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Mattsbookaday
The Voyage Home | Pat Barker
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The Voyage Home (Women of Troy 3), by Pat Barker (2024) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: A Trojan nurse accompanies the doomed prophetess Cassandra to her fate as Agamemnon‘s entourage returns home.

Review: In a landscape overstuffed with retellings, once again this effort from Pat Barker elevates the genre to its full potential. It was jarring not to have Briseis as our point-of-view character in this third book. Cont.

Mattsbookaday But, I was glad to see Cassandra‘s story brought to its satisfying, sad and fated end. There‘s a reason why these stories have survived for thousands of years; they reflect incredible psychological depth and complexity, and I‘m grateful for Pat Barker for going above and beyond in shining a new light on them.

Bookish Pair: For a fun recent novel that uses Euripides‘s take on this saga as a backdrop, Ferdia Lennon‘s Glorious Exploits (2024).
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lumbricuslibri
Hera | Jennifer Saint
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Book haul!!!

Meshell1313 Ooh I loved that Mary Pearson series!!!!!! 😍 Can‘t wait to see what you think! 2w
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RamsFan1963
Odyssey | Stephen Fry
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51/100 I know it's an old saying, but honestly, I could listen to Stephen Fry read a phone book, if they still existed. His narration really brings the story of Odessus to life, it's often quite funny when it's not being tragic, as Odessus has one misadventure after another, both helped and hindered by the various gods of Olympus. I know this is the last book of his Greek Mythology series, but I love to see him tackle Norse mythology. 5 🌟 read

dabbe I just started reading MYTHOS. I'm thinking I need to listen to it, instead. I love Stephen Fry! 💚💜💚 1mo
RamsFan1963 He has an amazing voice, and I love his characterization of Zeus, the most harassed father in history, always having his children pestering him for favors or to clean up messes they've mad in the mortal world. 1mo
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CBee I agree!! I LOVED Mythos and gave Troy and Heroes lined up. Might do Odyssey first though! 1mo
CBee @dabbe you MUST listen!! 1mo
dabbe @CBee 🎯🩵🎯 1mo
AlaMich The right narrator makes a good book into an amazing book. (edited) 1mo
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RamsFan1963
Odyssey | Stephen Fry
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Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! I did not know that Stephen Fry had a 4th book in the Greek Mythology series. I need to finish my current audiobook so I can get to this. I know it's going to be another winner. #SeriesLove2025

TheBookHippie Oooooo 1mo
AnnCrystal 🆒📚💫. 1mo
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Itchyfeetreader
The Voyage Home | Pat Barker
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I found this haunting. There is something about the authors use of language that mimics the ‘for the ages‘ style of the original works whilst bringing fresh perspectives and an almost practical infuse telling. In this one our narrator is slave to Cassandra sailing home with Agamemnon who is mostly secondary to the story of his waiting wife and family. The horror of their home, ghosts of slaughtered and canabilised children adds tension .& horror.

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AshleyHoss820
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As an avid fan of all things myth (from a multitude of cultures), this wasn‘t anything mind-blowing to me, but I absolutely had a good time reading it. I enjoyed her connections to modernity. I like her wit. It‘s always fun to take a feminist critique, which is what I often did with my own scholarly papers. It‘s important work, but it‘s also important to be accessible and Haynes accomplishes just that.

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Robotswithpersonality
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Exactly what I wanted, a modern feminist lens on the Greek goddesses. Really fills the niche I was missing after reading that collection of tragic plays and feeling so alienated by the lack of such considerations in the accompanying essays.
While she covers the classics by speaking on a selection of well known myths on certain goddesses, I love that Haynes also includes 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? discussion of ancient art, artifacts, and plays as well as more modern retellings, occassional exploration of their archetypes, themes in modern pop culture, throughout literature.
Of course, Haynes has my heart for writing on Hestia.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/3 The goddesses can be as cruel, power-mad, irrational as any of the males in the pantheon, but it was refreshing to see a writer consistently identify the societal factors that would affect how they were portrayed then, and how we might look on them with fresh eyes now.
On to Pandora's Jar!
⚠️ SA, incest
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Robotswithpersonality
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Okay, but a horror film with the Olympians as the threats sounds AMAZING. 🤩

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Robotswithpersonality
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*Snrk* 🤭 Haynes is having such a good time, and so am I!

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Robotswithpersonality
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“truth coming out“ ?! 😆🫢👀