We are listening to the Odyssey, by Homer, in the car. I have a bad habit of never remembering to put a story on from the computer, so when Dude asked again to listen to it, I headed to our wonderful library site and borrowed a copy.
I really enjoy the readers slight accent, and clear reading. BUT every time we hear a name there is a qualifier! 'Clear Eyed Athena", Discerning Telemachus, or Aegis bearing Zeus' (I had to ask my husband what that ment). Though it is preferable to trying to remember which person is the son of Menalaeus, or which is the 'noble goddess'. And if it weren't for Percy Jackson books I would never know which is the 'grey eyed goddess'.
Maybe that is why I write so stilted, I wouldn't be able to keep track of a variety of descriptions!
I don't know if this really counts as reading, we are just listening, but we are also learning.
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