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Friday, November 01, 2024

Mary Renault's novels--she was gay herself--and thus able to write "the homosexual side"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Alexander+the+great+novels+by+Mary+Renault

The Persian Boy is exceptional.

Alexander "inherited" Bogaos, who was Darius' "Persian Boy."

He figures prominantly Funeral Games--at the death of Alexander in Babylon.

KyiMayKaung

Friday, November 01, 2024

Mary Renault's novels--she was gay herself--and thus able to write "the homosexual side"

This reviewer in Slate likes latest Murakami novel--the walled city--the walled garden.

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