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.
pick“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.”
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The last few years have been full of wonderful mythology retellings. Here are three I loved with the tagged being a 5 🌟 read!
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pickThe Women of Troy (Women of Troy 2), by Pat Barker (2021)
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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.
pickThe Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy 1), by Pat Barker (2018)
Premise: The last days of the Trojan War told through the eyes of Briseis, the enslaved former princess of a Trojan ally whose theft by Agamemnon set off the events of the *Iliad*.
Review: The Greek myth retelling fad got old very quickly for me, but this is one of the best. Cont.
pick„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
