birthday twins <3

i meant the iliad not the aeneid (virgil) but anyway!!! anyway i've started it. it's so gripping. the drama & language of it all!! (all with convenient recaps of everything that's going on every few pages)

yes pls do this would be great 🙏

you on discord, dear one?

down for the Unworthy!!

what's on yours?

okay :) i am putting together a TBR and maybe we can see if we have some overlap! in the mean time lmk if there's anything in particular on your list

what isn't 😭

more seriously, find buddy reads most useful for books i need a bit of a nudge getting started with. lately i've been bouncing off so many books tho so idek. would be curious if you have anything on your list you think i'd vibe with.

Thank you. It has rocked me, but also, the gratitude I feel that I knew her at all is profound. (Loss always reminds us of the importance of the thereness that preceded it, so in my grief at our political moment, I can take some heart in a reminder of the sanctity of life)

...Les Miserables (will start, won't finish, Hugo), The Aeneid (Homer, Wilson). I want to read a lot more but I think this is all I will manage. If there's any contemporary fiction you'd recommend - on the scale of utterly life changing and brainwarping, and just so exquisitely written - lmk pls 🙏

(I do wonder why such a foundational text wouldn't have such a critical edition w/ the translations tho!)

I will say, it did not actually occur to me to Google translations so I will at least do that now 😭 so thank you.

Good idea, thank you. For a text this thick, however, and w/ such long paragraphs, the physicality of hardcopy helps my comprehension and the experience of reading. Am also taking lots of notes which is tedious electronically. I like his flex of just assuming everyone who reads him knows Latin 😭

Do I just...have to learn Latin? I am loving the book - it's not a *huge* component of the text, but it's definitely not a small component, either.