Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
#alexander
review
ImperfectCJ
Fire from Heaven | Mary Renault
post image
Bailedbailed

I'm not feeling this one right now. I suspect I added it to my TBR for my kids at some point because it's more their thing than mine. Maybe I'll revisit it at some point, but I'm setting it aside for now. One down for #Roll100! Not a very satisfying way to mark it off, but it does get it off my TBR.

quote
charl08
The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
post image

Alexandria is a splendid city, with everything a sensible man can need. I daresay I shall end my life here, with- out ever again going far away. But when I remember the high hills, and a pass mounting to its unknown revelation, I will not think so. Even then, knowing the evil and the danger, knowing all I had known before, even then I felt it; ecstasy, prophecy, light.

ChaoticMissAdventures So pretty I love how trees insist on growing even if they have to switch directions! 😍 5mo
charl08 @ChaoticMissAdventures the Lake District is a great place for this 👌 5mo
35 likes1 stack add2 comments
quote
charl08
The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
post image

As we marched, the road rising through bare uplands, I suppose there was no one in the Household who was not thinking, And what will become of me?

Texreader What a lovely photo! 5mo
45 likes2 comments
quote
charl08
The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
post image

Sign me up for a babylonion spa...
-----
Because it is hot in Babylon, the bath is a pleasure-house, where one could spend all day; floored with marble from the west, with glazed walls, white flowers on blue. The bath is a spacious pool, whose lapis-blue tiles have gold fish impressed in them. There are pots with sweet shrubs and trees, changed at each season, jasmine and citron....

blurb
charl08
The Persian Boy | Mary Renault
post image

Latest bookclub book. 3 days to go, good job it's such a pageturner.

42 likes2 stack adds
blurb
Texreader
post image

Volume 2 from the Little Free Library today and volume 3 from HPB. Ah gee, now I have to find matching volume 1

blurb
xicanti
A Choice of Destinies | Melissa Scott
post image

Onward, with Casey‘s help! I was gonna read A CHOICE OF DESTINIES in chunks, but I‘ve decided I‘ll probably power through it after all. While I‘m interested enough to keep going, I don‘t feel I‘m Scott‘s target audience. She‘s aimed the book at people keen on movement-focused military stories and/or who‘ve read so much fiction about Alexander the Great they can do without a ton of characterization. It‘s a bit disappointing, really.

dabbe Be still my 💙, Casey. 🖤🐾🖤 2y
48 likes1 comment
blurb
xicanti
A Choice of Destinies | Melissa Scott
post image

Breakfast involved scrambled eggs with sriracha mayo, very bad coffee (I always just guess at how to use standard household coffee makers, and this time I guessed super wrong), and Melissa Scott‘s 1986 alternate history of Alexander the Great. So far it strikes me as very ideas-over-characters, which isn‘t my thing, but I often find that her books begin slow yet build to something truly interesting. Hopefully that‘s also the case here.

blurb
RebL
Alexander the Great | Paul Cartledge
post image

Teams message with classics degree-holding coworker:
ME - What‘s a laconophile?
ME - Oh, he digs Spartans.

THEM - Probably a jerk. That‘s how it tends to go with Classics guys like him.
ME - I appreciate your learnéd insight.
THEM - Sparta guys are another version of WWII fanboys.
~
I didn‘t love this book.

12 likes1 stack add
blurb
wanderinglynn
post image

#winterreadathondailychallenge Day 5

My fave Disney movie is Beauty and the Beast. Not only did it have an amazing soundtrack, I loved that Belle was a big reader.

One of my fave early childhood books was the tagged, which is sadly out of print. 😔 I loved this story about Alexander, an alligator, who lives with an old friendly woman in a house on a hill with a cat, a magical mouse, and a yak.

Andrew65 A wonderful film 🎥📚🎥 2y
DieAReader 📚🤓♥️ 2y
52 likes2 comments