Circe in Crazy Challenge Connection

Oct 25, 2021 Book Concierge rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audio, literary-fiction, concierge, strong-women, library, greece, mythology, witches

Audiobook performed by Perdita Weeks

In this marvelous work of literary fiction, Miller, tells us the story of Circe, daughter of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, and possibly best known for turning Odysseus’s men into swine.

I studied the classics in high school so was familiar with the basic story line, and some of the family connections, but Miller gives me so much more detail and really fleshes out these characters. With the possible exception of Scylla, no one is all good ...more

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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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May 06, 2019 Bucket rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary, hella-sweet-book-club-read, life-and-death, identity, women, reviewed, love, bildungsroman, mythology, time

This was a very enjoyable, quick read. It didn't spark much for me to say here in a review -- it's not particularly thought-provoking and there are no writing or other problems that annoyed me. Just a well-written story giving Circe the background and ending that she deserves. ...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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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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