Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Fantasy, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Retellings
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child--not powerful, like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother.
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Epic, meticulous, earnest and classical in form.
We read them all: the case against is amara.reads's, funniest is omni_omar's. Marked below.
A Greek myth told by the one character everyone forgot to ask. Warm, angry, and paced like a thriller in the last third.
Pleasant, well made, and I could feel the workshop in every chapter. The public loves it and I understand why. Three.
A retelling that earns its own weather. The last hundred pages are as good as anything Miller has written.
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A nymph faces the joys and lonelinesses of independence in this feminist reworking of Greek myth from an Orange winner
In Madeline Miller’s latest adaptation of Greek myth, “Circe,” we encounter a thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.
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On Open Library, 162 have read it and 934 want to.
“When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.”
Madeline Miller was born in Boston and grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. For the last ten years she has been teaching and tutoring Latin, Greek and Shakespeare to high school students. She also studied in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms. She currently lives near Philadelphia, PA. The Song of Achilles is her first novel. Her second novel, Circe, will be published in April 2018. Visit her website at: www.madelinemiller.com
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Madeline Miller's best work?”
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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“Is Circe too earnest?”
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