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The Shadow of Perseus Is Really About the Women History Forgot
Trigger Warning: This article mentions rape and domestic violence. Some books are light reads, but some require a person to put them down to process what they have just read.
By Jenna Deedyabout a month ago in BookClub
Penelope Was the Real Hero of “The Odyssey” All Along. Top Story - August 2026.
Mention Homer’s Odyssey , and the first name that comes to mind is undoubtedly Odysseus. Hard to blame a fellow Greek for that, seeing how he lends his name to the title. After all, this is a hero of warring and wandering - a soldier who survived the Trojan War, fought off storms at sea, and even outsmarted gods and mythical creatures on his way home. It took him ten long years to get back to his homeland of Ithaca, but he finally made it.
By Jenna Deedyabout a month ago in BookClub
Hera Was Never Just Zeus’s Jealous Wife: How Jennifer Saint’s “Hera” Reclaims the Queen of Olympus
The angry goddess. The bitter queen. The woman who punished Zeus’s lovers and made life miserable for his children. But what if that was never the whole story?
By Jenna Deedy3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter VII)
Chapter Seven: The Dream That Was Not a Dream --- I. The child stopped walking. Not because he was tired. Not because the road had ended. But because something had shifted inside him—like a door he had not realized was there, suddenly swinging open.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter VI)
Chapter Six: The Old Man Who Walked Ahead --- I. The child was about to take another step when he noticed something he had not seen before.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter V)
Chapter Five: The Road of the Unfinished --- I. The child walked on. The light at the end of the road was still there—but it had not grown closer. It seemed to move with him, always the same distance ahead, as if it knew he was not yet ready to arrive.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter IV)
Chapter Four: The Walkers of Light --- I. The child walked with them—the taller one with the wild hair, the quieter one with the steady hands. They moved on either side of him, like two halves of a single thought, their footsteps falling into a rhythm that felt older than the road itself.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter III)
Chapter Three: The Walkers of Light --- I. The child walked. The road stretched ahead of him like a river that had forgotten how to flow—still, patient, waiting. The yellow light beneath his feet hummed with a quiet warmth, as if it recognized the weight of each step.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward (Chapter II)
Chapter Two: The Road --- I. The child stepped through the gate of air—and found himself on a road. Not a road he had ever seen before. Not made of stone, not made of dirt, not made of anything solid. It was a road made of light—thin, yellow, the same light that had been calling him from the other side.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
The Wayward; The Way to Reward
Chapter One: The Collision I. There was a child who died—not from a sickness, not from age, not from anything that made sense.
By Nier Rossi3 months ago in BookClub
"The Odyssey" We Never Really Read: How Emily Wilson’s Translation Changed My Understanding of Homer
Most of us have never actually read Homer’s The Odyssey . That may sound like a strange claim. After all, The Odyssey has been translated into English hundreds of times and has remained one of the most influential works of literature for nearly three millennia.
By Jenna Deedy3 months ago in BookClub
Why The Old Man and the Sea Is Still One of the Most Inspiring Books Ever Written
# Why *The Old Man and the Sea* Is Still One of the Most Inspiring Books Ever Written ## Discover why Ernest Hemingway’s timeless classic continues to inspire readers across generations and remains deeply relevant in today’s fast-paced world
By Mind to Money Hub3 months ago in BookClub