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New perspective; I feel it becomes a bit repetitive, but I suppose Maud's input is necessary.
However—why's the book so long, Sarah?

First plot twist. Colour me intrigued.

Yale, Richard, Charlie, Asher, Teddy, Terrence, Julian — are you kidding me, Rebecca Makkai?

De ce, de ce redactorilor? De ce abunda in anacronisme cartea asta? :(

Wait! Is Penelope narrating the whole Odyssey in her letters? wtf, Natalie?

I'm getting some Mantel vibes with the present tense narration, unfortunately not in O"Farrell's favour, but I shouldn't rush to any conclusion yet.

In afara de citeva observatii interesante, cartea asta nu m-a angajat in nici un fel, regret.

Exit Wolsey.

9 hrs and 59 mins left & loving every bit. Thinking of topics Ellmann hasn’t covered yet and cannot think of any, and I’m only halfway through.

the fact that nobody can tell whether Melania likes her husband or not, the fact that it's hard to believe she does, but if she doesn't, what's she hanging around for, the fact that Leo thinks Trump's got her blackmailed somehow, the fact that sometimes it feels like the the whole country' got Stockholm Syndrome, like we're all held prisoner

I'm loving this SO much! Cannot even remember how it ended up on my reading list—it must've been last year, among other myth-related books.

I could start a 700 page Dickens novel RIGHT NOW!

Vivat academia!

Too much name-dropping, Simone! Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fabritius, and I'm not even halfway. Seriously?!

Patroclus, always the gentleman.
(So many rats!)

I have two favourite people in this epic: Patroclus and Hector. Spoiler: they both die. But Hector killing Patroclus (with a *little* help from Zeus and Apollo) is the saddest part.

I have two favourite people in this epic: Patroclus and Hector. Spoiler alert: they both die. But Hector killing Patroclus (with a *little* help from Zeus and Apollo) is the saddest part.

If you gods had kept your soap opera back in Olympus and let the fighters fight, this would have been over years ago. And Homer, really, I wish you lived in the Twitter era.

So you gods like to interfere in mortals warfare and when you get wounded, you go to Zeus and cry like a bunch of babies. Grow a pair!

Back to it after too long a break. My goodness, these stories!

Almost home.

What was JJ on when he wrote Circe, does anybody know? I'm in the middle of the episode and I need ALL the patience in the world and then some more.