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Lovely War
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Julie Berry
Jberk
, November 03, 2022
Lovely War is one of those books that you really just gotta read to believe. I'm a major classicist, and I've been obsessed with the Greek gods and general mythology since I was ten years old reading Percy Jackson for the first time. In it we see the love story, between two couples, rent apart by the First World War. And at the same time, we’re told the story through the lense of other warring couples, sweet Aphrodite has not only overcome the ma main characters together with a sense of longing for each other, but Aphrdoite has inflicted herself with a longing for Ares, God of War and Courage, to the detriment of her marriage with her husband, Hephestus, a tale straight out of myth and legend. On the eve of the Second World War, Aphrodite and Ares, lovers estranged, are caught in a golden net by Hephestus, another tale straight from the pages of the classics. To explain her actions, Aphrodite tells the tale of lovers who found each other in war and then nearly lost each other, separated by death and destruction as the war drove itself mad in bloodlust and the death of empires. The Lovely War is a lovely book, full of tragedy, strife and adoration in horrible times. Give it a read, for your own sake.
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Two Boys Kissing
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Levithan, David
Jberk
, October 06, 2022
I admit, I didn't think I'd like this book. I know they say not to judge a book by its cover but this looked like the gay version of those cheap pulp romance novels. It was, however, the back of the book’s description that finally got me onboard to enjoy reading it. First, I think the Greek Chorus is distinctly under-used in modern literature– or basically anything because no one outside theater or opera really ever used it. The idea of having that Greek Chorus be made up of of the gay men of the past, those who had suffered and marched and died of AIDS now looking on the gay people of the future and going “Huh, this is pretty sweet, we’re very happy for you” while also maintaining the kind of somewhat jealousy they have for those gay people of today. After all, these are men who had been denied those same opportunities to live and celebrate their lovies openly. Jealousy is one of the attributes of the dead, and these men, while celebrating the lives their future generations now live, mourn the lives they never lived, and jealousy watch and live vicariously through that new generation, to recapture the feeling their lives once held. “As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, you soon shall be.” This is a good book, full of heart and emotion and true love and loss. Give it a read.
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Divergent 01
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Veronica Roth
Jberk
, September 21, 2022
Divergent emerged in something of a "YA Golden era" (or glut, depending on your point of view) of the early 2010s, when books like Hunger Games and Percy Jackson proved that YA Literature could stand toe-to-toe with more traditional fiction in terms of quality and more important to publishers, *sales*. While many were tempted to brush Divergent off as yet another derivative of those more successful works, it brings to the table a fairly unique setting, if somewhat contrived. In the series, characters are divided into different groups based on personality-quiz level surface traits, which has a reason for being so odd as you read through, but it’s certainly something even someone at the marketed age will notice is somewhat contrived and artificial, and interferes with the ultimate “Embrace your differences” message.
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