Circe in Crazy Challenge Connection

Sep 21, 2019 Stacy rated it really liked it

Shelves: e-books, read-in-2019

I’ve forgotten a lot of the mythology that I learned in school, so this was almost a “new to me” book! I liked it; it makes want to go back and reread the classics.

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Jan 22, 2020 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, dragons-spotted-in-the-wild

I was never one for the ancient gods and their stories and so, despite all the rave reviews, I've avoided this one for a time but curiosity got the better of me. I chose audiobook because that it the medium I'd go for for difficult reads because I can either speed it up or 'listen' (or rather not quite listen) to it while I cook or do my chores. But, this narrator was so hypnotic, I find myself unable to stop listening even when I've finished my chores and needed to get onto the next thing where ...more

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Jun 23, 2020 Juliana Philippa marked it as to-read

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Book of the Month selected for January 2019 Box

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

Shelves: 1-2025, audiobook, youtube-rec, own, audible, physical-book, challenges, podcast-rec, author-s-writing, friend-recomendation

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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Jul 16, 2020 Bookworm rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bought-used, 2020-reads

B

Well this didn't appeal to me as much as I thought it might have. The best parts of the book are in the last 50 pages.

I would look at him and feel a love so sharp it seemed my flesh lay open.

Circe is the ugly duckling of her divine family; a union between the titan Helios and the nymph Perse that results in several children, 4 of them having pharmika, or magical powers. Circe spends her life bullied and looked down upon for being so plain and boring and having a hawk's voice, (view spoiler ...more

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