blotthis read Anne Carson's Antigonick last year; I read that review and decided that the time had definitely come for me too to read Antigonick.

This is not actually the first time I'd come to this decision -- I took an Antigone class in college, there were a spate of Boston productions a few years back and I saw several of them, it's a story I know well and find meaningful in a variety of forms -- but the difference here is that this time I told blotthis my intention and so they put their copy in my hands to take home with me in order to make sure I actually did so.

It's a really beautiful book, with illustrations layered over the text on translucent pages in a way that I found both fascinating and (intentionally I think?) distracting. ( The rest is cut for images )