That Kalamazoo session sounds painful — I've had similar experiences, even at specifically Celtic Studies conferences.
Hymnals and hagiography do not come up except in the most tangential way in the Pagan Chronicles, so you're probably safe there!
Books like that — that you encounter as a child and just somehow seep into your bones — are amazing, but, as you say, very hard to think about objectively. I just know what it's like to have someone breathlessly recommend their favourite thing, and then find it underwhelming — it always makes me feel bad, so I thought I'd head any such problems in that regard off at the pass.
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Hymnals and hagiography do not come up except in the most tangential way in the Pagan Chronicles, so you're probably safe there!
Books like that — that you encounter as a child and just somehow seep into your bones — are amazing, but, as you say, very hard to think about objectively. I just know what it's like to have someone breathlessly recommend their favourite thing, and then find it underwhelming — it always makes me feel bad, so I thought I'd head any such problems in that regard off at the pass.