The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 🏹📚💜 Book Club Discussion! Answering all of your questions

Let's chat about The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller! Welcome to another book club session! 😁 I'm answering all of your questions about expectations, emotions, surprises, and battle scenes – as welll as what I would change about this story! 👀

I hope you're having a fantastic day, and if not that it gets better. I'm very happy to have you here.

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⭐ Thank you everyone for participating (reading, watching, commenting!) and especially to these lovely people who submitted questions for us all to discuss!
Emily ‪@TheLinguistsLibrary‬
Nana ‪@nanana_naaaa‬
RD ‪@RDsLibrary‬
Helen ‪@helenclare3250‬

Bonnie ‪@BonnieNicoleWrites‬ answered all of the questions too! Check out her video here:    • the song of achilles // Book Club Dis...  

I would love to hear your answers, either in the comments or if you would like to make a video about it yourself! If you do, please tag me so I can watch it! 😁


📚 Books mentioned:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Circe by Madeline Miller
Galatea by Madeline Miller
Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
The Iliad by Homer
The Odessey by Homer

🎨 Artwork from Wikipedia. (Highly recommend browsing the Galleries at the bottom of the page for some weird and wonderful images! 😄)
Chiron (The centaur Chiron teaching Achilles how to play the lyre, Roman fresco from Herculaneum, National Archaeological Museum of Naples) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiron
Thetis (Thetis Bringing Armor to Achilles II by Benjamin West): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetis

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📚 In this video:
00:00 Intro
00:10 Quick Setup
01:11 Q1 Why did I read The Song of Achilles?
02:17 Q2 What do I know about Greek mythology?
05:12 Q3 Surprises!
06:36 Q4 Biggest impact
07:42 Q5 What changes would I make?
08:00 Q6 How does it compare to other mythological retellings?
09:06 Q7 Thetis & the Ending
11:07 Q8 Battle scenes
13:33 Q9 Feelings after reading the book
15:05 Q10 A nature ramble with a character & a chat with the author!

⭐ And by the way, this is my 50th video on booktube! Well done me!⭐

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