May Roundup

Here’s a roundup of all the books and such discussed last month that are available for your Kindle. (Mostly)

The Magic Catalog
The Magic Catalog - Great for downloading things into your kindle.
Project Gutenberg - The site that all the public domain books are originally from. They have many more that are not available in the Kindle store

Myth and Epic
The Odyssey - Many translations of a great Epic
The Iliad - The prequel to the Odyssey. The one that started it all.
Ovid - The Metamorphoses tales.
Tales from Ovid - The Ted Hughes translations are great but not available on Kindle!
Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis.
The Aeneid by Virgil

Literature Challenge
The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare

Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham. My favorite.
The Talisman - Peter Straub and Stephen King. The first.

The Harvard Classics 
Download these to a computer and Unzip.
The Harvard Classics 1-19
The Harvard Classics 20-29
The Harvard Classics 30-51

Other sources mentioned
The Kindle Chronicles - Kindle Podcast
Calibre - eBook management software

New kindle
A guide for what to put on a new kindle


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Myth and Epic

Arguably the greatest book ever written, The Odyssey by Homer. There are various translations most free some not. The translation is everything. Here are a few translators that are known to be the best.

The Odyssey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio) trans. Robert Fagles. My favorite $12.99 Recommend this one. This new modern translation is very good. Fagles manages to keep the translation poetic and update it as well.

The Odyssey trans. Alexander Pope. A classic. Can’t beat free.

The prequel to the Odyssey, The Iliad by Homer. An epic battle that lasted 10 years. Spoiler alert! Trojan horse anyone?

The Iliad trans. Robert Fagles. $12.99

The Iliad trans. Alexander Pope. $3.99 Recommend this one.

The Iliad trans. Robert Fitzgerald. $9.99


The Iliad trans. Edward, Earl of Derby. Free! 


The Iliad and The Odyssey Trans. Samuel Butler $1.00


And for some Myth's! 


The Ted Hughes translation of Ovid is amazing. Tales from Ovid. Unfortunately it is not available in eBook yet. Link is for the paperback.


Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis. $7.98
This is a modern retelling of the Cupid and Psyche myth. Easy to read and very compelling. One of the best books I read this year.


The Aeneid by Virgil. Translation by Allen Mandelbaum. This translation won some awards and is very good. Unfortunately this is not the version available on Kindle. $5.95 paperback.


The Aeneid This is a prose translation but is pretty readable. Free!


These are some of the best works of literature ever written. These keep me reading for hours on end and I hope you enjoy them as well. Hope all the links work, took me ages.
Please leave comments or questions below. Happy reading.