Category Archives: Vietnamese

Dorothy the Dictator

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Nathan

Operation Luna, by Poul Anderson – The follow-up to Operation Chaos follows up on Steve and Virginia Matuchek about twelve years after the end of the first book. They now have three children, and are working on a project to launch … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Chinese, edgar rice burroughs, Greek Mythology, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, jules verne, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Native American, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Percy Jackson, Places, Poul Anderson, Religion, Rick Riordan, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Technology, Vietnamese | Tagged amtor, cayke the cookie cook, charloz, cowardly lion, coyote, danielle paige, demons, dorothy gale, dorothy must die, dwarves, eugenics, fairies, four immortals, frogman, from the earth to the moon, fu manchu, girl giant and the jade war, glinda, guns, hecate, hecuba of troy, hellhounds, jellia jamb, journey to the west, lost on venus, mombi, moon, naiads, nome king, nymphs, operation chaos, operation luna, ozma, peter stuyvesant, polychrome, pumperdink, scarecrow, sun wukong, swords, the chalice of the gods, the wizard of oz (1939), tin woodman, van hoang, venus, weapons, witches, wizard of oz, wrath of the triple goddess | 3 Comments

Dark Tower versus White Tower

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Nathan

The Gunslinger, by Stephen King – This is only the second King book I’ve read, the first being The Stand. And I believe the Man in Black in this series is the same as Randall Flagg from that book. I was … Continue reading →

Posted in A. Lee Martinez, African, Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Celtic, Characters, Chinese, Comics, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Vietnamese | Tagged aliens, amy chu, apes, ares, bigfoot, bigfoot dreams, cap'n bill, cats, chasing the moon, childe roland to the dark tower came, children of ragnarok, cindy and cragg, divine misfortune, dragons, eleggua, emperor mollusk versus the sinister brain, fairies, gil's all fright diner, gorillas, greyback in blue, igbo, impundulu, janet k. lee, king anko, margaret atwood, maya and the rising dark, mermaids, monster, my dinner with ares, ogbunabali, orishas, pixies, pizza, pizza madness, ragnarok, rena barron, robert browning, robert jordan, robots versus slime monsters, sasquatch, saturn, sea serpents, sea sirens, stephen king, the automatic detective, the dark tower, the great hunt, the gunslinger, the handmaid's tale, the sea fairies, the stand, the wheel of time, trot griffiths, work ethic | 4 Comments

The Big Four

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Nathan

I looked up the Four Immortals from Vietnamese mythology, who were mentioned in Van Hoang’s Girl Giant and the Monkey King, and I noticed that the Wikipedia page doesn’t have a whole lot of information. A few other sites did … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Chinese, Feminism, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Religion, Taoism, Vietnamese | Tagged chu dong tu, dragons, four immortals, giants, girl giant and the monkey king, horses, irrigation, jade emperor, lieu hanh, monsoons, my nuong, ngoc hoang, phat quang, son thanh, son tinh, thanh giong, thuy tinh, tien dung, trieu quang phuc, van hoang | 1 Comment

Chicks Dig Scarlings

Posted on September 10, 2024 by Nathan

The Prince of Ill Luck, by Susan Dexter – I forget who mentioned this book to me some years ago, but it’s been on my to-read list for a while. Leith, Prince of the Isles, is thought to be under … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Catherynne M. Valente, Celtic, Chinese, Fairy Tales, Families, Greek Mythology, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Vietnamese | Tagged a wizard's guide to defensive baking, arabian nights, arimaspoi, crows, cynocephali, firebird, four immortals, girl giant and the monkey king, horses, illuminations, in the night garden, jade emperor, leucrota, monopods, scarling, selkies, sun wukong, susan dexter, t. kingfisher, thanh giong, the orphan's tales, the prince of ill luck, ursula vernon, van hoang, warhorse of esdragon | 1 Comment

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