2021-01-06

The Mythic Dream, Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien's 2019 anthology. This came up repeatedly in 2020 awards I was following (Locus noms, an Ignyte, a Shirley Jackson) although I surely would have wanted to read it anyways just because it was their latest anthology. This one is pretty similar to the Starlit Wood concept, being retellings of myths rather than fairy tales - possibly worked for me a little less well, since I was less familiar with/invested in some of the myths, but it's a good anthology and I definitely recommend it to people who like this sort of thing. Standouts for me were "Across the River", Leah Cypess, "Kali_Na", Indrapramit Das (which won the Shirley Jackson), "Buried Deep", Naomi Novik, and "Florilegia; or Some Lies About Flowers", Amal El-Mohtar.

I feel like thinking about the future! For reasons I am not going to dig into too deeply at this time. Here are the seven priority-one books currently on my possibly-to-read list: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters vol 2 (which now has a new date in Sept 2021?! will we actually finally get this??), Willowweep Manor, a graphic novel from the teamup of Shaenon Garrity and Christopher Baldwin (July 2021), A Desolation Called Peace, sequel to Memory Called Empire (March 2021), Fugitive Telemetry, #6 in Wells' series (April 2021), Alecto the Ninth (2022, boo), The Last Graduate, Scholomance #2 (July 2021), Witness for the Dead, Goblin Emperor sequel (June 2021).

Also related to my list it has occurred to me that neither of my kids is very interested in picture books any more. So possibly my whole picture book category should get downranked to "no longer intending to read". Sort of weird. (And I've been thinking I should downrank some of the older priority-twos, since if it's been on the list for three or four years without action maybe it wasn't actually that high a priority...).

2021-01-06

The Mythic Dream

a rare look ahead