The plot and characters shouldn't have to suffer from the author's agenda. I guess there's a reason why I don't read much feminist lit - I don't like being hit over the head with every paragraph. And as another reviewer said much better than I, there was absolutely no reason why Penelope had to sp...
I remember reading the Odyssey and thinking of Penelope being the smart, beautiful, industrious, long suffering wife of Odysseus. I was expecting that The Penelopiad would have been Penelope’s story, but I guess maybe it wasn’t her story in the way that I wanted to hear it. In this story she consta...
I love Margaret Atwood, and I love history; I however did not LOVE this book. It was really well written but there was something lacking that most of Atwood's novels all have, more depth.
A creative take on the story of Odysseus' wife and her point of view on the Odyssey. It was a fairly quick read, but I rather enjoyed it. It helped to have read The Odyssey, but would still be a good read without.
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