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Thanks for this review. From around 50 secs to around 2 mins: 'The massacre of Troy has happened...an extraordinary unleash of slaughter...these women, their men have been slaughtered and they have been enslaved as sex slaves, or as prisoners or as work horses for the Greek men, for the Greek army' - sounds like an awful lot of slaughtering! And presumably forcing of women and girls and miseries and squalor of slavery and of life as a captive in the army camp? This was all brought out, fortunately not usually too graphically, but often mentioned or implied, in the first book The Silence of the Girls, which I thought was very well written and contains some memorable phrases. However, in the end I found parts of it too distressing to want to read this sequel if it was going to be more of the same. That is why I am watching this review, as I wanted an idea of what happens to Briseis and the other characters next, without necessarily reading the whole book. I was surprised that many female reviewers said they 'really enjoyed' Silence of the Girls, and the same may well apply to 'The Women of Troy', when I wouldn't have thought that reading about the terrible things that happened to the conquered women and their families would be 'enjoyable', especially not to female readers. Shows that I must misunderstand something about female, or perhaps human, psychology. You can argue that people should know about the uglier, inglorious side of war, but that is a separate thing from enjoying reading about it. I believe that a third book in the series, 'The Voyage Home', in which the Greeks and their captives finally get back to Greece, is due to be published in a few months, and there may even be a fourth book eventually. While of course we can't know exactly how Greek was pronounced thousands of years ago, I understand that Classicists pronounce Briseis as 'Bris-ay-yis'. There is a guide to conventional pronunciations of names from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey on the website of the recent translator EmilyRCWilson.com

The Wolf Hall Trilogy will be read one hundred years in the future and beyond, as long as the English language novel is read. Mantel is for the ages. I think of her as Shakespearean in the same way he chronicled Kings in the history plays.

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It is a much better book than I expected. "It is a book about life," as you say. That is its strength and appeal. It tells us how we stand in the wide world. Not in the center, not universally admired (no matter how good we try to be), unnoticed by some. Glad you liked it too!

Really enjoyed your review…you perfectly captured the suspense in this story as well as the main character’s lively personality!

Well described! This is such a lovely book, as are all Mary Lawson’s stories.

You sure convinced me! I would be happy to read this. :)

Wish you were here was a groomer movie, then she falls in the clutches of that director who ended up married to his adopted asian daugher. Lloyd is not mentally ill, its the world.

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I'm writing a post-apocalyptic novels and I'm looking at developing realistic gender roles and how roles will play out in my novel. I think you have missed the conditioning of women and men into their gender roles. For example, many women faced with the potential of unrelenting violence and fear will volunteerly mate with the strongest and most powerful man in their community. How do we know this? It the past two general elections in the USA, the majority of white women voted for the party with all the guns despite the GOP/Republican Party looking to ban abortion and curtail the rights of women. So, 57% of white women voted for Trump even though he was running against Hillary Clinton. Also, there's the whole issue of class. In a post-apocalyptic world - those with the power, education, and materials will emerge as the rulers and no egotistical man will seek to rule without a woman and a family around him. Now, how do we know this? Most truly powerful men are always married and always have children. Elon Musk might not be married now, but he has 13 children and counting. Gender roles and class dynamics will play out in the same way in a post-apocalyptic world.

Just picked this book up

Thank you totally agree with everything you said I listened to it on audible and Brid Brennan was perfect for it for which I am very grateful not always the case in the audible version of books. It is a novel which will stay with me for a very long time. Shortlisted for 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize as well as the Women’s Prize for Fiction. I never normally leave comments but I thought you did this review so well, structure, articulation and content thank you!

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Unfortunately, the book is full of inaccuracies and mistakes.

I think I might have had some similar feelings though I did enjoy the book it takes a different approach. I think some of it might have been cathartic opening up about some things. I'm halfway through Thurston Moore's book now and it basically covers all the things you mentioned... deep dives on the whole history of NYC music scene, all the ins and outs of the band's history. I was kind of wary going into it considering how their relationship and the band ended but its very nostalgic and Thurston had experience writing for zines so it has more of that feel to it.

She must be 72 yrs old now

Although the novel is not particularly gothic, it is certainly part of the 'Folk Horror' genre. There is something truly horrendous, and potentially paranormal, at its heart, and I didn't see you mentioning that element of the novel in your review. Yes, the religious pilgrimage and the dynamics of the characters are front and centre to the plot, but this is all played out against a disconcerting undercurrent which is never fully spelled-out, and only makes the novel more impressive.

I adored this book. Aunt Lydia is a fabulous character. Her, insightful ironic humour as she describes the characters and activities that surround her is horrifying but often also hilarious. Imagine a brilliant, highly educated woman captured & forced to work for The Taliban to enslave her own sex. I felt a growing admiration for her, & came to appreciate the nature of her situation & predicament more & more. At the opening of the novel (as she begins to describe the unveiling of the statue of herself), I knew I was going to love her and hang on her every word. Maybe I’m a monster for reacting like that?

Fantastic video. Thank you so much. I've just read this and it is a brilliant book. I read it constantly changing my mind about the protagonist and becoming more and more aware of the message of the novel. It made me angry at Japanese society in the 1970s, but at the same time made me realise just how much women, and single mothers in particular, are still not recognised, valued or supported in modern society here in Europe. There was no way but down for the woman in the book, no matter how we judged her personal moral fibre. The book I read before this was a Norwegian novel, also in translation - "Will and Testament" by Vigdis Hjorth which focuses entirely on the psychology and thoughts of a female protagonist thrown into the midst of a family drama over the inheritance of two holiday cabins by her three siblings and herself. Think "Festen" if you know the film. I would recommend it to you.

I just finished this audiobook. I loved it!

I agree with you, however, there is nothing intersting or new to read in that book in terms of events.

so happy to come across your review

I am reading intersting book. I think, Elizabeth Strout provides us,in genius way, the different kinds of suicide that the characters of the stories choose to face their destinies.

is it normal for the book to have the edges messed up?

What a great review. I’ve now subscribed to your channel. I read this for bookclub and I just wanted to give them both a good bath and a feed! 😂I agree it captured a moment and was beautiful writing.

I think the author wanted to reveal stories of people and let us absorb based on how we wanted to feel. She didn’t present any coherent plot in this book, yet many of her characters have meaningful existence in my opinion.

she's not really honest and left out a lot.

I want to read that book thanks a lot

So well written/crafted. Ive tried to convince people to read it too but always got confused how to describe it, i think ill just link them your video now 😂 Legitimately my favourite series ive ever read. It impacted me greatly as a teenager and left me with a massive sense of wonder and appreciation for the relationships i had in real life. Im a videographer now and I can definitely say these books were instrumental in leading me down the path of embracing the creativity to want to tell visual stories with a camera. Its a weird connection but it really did have that kind of impact 😁

I really enjoyed the book just finished reading it

Glad to have heard your review because you put into words exactly how I felt reading The Idiot. Batuman has a lot of things to say and I can appreciate her cleverness and the quality of the book, but like you said, I felt so unaffected by it. Even as a 19 year-old who could relate to Selin, turns out I could not care less. It was not hard to read but it was a challenge, every page I felt like I was missing some crucial element somewhere between the lines. I still bought Either/Or to give it a second chance. Let's hope I understand the second book a bit better !!

Minor point amid all the slaughter and grief, but I do not understand the trendy modern fashion that we have to say 'enslaved people' rather than slaves.

Oh I love that reading.

What this reviewer didn't were all written about in other books.

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Thanks for your review. I just finished reading it last night - mesmerising, tour de force, etc - and have been looking for some interpretations from people far braver than myself. There's so much going on here I wouldn't know where to start and have total admiration for anyone giving it a go. I feel it absolutely is about Brexit though and the [only] "powerful chapter on Brexit" you refer to is, in fact, the only one which explicitly, outwardly discusses the vote and reactions to the decision to leave the EU or mentions the EU. Everythinge else in this book is about making us feel - truly feel - everything that was going on, emotionally, in the country, just as we'd voted to leave the EU. From the title onwards, however, the change necessitated by leaving the EU ("leaf", "Leaves", "leafing"? That opening dream sequence involving the leaving of a shore and going inland - eschewing stuff beyond our borders in favour of an ideal equally verdant and constricting) and the battle over interpretation of some collective memory - how we remember our relationship with Europe and what Britain means to each individual - is what absolutely dominates and powers the book. Autumn, of course, being when we know things are about to get darker yet can still hang on to the memory of the summer - i.e., if you're a remainer, the moment after the vote to Leave was confirmed yet you can still renew your EU passport. Daniel Gluck seems to me to embody our divided relationship with Europe. For me, he is Europe. Ancient - it's always been there, even though some people now think it's dead because we don't politically "live next door" to it any longer. That he lies dormant in the present day and that Elisabeth visits him while he's sleeping, has to be a symbol of the fact we will always be physically next door to Europe, whether or not we're all in living in the same "EU street". Daniel suffered directly from the Holocaust and it shapes his desire to get on with people. Britain suffered terribly during the war but wasn't completely invaded, like mainland Europe. Mainland Europeans know far better why co-operation - the co-operation the EU was set up to establish - is vitally important for more than just economics: It seems Daniel's sister probably died at the hands of the Nazis and that Britain was here as a refuge for him speaks of how we have helped Europeans, long before there was an EU. But the ongoing trauma of his life (See the lyrics to his song being used as a jingle by a Supermarket at the end of the book - "leaves", "brother, sister", etc. - a cynically upbeat aesthetic being forced onto a deeply painful experience, like Brexiteer promises) embodies the need for countries to get on. And Elisabeth's mother's suspicion of Daniel mirrors exactly how there's always been a large dose of cynicism in Britain about what these effete Europeans are up to ("men kissing men on the cheeks?! What's that all about?!" 🙂). Elisabeth's love of him represents, I think, Ali Smith's basic view on Europe. And getting on with each other. She loves people who're different - she embraces the foreign. Our protagonist, Elisabeth (her surname, Demand, open to all sorts of interpretations) is reading Brave New World - which must refer to the post-Brexit Britain which, in 2016, was just that - and then A Tale of two Cities, harking back to ingrained suspicions of all things French running simultaneously with a love, or even just a curiosity of the exoticism they represent. And there are lovely references to The Tempest; Is there a more "Island" play available to us as an Island nation? Are there more "British" writers than Shakespeare and Dickens? The notes on the Profumo affair remind us of a time when - as in the general attitude to sex and love in Pauline Boty's student days; "The bomb was going to drop. They'd maybe only a few years to live" - the whole world was in the grip and threat of the Cold War. The EU, which Britain hadn't joined at that time, was one of the ways to stand up to the Soviet nuclear threat and of course the new Russian threat is from Putin, who will be happy the EU is breaking up, is actively encouraging it. And Pauline Boty is in there to remind us that, in the EU or out, Britain is still full of great, open-minded, loving, joyful people who want to spread the love through brilliant art, even if they have to fight the system. Her father being an English countryside-living, cricket-loving conservative who is actually half-Persian and half-Belgian and made all his money on the Euphrates represents the lie of nationalism (Boris Johnson was born in America and has Turkish roots, Farage has a German wife and kids, etc). It's no accident that Boty goes to Greece, Paris and Rome to become herself or that Americana lives large in her life. We don't live in a vacuum, as people or as a nation. Leaving the EU was a wrong step in that regard but it's turned Elisabeth's mum towards embracing activism and finding her ideal partner. And, at the end of Autumn, Daniel wakes up and talks to Elisabeth again. Hope "springs" eternal.

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Hunger is such an important read in my opinion I read it in 2020 this book was at times hard for me to read but I'm glad I finished it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I adored this novel. And it was absolutely compulsive in terms of the acceleration of the war, and the relationships and connections that helped you survive. I also loved the fact that the main protagonist was an artist and how creativity was a means for her to make sense of the war, but how war put that creativity at risk

I liked Hamnet a lot, now i must read this. Thanks for the review.

I chose this book last year for our book club because I heard an interview with Monique Roffey and I thought it sounded wonderful. I was really disappointed when no one else in the group had much of anything to say about it. It was fantastic. It was beautiful and painful. The helplessness and dependence of the mermaid is terrifying. It’s also a very angry feminist novel.

Wonderful book with just enough magic to let the two stories link together. Also beautiful writing.

I loved this book and it’s gorgeous language. I felt so sorry for people who dnf”d it saying Lucretia was boring. The scene where Lucretia sees and touches the tiger just took my breath away. Maggie o”Farrell was so brave to tweak that escape from death and an imagined life as an unknown woman. I think everyone should read Browning’s poem “His last mistress” to get a feel for what the lives of these women must have been like. That poem is absolutely terrifying.

An excellent review of a wonderful book that I was genuinely unable to put down until I had finished it. Having been brought up in the less awful 'open Brethren' a lot of it resonated for me and I was vaguely aware of the crisis in Scotland that occurred when I was a teenager. Rebecca has confirmed to me that the title is taken from Ezekiel 1:28, slightly amended: "Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around".

I'm happy I found your channel. I really enjoyed your review of this book....quick and to the point without any spoilers. Thank you.

Heard about the book and after your great review it is definitely added to my tbr. :D

Really loved your review of the book. Agree with everything you said! Thank you for that great review. :D I'm currently writing my master's thesis on this book, and it is absolutely mind-blowing how deep and complex that novel actually is. There is so much going on in this story. It displays a lot of intertextualities. Yanagihara raises so many questions about American history and culture and how it affects the lives of its citizens. On whom a utopia is meant for and who is excluded? How paradise is actually constituted? How time and space affect people. That although history doesn't repeat itself, its forms of discrimination and othering keep reproducing themselves. The aspect of loneliness was sometimes depressing to read, but overall this novel is an absolute masterpiece. 😀

Thanks for this review! I was just looking up "Who was that actress I loved in that movie with Bruce Willis as a Vietnam vet". I was wondering if she was really from the South, only to learn she's not even American and more famous for some films over there! I never hear about her, but I never forgot her in that film ("In Country") and now I see why. (I can barely understand her in her British accent.) Really glad I came upon this nice little review of Emily Lloyd's book; thank you for doing it; I didn't know any of this stuff. This was really a good review, by the way. Clear, direct, descriptive, kind.. So glad to see it.

This book at best can be described as a propaganda for the Transhumanism ideology!!!

Thanks for the review! I've just got this book on kindle for a quid!