While looking through what books I already physically have, I'd thought of starting Magnus Chase once I'm done with Legendborn, but I told myself off because I have too many series started that I gotta finish. Since I don't know how many, I decided to count them.

There are 5:

• Heroes of Olympus, technically only have to read the last one, but I consider trials of Apollo, the addictions to the Percy Jackson series, the books about Nico and Will and all the other ones in the Greek/Roman gods' universe to be form the same series. Which means I actually have infinite amounts of books ahead.

• Legendborn, just started. For now I know that it's a trilogy. But when I started Percy Jackson I didn't think that was infinite either, so I guess anything's possible.

• Way of kings, also just started. For what I understand there are two pentalogies and only the first one is completely.

• Mistborn, two trilogies plus spin offs and prequels

• Aristotle and Dante, weirdly enough, a duology, only one book left

There are actually other 3 series I've started, but those I don't think I'm going to read more of.

All of this means that, considering the books that have been published and the ones that have been announced, I need to read around 38 books to finish all these series😬

Are y'all in my same situation, or far worse/better?

By this means, the text invites us to imagine that all non-Greek and pastoralist societies should be seen as barbaric and cannibalistic.

I've never read The Odyssey but I've read Greek myth retellings and played games strongly based on Greek mythology and NEVER has it been posited that Odysseus could be an unreliable narrator/forcing a political stance; I'm actually embarrassed that I've just accepted everything I've heard of this story and never questioned deeper. I have been naive to assume since the story is so well known, so well established, that what I understood through pop culture could be accepted as accurate, without thinking about the motives of the storyteller.

I'm excited to learn and question more through this reading experience