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I also think the Greek mythology is exceptionally well done in this series. My son was so intrigued that he asked me for my Edith Hamilton's Mythology. We compromised with Favorite Greek Myths. I love it when reading a book sparks a desire for more in my kids.
Unabashedly raising Biblioholi ... ... America Letter to a Christian Nation
291 Comparative religion Myths to Live By
292 Classical (Greek & Roman) religion Mythology
296 Judaism Introduction to Judaism ... other hand, my fourth grade teacher was a maniac for mythology. We read junior versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey and Edith Hamilton's Mythology. We put on a play called The Wrath of Achilles, sewed our own togas and painted our shields. I learned much later that she was addicted to diet ... ... the same series.
Since I can't read these at bedtime (I have an over-active imagination), I'm reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology at night. I've read this wonderful book many times before, so it is a calm and comforting bedtime read. ... wings for many decades - and the myth connected to his father and the Labyrinth as well. I first read Edith Hamilton's Mythology in 1966. ... Donnelly
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
And from Unity Books I got:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood ...
289 Other denominations and sects Under the banner of heaven
292 Classical (Greek and Roman) religion Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
294 Religions of Indic Origins Theravada Buddhism: a social history from ancient benares to modern colombo
296 Jud ... I just checked the 28 books you and I have in common. When the impulse to read nonfiction strikes, I heartily recommend Mythology by Edith Hamilton. One of my favorites. Really readable and fascinating. ... Metamorphoses is to Roman religion as Ben Hur is to Christianity. Thus, I might put Edith Hamilton's Mythology under literature, but Ginette Paris's Pagan Meditations under religion. ... by Nora Roberts
5. Dewey by Vicki Myron
6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
7. Snitch by Allison van Diepen
8. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
9. How to Live with a Neurotic Cat by Stephen Baker
10. Double Fantasy by Cheryl Holt
11. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I'm ... ... N-FICTION***
1. Dewey by Vicki Myron **FINISHED**
2. How to Live with a Neurotic Cat by Stephen Baker **FINISHED**
3. Mythology by Edith Hamilton **FINISHED**
4. Mythology and You by Donna Rosenberg **FINISHED**
5. Freedom Writers by the Freedom Writers **FINISHED**
6. Marley and Me ... Your tags have to make sense to you. If you are looking for "religion" books, will Mythology be one of the books you want to come up? If so, then it's a good tag. That's the only criteria. I've seen many of the books I read but other ones not already on the list are Mythology: Edith Hamilton, I seem to recall the Book of Job, Sophie's World, Les Miserables, Catch-22. Mythology, Elantris and North and South have all been on hold for a bit as I finished other books, but I've resolved not to start another book until I finish at least one of these. (Let's see how long that lasts. Considering the fact that I came home with over a dozen books from the used ... ...that i had three copies of the same paperback edition of Edith Hamilton's Mythology. what was i thinking? I'm breaking my rule of no more than two books at a time this week:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey by Tami Brady for Early Reviewers
Border Princes by Dan Abnett
2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ... >>12, Angelikat:
Nope, any and every culture. I've got Bulfinch and I'm going to buy Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but I'm also interested in good books for Norse, English, Egyptian, & Middle-Eastern mythology. We had to read Edith Hamilton's Mythology in high school... but my first love will always be D'Aulaire's. ... as interesting as it is, or transmute it into something else.
I like to think of biography like I do Edith Hamilton's Mythology: a way of clarifying and mythologizing past events as explanation for what those events caused.
Does that make sense?
... but suggesting that he read it anyway
-recently I also found one of my own high school report cards in a copy of Mythology by Edith Hamilton. That took me back... ... is so archaic, and it's so hard to relate to most of them, that I don't find them "classic" at all. I've tried to read Mythology so many times, but just can't get through it. I'm not really sure what makes a book a "classic", per se, but I think whoever decides that uses the same thing to ...
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