pickAs always with a compilation, some chapters were better than others, but there was a pleasing continuity to it all. If you‘re a classics nerd, I highly recommend this. Starting from Odysseus and Penelope‘s wedding and the elopement of Paris and Helen, and ending with Aeneas‘ flight from burning Troy, this covers the whole run. Some surprising events are between chapters, but it all works.
I learned I love Kate Quinn when I read some of her books for #authoramonth. I had borrowed from the library A Year of Ravens that month and it ended up a favorite for the year. So when I saw it and this book about Troy when I was at Changing Hands in Phoenix in August, I had to buy both!
I‘m trying to read the tagged because it‘s due back to the library and I‘ll be out of town for a week so I have to get it back later to finish, but then #DannyBoy said, “Mama, snuggles,” and put his paws in my hand 🥲
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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.
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.
