Circe – Madeline Miller

I really enjoyed this book. Circe’s a fairly minor character in the Odyssey (I think – I’ve blocked out most of reading that in high school. I hated it – though it was probably as much the boring instruction as anything else). In this book, we get the story of how the demigod child of the Sun (Helios) and sea nymph becomes the powerful witch of Aiaia. It’s beautifully written – there’s a certain sadness to it that I really enjoyed. I can see why it was so popular when it first came out.