Gates of Fire | 
#Two4Tuesday
💭 the upcoming Emirates Lit Festival with so many award winning authors coming, including Bernardine Evaristo, Hala Alyan, Leila Aboulela, Cecilia Ahern, Candy Gourlay, Shannon Chakraborty, Rebecca Yarros - just to cite a few
💭 maybe the tagged book as it was shared with me by a special friend of mine, a kindred who happens to be in the elite forces
Thank you for the tag, @TheSpineView 💕
#RememberNovember @Klou
Day 28: 300
pickWell researched, viscerally detailed. Not an aggrandizement of warmongering and misogyny, but an insight into the ideals and motivations of a group that drew on both masculine and feminine perspectives to function. This book heavily influenced 300 (GN/flick). Deeply personal point of view on an event so epic that it is still being discussed some 2500 years later. History rises from the ashes to grab you by the throat and shake the shit out of you.
What I decided to buy at The Book Barn today:
"Gates of Fire"
"The Children's Crusade"
"The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams"
Anybody read any of these?
#bookhaul
pick#ReadingResolutions Day 10: This is as much #Olympics as I can possibly fathom - #ToTheDeath - I used to be obsessed with this show as it reminded me of Gates of Fire which I also enjoyed once upon my late twenties.
The oldest chose this for his 18th birthday tomorrow. Has anyone read it? I may be tempted to swipe it when he's done reading.
pickHard book to review. Writing 5 stars, pacing 3 stars, historical detail 4 stars, storyline 3.5, narrative device 4 stars, characters 3 stars, so I would give it 3.8 overall. The telling and history of the battle of Thermopylae feels more real than watching 300, and I kind of wished they had used this book as a script instead.
