I remember brighter days when all this was a mystery

[sovay]

In the last three or four days, to judge from the pile beside my bed, I have read Mary Renault's The Charioteer and The Friendly Young Ladies, Lawrence Durrell's Justine and Balthazar, Robert Graves' Goodbye To All That, David Mura's Angels for the Burning, and Aischylos' Oresteia (in Greek).

I cannot possibly predict what effect this combination will have on my writing, but I hope to God I like it.

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[larryhammer]

I grew up on heaped piles of Gerald Durrell (Catch Me a Colebus) but imprinted most on Family and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives.

---L.

[sovay]

I haven't read any of those. Which do you recommend?