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BiblioLitten
The Forest of Enchantments | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Weird bookish coincidences that I love:
Last year, on June 16, I went to pick up my library hold and I saw this book was on hold for another person with the same last name as me. The book looked interesting and I snapped a picture. Earlier this year I placed it on hold and guess when it became available? June 16, 2025!!
End of story.

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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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Librarybelle
Ash | Malinda Lo
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Light pick. This retelling of Cinderella combines folk/fairy tales from different cultures, and I enjoyed reading the intro from this 10th anniversary edition to hear the reasons for Lo‘s decisions on the structure of the novel. I didn‘t quite click with the writing style, but the last few chapters flew by for me, so worthy of a pick rating. #SundayBuddyRead #LitsyAToZ #LetterA #52BookClub25 #AFairyTaleRetelling

TheBookHippie ♥️ 3d
Texreader Great review 2d
Librarybelle Thank you, @Texreader ! 2d
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GinaKButler
Circe | Madeline Miller
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Up next on audio! 🎧

#bookspinbingo

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