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I finally got around to reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It’s a good book with an interesting premise. There are plenty of reviews posted around the web, so I’ll save myself the trouble of writing one myself. Actually, if I’d been thinking about it, I would have saved and blogged all the various cultural myths that the book prompted me to google up.

When I was a kid I got hugely into greek and roman mythology (strangely missing from American Gods). I never went much into Norse, Egyptian (not the page I originally found which sadly seems to be lost in the mysts of the internet), Slavic or Native American myths though. I find they hold the same fascination for me.

And, after that quick re-researching exercise, I find I have an interesting new idea for a blog. A blog of every google search you’ve ever run. I’d need a way to automate it, and sort it which probably means PERL and a Database which probably means it’s beyond my current abilities. Still, how great would that be?

Anyway, Up next is The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies. I’m reading that one on a deadline. I have two weeks and two days to finish it. Wish me luck.