The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
★★★★★ | Epics and Poetry | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
I took a long while to read this short book of poems. It’s a collection of Berry’s poems from the mid-1960s through 2016.
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The Odyssey by Homer
★★★★★ | Ancient | Print | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
It was high time I reread this classic. I found the story much more engaging that The Iliad — crafty Odysseus and his wily ways. There are so many stories in this epic that are embedded in our literary subconscious — Circe, Calypso, the Sirens, the Cyclops, revenge against the suitors, etc. Because of its legacy, I can’t rate this any lower than a five. And yet, I didn’t find myself rooting for Odysseus after all his hubris and, in particular, thinking of all the grieving fathers who lost sons during his exploits. And what for?
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