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I‘m slowly working my way through my library‘s supply of Anne of Green Gables retellings. In this one, the parallels were not quite as clear for all of the characters but I still ended up enjoying it. Chipper approves. 👍🏻 3.5⭐️

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KAO

Beautiful Little Fools: A Novel | Jillian Cantor

“She held the gun the way a certain kind of careless man held his glass of whiskey.”

I love a book that means business from the first line!
I just started this book that tells the story of Gatsby from the women characters‘ perspectives.

#FirstLineFridays
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dabbe That opening reads like a Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett book noir! 🖤🖤🖤 6h

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Lauredhel

Bea Wolf | Zach Weinersmith

My Bea Wolf hold came up! I think this might be more of a read aloud, but I'm going to give it a go anyway

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marleed

Ariadne | Jennifer Saint

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I was a math major, but my favorite, most remembered, and markedly difficult class was in the English Dept - Mythology, taught by a phenomenal PhD storyteller. This book took me right back to that classroom. Upon finishing, I read GR reviews noting it failed a strong feminism POV. That may be true, but I chuckled because I didn‘t think to read for that perspective. I was just back in that long ago classroom.

July #BookSpin Cat: Fantasy

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nitalibrarian

The Night Ends with Fire | K. X. Song

Fairyloot is very blue in July. I got my adult fantasy and romantasy boxes the same day - The Night Ends with Fire and The Wren in the Holly Library.

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DebinHawaii

Stone Blind: A Novel | Natalie Haynes

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There is more than one #Snake on the cover of our current read for #SheSaid 🐍

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great cover 💚🖤 4d

Eggs 💚🐍🖤 4d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Stone Blind: A Novel | Natalie Haynes

Hello #SheSaid! How are you this weekend? The story is moving along quickly now…thoughts? We know where it‘s headed really…but I want more.

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Karisa I‘m enjoying this quite a bit. Feels like it is going by so fast. It has me wanting to look up more about Medusa and the Gorgons because this retelling is so different than the one I know. I love the spin on Perseus, too funny. I‘m listening on audiobook because I love hearing this author narrate. She puts so much life into her characters! Her book A Thousand Ships is amazing too.

A Thousand Ships

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Karisa I just picked up her Pandora‘s Jar to get a bit more backstory. It was on kindle unlimited for free reading, and is supposed to be non-fiction. Apparently many of the myths we learned are watered down versions of the originals that were more female centric, reducing them to side characters and wives. So I thought I‘d check it out. It wouldn‘t surprise me though, we know there is a world of difference between other myths through the⤵️

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ the ages from say Grims Tales or Hans Christian Anderson to Disney (edited) 5d

vlwelser Perseus is such a tool. But I think that's the point. The one whose story I don't know is actually Andromeda and I'm still curious there. I love the writing in this, the random side character perspectives, the latest being the snakes. 5d

vlwelser I need to look up Pandora's Jar and give it a listen. But my queue is absurd rn. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa …actually Litsy has it listed as Fiction too. 🤷‍♀️ we will see 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser mine too. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I see the second half of the tag list never posted…. Let me try again… 5d

MallenNC @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I also got Pandora‘s Jar from my library to read once we‘re done with this one. 5d

MallenNC I really like the writing of this retelling. I am excited to finish it but I‘ll also be a little sad to be done. I‘m already feeling sad for Medusa. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC me too 5d

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Smrloomis @KathyWheeler @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 🤞 please post 🫠 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk @bibliobliss @JenlovesJT47 @Karisa @fredthemoose @mandarchy @rjsthumbelina @Tera66 @Megabooks @BookBosomed1 @MoonWitch94 @sabyym @ncsufoxes @Readergrrl @wanderinglynn @TheKidUpstairs @charl08 @CatLass007 🤞 please post…. 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Ok then…be that way 😂 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC anyway…after a posting snafu…I feel bad for her too, and if you know the myth at all you know it‘s not a happy ending for her…which makes it worse 🫤 5d

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MallenNC @Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yes knowing how it ends has given a sense of dread throughout as I‘m reading the book. It shows how much a difference providing POV makes bc I don‘t remember thinking much about Medusa at all when reading the myth in school 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @MallenNC very true! 5d

Riveted_Reader_Melissa So the work of a good author ✍️ 5d

KathyWheeler I never thought much about Medusa while I was learning about Greek mythology or watching Clash of the Titans. This book made me think about her. 5d

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