Today, Simon and Schuster released Colm Toibin's latest novel, House of Names, about Clytemnestra and the murder of Agamemnon.  Anybody who knows me knows I've had this on pre-order since I heard about it months ago.  Because I live on the West Coast, I received my copy at midnight Eastern Daylight Time, and managed to finish it around 3 a.m ( Read more... )

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Going through my bookshelves, I stumbled across this little gem of a book I read several years ago. Fans of Achilles talk about Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles, but this is a work that might appeal to them, too ( Read more... )

A request from a fellow Goodreads member has me thinking about the dilemma of how to review another self-published author's work without shooting myself in the foot ( Read more... )

Contrary to the jokes Twitter!Orestes makes about Theseus claiming that the film Immortals is a documentary, I hadn't actually seen the movie until now ( Read more... )

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Orestes: The Young Lion has its first review, and it's a five-star one.  Wow!  I was having such doubts over whether people would like the book, and whether it was worth it to start the second one, but this fires me up again.

I normally don't find "the early years" parts of historical bio very interesting, but Ms. Gill makes the telling of Orestes ( Read more... )