6/3: more to think about

I recently bought and read The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy, a children's novel by Nikki Loftin, because a blurb mentioned that it used Classical myth.  I thought it would be a quick lark of a book to read, and it pretty much was.  But its use of the story of Hansel and Gretel combined with the myth of Demeter and Persephone turned out to be much more interesting than I had anticipated.  I enjoyed writing about it today in my morning journal, and there's more I want to write about it in tomorrow's journalling session.