In April I continued to read by and about the Greeks, and have posted on the books listed below. I have also posted on various sections of Barry Powell’s Classical Myth, but am not quite finished with that one.
Sophocles, Antigone
Karen Essex, Stealing Athena
Euripides, Medea
Two non-Greek books sneaked in, and I have not posted on them:
Cathleen Schine, The Love Letter – 
a little light reading for contrast with what comes before and what follows after. The Love Letter in question may or may not have been meant for Helen (42) or sent by Johnny (20). It may or may not have been genuine at all. What proves to be genuine is the unconventional love affair which develops between Helen and Johnny because of — or in spite of — the letter.
Rumer Godden, In This House of Brede - a late 1960′s novel set in a Benedictine monastery (nuns, but a monastery, not a convent). They are contemplatives; their work is to pray. I ws interested in this after recently viewing the movie The River, based on Godden’s novel of the same name. In The House of Brede we are in a different time and a different place, but similar in following the lives of related people. Godden is very insightful about the feelings of these women who give themselves to their understanding of the meaning of God. Insightful, but I longed for just a pinprick of doubt now and then.
The Greek reading list looks quite intimidating… I turn with a sigh of relief to the Rumer Godden. I recently read my children one of her books, and am now interested in contrasting this with her books for adults. Brede sounds intriguing. What I have liked about her writing to date was the impression that she was very much ahead of her time, and extraordinarily open-minded.
[...] is the third Cathleen Schine book I have read. The others were The Love Letter and The Evolution of Jane, and I did not post a separate comment on either of them. It seems unfair [...]