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Diva: A Novel

Catherine — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:55:34 +0000

I’ve loved celebrity and pop culture since I was a teen when I would beg my mother to buy me trashy magazines in the grocery store with the promise that I would pay her back (I’m still in arrears on that debt). So even though it played out back in the 1960s I was well […]

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Medea by Eilish Quin

Catherine — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:27:38 +0000

There are some criminal court cases where the defense attorney cannot argue their client’s innocence because guilt is so clear. Other ways of mitigating the evidence must be found. Author Eilish Quin successfully adopts the same strategy in her debut novel, Medea, about one of Greek mythology’s most despised women. A woman who killed her […]

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The Shadow of Perseus

Catherine — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:07:09 +0000

For some, the retelling of Greek myths may have run its course, but for others (me!) I’m still on board to read mythology from a different perspective. My first 5-star novel of the year was Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes, a fiercely feminist, wickedly funny adaptation of the Medusa myth. Now, author Claire Heywood is tackling […]

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Beautiful Animals: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:52:33 +0000

But things settled down and flowed on, because it was the law of summers among the rich that the season of leisure should flow like a large and charming river. The imperative was to have a good time and float on the luminescent surface. Meet Naomi, a bored, twenty-three-year-old Brit vacationing on the beautiful Greek […]

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Running: A Novel by Cara Hoffman

Catherine — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:33:38 +0000

It’s 1988 when Bridey first meets Jasper but when Running begins it’s with the news of his death. She is back in Athens, the place where she, Jasper and Jasper’s boyfriend Milo worked as runners—someone young and pretty who corrals tourists on the trains heading into Athens, regaling them with the beauty and savings […]

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The Song of Achilles

Catherine — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:29:23 +0000

While it’s tempting to adopt an intellectual attitude, in this case I’m going to go with honesty and risk losing everyone’s respect: to date, my greatest interest in the Battle of Troy came when actors Eric Bana and Brad Pitt ran around fighting with no shirts on. There, I admitted it. I’ve never read Homer’s […]

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