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Oh! I’m crying🫠

…I appear to have been bamboozled

Oh my god, I thought she was dead. I mean, she crossed my mind like twelve pages ago, but it’s kind of hard to betray your whole people when you’re too busy being dead

Apparently the ending I remembered was actually the 55% mark, so now I’m a little behind everything

There is no bittersweet ending to see on the horizon.

Even if what I remember comes to fruition by the last words, there is no positive outcome

Fascinating how I remembered the first page and (maybe) last page(s), but not the whole genocide that takes place in the first third of the book

1) I definitely read this when I was lil but I insisted upon double checking, so here we are. I think I know part of how it ends, so I can’t wait to find out how we get there😌

2) The protagonist is at most twelve years old. Why is there so much responsibility on her shoulders😭 She’s just a baby

Can’t wait to listen to this for the next hour in my car again so I don’t have to be locked out of my place🤪

Ik I have a bad habit of ditching books I get from work, but this might actually hold my attention.

Anyway, shoutout to Edmond Albius for figuring out a method to artificially pollinate vanilla (and with so much success it’s still used today) at the age of TWELVE

Okay no one hate me but this is joining the list of “books I started at work and kept for a month but lost momentum reading” and maybe it’ll come back later but also maybe not

Either I’m stupid or there’s a footnote telling me the subject of the sentence I just read was mentioned in the chapter I just read, followed by a summary of the sentence😅

:(

I’ve noticed that every single man I come across here who is not immediately introduced as a friend of Eros is guaranteed to be an asshole.

Huh.

There is little reason for Medusa to make an appearance in this book, but, somehow, she has. It led me to revisit the source material for this story to confirm. I wish I had not; now the interesting storytelling choices are much more glaring.

I’m an Apollo apologist and an Ares defender.

I am also keeping track of the characters that show up as throwaways for the “meet the myths” quota she seems to have.

I have my complaints, but Eros muttering a very relatable “fuck” made me chuckle.

And poor Ares is out here catching strays😭

I keep finding myself trying to draw a comparison between the writing here and the writing of Til We Have Faces. The issue there is that they are fundamentally centered on different details within the same myth. Psyche and Eros is perhaps more comparable to some of the other modern retellings that have been trending.

“Zeus told me about it.” Girl you were born quite literally seven minutes ago. Zeus didn’t tell you shit.

I’m being very careful not to judge this book based only on the myths the author has chosen as the gods’ origins. She is allowed to pick different myths than my personal favorites.

There is hope.

Even if I must carve it myself out of the stones left unturned.

Legit thought I updated this last night again oops.

Anyway, I am loving Anita’s bits of dry humor through this and the way she breaks down complex processes into explanations that the layperson can understand. Her journey is fascinating, and as much as it came down to some bouts of luck and people taking a chance on her ideas, I’ve almost cried several times because of how hopeful it all feels.

Don’t mind me

I fear this may be my next fixation🥸

Sorry I know I’m literally on page two but

Eros: “…we were not fulfilling some prophesy or old story. We were writing our own.”
Me, who already knows the myth: well yes… but also no

If at any point I start rapid fire adding books to my Read shelf, please disregard🥸

Ahaha oh wait never mind

I’ve gotten so used to authors being too afraid to kill their darlings that each one in this book is a genuine sucker punch.

Except for Woodhouse; his death was so vague that I’m holding onto hope that he’s alive. Is he? No. But still.

Got a slight ick at the mention of Watson and his initial motivations for studying science, but other than that, life is good :)

Also the appendices and other notes are like 200/600 (computer) pages, so this book is going to go a little faster than I thought

Of all of the horrors this book has offered, the “ghosts on the road” not actually being any ghosts was probably the only one so far that made my stomach drop

It’s wild having a narrator this go around because every time Jericho opens his mouth I go “when did Prince Zuko get here🤨”