Review: The Wild Huntress by Emily Lloyd-Jones
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Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
Continue reading “Review: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer”But you don’t really need a magic pencil to write a magic book. All books are magic. An object that can take you to another world without even leaving your room? A story written by a stranger and yet it seems they wrote it just for you or to you? Loving and hating people made out of ink and paper, not flesh and blood? Yes, books are magic. Maybe even the strongest magic there is.
Storyteller Corner: The End, The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer
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packetcat reads The Iliad: The Multitude
Merriam-Webster defines a multitude as “the state of being many” or “a great number” or “a great number of people”. In the case of the Iliad, I think the definition that is most appropriate is “a great number of people”. Because there are a lot of people mentioned in this particular book.
So. Many. Names. A multitude of names if you will.
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I have been thinking about reading more poetry recently so when I saw copies of Emily Wilson’s translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey at the bookshop I jumped on them. Of course, as a newbie to poetry this is jumping off of the deep end but also at the same time, these poems are long enough for me to chew on them for a while.
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