Persian Boy | 
panRarely have I been so glad to leave a book on train and walk away. It's a good job I'm not an editor: I'd have told Mary Renault to cut 200+ pages.
Wave by wave it came lapping up, lifting the stranded ships, knocking their sides together. We prepared to remove the camp out of its path, not knowing how far to fly. But at the place where we found them first, the waters halted. Next morning they had sunk again. And this, as we learned when we'd found an interpreter for the Indians, Ocean does twice a day.
Whatever they say in Alexandria, I promise this is no market-tale.
Some say the Wise God's heaven is a rose-garden. For me, it is the heights. After all, he lives there. Watching the dawn on snow no birds had touched, I shivered with joy.
Alexandria is a splendid city, with everything a sensible man can need. I daresay I shall end my life here, with- out ever again going far away. But when I remember the high hills, and a pass mounting to its unknown revelation, I will not think so. Even then, knowing the evil and the danger, knowing all I had known before, even then I felt it; ecstasy, prophecy, light.
As we marched, the road rising through bare uplands, I suppose there was no one in the Household who was not thinking, And what will become of me?
Sign me up for a babylonion spa...
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Because it is hot in Babylon, the bath is a pleasure-house, where one could spend all day; floored with marble from the west, with glazed walls, white flowers on blue. The bath is a spacious pool, whose lapis-blue tiles have gold fish impressed in them. There are pots with sweet shrubs and trees, changed at each season, jasmine and citron....
Latest bookclub book. 3 days to go, good job it's such a pageturner.
I don't usually go in for these but I couldn't resist this one.
1. YES
2. The tagged book is the middle one of Mary Renault's Alexander Trilogy (4th century BC). I would also highy recommend Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series (1st century BC) and for those wanting a standalone book Gore Vidal's Creation (6th/5th centuries BC).
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I‘ve been taking a summer writing class that had a lot of intense reading so I‘ve barely been able to read outside of that. Finally on the last chapter of this baby though, so I think I‘ll finish it this morning.
Finally picking up this ultragay classic after reading the first in the series ages ago. Hope it lives up to the hype!
#lgbtq #queerbooks
so-soThis fictionalized book series about the life and death of Alexander the Great is fantastic and really well written. The reason I personally disliked the second book in the series is the POV is Bagoas and he was too annoying for me. I‘d have liked to read more about Alexander‘s relationship with Hephaestion instead.
“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
Happy Independence day to all 🇺🇸Littens. I had two back to back Quebec and Canada. Have fun, enjoy the day and of course get some reading in between fireworks. #jubilantjuly
panWell written. However, was expecting more about Alexander's campaigns and less about his bedroom activity.
