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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

January 21, 2023 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

“Did he know, or only guess at Achilles’ destiny? As he lay alone in his rose-colored cave, had some glimmer of prophecy come to him? Perhaps he simply assumed: a bitterness of habit, of boy after boy trained for music and medicine, and unleashed for murder.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles “We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles I haven’t felt the need […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Achilles and Patroclus, greek mythology, Greek tragedy, madeline miller, queer romance

carmelpie's CBR15 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Achilles and Patroclus, greek mythology, Greek tragedy, madeline miller, queer romance ·
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“I expect you’ve heard of the Trojan War and how it was caused by Norma Jeane Baker, harlot of Troy”

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

February 14, 2022 by anana 2 Comments

The past few vacations I’ve gone on, whenever the official tchotchke-hunting time comes up with the friends/family I’m traveling with, I’ve taken to seeking out the nearest local bookstore for my souvenir-hunting. I’ve found it to be a great alternative to buying something made of plastic that will collect dust and eventually get thrown away – instead, I purchase a book and write the bookstore name/location/date on the inside jacket, and whenever I pick up that book I can take a trip down memory lane […]

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Anne Carson, drama, Greek tragedy, poetry, Theatre

anana's CBR14 Review No:3 · Genres: Poetry · Tags: Anne Carson, drama, Greek tragedy, poetry, Theatre ·
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“I’m no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.”

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

April 21, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

This book is highly readable. While it may appear that I am damning with faint praise, that is not my intention. This book is readable because, despite being filled with topics and characters that do not automatically appeal to me, I was interested and invested from page one. Had this book not been written by Emily St. John Mandel I probably would have glanced at the dust jacket and gone on my merry way, but since it was written by her I knew that I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 2008 recession, Emily St. John Mandel, finance, fraud, Greek tragedy, grief, guilt, isolation, memory, shared universe, Station Eleven, wealth

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:36 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 2008 recession, Emily St. John Mandel, finance, fraud, Greek tragedy, grief, guilt, isolation, memory, shared universe, Station Eleven, wealth ·
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This fire left me feeling tepid

Home Fire and Antigone by Kamila Shamsie and Sophocles

May 9, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I don’t normally take advice from the interwebs, but when I took a short “what should you read next quiz” that was posted to the CBR book chat page, the resulting recommendation intrigued me. Home Fire was described as a retelling of Antigone set in modern-day London. I haven’t read any Greek tragedy since high school, so I thought this could make an interesting study, to compare the classic with the modern. I have to confess, Greek tragedies were never my thing. I ate up all manner […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:13 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, classics, Greek tragedy, Kamila Shamsie, KimMiE", modern retellings, Political Fiction, Sophocles, tragedy ·
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A Who-Done-It Modeled on Greek Tragedy

Identical by Scott Turow

July 20, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

I was expecting another courtroom drama, which Turow is famous for, but instead got a complicated who-dun-it which meshed power struggles and politics with family feuds and Greek mythol0gy. As Turow himself admits in his concluding notes, inspiration for the story came from the Gemini myth of Castor and Pollux, twins who shared in each other’s fates and spent half their time in Hades and half on Mount Olympus with the Greek Gods. Knowing that myth before reading the book gives added dimensions to Turow’s […]

Filed Under: Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: dna, Greek tragedy, identical twins, murder, mythology, politics

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:50 · Genres: Mystery, Suspense · Tags: dna, Greek tragedy, identical twins, murder, mythology, politics ·
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