What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature started on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog via the link up. You can grab the image above or create your own, just please make sure you link back to IART as the host for this meme.
How to participate:
Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?
1. What’s the name of your current read?
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
“No,” I said, through the ache in my chest. I will not cry in front of him.
He started to say something. But at that moment the teacher entered, a man of indeterminate middle age. He had the callused hands of a musician and carried his own lyre, carved of dark walnut.
“Who is this?” he asked. His voice was harsh and loud. A musician, but not a singer.
“This is Patroclus,” Achilles said. “He does not play, but he will learn.”
“Not on that instrument.” The man’s hand swooped down to pluck the lyre from my hands. Instinctively, my fingers tightened on it. It was not as beautiful as my mother’s lyre, but it was still a princely instrument. I did not want to give it up.
I did not have to. Achilles had caught him by the wrist, mid-reach. “Yes, on that instrument if he likes.”
That’s the whole story. People don’t value Patroclus until Achilles forces them to. I LOVE IT.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?
Hm. On the one hand, ancient Greece!? Where the gods and goddesses are subtly real but not in an overly flashy way? The nerd in me screams YES, but then…ancient Greece!? Where honor is bound up in your ability to kill someone (haha, just kidding, I’m a woman – I wouldn’t have any honor)? Practically, no, I wouldn’t want to live in this book. But I sure do like living in it via Miller’s story.
It Is Trish 