Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#TrojanWar
review
Butterfinger
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick

Grateful for the Litsy member who suggested this. I really enjoyed the imagined anger of Penelope. There were more women's perspectives than in The Silence of the Girls, including the goddesses, but I appreciated Barker's writing a tad bit more. Of course, Song of Achilles is incomparable. Hope I can find some more Homer retellings.

TheBookHippie I liked this one so much. 31m
24 likes1 comment
blurb
ravenlee
A Song of War: A Novel of Troy | Kate Quinn, Libbie Hawker, Stephanie Thornton, Simon Turney, Russell Whitfield, Vicky Alvear, David Alexander Blixt
post image

Dammit, new books display at the library got me again. I need to finish Know My Name and Not My Type before I can start on these, plus I have two others I started ages ago that keep getting bumped because they‘re mine. Oh, and an audiobook.

I need more time to read. And concentration, definitely.

review
Hannah_11
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick
blurb
Butterfinger
post image

#WeeklyForecast

Also, Whispers from the Shadows (Christian Fiction-Roseanna White and Tilt (Emma Pattee

review
MamaGina
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick

“But this is the women‘s war, just as much as it is the men‘s, and the poet will look upon their pain - the pain of the women who have always been relegated to the edges of the story, victims of men, survivors of men, slaves of men - and he will tell it, or he will tell nothing at all. They have waited long enough for their turn.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

blurb
Deblovestoread
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image

The last few years have been full of wonderful mythology retellings. Here are three I loved with the tagged being a 5 🌟 read!

@BookmarkTavern

Scochrane26 I liked all of these, too. I read Stone Blind most recently, & I think that‘s my fave of the 3. 2mo
BookmarkTavern I really need to get to A Thousand Ships! I loved Pandora‘s Jar. Thanks for posting! 2mo
49 likes2 comments
review
Mattsbookaday
post image
Pickpick

The Women of Troy (Women of Troy 2), by Pat Barker (2021)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: As the victorious Greek armies are stranded by impossible winds and tensions rise in the camps, the enslaved women of Troy ponder what comes.

Review: I was blown away by the first book in this series, and the sequel did not disappoint. Cont.

Mattsbookaday Once again we‘re in the mind of Briseis; but now she has a tenuous position of power over women she had once counted as friends. The depiction of the rapidly deteriorating mood in the Greek camps is compelling in its own right. This is a great triumph and I will be reading book 3 as quickly as I can!

Bookish Pair: For a glimpse at what Penelope was doing while all this was going on, Margaret Atwood‘s *Penelopiad* (2005)
4mo
7 likes1 comment
review
Astroneman
Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick
review
longbottomlk
A Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick

I‘m loving it so far

review
Jehonzy
Thousand Ships | Natalie Haynes
post image
Pickpick

„Sing Muse, he said. Now do you hear me? I sang“ ~ Muse of epic poetry

Haynes spoke through Calliope and gave a voice to the broken women of Troy. It was nice to read the voice of the women in this war, I can only recommend it.

#mythology #greek #haynes #emotional