In his favor I should note Harry has more than once gone out of his way to help family, and rescue both lovers and those…
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What is the Heroine’s Journey? (part VI)
On the other hand, heroically doing the right thing is important to Karen Chance’s heroine, Cassandra Palmer. Perhaps because she remembers what it is to…
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Oddly enough, in Midnight’s Daughter (Karen Chance’s story of a “dhampir” or half-vampire), Dorina Basarab is specifically a killer — a bounty hunter for the…
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I believe it’s reasonable to therefore conclude that personal independence is at the very least a necessary marker on the Heroine’s Journey. Further, the struggle…
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I will make one personal caveat before I start: despite much screeching and near-hysterical insistence that “man” automatically equates to (or conflates with) “human,” the…
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In the end, however, I found myself as turned off by Murdock’s supposed “heroine’s journey” as I was by Campbell’s vision of women. This is…
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When I was a child we spent several years in Spain. I remember being stuck one summer in an old country house with family and…
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, Book 1) Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, Book 2) Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels, Book 3) I’ve always had a fondness, even well…
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or “Is the premise of The DaVinci Code really true?” Summation I speculate Jesus’ marital state matters only because some people pursue a sort of…
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or “Is the premise of The DaVinci Code really true?” There is one other influence on the New Testament which we should keep in mind.…
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