Cassie McCullagh
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I'm really beginning to understand the Finnish weird genre a little bit better here.
I should clarify that.
Unabashedly, I think you could say.
So does it sort of take on elements of magical realism or science fiction?
Does it feel speculative?
I think we need some, Maria.
We need some.
The word we should say is spelt one iron, but pushed together as one word.
Yeah.
So dream.
And what does dream mean?
Well, now on the bookshelf, Madeline Miller's Circe.
Now, not Circe Lannister of Westeros, but Circe, C-I-R-C-E, the goddess, nymph, witch, enchantress, sorceress of Greek mythology.
So clearly she's obsessed, just like you, Tamara, by classical mythology.
And I can't blame her either because...
I loved Greek mythology when I was a kid and she's turned another minor character into the centre of this story.
reclaimed her, perhaps.
So the book starts with Circe's childhood.
She's not the daughter of the gods of Olympus.
She's part of an older family, the Titans.