#and babel and the iliad and the odyssey

[victor-v]

(poor will 😔)

#the atlas complex #the midnight lie #nona the ninth #in other lands #bookblr #i also have the ten thousand doors of january #and babel and the iliad and the odyssey

[improperingenue]

I put "dark academia" in quotes because my thoughts on it are so complicated I could write a goddam essay

#dark academia #specific poll #booksbooksbooks #literature #english literature #if we were villains #donna tartt #the secret history #the goldfinch #homer #the iliad #the odyssey #the little friend #emily dickenson #charlotte bronte #jane austen #kazuo ishiguro #never let me go #olivie blake #the atlas series #the atlas six #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray

[jonathan-sins]

Book recommendations?

AAAH THIS IS SO LATE ( T A T )

I rlly need to check my inbox more than once a year -_-b

To answer your question, there are bunch of good books and genres, so I put together a list with a little bit of everything I love <3

Historical

The Great Gatsby

No Longer Human/A Shameful Life

1984

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Notes From the Underground

A Clockwork Orange

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

All Quiet On the Western Front

Fahrenheit 451

Shakespeares works

Edgar Allan Poes works

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Magical Realism

Babel: an Arcane History

American Gods

The Night Circus (more magical than realism imo)

The Book of Dust (prequel to His Dark Materials, witch I haven’t finished but it’s good so far)

The Caraval Series

Before the Coffee Gets Cold series

Contemporary

The Secret History

One of us is lying

The Hate U Give

Concrete Rose (sequel to THUG)

Bear town

Grown Ups

Solitaire

Part of Your World

The Woman who Stole My Life

Queer stories

Loveless

Heart stopper series

Red White and Royal Blue

PROUD (short story, poetry, and art collection)

All Out: the No-Longer Secret Stories of Queer Throughout the Ages

The Song of Achilles

Authors

Angie Thomas

Phillip Pullman

Juno Dawson

Albert Camus

Junji Ito (technically a manga artist)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Marian Keyes

Mark Twain

Victor Hugo

Madeline Miller

Sci-fi

The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide

Doctor Who and The Krikkitmen

Frankenstein

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Project Hail Mary

Non fiction

A Brief History of Time

The Myth of Normal

I’m Glad my Mom Died

Educated

Dot. Con (the one by John Cassidy)

… this ended up a lot longer than I planned, but I think that’s a good thing!

A lot of these books are very well known already and some of them you’ve probably read in school or something, but what can i say? They’re classics for a reason

Please check the trigger warnings, and have fun!

#book recommendations #answered asks #asks #bookblr #★彡

[fablecore]

do u listen to podcasts? do u have any recommendations? :>

i sure do! my ultimate babygirl darling is literature & history - which has recently returned with a brand new episode after a few months of being away! plus, there are transcripts online if you prefer to read instead of listen (or read while listening, as i usually do!) i love this podcast so much i shall also recommend my favorite episodes:

the tower of babel (1)

all the iliad and odyssey eps (9-14)

canaan and biblical archaeology (15)

the one who struggles with god, which is about the actual historical events during which the historical books of the old testament took place (19)

the song of songs... otherwise known as biblical smut (23)

the history of classical athenian theater (26)

the oedipus episodes, which is actually about the peloponnesian war (30, 31)

antigone; or, a lesson on sophism versus platoism (32)

medea (33)

i also like the fuckbois of literature podcast (if you want to try it out, i first listened to the beowulf episode because it discusses maria dahvana headley's certified platinum banger of a translation), and ezra klein's new york times podcast, which broadly covers news, philosophy, and society. two more podcasts that have caught my eye are the memory palace and the thing about austen. i plan to give them a try in the future. i hope something here fascinates you 🌸🤍🥨

#letters #once i listen to more lit & hist i'll reblog this and add on new favorite eps 😌

[thyeb]

TALK TO ME ABOUT

books

──genres: mystery, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, romantasy, modern classics and classics. the fifth season. the bluest eyes. cruel prince. an amber in the ashes. the girl from the sea. annihilation. kindred. the atlas six. scythe. six of crows. gone girl. babel. tender is the flesh. legendborn. a good girl’s guide to murder. the iliad & odyssey. as long as the lemon trees grow. temporary. the gilded wolves. bitter root.

movies

──pride & prejudice. she’s the man. coraline. girl, interrupted. out of my league trilogy. into & across the spiderverse. jennifer’s body. cruel intentions. the craft. bend it like beckham. the princess bride. the love witch. raw. teeth. practical magic. everything everywhere all at once. bullet train. the conjuring franchise. matilda.

shows

──the haunting of hill house & bly manor. midnight mass. black mirror. yellowjackets. lovecraft country. girl from nowhere. alice in borderland. moon knight. bridgerton & queen charlotte. extraordinary attorney woo. las chicas de cable. black lighting. lupin. raising dion. umbrella academy. cowboy bebop. hannibal. arcane.

[acekatherineplumber]

End-of-year book asks!

How many books did you read this year? 500. No, that's not a typo

Did you reread anything? What? I reread a lot of things/ I reread RW&RB, The House in the Cerulean Sea, A Christmas Carol, Vinegar Girl, Written in the Stars, Romeo and Juliet, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Giver, The Handmaid's Tale, War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, The Count of Monte Christo, Les Mis, Taking Flight: From War Orpha to Star Ballerina, Hamlet, the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Windsnap books 1 and 2, Ballet Shoes, The Testamants, Annie On My Mind, The Mark of Athena, Alexander Hamilton, I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You, Fun Home, Orange is the New Black, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens, and Rhinoceros. I read Les Mis and Rhinoceros at least once a year because they're so relevant.

What were your top five books of the year? In no particular order, Sailing By Orion's Star by Katie Crabb, The Hate You Give (Angie Thomas), Macbeth (Jo Nesbo), The Language of Fire (Stephanie Hemphill), The Hacienda (Isabel Canas)

Did you discover any new authors that you love this year? Dhonielle Clayton, Jo Nesbo, Hafsah Faizal, Jess Rothenberg, Stephanie Hemphill, Julia Ember, Alice Oseman, Katie Zhao, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Canas, Sarah Penner, Samantha Cohoe, Ashley Herring-Blake, Maya Prasad, Amanda Bestor-Siegal, Grace Li, Vaishnavi Patel, Farrah Rochon, Courtney Kay, Darcy Coates, and Celeste Ng

What genre did you read the most of? Fantasy

Was there anything you meant to read, but never got to? Babel, The Ballad of Never After, Foul Lady Fortune, Bloodmarked, and The Shattered City

What was your average Goodreads rating? Does it seem accurate? 3.7. I'd say it's accurate/

Did you meet any of your reading goals? Which ones? My goal for the year was a 50 states plus DC challenge, and I managed to do it!

Did you get into any new genres? Underwater horror! Yes, that's a thing.

What was your favorite new release of the year? Sailing By Orion's Star by Katie Crabb

What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read? The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas

Any books that disappointed you? This Is Not the Real World by Anna Carey. It was unnecessary.

What were your least favorite books of the year? Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson, Hotel Magnifique by Emily Taylor, Husband Material by Alexis Hall, and Shylock is My Name by Howard Jacobson

What books do you want to finish before the year is over? I'm done reading for 2022. All current reads are going to be counted towards 2023.

Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them? I don't keep track of that sort of thing.

What is the most over-hyped book you read this year? Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Did any books surprise you with how good they were? Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser

How many books did you buy? At least 20

Did you use your library? Every single week

What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations? Foul Lady Fortune, and idk, I haven't read it yet

Did you participate in or watch any booklr, booktube, or book twitter drama? I keep out of drama

What’s the longest book you read? Les Mis at 1,463 pages (my travel edition)

What’s the fastest time it took you to read a book? 30 minutes

Did you DNF anything? Why? Plenty. For even petty little things. There are too may good books out there to continue reading bad ones.

What reading goals do you have for next year? I'm doing an A-Z challenge!

#elphie reads #story of my life

[reverie-quotes]

quotes by book

these quotes are sorted by the book/series that they appear in! will be updated regularly. sorted a-z by the first word in the title.

A Curse so Dark and Lonely

A Heart so Fierce and Broken

A Little Life

A Tale of Two Cities

A Thousand Boy Kisses

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Woman of Intelligence

Afterparties

All the Ruined Men

All Your Perfects

America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States

Americanah

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution

Beach Read

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Becoming the Dark Prince

Black Water Sister

Born A Crime

Build

Call Us What We Carry

Cannery Row

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

Circe

Citizen

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cosmogramma

Cradle (collection)

Crazy Rich Asians

Crying in H Mart

Daisy Jones & The Six

Dance of Thieves

Daughter of the Pirate King

Dawnshard

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

Depression and Other Magic Tricks

Dune

Edgedancer

Escaping From Houdini

Faces of Love

Five Total Strangers

Gingerbread

Grabbed

Her Body and Other Parties

Honor

How Much of These Hills is Gold

How the King of Elflame Learned to Hate Stories

How to Read Literature Like a Professor

Hunting Prince Dracula

If We Were Villains

If You Could See the Sun

In Five Years

Iron Widow

Ironside

It Ends With Us

It Happened One Summer

Just Haven’t Met You Yet

Knight's Ransom

Know My Name

Lore

Love and Other Words

Love Her Wild

Love in the Time of Cholera

Malibu Rising

Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning

Miss Marple (collection)

Mistborn (Era 1)

Mistborn (Era 2)

Night

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Ninth House

November 9

Oathbringer

Of Mice and Men

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Fragile Waves

Once We Were Home

One Last Stop

Ophelia After All

Our Violent Ends

People We Meet On Vacation

Perfect on Paper

Piranesi

Portrait of a Thief

Rebecca

Red, White, & Royal Blue

Republic

Rhythm of War

Romeo and Juliet

Sad Girls

Sankofa

Sex & Vanity

Shane

Slaughterhouse-Five

Somewhere We Are Human

Spellbreaker (duology)

Split Second

Stalking Jack the Ripper

Steelheart

Take A Hint, Dani Brown

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

The Alchemist

The Ardent Swarm

The Atlas Six

The Authenticity Project

The Beekeeper of Aleppo

The Bell Jar

The Book Thief

The Bride Test

The Burning God

The Cheat Sheet

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

The Cruel Prince

The Darkest Part of the Forest

The Dragon Republic

The Ex Hex

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The Five Wounds

The Goldfinch

The Heart Principle

The History of A Town

The House in the Cerulean Sea

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

The Island of Missing Trees

The Island of Sea Women

The Iliad

The Iron Raven

The Joy Luck Club

The King is Always Above the People

The Kiss Quotient

The Lost Sisters

The Love Hypothesis

The Midnight Library

The Moon is Down

The Namesake

The Odyssey

The Ones We Burn

The Pearl

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Poison Eaters

The Poppy War

The Priory of the Orange Tree

The Queen of Nothing

The Raven Boys

The Red Pony

The Secret History

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

The Song of Achilles

The Soulmate Equation

The Spanish Love Deception

The Starless Crown

The Starless Sea

The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury

The Unhoneymooners

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Way of Kings

The Wheel of Time (series)

The Wicked King

The Vibrant Years

These Violent Delights (Chloe Gong)

These Violent Delights (Micah Nemerever)

They Both Die At the End

Third Son's the Charm

Time is A Mother

Tithe

Tortilla Flat

Valiant

We Free the Stars

White Dancing Elephants

Woman Without Shame

Words of Radiance

aaannnd that's it for now! hope this helps! <3

#quotes #quote masterlist #quotes by books #quotes sorted by books #book quotes #books #book #masterlist #navigation #reverie #reverie quotes #quotes by book #quotes sorted by book

[fatehbaz]

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. [...]

That is the basis of the Antillean experience, this shipwreck of fragments, these echoes, these shards of a huge [...] vocabulary, these partially remembered customs, and they are not decayed but strong. They survived the Middle Passage and the Fatel Rozack, the ship that carried the first indentured Indians from the port of Madras to the cane fields of Felicity, that carried the chained Cromwellian convict and the Sephardic Jew, the Chinese grocer and the Lebanese merchant selling cloth samples on his bicycle. And here they are, all in a single Caribbean city, Port of Spain, the sum of history, Trollope’s “non-people”. A downtown babel of shop signs and streets, [...] polyglot, a ferment [...], like heaven. [...]

-----

On a heat-stoned afternoon in Port of Spain, some alley white with glare, with love vine spilling over a fence, palms and a hazed mountain appear around a corner to the evocation of Vaughn or Herbert’s “that shady city of palm-trees” [...]. It is hard for me to see such emptiness as desolation. It is that patience that is the width of Antillean life, and the secret is not to ask the wrong thing of it, not to demand of it an ambition it has no interest in. The traveller reads this as lethargy, as torpor. [...]

If you wish to understand that consoling pity with which the islands were regarded, look at the tinted engravings of Antillean forests, with their proper palm trees, ferns, and waterfalls. They have a civilizing decency, like Botanical Gardens, as if the sky were a glass ceiling under which a colonized vegetation is arranged for quiet walks and carriage rides. Those views are incised with a pathos that guides the engraver’s tool and the topographer’s pencil, and it is this pathos which, tenderly ironic, gave villages names like Felicity. A century looked at a landscape furious with vegetation in the wrong light and with the   wrong eye. It is such pictures that are saddening rather than the tropics itself. These delicate engravings of sugar mills and harbours, of native women in costume, are seen as a part of  History, that History which looked over the shoulder of the engraver and, later, the photographer. History can alter the eye and the moving hand to conform a view of itself; it can rename places for the nostalgia in an echo; it can temper the glare of tropical light to elegiac monotony in prose, the tone of judgement [...] in travel journals [...].

-----

These travellers carried with them [...] their own malaise, and their prose reduced even the landscape to melancholia and self-contempt. Every endeavor [in the Caribbean] is belittled as imitation, from architecture to music. There was this conviction [...] that since History is based on achievement, and since the history of the Antilles was so [...] corrupt, so depressing in its cycles of massacres, slavery, and indenture, a culture was inconceivable and nothing could ever be created in those ramshackle ports, those monotonously feudal sugar estates. Not only the light and salt of Antillean mountains defied this, but the demotic vigour and variety of their inhabitants. Stand close to a waterfall and you will stop hearing its roar. [...]

-----

But in our tourist brochures the Caribbean is a blue pool into which the republic dangles the extended foot of Florida as inflated rubber islands bob and drinks with umbrellas float towards her on a raft. This is how the islands from the shame of necessity sell themselves; this is the seasonal erosion of their identity [...]. What is the earthly paradise for our visitors? Two weeks without rain and a mahogany tan, and, at sunset, local troubadours in straw hats and floral shirts beating “Yellow Bird” and “Banana Boat Song” to death.

There is a territory wider than this – wider than the limits made by the map of an island – which is the illimitable sea and what it remembers.

-----

A boy with weak eyes skims a flat stone across the flat water of an Aegean inlet, and that ordinary action with the scything elbow contains the skipping lines of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and another child [...] hears the rustling march of cabbage palms in a Caribbean sunrise [...]. There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a [...] witness to the early morning [...], which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise. Then the noun, the “Antilles” ripples like brightening water, and the sounds of leaves, palm fronds, and birds are the sounds of a fresh dialect [...], a waking island. [...]

It is not that History is obliterated by this sunrise. It is there in Antillean geography, in the vegetation itself.

-----

Derek Walcott. “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory.” 1992.

#Caribbean #Haiti #Trinidad #imperialism

[quintessencemeister]

Ø  20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Ø  Clockwork Orange

Ø  Midsummer Night’s Dream

Ø  A Tale of Two Cities

Ø  Alice in Wonderland

Ø  Beowulf

Ø  Bulfinch’s Mythology

Ø  Choose Your Own Adventure

Ø  Dracula

Ø  Dubliners

Ø  Far From the Maddening Crowd

Ø  Frankenstein

Ø  Hamlet

Ø  Henry V

Ø  James & the Giant Peach

Ø  Les Mis

Ø  Macbeth

Ø  Make Way for Ducklings

Ø  Matilda

Ø  Moby Dick

Ø  On the Origin of Species

Ø  Peter Pan

Ø  Poems by: Emily Dickenson, Phillis Wheatley, or TS Eliot

Ø  Pride & Prejudice

Ø  Sense & Sensibility

Ø  Shadowshaper

Ø  Aeneid

Ø  Arabian Nights

Ø  The Awakening

Ø  Call of Cthulhu

Ø  Call of the Wild

Ø  Canterbury Tales

Ø  Count of Monte Cristo

Ø  The Darkest Minds

Ø  The Divine Comedy

Ø  The Dogs of Babel

Ø  The Giver

Ø  The Hunchback

Ø  The Iliad

Ø  The Importance of Being Earnest

Ø  The Invisible Man

Ø  The Jungle Book

Ø  Sleepy Hollow

Ø  The Name of the Wind

Ø  The Odyssey

Ø  The Old Man & the Sea

Ø  The Phantom of the Opera

Ø  The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ø  The Pit & the Pendulum

Ø  The Princess Bride

Ø  The Rainbow Fish

Ø  The Raven (Poe)

Ø  The Secret Garden

Ø  Jekyll & Hyde

Ø  The Tell-Tale Heart

Ø  The Tempest

Ø  The Three Musketeers

Ø  The War of the Worlds

Ø  Treasure Island

Ø  Ulysses

Ø  Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Ø  White Fang

Ø  Wuthering Heights

#personal #not for you #move along

[fablecore]

a while ago i made a list of my favorite episodes from the literature & history podcast, which is a project helmed by one man (doug metzger, phd in literature) that traces the roots of anglophone literature from the beginning of recorded history. here are my faves, up to episode 33:

the tower of babel; 2 Sheep God Inanna!! (1)

all the iliad and odyssey episodes (9-14)

canaan and biblical archaeology (15)

the one who struggles with god, which is about the actual historical events during which the historical books of the old testament took place (19)

the song of songs... otherwise known as biblical smut (23)

the history of classical athenian theater (26)

the oedipus episodes, which is actually about the peloponnesian war (30, 31)

antigone; or, a lesson on sophism vs platoism (32)

medea (33)

now that i’ve listened to episode 50, here are more favorites:

the new comedy, which is actually about how greek plays evolved during a literary “gap” in history, which is actually about alexander the great (37)

hellenism and the birth of the self, which lures one in with its opening paragraphs: how the cult of dionysus, the state religion of the seleucid empire, led to 2 maccabees and the first hanukkah (40)

the beginnings of roman literature (42)

hot lawyer escapades from local roman statesman cicero (46, 47, 48)

the poetry of catullus (49)

the poetry of horace (50)

the podcast recently came back from a hiatus and is now on episode 98! and there are transcripts available online if you prefer reading while listening (like me). AND the host ends every episode with a song he personally composed and sings, which fluctuate between varying levels of dorkiness but are genuinely fun. i really can’t stress enough his ability to break down complex, obscure topics in such a comprehensible manner that even a layperson like me can understand them. highly recommend ❣

#ノート #literature and history podcast #one of the most surprising anecdotal things i've learned is that we don't know anything about what shakespeare actually wrote #his plays were the result of actors honing each line performance after performance... developing and evolving #by testing it on crowds and seeing what worked/what didn't. and it was actors who compiled all the lines into a manuscript folio! #isn't that fascinating.