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In A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA, Sofia Samatar has used every startling image, every devastating turn of phrase -- a poet's facility with language to tell a story so intricate, so vast -- a scholar's facility with interlocked ideas.

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Enjoying Lauren Groff's Matrix, with prose that manages to be both spare and beautiful, and an extremely compelling protagonist.

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"Still, as it is, you are immortal, and whenever spring drives winter away, and Aries follows watery Pisces, you also rise, and flower in the green turf." Ovid's Metamorphoses, tr. Tony Kline https://t.co/fMbsQgvQf7

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Reading Pat Barker's THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS, a revisioning of The Iliad, told from the point of view of Briseis, whom Achilles takes as a 'prize' (read rapes repeatedly) after he slaughters her entire family. Piercing, compassionate storytelling.