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I really wanted to participate in #advent recommends this year and I‘m already behind! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Here‘s my Day 1 recommends - I plan on posting my 24 favorite books of the year!

I can‘t believe I read this book in January! I feel like that was so long ago! It was the first book I read in 2019 and I absolutely loved it. If you haven‘t read this, you should.

I am using the tagged book for this prompt for my #popsugarchallenge

Very good. Loved the story and I learnt a lot about Greek mythology and was captivated with the story and it's characters. I listened to the audiobook of this and it took me a while as I wasn't sure about the narrator so I if I reread this I will just use my kindle version.

#Audible

reserved this book at the library because of the reviews. When I brought it home and realized it was a story based on Greek mythology, I was so disappointed that I almost didn't read it. I'm so glad I did, though! It's incredibly well-written, and the story is extremely good. The only parts I didn't love were the fight scenes.

I adored this book! I love how brave and beautiful this story is. One of my favorites I have read this year.

I wasn‘t sold immediately, but the more I read, the more I was pulled in. Excellent writing and an engaging interpretation of Achilles and the lesser-known Patroclus.

2 chapters in and loving it! #currentread

I loathe the time change! But I love this book so far! This is how I got through it! I want extra daylight at the end of the day not the beginning, so I don't understand how it's daylight savings." Seems like we should get to vote on it honestly. P. S. Clearly Canadian was my obsession in the 90s and I just had to have at every sleepover/Bday party ?

Another great reimagining of Greek mythology. With characters so human and real. I really loved it.

100%, best book I‘ve read all year. I know I say that about a lot of books, but this book just annihilated every book on my favorites list. This book is the love story Achilles deserved, the the low key, devoted couple I needed, and a magnificent piece of art. I will defend this book and everything is holds, represents and stands for until my dying breath. Thank you for coming to my rant. Excuse me while I go read it again and cry.

Finished! Absolutely Brilliant! Highly recommend!

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.
-The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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#thesongofachilles #madelinemiller #romance #redrose #openbook #litsyquotes #bookquotes

With the fabulous Madeline Miller (author of Circe and Song of Achilles). I hear she is working on an adaptation of The Tempest next!
#morristownfestivalofbooks #mfob #mfob2019 #bookfestival

The Song of Achilles is back on #Kindledailydeal UK and Queen Victoria is part of the big non fiction sale on Kindle so go grab yourself a bargain.

@Ms_T @Andrew65 @Cathythoughts @TrishB

What a lovely day for an #audiowalk with miss Daisy

#Audible Uk Daily Deal

@Ms_T @Andrew65 @Cathythoughts

Been absent on Litsy for the past week & a half because I‘ve been off at this AMAZING conference on Homer and mythology in Greece, hosted by the amazing Madeline Miller. I am SO blessed to have gotten to know her and have her take interest in my own book (series) that, like “Song of Achilles” & “Circe” is of a genre called “Mythical Realism”. As both a writer & Classicist, I am so honored to know Ms.Miller & have her in my life. She IS a goddess❤️

Good reminder of Achilles in a modern version.

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 5

@charl08 would you like to play? 😃

Post one cover you love each day for 7 days, no explanation needed. Tag someone new each day.

Of course 👍🏾👍🏾. Miller is an amazing writer! She made a love story more than palatable, which for me is a hurdle. 😁

Wow - where do I even begin?? The purity of the narrator, the innocence of his friendships, the epic, larger-than-life scenes and exploits on the Ancient Greek canvas...glad to see I wasn‘t the only one crying hot, heavy tears by the end. My favorite book of 2019 so far.

Only on chapter 5 and the quality of her writing is such I‘ve decided I‘ll follow Miller wherever she goes. 😁

My August reads. My favorites were: The Song of Achilles, Daisy Jones and the Six, It Ends With Us, Winter Garden, Verity, Stepsister, Without Merit, and An American Marriage.

I did not like The Graphic Novel of A Wrinkle in Time.

Second Time Around was just blah.

The Guest Book, I DNF.

And Percy Jackson was good, for an 8 year old.

#augustreads #monthlyreads #mbc

I‘m fine. My heart is broken, but I‘m fine.

This book was lovely. I‘m not super into the Trojan War as a setting or topic, but this was beautifully told, a personal story of Patroclus and Achilles woven into a legend. I‘m super excited to talk about it at Book Club tomorrow!

Ok, Miller is definitely going onto my must read author list from now on! Not only did I love the story, she manages to write compelling stories about greek myths, but makes them unputdownable with almost lyrical story telling. She made me look at this old story in a completely new way, and made me want to reread the Iliad again, plus this book made me ugly cry like I haven‘t over a book for years. What more could you ask for?

Read it again, I said. It will be fun, I said. It won't make you cry again, I said.

😭💔

I‘m about 2 hours in, and I‘m really enjoying this book so far. I‘m nervous about the ending though, gotta say. I‘m super excited to hopefully make it to CHB book club this month though!!!

Ancient Greek wisdom.

“No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from”

Congrats to @Megabooks for this awesome milestone! Litsy goals right there! Thanks for doing this #25ETSY giveaway, I wish you even more success 😊

@everlocalwest I‘m going to try!

This book had me falling in love with Achilles and Patroclus both. It's an easy read, and although I already knew the tragedy I would be facing, I had hope. Until the very last page. And even then, I still got the happy ending I craved. I have always viewed Achilles in a negative light, but this book showed me a kind, gentle, and honorable side to the hero. Patroclus was just a name, a filler character with no depth, until I read this book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#currentlyreading in the park with the smaller of my bookworms.

Glad the kid is asleep because I can‘t put this book down!

Finished that last book and started this one. I hope Madeline Miller has kept it as interesting as I found Circe to be.

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”

Alright, so I don‘t have any library books on the go. If I don‘t have a time restriction I‘m pretty bad at being disciplined. 🤞🤞have had this one on my TBR for a while.

This was a good read but nowhere near as fun as Circe. I‘m definitely into the myth retelling genre now though! This one is about Achilles and Patroclus and the story of Troy. A different perspective than that which has gone before. ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

It‘s official, people. I am head over heels in love with Madeline Miller. Song of Achilles was beautiful, unconventional, romantic, bloody, heartbreaking, and full of mythical magic. Saying I loved this book doesn‘t even describe the way I feel. I mean, how do I even read again after this? 😂😂

After Circe, expected to adore it. Adored it. I‘m reading my Litsy stack, so if I‘m leaving only raving reviews, it‘s your fault! Miller makes the Iliad and Greek myths sing and glow and brings familiar characters to arresting life. She brilliantly chooses a less legendary character, Patroclus, for a first-person narrator. He loves Achilles and Achilles loves him. We knew that. But how much? #classics #mythology #trojanwar #readingthestack

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone, do you think?”

This is a great book, so beautifully written. A really gripping read. Fully deserves all the plaudits.

1. Tagged my first 5⭐️ read of 2019.
2. Puffy, but I‘ll eat crunchy if that‘s all there is.
3. Sunset
4. Probably book a vacation or put it towards materials for a house project
5. 3rd grade. I loved my teacher. She taught us sign language which I still kind of remember.

#friyayintro

FINALLY finished the first book I've read since finals and it may have taken me 20 years but I really liked it! Unlike anything I've read before and not something I'd usually pick up...but well worth the read💖 Thanks @Emilymdxn !💖💖💖

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk. Their hands meet and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun. - M. Miller

Emotional and gripping, i couldn't put it down!

This was a beautiful love story between Achilles and the exiled prince, Patroclus; a love story that did an excellent job painting the multi-layered human side of the demi-God Achilles. We see him through Patroclus' eyes for all he was: complicated and flawed, and worthy and capable of the greatest love. Regardless of how many times you've read Homer's original, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and emotionally destroyed, by this rendition.

I enjoyed this. I didn‘t think I would get wrapped up in the love story, but I totally did.

Starting this one tonight, I've heard good things! 🙂

Found at our library book sale! 🙌🏻

Saw everyone posting their #Top6Reads so far for the year and decided to join in! This was so hard to narrow down to 6!

I guess that‘s a good thing and means I‘ve read a lot of good books this year so far!