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Jun 01, 2012 12:00


The Song of Achilles wins the Orange Prize!!!


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mjspice June 1 2012, 09:22:35 UTC
asliceofthemoon June 3 2012, 06:42:20 UTC
My mother hates Yaoi, but she loved this book so much she went back to reading up everything Greek we had.

This book is much more than Yaoi. That's why it's won such a prestigious, mainstream award - it's not one of those smutty pulpy B-grade niche romance novels. It's about heroism - heroism with a heart, where kindness and love is applauded as much as excellence in battle and violence.

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asliceofthemoon June 3 2012, 06:42:49 UTC
Please do!! Please! It's a wonderful book, really!

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tenshi_yuuki June 20 2012, 10:11:32 UTC
Oh gosh, I saw this and now I really want to read this book! I adore that whole time period this book is supposed to be set in, and plus its really hard to find good yaoi/shounen-ai books getting exposure like this. The only downer is that I have absolutely no idea where to look for it, it's really hard to find anything even remotely shounen-ai in any bookstore in my country :s

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asliceofthemoon June 20 2012, 11:16:51 UTC
Well It's a Bloomsbury book, and Penguin is a distributor - so it's not one of those shady yaoi books. You should be able to get it easily enough, therefore.
Try buying it online?

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tenshi_yuuki June 21 2012, 05:06:53 UTC
yeah I'm going to try ordering it from my local bookstore, and if that fails finding it online is the only option :)

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