Amelia > Recent Status Updates

im liking this a lot but its so insane to not include villette by charlotte bronte, especially because she talks about jane eyre and shirley

when mary renault was mentioned i screamed!! just kidding but i was really excited

i love love love that the mural of troy by zeuxis and the polykleitos statue of hermes are both back!! from the first book! and the little nod to the last of the wine

i spent the last 10 pages thinking antigonos was the same person as antipatros and thats actually not my fault

i like that its mostly the women who are actually getting things done, with lots of men kind of standing around or getting killed

ok im loving eurydike x arridaios but i also feel like something really bad could happen

i was listening and i was like damn i really like this narrator who is he... and its the author! so i like him even more now

im so happy we got other povs on the last chapter or so of the persian boy!! its so interesting to see bagoas from an outsiders pov

i get so excited even just hearing the names of places i know from art history

some fatphobia as a treat! bc we all know that fat women are inherently untrustworthy and probably bad people

at first i wasnt into it but now im crying abt this old man dying

i wish this book could go on forever :'(

idk how to even express how disgusted and angry i am

im really obsessed with the audiobook narrators voice

isnt it awesome how misogyny permeates every inch of history. and by awesome i mean horrific and rage inducing