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Circe

Madeline Miller

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: October 31, 2020

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Dec 10, 2018 Paula rated it really liked it

I have always enjoyed Greek mythology, and this book helped confirm that. I WAS TRANSFIXED reading this retelling. Circe, half nymph, is the daughter of Helios, Titan god of the sun. Basically the black sheep of the family, she is never treated the same as her siblings. After falling in love with a mortal fisherman named Glaucus, she yearned for him to be an immortal God. When told by her grandmother that it could never happen, she learned of a magical flower that could transform people into the ...more

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Aug 17, 2025 Avigail rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, audible, physical-book, challenges, podcast-rec, youtube-rec, author-s-writing, friend-recomendation, own, 5-stars

As someone who grew up with the old Greek stories, I have always known Circe only in passing—a witch in Homer’s Odyssey who turns Odysseus’s men into swine. She was a shadow on the edge of a greater hero’s journey. Madeline Miller, however, gives her back her voice and makes her the heart of her own epic.

In Miller’s telling, Circe is the daughter of Helios, the sun god, plain and disregarded among her radiant siblings. When she discovers the forbidden craft of witchcraft, the gods banish her to ...more

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Sep 19, 2021 Amanda rated it really liked it

Shelves: feminism, favorites, 4-stars, book-club, retelling, i-will-read-anything-by, fiction, goodreads-choice-awards-2018, fantasy, historical-fiction

Fall 2021 (September 2021);
~ San Antonio Library Book Club (January)

Ah, Circe. Without even touching what Circe is about that is my thought. Circe was the first book of this year for the book club, when I was so under distance learning I could hardly even raise and I kept swearing at some point I would go back and read this book, so to then be caught up to all this year's book. When this past month saw the book club reading The Song of Achilles, and me falling in love with, it seemed only prope ...more

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Aug 14, 2020 Joyce rated it liked it

Shelves: audible

Delightful

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Dec 17, 2019 Deanna M rated it it was ok

It ended with a speculation and hope. We don’t find out if it worked. All that and we don’t know what happens. Maybe we are supposed to hope for her to change, but will it work?

I don’t understand why people cried at the end of this book.

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