“A Thousand Ships”

Much as I love humour (Who loves tragedy anyway?), there wasn’t any during my last library visit so I forced myself to take Natalie Haynes’ A Thousand Ships instead and ignite old feelings of hatred for the gods and the villainous cruel Greeks especially Achilles, of sympathy and compassion for King Priam and Hector, and of praise and respect for the women who endured all the pain and cruelty of a senseless war, so much like how it was when I was majoring in Literature and had to spend a semester on The Iliad and to wallow in the same whirlwind of emotions. This reading has proven that I’m very much the same person I was then, thanks to Haynes, and I wouldn’t want to be anyone else, more or less. MLJ/29/07/2021/2ndSummerStaycation