Sunday, January 23, 2011

In My Mailbox (13)

It's Sunday again, which means it's time for In My Mailbox! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren where we show what books we got this week. I only have one book to show you this week and technically, it didn't even arrive in my mailbox, lol! I bought this at my beloved English bookstore.


The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology 
by Arthur Cotterell & Rachel Storm

I would have loved to post a link to Bookdepository and Amazon, but it seems like they're both sold out of this book.. I was fascinated with the Greek Mythology that I came across in The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and decided to look up some things online. Although I love Wikipedia for this kind of thing, I prefer to have an actual book to read all about it.  So I went on a hunt for a book about Greek Mythology. Turns out, it's kind of hard to find a book that's purely about Greek Mythology! There are a lot of books about the Aztecs and Egyptian Mythology, but none I could find contained only Greek Mythology. Then I found this one and I love it! I've already read a couple of pages and even though it's a bit confusion at times (all of those names!), I love reading about it (which is kinda funny really, because I hated this subject when I was still in school).

That's all that I got in my mailbox this week. What did you get in yours?

13 comments:

  1. Interesting! I love Greek Mythology the most.! :D

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  2. your blog layout is great!! love it! i love reading about the myths too!

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  3. Hope you enjoy the book!

    My IMM post is here

    Happy Reading,
    Zakiya LadyWings

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  4. I've loved Greek mythology since I was a kid. Have you ever checked out the book D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths? It's a classic and it has wonderful illustrations. It's quite the oversized book but so worth reading. I also highly recommend Robert Graves' Greek Myths. It was my go-to book in high school. Hope you enjoy the rest of your book! :) Happy reading!

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  5. Cool book! I have a textbook from a classical studies class I took on mythology in college that I had to bust out again when I was reading the PJ books. Happy reading!

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  6. Awesome book. I like Greek Mythology. Hope you enjoy reading it.

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  7. Thanks Selfcentered, I think it's fascinating! Can't wait to see what this book has to learn for me :D

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  8. Aw thanks Carrie! I'm very happy with it :) It took some time to get used to the three column bit, but I love it! And yay for Greek Mythology!

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  9. Thanks Zakiya, I'm sure I will :) Happy reading to you, too!

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  10. PolishOutlander wow thanks for the suggestions! I took a look at the books and they both seem great - I can't wait to order them so I can check them out in person.. Big BIG thank you!

    Happy reading!

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  11. Jenny haha yeah I can imagine that you'd want to check that out again while you were reading Percy Jackson! I can't wait to read the rest of the books - even more now I can read about the original myths :) happy reading!

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  12. Awesome haul! I enjoy Greek Mythology :). Thank you for sharing :)

    New Follower!!!

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  13. OH wow~ I love Greek Mythology Definitely have to get this one- some say I might just be a bit obsessed with it lol.

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