![]() ![]() I hit page 175 and I told myself life is too short to do something I have no love for. A 600-page tome of a book that is not even complete because it’s just Volume One. ![]() The one other book I gave up on is Kaoru Takamura’s Lady Joker. I gave up on Slow Horses but only for the super entertaining TV series to encourage me to pick it up again. This is so good I already ordered Miller’s The Song of Achilles. Get ready to meet gods, warriors, monsters, titans, divinities, nymphs and many more. Thousands of years condensed into 385 pages. Utterly readable, the novel is not mired in old English vocabulary and the scope is immense. This is a story of a woman who is ostracised and marginalised, but yet eventually comes into her own in a male-dominated world. Miller collapses that unreachable distance between the past and the present into mere air and she could somehow make the story so relevant in these present times. ![]() ![]() Written with a clear-eye focus and prose that is so propulsive. I tend to stay away from the classics like The Iliad and The Odyssey, but this I can take, hook, line and sinker. There she finds her calling – witchcraft. This is Greek mythology told from the point of view of Circe, a child devoid of her parents’ love and banished to an island for eternity. Out of this 14 my favourite has to be Madeline Miller’s Circe. ![]()
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