Saw someone comment they’d heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is feminist and before they try it they’d like to start with a more faithful translation. I wonder how much readers understand about the creative choices translators have to make and challenges to being “faithful.” 📚
Finished reading: His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey 📚
Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚
I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.
📚🗯️ Just read Detective Comics #359, the debut of Batgirl aka Dr. Barbara Gordon. I love it and I love her.
Did a bit of back-to-school shopping on ThredUp. Back on my romantigoth bull.
🔖 Read Hope, Not Optimism by Cory Doctorow.
Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival.
This left me feeling the best about the possibilities for this world that I’ve felt in a long time.
I just finished Book 1 of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad and she’s done incredible work. The language is so accessible. This is the most readable translation of classical literature that I’ve ever read. Highly recommend already. 📚
August is the month of the sealey challenge, an annual challenge to read a book of poetry every day in August. You can modify the challenge to suit your life. The goal is just to read more poetry. I’m going to try to read Emily Wilson’s translation of The Iliad. 📚
Read How Bots Took Over Our Lives by T. M. Brown (The New Yorker).
Perhaps that’s what the A.I. apocalypse is really shaping up to be—not the elimination of humanity by an omniscient machine mind but an internet overrun by unthinking, error-prone automatons that make the web unusable and destroy it from the inside. After the bots take over, we can all get back to the real world.
Finished reading: Too Fast to Fall by Victoria Dahl 📚