bacchicecstasy's reviews
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Can't lie, the first few chapters didn't hit for me and it was kind of a slog....but chapters 6-9 were so so impactful and so relevant to today

Child murder: a brief introduction. This was a great saga, brutal, and at times hilarious. There were some points, names and references that were v confusing to me, might be easier to understand if you have more of a background in norse myth 

I was initially turned off from reading this because of the direct, sometimes stunted style. Reading the translator notes helped and this whole collection is so wonderful. Some of my favorites:

We know this much/Death is an evil;/we have the gods'/ word for it;they too/would die if death/were a good thing

You may forget but/Let me tell you this: someone in/some future time will think of us
Literally me, Miss Sappho. In the year 2023🖤

Also her poems about virginity were super interesting 

Disassociated king.

"I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

Really cool to read some of his non middle earth work

My favorites were Suburbs, morning with air, and an untenable situation 

Philip: I can't believe she doesn't want o be alone with me after I tried to choke her :((((( I'm a victim 
 

if he were not such a vile misogynist the whole "twist" would have been as clear as it is to the reader. I also feel like Rachel is just a convenient and socially acceptable outlet for his infatuation for Ambrose and bitterness over his 'abandonment' and death. 

 Maybe I would like this more if I had not already read Rebecca, a far superior work. 

Good for providing context to current events, especially the extreme effort Israel has made to disenfranchise and eliminate the Palestinian people. 

And history repeats and repeats and repeats and repeats and

Weighing what I feel is the literary value and truly masterful writing and how much I personally HATED reading this lol. Maybe that's the point.