book, accessible and short, I rec for all world-building writers
I haven't read the published version yet, but I was a beta reader, and I would have recommended the book then. I can't wait to see what it looks like now.
just checking in because it's been forever, i've been busy and had health issues and my life is vey unexciting however, I did recently read @tananarivedue.bsky.social 's book The Reformatory, and I recommend it highly. It's not an emotionally easy read (Jim Crow South) but very worth it.
Content note, 1583: "The second part of the Myrror of knighthood Containing two seuerall bookes, wherein is intreated the valiant deedes of armes of sundrie worthie knightes, verie delightfull to be read, and nothing hurtfull to bee regarded." ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/x...
"It's an interesting invitation, but it's not what I'm looking for at this time." "Thank you for the offer, but it doesn't meet my needs at the moment."
I am writing a scene where someone turns down a date invitation, and I so badly want to write, "It just doesn't work for me."
This photo is not very sharp because it's a crop of something taken at a distance with a zoom, but these iron gargoyles on a church in Budapest are awfully cool. I just stumbled on it when I was doing something else with the photo.
ohmigod, this cake recipe oven.ly/blogs/recipe...