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