What have you been reading this November?

[Andrea]

I managed to wrap up all three things I was reading.

1 - The Lost Books of the Odyssey I enjoyed way more than I expected. I thought it would be literary and stuffy, but it was a lot of fun. There are something like 20-30 short little snippets where you take either the Iliad or the Odyssey and change something around, on the premise that the original tales also have multiple versions till someone (or multiple someones) probably not named Homer, wrote them down. So there are funny ones where they find Achilles had died before the war so Odysseus makes a golem that fights in his place. Or Odysseus comes home to find Penelope married, or to find Ithaka abandoned and overgrown, or as he's swimming to shore, he bumps into a boat and Agamemnon pulls him aboard and he has to start those last 20 years all over again. Glad I stumbled on this book by sheer luck in the library, it was a nice wrap up for all that Trojan War reading I did throughout the year.

2 - The third book in The Dreaming graphic novel trilogy...it was bizarre (well all Sandman tales as so, but this somehow seemed even more so) but also found it a bit overwhelming and hectic. Gaiman apparently didn't write it, not sure how much influence he had, but for a free library book, was worth the read.

3 - The Ballad of Black Tom novella, this is a retelling of a particularly racist Lovecraft tale (something "Red Hook"). Enjoyed it well enough, definitely better than the original which was badly written with a silly plot and meaningless ending (one of the worst Lovecraft tales, aside from the extreme racist views so easy to improve upon really). This was free a while back from Tor. I'm really behind in all those freebies, but hope they keep coming :)

[Audrey]

I finished Rhythm of War, which took three months. I finally got in a Discworld book, Soul Music, and I've been re-reading Heir of Novron. Also Limited Wish and then other random genres.