Candy Hearts and Greek Myths

[selenak]

For Valentine's Day, the Candy Hearts Exchange went live, and I received two gifts, both SW: The Clone Wars stories: give us something to celebrate and yet peace, both stories in which conversations Anakin has with Ahsoka (and Obi-Wan) make fundamental changes.

I also finished reading A Thousand Ships, a, hm, less than a novel than an

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[kathyh]

I read A Thousand Ships last year and enjoyed it. The structure gave me a few problems to start with but in the end I liked the way it built to give a more rounded picture of all the women.

Natalie Haynes has a radio series/podcast on BBC Sounds called Natalie Haynes Stands Up For the Classics. I’ve only listened to a couple of the but they are quite entertaining. I’ve also seen her live as part of a discussion on the British Museum’s Troy exhibition back in pre-pandemic days. The discussion was a disaster due to a terrible chairwoman but Natalie Haynes was very entertaining. At one point I really thought she was going to throttle said chairwoman and if she had the whole audience would have applauded :)

[selenak]

As I saw, she also wrote a book about the women of the Oedipus myth, which intrigues me as well.