Volume 2 from the Little Free Library today and volume 3 from HPB. Ah gee, now I have to find matching volume 1
Volume 2 from the Little Free Library today and volume 3 from HPB. Ah gee, now I have to find matching volume 1
Onward, with Casey‘s help! I was gonna read A CHOICE OF DESTINIES in chunks, but I‘ve decided I‘ll probably power through it after all. While I‘m interested enough to keep going, I don‘t feel I‘m Scott‘s target audience. She‘s aimed the book at people keen on movement-focused military stories and/or who‘ve read so much fiction about Alexander the Great they can do without a ton of characterization. It‘s a bit disappointing, really.
Breakfast involved scrambled eggs with sriracha mayo, very bad coffee (I always just guess at how to use standard household coffee makers, and this time I guessed super wrong), and Melissa Scott‘s 1986 alternate history of Alexander the Great. So far it strikes me as very ideas-over-characters, which isn‘t my thing, but I often find that her books begin slow yet build to something truly interesting. Hopefully that‘s also the case here.
Teams message with classics degree-holding coworker:
ME - What‘s a laconophile?
ME - Oh, he digs Spartans.
…
THEM - Probably a jerk. That‘s how it tends to go with Classics guys like him.
ME - I appreciate your learnéd insight.
THEM - Sparta guys are another version of WWII fanboys.
~
I didn‘t love this book.
#winterreadathondailychallenge Day 5
My fave Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast. Not only did it have an amazing soundtrack, I loved that Belle was a big reader.
One of my fave early childhood books was the tagged, which is sadly out of print. 😔 I loved this story about Alexander, an alligator, who lives with an old friendly woman in a house on a hill with a cat, a magical mouse, and a yak.
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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Long awaited, and just came in todayyyyyy 🥰💃🏻📚☕️
Sorry #TBR pile, the waitlist just got longer. Has anyone else given this a read yet?
#physics #science #BIPOC #STEM #nonfiction #alexander #stephonalexander
To truly finish all my reading goals for January, I need to finish this in the next few hours -- or finally decide to DNF it. I'm tempted by the latter because it is really dry and mostly just reporting "Alexander did this, then he did that, and Arrian said X about it".
On the other hand, this book has been moving around my various abodes for over a decade now... Feels weird to abandon it. ?
I'd never read a novel about Alexander the Great before this. I quite enjoyed it. This is the first in a trilogy, so it mainly dealt with his early life. I look forward to reading the rest of the series.