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Circe

Madeline Miller

Start date: August 15, 2025

Finish date: September 15, 2025

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May 27, 2018 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: theunreadshelfproject2018, read2018, mythology, botm

I read the first 30 pages of this several weeks ago, and read the last 350 in one night so I could talk about it on the podcast the next day (so stay tuned for that longer discussion!) Miller's writing pulls me through, it's so sensory, including smells. The way she uses metaphor doesn't make me gag, and there are these moments where all of the sudden these philosophical comments happen and I'd have to stop a second. I enjoyed the myths from Circe's point of view, and going along the thought exp ...more

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Apr 10, 2019 Loretta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks

The only reason it's 4 instead of 5 stars is that the beginning is soooo slow and it took me a long time to get interested. I had to put the audiobook away for a month or so and then come back to it when I was travelling and therefore less distractable. But once I got 2 or 3 hours into it I was hooked. My greek mythology is pretty thin - I recognize names but not the connections between the characters and I often only know like THE ONE THING about that character that is the cliche. (Achilles and ...more

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