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Metamorphoses is fluid, quick, and ever-changing.  Let’s look at cantos VII through X, which have their share of famous stories, stories fa...

An anti-Valentine’s Day book now, Ovid’s Heroides (25-16 BCE, somewhere in there), a collection of fictional letters in verse written by my...

Since it is Valentine’s Day, I’ll riffle through Ovid’s Amores (16 BCE), as translated by Peter Green in The Erotic Poems (1982) and Chris...

Back to Ovid. First, I have just begun Paul Barolsky’s Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Boticelli to Picasso (2014), a work ...

The best book I read was Ovid’s Metamorphoses , which will also be the best thing I read in February.   I gotta catch up on my posts. One ...

Dolce Bellezza is running her 17th Japanese Literature Challenge .  Amazing, well done, etc. I read some short works for it, which I will ...

Bacchus continues his reign of terror in Canto IV of Metamorphoses by turning three sisters who refuse to believe in his divinity into what...

A month ago I wrote about the first Canto of Ovid’s Metamorphoses .  Now I will move through the Cantos two or three at a time, just leafin...

For the last year and a half I read short books, mostly, which was psychologically satisfying and anyway necessary to fit the available ener...

Last January seems even more distant than usual at this time of year.  It will likely not surprise anyone that 2023 now comes with a strong ...

Lots of short fantasy fiction this month, perhaps everything in the first section except the May Sarton novel and Eugene O’Neill play, balan...

Some notes on Canto I of Ovid’s Metamorphosis (8 CE).  Just some of the things I am looking for or enjoying while reading Ovid’s epic of “f...

Who would like to read Ovid’s Metamorphoses (8 CE) with me?  We have had some discussion of this good idea, and I feel I am up to it now.  ...

Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books. (Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).  My idea of a “comfort read” is a book ...

The five-day hospital stay breaking the month in half is likely invisible to anyone but me, but that is why the fiction list is so mystery-h...

  Liver cancer.   That was a surprise.   I knew something was wrong, but I was not expecting that. Since the diagnosis last summer, since ...