Well, I just got home from seeing The Odyssey. I have a general rule that I don’t watch TV or movies of books that I plan on reading. I read The Odyssey 40 years ago and had no intention of reading it again, but I was really looking forward to the movie. I really enjoyed it, but was surprised at my reaction as the credits started to roll. I suddenly found myself with an overwhelming urge to read both The Odyssey and The Iliad, which I had never even considered reading again. In fact, I think this may be the only movie I have watched based on a book that gave me this urge. I mean, not even The Lord of the Rings made me feel this way. I immediately tried to check out Emily Wilson’s translation, but the wait was 13 weeks. I knew this wasn’t going to work. I drove over to Barnes & Noble, but they didn’t have the Wilson translation in stock because they'd sold out. Color me not surprised. I ended up buying it as an ebook. I noticed that the little controversy between Wilson and Nolan hasn’t hurt her book sales. She is selling a bunch of Paperbacks and ebooks. I will probably start reading it tonight (despite already reading two other books).

How about you, Boundlings? Has there ever been a TV show or movie that made you immediately rush out and buy the book?

"For many years it's been hard to separate love from anxiety, from push and pull. The manic rush is more a desire to be loved than love itself, a desire that explodes at any sign that love may recede, that it is in short supply."

I felt this in my BONES, the author has perfectly captured anxious attachment lol but more than that the complexity of interpreting emotions in our body, and all the ways we've been taught love is supposed to feel by romances that don't bear out so well in adulthood. Me and everyone navigating dating is right there with you Max 😭

“It played for hours and was as difficult to shake as ‘Come On Eileen’ or ‘Penny Lane.’”

Laughed out loud because “Come On Eileen” is one of the most annoying songs of all time and whenever I have the misfortune of hearing it (which is too often) it’s stuck in my head for at least an entire day. I love how specific this book’s references are!!

Hi fellow boundlings 🥰📚

recently my algorithm has flooded me with so many articles and videos about the ongoing literacy crisis. Which I think everyone here is aware of and I have already seen multiple discussions about that topic here, but it is still something that really alarms me. And then the constant (rather concerning) debates on social media, like some people claiming to only read the dialogue in books, or that time someone on social media accused authors or being ableist for using difficult words in their writing, or even worse authors who use more complicated words then being accused of using AI.

Thankfully, PB is a safe haven far away from all this, but still, reading about all of that scares me enormously. And it also reminds me of Newspeak in Orwell’s 1984 and how that was used to simplify language more and more and thus increasingly limiting people’s vocabulary. (Please correct me if I remember this wrong, since I read that book a good while ago 😅)

Long story short, that gave me the idea to suggest a little challenge to expand our vocabulary for those want to participate.

My idea was that everyone could comment a word or two (or as many as you want) that you recently learned about, and their meaning. That way we can maybe all learn some new words by looking through the comments. And by writing them down and talking about them maybe we can also remember them better.

I use the term new words rather loosely here, so please feel free to interpret it however you like. For example you could share: 📚 a word you recently read that you truly didn’t know before and had to look up 💡 a word you had never encountered before but could infer the meaning from context 🙊 a word you technically know the meaning of but don’t often use in your active vocabulary when you are speaking or writing (but wish you did) 🗣️ or honestly even just a word that you know and love but that is not well-known and that you wish more people knew about

Also, you are obviously completely free to write the definition in your own words, or copy from a dictionary.

I hope you like this idea and I look forward to reading all of your comments! 💜🥰