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Weekly reading post
Oct. 4th, 2019 08:06 amRecently read
I finished reading Caleb Crain’s Overthrow, which turned out to be less about possibly telepathic Occupy activists trying to hack the government with their brains, and more about ( spoilers?? kind of?? )
Also finished Madeline Miller’s Circe, which I’ve attempted before – a couple of months ago, when I was in a Greek mythology mood after seeing the Oresteia – but gave up just one or two chapters in because I found it weird and unpleasant. It gets better, though! I even quite liked it by the end. I was particularly intrigued by Miller’s Penelope and Telemachus, and how they compared to Margaret Atwood’s interpretation of the same characters in The Penelopiad.
Also read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, a fantasy novel set in medieval Russia (or Rus’). Vasilia (or Vasya) is a young woman with the rare ability to see and communicate with the household and forest spirits that exist in the unseen corners of her world; when the arrival of a zealous young priest from Moscow to dissuade her community from their ~pagan traditions~ places these spirits, and her village, in danger, it’s up to Vasya to save the day.
Currently reading
The fairy tale-ness of The Bear and the Nightingale put me in the mood to re-read Howl’s Moving Castle, so I curled up with that and a cup of tea last night and felt the happiest I have all week.
To read next
Having now read a couple of different retellings of the Odyssey (or parts of it, anyway) I thought I should probably read the real thing, so I put the Emily Wilson translation on hold on Libby.
I finished reading Caleb Crain’s Overthrow, which turned out to be less about possibly telepathic Occupy activists trying to hack the government with their brains, and more about ( spoilers?? kind of?? )
Also finished Madeline Miller’s Circe, which I’ve attempted before – a couple of months ago, when I was in a Greek mythology mood after seeing the Oresteia – but gave up just one or two chapters in because I found it weird and unpleasant. It gets better, though! I even quite liked it by the end. I was particularly intrigued by Miller’s Penelope and Telemachus, and how they compared to Margaret Atwood’s interpretation of the same characters in The Penelopiad.
Also read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, a fantasy novel set in medieval Russia (or Rus’). Vasilia (or Vasya) is a young woman with the rare ability to see and communicate with the household and forest spirits that exist in the unseen corners of her world; when the arrival of a zealous young priest from Moscow to dissuade her community from their ~pagan traditions~ places these spirits, and her village, in danger, it’s up to Vasya to save the day.
Currently reading
The fairy tale-ness of The Bear and the Nightingale put me in the mood to re-read Howl’s Moving Castle, so I curled up with that and a cup of tea last night and felt the happiest I have all week.
To read next
Having now read a couple of different retellings of the Odyssey (or parts of it, anyway) I thought I should probably read the real thing, so I put the Emily Wilson translation on hold on Libby.
