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I came back to reading with a magical world of pirate fantasy and dwelled again in my greek mythology childhood obsession (but with adult understanding), but discovery and learning is everything to me

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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

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iamlll

Aug 25, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

This is a book that will follow me all my life I think. It's really short, but packed with a strong message that really aligns with my values as a childcare worker, and it's phrased in a way that you can basically interpret it however you like and applicate the message in your own way, leaving room for change. I really enjoyed reading it, it taught me a lot in under 100 pages

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The Old Man Who Read Love Stories: A Novel

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Aug 25, 2025

4.0

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

Recommended by my dad as a short read for this summer, and I honestly did not think I would like it but damn it was thrilling. It's not at all what I usually read and I love discovering new stuff, this book is so short and yet so packed with history and character building and tension... The style is maybe what made me give it only 4 stars, but other than that I really enjoyed it=)

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I finished it and yet could never talk about it

I seriously need more people on this book, or reading Shannon Chakraborty altogether because this specific one got me back into reading, I have a special bond to it x) but I also completely fell in love with the Daevabad universe... anyways, THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH. I never knew I needed this, but a main cast of grumpy middle aged/old and retired pirates bickering on a ship to pursue a quest they did not want to follow in the first place ? Loved it. Want more. The mere fact that Amina is 40ish, has a daughter and a bad knee makes her one of my favorite fantasy main characters of all the books I've read, and I wonder if anyone feels the same =)

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Les pérégrinations fantastiques de Sir Pebbleton

Axel Descamps

Madeleine d'Adhémar de Montgoupil se lance dans la traduction et la remise en forme du fameux carnet de Sir Thomas Pebbleton. Explorateur disparu ayant eu pour but de recenser toutes les créatures fabuleuses peuplant le monde aux alentours de 1890.

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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

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Jul 05, 2025

4.5

Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

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Classics to modern nonfiction, all under 300 pages.

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A Thousand Ships

Natalie Haynes

This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told.

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The Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood

Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope—wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy—is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumors, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters, and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and—curiously—twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood's dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the story-telling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality—and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

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Herc

Phoenicia Rogerson

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures…everyone’s favourite hero, right? Well, it’s not. This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives everywhere) Hylas: Herc’s first friend (They were more than friends) Megara: Herc’s wife (She’ll tell you about their marriage) Eurystheus: Oversaw Herc’s labours (Definitely did not hide in a jar) His friends, his enemies, his wives, his children, his lovers, his rivals, his gods, his victims. It’s time to hear their stories. Told with humour and heart, Herc gives voice to the silenced characters, in this feminist, queer (and sometimes shocking) retelling of classic Hercules myth. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller and Joanne M. Harris.

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Quand les dieux rôdaient sur la Terre

Pierre Judet de La Combe

Zeus, Aphrodite, Athéna, Dionysos, Apollon...Tous les secrets des Dieux et des Déesses qui rôdaient autrefois sur la Terre. Pierre Judet de La Combe nous fait voyager à travers les nombreux mythes de la mythologie : histoires merveilleuses, invraisemblables, inattendues. Un livre pour revivre l’expérience de ce monde ancien et surprenant, où l’Océan, les Fleuves, le Soleil ne sont pas des éléments désincarnés, mais s’adressent aux habitants de la Terre, où les puissances invisibles qui décident des vies et des sociétés humaines descendent de l’Olympe ou surgissent des entrailles de la terre ou de la mer pour se montrer, parler et s'affronter aux humains. Pierre Judet de La Combe, helléniste, directeur d’études émérite à l’EHESS et directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, est le créateur de l’émission éponyme sur France Inter qui rassemble chaque semaine plus d’un million et demi d’auditeurs et dont ce livre est l’adaptation.

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I want to read the Iliad like a Shakespearean play

I don't know how I came to think about it like this, but the entirety of Achilles' lament over Patrocluse's death came to my brain performed on a stage. There is so much going on in what he says, going from pure grieving sadness to rage to pride to rage again and so on, I would *love* to see and hear it more than read it. Any adaptation of greek mythology in film disappointed me so I'm not exactly wishing for this to happen, I'm just throwing it out here for some reason x)

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Ships and horses ?

There were. So many ships. And people. And why so many horse references in the "titles" (bad word choice but idk how else to call it) ?? Big question. I counted, and maybe I'm off by a bit but last time I checked, there is 1,186 ships total and 44 greek leaders announced. This whole thing was. SO LONG. I really enjoyed it, I like keeping track of very long lists for some reason x)

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The Iliad

Homer Homer

Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of civilized life and a poignant yearning for peace. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. He maintains the drive and metric music of Homer’s poetry, and evokes the impact and nuance of the Iliad’s mesmerizing repeated phrases in what Peter Levi calls “an astonishing performance.”

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