Happy autumnal equinox, my friends! This—this darkening, cooling-off, hunkering-down season—is my favorite time of the year, not least because my favorite holiday is just around the corner. I don't know about y'all but I am very ready to say goodbye to summer this year and move into this season of transitions and spooks and baked... Continue Reading →
MORE Myth Retellings To Read
Tis the season...to escape holiday madness with a book that takes you far outside your own world! We're back with more ratings and reviews of recently published retellings and reimagining of Greek myths (yes, all Greek this time). The reviews are more mixed this time around, including one DNF. *gasp* The Women of Troy: A... Continue Reading →
Add These Myth Retellings to your To-Be-Read List
If you've been here a while, then you know that I am a bona fide Madeline Miller fangirl. I've written two posts about Miller's bestselling retellings of classical myths, Circe and The Song of Achilles, both of which I cannot recommend highly enough. But Miller is not the only one reimagining ancient stories from new... Continue Reading →
Teaching with Circe
Wright Barker, 1889. Circe (Wikimedia Commons) *This post originally appeared on https://camwsgrads.wordpress.com* Madeline Miller’s second novel, Circe, was released just under a year ago to well-deserved admiration and praise. Miller’s feminist twist on the myths surrounding Circe “never distorts their original shape; it only illuminates details we hadn’t noticed before,” as one reviewer puts it.... Continue Reading →
Medea Palatina 