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I am also reading a comic collection of the earliest appearances of Wonder Woman. It is pretty freaky stuff.
I just finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I enjoyed it.
I just reread Mary Renault’s Fire From Heaven, the first Alexander the Great novel, and then began the second, The Persian Boy. What a shift in tone. Fire From Heaven is fairly gently paced, often almost contemplative. The Persian Boy is absolutely brutal — opens right up with a brutal murder, suicide, and rape all witnessed by a child, proceeds to the castration and rape of the same child, and hasn’t let up yet. Mary Renault is a very effective and economical writer; she says very little and yet it’s blisteringly clear exactly what’s going on. I have a feeling the going will get tough with this one.
Middlemarch- George Eliot
I finished Code Name Verity last night, and today my eyes are still puffy from reading the last 25% of the book while bawling. Can't remember the last time a book has made me ugly-cry quite like that. T_T
I haven’t read this since eighth grade and I remember it not at all. I have been thinking of reading it again.
I just reread Mary Renault’s Fire From Heaven, the first Alexander the Great novel, and then began the second, The Persian Boy. What a shift in tone. Fire From Heaven is fairly gently paced, often almost contemplative. The Persian Boy is absolutely brutal — opens right up with a brutal murder, suicide, and rape all witnessed by a child, proceeds to the castration and rape of the same child, and hasn’t let up yet. Mary Renault is a very effective and economical writer; she says very little and yet it’s blisteringly clear exactly what’s going on. I have a feeling the going will get tough with this one.
But it’s been enjoyable to read with Wikipedia to hand, to fix all the names and places in my brain, and to think about traveling to Greece to see some of the remnants that archaeology has preserved, like Pella.
I finished Code Name Verity last night, and today my eyes are still puffy from reading the last 25% of the book while bawling. Can't remember the last time a book has made me ugly-cry quite like that. T_T
Still working through Byron.
Just finished:
Invitation to a Beheading- Vladimir Nabokov
Housekeeping- Marilynne Robinson
Is that the modern-day series about Alexander the Great? The one that the first book won an award? I've been meaning to read it. I didn't know there was a sequel...
I almost love Mary Renault's books about Alexander, and reread The Persian Boy once or twice a year. She'd be one of my favorite authors if she weren't so relentlessly misogynistic.
Burial rites by Hannah Kent, her debut novel based on the true story of the last person executed in Iceland: Agnes Magnúsdottír, convicted of murder and arson in 1829.