panRarely have I been so glad to leave a book on train and walk away. It's a good job I'm not an editor: I'd have told Mary Renault to cut 200+ pages.
Wave by wave it came lapping up, lifting the stranded ships, knocking their sides together. We prepared to remove the camp out of its path, not knowing how far to fly. But at the place where we found them first, the waters halted. Next morning they had sunk again. And this, as we learned when we'd found an interpreter for the Indians, Ocean does twice a day.
Whatever they say in Alexandria, I promise this is no market-tale.
Some say the Wise God's heaven is a rose-garden. For me, it is the heights. After all, he lives there. Watching the dawn on snow no birds had touched, I shivered with joy.
bailedI'm not feeling this one right now. I suspect I added it to my TBR for my kids at some point because it's more their thing than mine. Maybe I'll revisit it at some point, but I'm setting it aside for now. One down for #Roll100! Not a very satisfying way to mark it off, but it does get it off my TBR.
Alexandria is a splendid city, with everything a sensible man can need. I daresay I shall end my life here, with- out ever again going far away. But when I remember the high hills, and a pass mounting to its unknown revelation, I will not think so. Even then, knowing the evil and the danger, knowing all I had known before, even then I felt it; ecstasy, prophecy, light.
As we marched, the road rising through bare uplands, I suppose there was no one in the Household who was not thinking, And what will become of me?
Sign me up for a babylonion spa...
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Because it is hot in Babylon, the bath is a pleasure-house, where one could spend all day; floored with marble from the west, with glazed walls, white flowers on blue. The bath is a spacious pool, whose lapis-blue tiles have gold fish impressed in them. There are pots with sweet shrubs and trees, changed at each season, jasmine and citron....
Latest bookclub book. 3 days to go, good job it's such a pageturner.
Volume 2 from the Little Free Library today and volume 3 from HPB. Ah gee, now I have to find matching volume 1
Teams message with classics degree-holding coworker:
ME - What‘s a laconophile?
ME - Oh, he digs Spartans.
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THEM - Probably a jerk. That‘s how it tends to go with Classics guys like him.
ME - I appreciate your learnéd insight.
THEM - Sparta guys are another version of WWII fanboys.
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I didn‘t love this book.
