http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/ This is a list for the Mythopoeic Society, an international literary and educational organization devoted to the study, discuss Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:50:12 GMT Edith Crowe http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20912 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20912 Fellow Mythopoeics-- I don't usually forward commercial announcements (and I get a fair number for books) but this is a major piece of news. My copy of this is Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:50:52 GMT Croft, Janet B. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20911 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20911 It's one I'd really like to see, but alas it's in limited release and not showing anywhere in Oklahoma. Dallas is the closest. Janet Brennan Croft From: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:11:33 GMT WendellWag@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20910 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20910 Has anyone else seen the movie An Education?: _http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174732/_ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1174732/) At one point in this movie set in Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:47:55 GMT WendellWag@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20909 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20909 The books that I would recommend are the following: Borgel Lizard Music The Education of Robert Nifkin (although that has no fantastic content) The Snarkout Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:38:50 GMT David Bratman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20908 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20908 My favorite Pinkwaters: "Lizard Music" and "Young Adults". Specifically top-rankers on the same scale on which the Snarkout Boys are high. ... From: John Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:19:37 GMT David Emerson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20907 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20907 ... From: John Rateliff ... That may also explain the absence of Jasper Fforde's "Thursday Next" novels. I've just read three in a row and had a marvelous Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:05:23 GMT John Rateliff http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20906 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20906 By no means! I'm a great admirer of THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE AVOCADO OF DOOM* and its sequel THE SNARKOUT BOYS AND THE BACONBURG HORROR; I even have an Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:53:33 GMT John Rateliff http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20905 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20905 Unfortunately, I was unable to get more than a chapter or two into AN EVIL GUEST before giving up, so I never got so far as the living mountain. There's the Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:57:32 GMT jef.murray http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20904 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20904 Greetings! Welcome to my newsletter for November, 2009! Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think would be interested in keeping up with me. To Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:35:35 GMT lynnmaudlin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20903 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20903 Thanks, Wayne - you're right about Nancy Martsch - I'd forgotten that Mike was *reading* her paper (!!) - guess this proves I am no scholar, to forget my Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:52 GMT lynnmaudlin http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20902 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20902 yeah, I'd not seen that notification before - weasel words, imho... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:37:50 GMT David Emerson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20901 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20901 ... From: WendellWag@... ... Not at all. I love Pinkwater! He's hilarious! Though I admit I haven't read a large amount of his work, but I thoroughly Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:43:09 GMT Joe R. Christopher http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20900 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20900 I've got a question about Gene Wolfe's _An Evil Guest_. (I assume, since it was nominated for a Mythopoeic Award last year, that it's been read by the Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:09:12 GMT WendellWag@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20899 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20899 Am I the only Daniel Pinkwater fan here? I am almost finished with his new book The Yggyssey, and it occurred to me that I should nominate it for next Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:55:50 GMT Wayne G. Hammond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20898 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mythsoc/message/20898 ... The paper was actually by Nancy Martsch, and appears first in the published conference proceedings. A fuller and more accurate account of the Ace affair,