Her entry begins:
My latest read is Circe by Madeline Miller. I’ve been in a book club for 25 years, and one of the things I love most about book club is that we read books that either I hadn’t heard of before or hadn’t gotten around to reading. Circe falls into the second category: it was on my radar but hadn’t risen to the top of my To-Read list until another book club member selected it for her month hosting. I loved this novel, which is both an alternative take on The Odyssey and a fleshed-out relating of the goddess Circe’s own story. Much mythology focuses on men’s adventures but doesn’t go into depth about what women (and goddesses) were doing, other than seducing men and leading them down dangerous paths. I love how Miller turns that on its head and...[read on]About This Isn't New, from the publisher:
The female leads in these stories have disparate lives but share a singular trait: their sex dictates the expectations stamped onto them. Each woman,Visit Cynthia Swanson's website.in her time, must fight for who she is against the forces working to constrain her.
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