Tag: I am sad that Robert Fagles has died and will now never have the opportunity to translate Ovid’s Metamorphoses

I’m in this place right now where there are so many good books to choose from that my bed is basically a large nest of books.  I changed my sheets on Monday evening, and when I went to bed that night, I realized I’d accidentally trapped one of the books underneath the bottom sheet when I put it on the bed.  Were this not the case, I’d have finished Sea of Poppies a good while ago, but there have been many bookish distractions*, and besides, I wanted to make it last. Eva recently gave Sea of Poppies a glowing review,…