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Music description. Thanks and happy listening. Hello, this is let's talk about myths, baby, and I am your host, Live here with an exciting, exciting news slash, let's be honest, not quite new, but like it is new, reading series, because we're returning to the Odyssey for so many reasons.

I mean, obviously, there's a new movie coming out, and maybe I won't comment on how utterly depressing all of the colors are and completely antithetical to the colorful world that was ancient Greece.

But instead of bitching about that, I'm sure that will come later.

We're going to return to the Odyssey itself.

As all of you know, all too well, I have spent the last six months working on a children's

retelling of The Odyssey.

It, I'm honest, I'm so excited about this book.

You all know, not a kid person, but like turns out writing something like the Odyssey

for Kids is super fulfilling for me and something I think I can proudly say I'm actually

really good at.

I am so proud to say that my

children's retelling, which will be coming out in June, and I will be announcing pre-orders

fairly soon, just waiting to hear back from my publisher. But my children's book is a faithful

retelling of the Odyssey. I do not change the timeline, the order of events,

the order of narration, which is really important. And I do not exclude any of the violent or

horrifying things that Odysseus does to women and to everyone, I should say, but specifically

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