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I thought this was very skillfully written. It's hard to use Greek gods and goddesses as characters without merging into "Clash of the Titans" campy ridiculousness, but in Circe they are well developed and believable. I liked the refresher course on the Odyssey- I was constantly running to Wikipedia to look up the Minotaur, or checking to see if the book is accurate about the lineage of some god or other (it is). I even thought it worked well as a love story, or actually multiple love stories, a
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“Later, years later, I would hear a song made of our meeting. [...] I was not surprised by the portrait of myself: the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.”
This one was SO good. Also, I suppose it’s quite fitting to have finished it on National Women’s Day. This novel is a fantastical, feminist retelling of the story of Circe, the goddess daughter of t ...more
This one was SO good. Also, I suppose it’s quite fitting to have finished it on National Women’s Day. This novel is a fantastical, feminist retelling of the story of Circe, the goddess daughter of t ...more
Brilliant. Glorious. Exquisite.
Audiobook: exquisitely narrated and flawlessly written.
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