Dear Great Book Guru, My friends and I saw Christopher Nolan’s ODYSSESY this weekend and we loved it - so much to discuss! Well, we heard that there are many books and articles about the characters that appear in the film, and we are eager to learn as much as possible about this epic tale. Any recommendations? On an Odyssey................................ Dear On an Odyssey, I too loved this latest Odyssey film and one of the many books I’ve read in connection with the movie is CIRCE by Madeline Miller. This very short novel - really a novella - is told from the perspective of Circe, a minor Greek goddess who has been both hailed and reviled throughout literature. She is best known for her role in the Odyssey where she turns Odysseus’s men into swine and then seduces him with her charms. She also features in the myths of Scylla and Charybdis, the Minotaur, Jason and Medea, Prometheus, Daedalus, and the Fall of Icarus plus James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Miller reinvents and expands these stories to reveal a world not unlike our own. In this strongly feminist interpretation, we come to see this for ourselves as Circe stumbles through history in her search for enlightenment and redemption. This is definitely a fine accompaniment to any discussion of Nolan’s ODYSSESY. Highly recommended!