April Reading Ladder – 2019

I’m finally done with Greeks after this though I’m not to happy with level of reading I’ve been doing because I feel like if I find the right book or finally start reading the right thing that is good for my grade level I might be able to actually get back into reading a lot more.

Tittle: The Theban Plays

Author: Sophocles

Pages: 168

Rating: ★★★ (three stars) Eh OK

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-theban-plays-oedipus-rex-oedipus-at-colonus-and-antigone

This was a bit hard to follow because the whole reading was in play form and through out the whole thing I was just thinking about how it would look if it was an actual play and how i would understand everything better if there were actors and people to act out the whole thing in front of me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tittle: Medea

Author: Euripides

Pages: 47

Rating: ★★ (bad)

https://www.amazon.com/Medea-Dover-Thrift-Editions-Euripides/dp/0486275485

The whole thing is a play about killing a lady using her own children to do it and then killing the kids herself, I just spoiled it but like i hope you don’t read this in the first place because at first I thought it would be like one of those Hamlet things but without murder, but it was a Hamlet with as much murder as possible, I really hate Medea. I mean like sure she has this whole delima and she is just like debating over herself what to do and she is really an unhappy woman but like really?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tittle: Mythology Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Author: Edith Hamilton

Pages: 330

Rating: ★★★★ (4 stars) Really good

https://www.amazon.com/Mythology-Timeless-Heroes-Anniversary-Illustrated/dp/0316438529I liked this one a lot better, this made me think I was way under my reading level but some of the stories were really awesome to read, it got me thinking a lot about the mythology and stuff and why people would make up these kinds of stories in the first place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

330 + 47 + 168 = 545/4 = 136.25 

330 + 47 + 168 = 545/30 = 18.16

 

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