Book Review "Familiar Mysteries" Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology, its appearance,and significance in our lives.The author , Shirley Park Lowry , a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College , teaches mythology to nonspecialists and is a respected authority on the subject.The author's purpose in writing this book is to provide the general reader with an interesting , hystorically linked , and scientifically based insight into the vast world …showed first 75 words of 668 total…

…showed last 75 words of 668 total…include anything about the author herself .We can not learn any fact about the author's life or other works . Overall Familiar Mysteries is an excellent book on mythology directed not only to competent on the subject readers but to the ordinary , general reader .I would recommend the book to anyone who is interested in mythology or to all those people who have wonder throughout their lives where myths come from and what their purpose is.