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The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, is undoubtedly wonderful poetry that makes you marvel at word choice and rhetorical construction. Yet it moves with the speed of an adventure novel. In other words, it exemplifies (as no other translation has for me) what scholars have been telling us about Homer for centuries. I don't understand classical Greek, so I can't read Homer in the original, but it seems Fagles has given me something very, very close indeed. In fact, Fagles' translations of Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "The Aenied" make a sublime trilogy of ancient myth. To hear it as Homer must have spoken it (it was first an oral composition, of course) I recommend the audiobook with Derek Jacobi's interpretation of "The Iliad" as translated by Fagles. Stupendous!
After finishing "The Priest's Graveyard", I found myself stunned with both its darkness AND its light. It is the story of two lost souls, a priest with a violent past and a heroin addicted woman, and their individual searches for justice. There are moments of deep, penetrating insight into the human psyche; the author exposes, in a very cunning way, those pieces of us that none want exposed, pieces that we shove down deep, hoping that no one will ever find them.
New Orleans is my hometown*, as much a part of me as my heartbeat, and Hurricane Katrina broke that heart. "Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans" helped to heal me. I found recipes, of course, lost to me since childhood. Every time I use one of these fabulous recipes, the aromas of New Orleans fill my home, head, and heart. If you would like to experience the tastes, aroma, and spirit of New Orleans in your own home, I highly recommend this cookbook!
*I moved to Portland a month before Katrina struck.
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The Iliad by Homer and Robert Fagles
doowahditty, September 4, 2011
The Iliad by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles, is undoubtedly wonderful poetry that makes you marvel at word choice and rhetorical construction. Yet it moves with the speed of an adventure novel. In other words, it exemplifies (as no other translation has for me) what scholars have been telling us about Homer for centuries. I don't understand classical Greek, so I can't read Homer in the original, but it seems Fagles has given me something very, very close indeed. In fact, Fagles' translations of Homer's "The Odyssey" and Virgil's "The Aenied" make a sublime trilogy of ancient myth. To hear it as Homer must have spoken it (it was first an oral composition, of course) I recommend the audiobook with Derek Jacobi's interpretation of "The Iliad" as translated by Fagles. Stupendous!The Priest's Graveyard by Ted Dekker
doowahditty, September 1, 2011
After finishing "The Priest's Graveyard", I found myself stunned with both its darkness AND its light. It is the story of two lost souls, a priest with a violent past and a heroin addicted woman, and their individual searches for justice. There are moments of deep, penetrating insight into the human psyche; the author exposes, in a very cunning way, those pieces of us that none want exposed, pieces that we shove down deep, hoping that no one will ever find them.Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans by Marcelle Bienvenu
doowahditty, March 31, 2011
New Orleans is my hometown*, as much a part of me as my heartbeat, and Hurricane Katrina broke that heart. "Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans" helped to heal me. I found recipes, of course, lost to me since childhood. Every time I use one of these fabulous recipes, the aromas of New Orleans fill my home, head, and heart. If you would like to experience the tastes, aroma, and spirit of New Orleans in your own home, I highly recommend this cookbook!*I moved to Portland a month before Katrina struck.
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
doowahditty, January 1, 2011
Best of the Larsson Millennium Trilogy! Probably because Lisbeth Salander is front and center. Hers is a character that defies description.