New Books!

[Ash Armstrong]

Acquired today.
Creation myths, nature and fertility myths, the legends of heroes, heroines, monsters, gods and goddesses, myths about the founding and fall of cities, shrines and temples, nations and empires, tales of epic journeys and impossible quests. Stories told, retold, reinvented and rediscovered over millennia, retold one more time, and why not?

It's been a couple of decades, or three, since I last read Homer, Virgil, Hesiod or Ovid, et al, so now seems like a good time to revisit those stories by other means, through other voices.
I've no doubt reading these will have me delving back into the Penguin Classics versions, or possibly OUP Classics, in the weeks and months ahead.

[Ceasar’s Palace]

I still have the Robert Graves version waiting to be read...

[Ash Armstrong]

I still have the Robert Graves version waiting to be read...

I have a copy of that. I expect I'll be referring to it, along with various Penguin/Oxford Classics I have.

[Ash Armstrong]

Arrived today! A goodly haul, with a further five books to arrive on Saturday, all either from or about Ancient Greece and its culture, fueling the little research project I've started.

[Ash Armstrong]

The rest of my book haul has arrived today. 📚📚📖📚

[madbear]

The rest of my book haul has arrived today. 📚📚📖📚

Blimey. Serous stuff. i think i got as far as Roger Lancelyn Green's retelling of the Trojan Horse.
Enjoy

[Ash Armstrong]

Just arrived!
I'm currently reading Natalie Haynes' superb Children of Jocasta. This one, Stone Blind, has just been published.

[Ash Armstrong]

New acquisitions today!

[Ash Armstrong]

Waiting for me on getting home from würk this evening.

I read it originally back in 1979 when it came out, and that was the 'short' version. Now, at 1320 pages, I'm going to (sort of) re-read it in its considerably longer form as published in 1990. I've been wanting to revisit both The Stand and The Shining for a while, and the upcoming Christmas holiday seemed like a good time to dive back in to Stephen KingWorld. However, I may not wait till Christmas with this one.
Having seen Blue Öyster Cult a couple of weeks ago, it seemed I was being nudged by nether-world forces towards it picking it up now, and here we are...

[Ash Armstrong]

New acquisitions this week. This prose translation of The Odyssey by E.V.Rieu was the very first Penguin Classic in 1946 and was the one I first read back in the early 80s. This edition has been revised by his son in 1991. The only other editions of The Iliad and The Odyssey I have are George Chapman's translations, the first in English, from 1698 and 1715 respectively, as in Keats' sonnet On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, and later referenced in Genesis' Watcher of the Skies, from where the song's title comes.


Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;

Round many western islands have I been

Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told

That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;

Yet did I never breathe its pure serene

Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies

When a new planet swims into his ken;

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes

He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men

Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—

Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

[Ash Armstrong]

Just picked up this tome. Some of it I'm familiar with: Baudelaire particularly, but some of Mallarmé, Apollinaire and Rimbaud too.

[soundchaser09]

still hard at work on my edit on my medieval fantasy book, should be over 600 pages when all is said and done. Then I have to find a literary agent, someone who actually thinks my work is worth this effort gotta get this thing published!

[Ash Armstrong]

I've acquired some new reading material. I think they're called 'books'.

[Ash Armstrong]

Penthesilea just dropped by with some gifts...

[Ash Armstrong]

These just in!