I’ve recently joined the Mythopoeic Society. Today, Amy Sturgis linked a challenge to read seven of the Mythopoeic Society’s award-winners or nominees (fantasy or scholarly) by the end of this year. I’m taking up the challenge, and I thought I’d pass it along to you. I’ll update this post later with some of my planned selections. Put yours in the comments!
I’m starting with Richard L. Purtill’s J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion. (Update: Finished it. I highly recommend it!)
This challenge might be a good opportunity to use some of the new sharing features at the bottom of each post. If you have a Facebook account, definitely share it there. I think that Web 2.0 stuff like this is the kind of thing that will contribute to the whole “blogs saving literature” idea. Let’s challenge people to read 7 books of mythopoeic literature this year!
By the way, SoG is now linked on the Mythopoeic Society’s page for member sites.
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Although I have to say that I didn’t know of the mythopoeic society before this post, I like their challenge. I had already planned reading a lot of books this year and I have to say making the challenge will not be much of a challenge for me. After reading the Harry Potter series and His Dark Materials series, I have gotten really into (young adult) fantasy.
The books I was planning to read this year before having heard of the challenge:
Tolkien’s Silmarillion, Hobbit and LOTR
Lewis’ Narnia
Pratchett’s Discworld series
Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, Anansi Boys and Stardust (I loved reading Neverwhere, Coraline and Good Omens)
Jonathan Stroud’s Bartimaeus Trilogy
Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series
Garth Nix’ Abhorsen and Keys to the Kingdom series
Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance series
Lemony Snickett’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart
Holly Black’s Spiderwick Chronicles
Obviously I don’t think that I’m going to finish everything on this list this year, but if I don’t make this challenge…
LunaLouise, just to clarify, this challenge doesn’t come direction from the Mythopoeic Society, but from an author who loves the literature it promotes.
Looks like you’ve got some great reading ahead of you! I’m putting Gaiman’s “Stardust” on my list, and maybe Anansi Boys as well.
If I recall, several of the books you’ve mentioned are either award winners or nominees.
Welcome to the Mythopoeic Society! It’s a wonderful organization. I’m so glad you joined. Thanks for pointing others to it, as well. (And thanks for the shout-out for my post, also!)
I stand corrected