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Like Angela Carter the basis of these children's stories/myths are really dark

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3 children who are orphaned and they live with their evil uncle whose a toy maker. Incest is best.
Christmas is the climax of the book and the uncle puts on puppet shows at Christmas and they all dread.
He puts on Leda and the swan.
Weird and fantastic but not too absurd - believable and you get totally sucked into it because of the language and detailed descriptions.

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Sci fI (similar situation to Handmaids tale) women form their own community in the countryside. They build a strong community but by excluding others which humans often do.

Lots of manga following this theme of reproduction problems in the future

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Childrens stories and cross section illustrations

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Personality etc - are we in constant flux/change

Leaving home - living in one place and being from another. In the Christmas environment you often have to be another person to please the family when the larger family is gathered

When are you considered an adult to your family?!!!

Power balance in families can shift - as your parents age and then you look after them

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You feel right there with her
The Chairman - When a person becomes a motif.
He is an idea to her perhaps more than a person.

Different people being beholden to each other - Sayuri mainly, but also the 'mother' the chairman, the business men that we come across, Mameha - are they all beholden to their situation? And can you judge any of them? Has destiny positioned them.

Everything Sayuri does is for other people, dance, tea, art, appearance, sensuality .... not just for men, social stature, elegance, other women, cultural appreciation and being considered an artist

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pieces of clay that show the impressions of those who had touched them

Different interpretations of destiny - pre-determined or affected by others and out of your control

agency? We don't exist in isolation

"Paying for your beliefs with yourself" Society can punish, we make choices we feel like are choices but we can't. If you take a 'purely' artistic course then you won't survive and have freedom??

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Christmas is really nice time to get time to read properly.

Planning to read on holiday and Christmas break and then not getting to read!

Reading plays - reading really difficult things

Shakespeare and difficult language and how much effort it takes.

Some people find plays easier to read than books. Space on the page? Is more clearly set out.

Other find tone and emotion really

Oedipus Rex - difficult language  - when you're young and it was so shocking - the dress pins in the eyes

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citrus etc

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The Tió de Nadal (Catalan pronunciation: [tiˈoðənəˈðal]; meaning in English "Christmas Log"), also known simply as tió (firewood log), soca or tronc(a) (trunk), is a character in Catalan mythology relating to a Christmas tradition widespread in Catalonia, Majorca (known as Nadaler), Occitania (Southern France) and Andorra. In Aragon it is also called, in Aragonese, Tizón de Nadal, Toza de Nadal or Tronca de Nadal.

The Tió de Nadal is related to the tradition of the Germanic Christmas tree, also a bearer of gifts for the little ones, and with the British Yule log (tizón do Nadal in Galicia and Cachafuòc, Cachofio or Soc de Nadal in Occitania).

Photograph of a traditional Tió

Christmas logs

The form of the Tió de Nadal found in many Catalan homes during the holiday season is a hollow log about 30 cm (12 in) long. Recently, the Tió has come to stand up on two or four stick legs with a broad smiling face painted on its higher end, enhanced by a littler red sock hat (a miniature of the traditional barretina) and often a three-dimensional nose. Those accessories have been added only in recent times, altering the more traditional and rough natural appearance of a dead piece of wood.

Beginning with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), one gives the tió a little bit to "eat" every night and usually covers him with a blanket so that he will not be cold. The story goes that in the days preceding Christmas, children must take good care of the log, keeping it warm and feeding it, so that it will defecate presents on Christmas Day or Eve.

On Christmas Day or, in some households, on Christmas Eve, one puts the tió partly into the fireplace and orders it to defecate. The fire part of this tradition is no longer as widespread as it once was, since many modern homes do not have a fireplace. To make it defecate, one beats the tió with sticks, while singing various songs of Tió de Nadal.

The tradition says that before beating the tió all the kids have to leave the room and go to another place of the house to pray, asking for the tió to deliver a lot of presents. Nowadays, the praying tradition has been left behind. Still, children go to a different room, usually the kitchen, to warm their stick next to a fire. This makes the perfect excuse for the relatives to do the trick and put the presents under the blanket while the kids are praying or warming their sticks.

The tió does not drop larger objects, as those are considered to be brought by the Three Wise Men. It does leave candies, nuts and torrons, and small toys. Depending on the region of Catalonia, it may also give out dried figs. What comes out of the Tió is a communal rather than individual gift, shared by everyone there.

The tió is often popularly called Caga tió ("shitting log", "poo log"). This derives from the many songs of Tió de Nadal that begin with this phrase, which was originally (in the context of the songs) an imperative ("Shit, log!"). The use of this expression as a name is not believed to be part of the ancient tradition and its use is discouraged.

Beating the Tió de Nadal

A song is sung during this celebration. After hitting the tió softly with a stick during the song, it is hit harder on the words Caga tió! Then somebody puts their hand under the blanket and takes a gift. The gift is opened and then the song begins again. There are many Caga tió songs connected to the holiday and the log. The following variant is one of the more popular versions of this song:

Catalan

Caga tió,

avellanes i torró,

no caguis arengades

que són massa salades,

caga torrons

que són més bons.

Caga tió,

ametlles i torró,

i, si no vols cagar,

et donaré un cop de bastó!

Caga tió!

English

Shit, tió,

hazelnuts and nougats,

do not shit herrings,

they are too salty,

shit nougats

they taste better.

Shit, tió,

almonds and nougats,

and if you don't want to shit

I will hit you with a stick!

Shit, tió!

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The Tió de Nadal (Catalan pronunciation: [tiˈoðənəˈðal]; meaning in English "Christmas Log"), also known simply as tió (firewood log), soca or tronc(a) (trunk), is a character in Catalan mythology relating to a Christmas tradition widespread in Catalonia, Majorca (known as Nadaler ), Occitania (Southern France) and Andorra.

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Rice cakes and banana gravy

Tió de Nada

Pin a face on a log and pretend it's a live. Cover it in a blanket and have it next to the Christmas tree. Kids hit the logs with sticks and it poops presents .
In Spain in the nativity scene there's also a person pooping

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Family photos after mass, eating food.
Sleeping on the choir books

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Not a religious person but this is the book I kept coming back to